April 24, 2024
Timothy Birdnow
The human brain is an amazing thing, but it is built, not born. Neuroplasticity
And by acquiescing to this the older generation has created a group that is extraordinarily
In short, we are making slaves, slaves who prefer their bondage to the vicissitudes of freedom.
Like the Israelites who feared leaving Egypt, they fear leaving the electronic plantation. It feels horribly unnatural to them. They cannot function precisely because they have not made the neural pathways for social intercourse and to actually live as real people. Their brains can grow these but it will be a difficult, painful effort.
I fear for them should something take out the internet; they would be like people suddenly blinded. But it may well be the most important thing we can do to stop the drive to the cliff-edge of our civilization.
The computer is a seeming good but in fact a terrible trap, I fear, for young minds. Everyone is worried about AI taking over, but I think it has already taken over the young. This is a form of mind control.
As the novel 1984 observed, in the end "he loved Big Brother". That is what computer technology is doing; making us love our jailers.
Human beings are made to think, reason, plan. Computers take much of that away and give it to machines - and to those who program the machines and run the information nexus.
Human beings are not supposed to exist in an alternate reality. But that is where we are at now. It is no coincidence we are seeing the rise of truly insane ideas like transgenderism now; our young live in a dream world of zeroes and ones and colorful screens with flashing lights and dancing images. They do not read, except where it is required along with their photos and videos and music. They do not learn to discipline their minds. They do not learn anything outside of what is online. They do not come to understand the complexities of life (which was learned through the arts and humanities in the past.) They live rather in an artificial reality and so they believe artificial things.
They believe in transgenderism,
This had been coming for a long time, well before computers, but it has metastasized with the machines.
The Book of Revelation says the False Prophet will create an "image" of the Beast and all will worship him. What does that mean? Is the image of the Beast what the young see on their computers? Certainly the term Beast could be applied to the leviathan nature of the internet, to the multiple tendrils that curl around all aspects of our society. It is much like the hydra, which just grew new heads when they were cut off in battle.
The internet is a beast even if it is not THE Beast.
So young people have plugged their brains into this new electronic god. And committed their souls to the void of zeroes and ones pulsing about the planet.
The God of our fathers has been replaced by a cheap usurper. And this god isn't full of forgiveness as is Yahweh. On the contrary if a young person bucks the system he or she will be destroyed by those who they once thought of as friends. There are ample stories about young people cast out by the woke mob online. And there are stories about young people committing suicide over cyber bullying and the like. If nothing else there is little in the way of hope offered to anyone via the internet. It is full of judgment and demands.
But of course you can't just pull kids off-line; the schools require they work on the computer. We've made it mandatory for our society. Take a kid permanently off-line and you are condemning him or her to failure and irrelevancy, and probably taking away what passes for friends. No parent wants to do that.
But the price is the kids' souls. And our country's survival.
The computer is a very useful tool in the hands of a mature and, well,
just plain wise person. It is a danger to those who are not. Much like
fire, or a knife, it is a menace in the hands of children. And yet they
are better at using it than are the older folks who actually have the
capacity to use it properly. It is, in fact, that very capacity - the
unwillingness to become one with the machine - that makes the older
generation less capable at using the machine. The young merge with it.
Well, there is a terrible price to be paid for that. Loneliness, social
isolation, intellectual stultification,
The same was true of television when it became ubiquitous. Parents used it as a babysitter. But it is not as interactive, as powerful at getting at the core of the person. You had to take what programming was offered with t.v. You were passive, absorbing things like sponges, but that limited it's power to a degree; much of the brainwashing failed due to boredom with the content. Now we have the power of the media to manipulate thoughts and emotions and beliefs with the ability to entertain at all times. The youths are eternally engaged. But they are engaged with the Devil.
Dance with the Devil and you'll do it in Hell.
I think the computer culture must die if we are to have any hope of saving or restoring our culture. It is the stealer of souls.
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Concern with Climate Change rests on the assumption that increased atmospheric CO2, presumably from human activity, will cause increased heat retention in the atmosphere, leading to potentially dangerous over-heating of the planet.
The principle is pretty stratightforwar
But atmospheric gases, including CO2, absorb and re-emit, in all directions, some amount of this energy, which would otherwise escape directly to space. Basically its like a faint secondary reflection, which transmits some amount of radiant energy back toward the surface, heating it by some amount. More CO2 means more energy captured and re-radiated by the atmosphere, meaning more heating of the surface and atmosphere, or so goes the thinking.
But the energies involved are fairly small. The IPCC estimates that increasing from 280-ish ppm of CO2 to 420-ish has added the equivalent of 2.5 Watts of radiant energy for every square meter of surface.
To put that in context, the clear-sky summer sun at noon delivers about 1400 Watts per square meter of radiant energy, while the whole-earth, 24/7 average is about 342 W m^2.
So if this figure is accurate, then the additional CO2 has increased the radiant energy reaching the surface, on average, by only about 0.7 percent. energetically speaking, that's the difference between having a chicken salad sandwich for lunch and having that same sandwich plus about a quarter of a potato chip.
OK, so maybe it's not really a problem right now. But if you add more CO2, this smallish value will become a much larger one, right?
Maybe, maybe not. Let's take a closer look.
The "absorption spectrum" of CO2, meaning the wavelengths it absorbs and re-emits, is pretty patchy. The gas absorbs very strongly in only one narrow band centered on about the 1500 nanometer wavelength, pretty close to the center of the OLR spectrum. Water vapor, which is very abundant throughout most of the lower atmosphere, also absorbs in this wavelength, though not as efficiently as CO2.
CO2 absorbs this wavelength so strongly that it is effectively blocked, even at very low concentrations.
This leads to sharply diminishing returns. At 50 ppm CO2 is capturing maybe 80 percent of the 1500 nm band, at 100 ppm a few percent more, at 200 ppm a couple percent more, and so on. By the time you get to 400 ppm, more than 90 percent of the OLR that can be captured, is. If you double it again to 800 ppm you capture just a couple percent more bit of the available energy. Full saturation, meaning essentially 100 percent capture, occurs around 4000 ppm.
This principle is central to the issue of climate change, because at this point CO2 has pretty much reached its limit as a driver of climate change. Any increase of CO2 in the atmosphere will add only a tiny bit of additional heat to the atmosphere.
This knowledge, widespread in the field of atmospheric science, has pretty much been unknown to the general public, and ignored by those pushing climate alarm for fun or profit, mostly profit. For good reason. Because a LOT of money is on the line, not to mention careers and reputations. And what would the media do to grab eyeballs if it lost one of its favorite Narratives?
Climate Change is now a multi- multi- billion dollar international business. Goldman-Freakin
But the walls are starting to crack. Here and there scientific publications that still have some integrity have published original research that verifies this principle, first established by Happer and Wiijngarden some years ago.
The debate among serious folks is over climate sensitivity. That means how do feedbacks work.
Everyone who knows anything knows carbon dioxide warming craps out at about 2* and that's that. BUT the argument is over what happens after that. The alarmists argue that this will trigger a positive feedback as more water evaporates, leading to more outgassing of co2, to more water vapor, etc. Eventually it leads to the permafrost melting and methane being released. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.
The only thing is there is no proof of that scenario. Water vapor also forms clouds which block sunlight. That is an example of a negative feedback.
Mars is so cold because it's air is thin. It's air is thin because of negative feedbacks which cool the planet whenever it warms and permafrost sublimates there. So if the Earth's atmosphere works at all like Mars then negative feedback loops will tamp down excessive warming.
The IPCC pick a very high sensitivity for the climate so that minor rises in carbon dioxide will trigger much larger positive feedbacks. But they have no real proof of that.
On the contrary every prediction they've made has failed, suggesting a much lower climate sensitivity.
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"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” This truth was expressed by G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News in 1909 — and was illustrated perfectly by comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher just the other night.
Bill Maher: Abortion Is "Kind of” Murder — and I’m "OK With That”
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Here we go again. We heard leftists trumpet the "browning of America” (see MSNBC et al.) via Third World immigration. We also heard them, contradictorily, complain about the "whitewashing” of San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood when Caucasian dot-commers moved in. Now we’re told that New York City’s famed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is also guilty of EBW.
(That would be "Existing Based on Whiteness.”)
Lincoln Center Goes Woke and Cancels Mozart — Based on Anti-white Lie
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"Judge Juan Merchan has issued a ruling in favor of prosecutors in President Donald Trump’s criminal trial. During a hearing on Friday, prosecutors made arguments regarding the scope of topics to be allowed during questioning.
The arguments included requests to allow the cross-examinati
Judge Merchan permitted many of these requests, granting prosecutors the ability to cross-examine Trump regarding past court decisions, which are unrelated to the current criminal case.
One of the
prior cases Judge Merchan permitted prosecutors to address in
questioning is the defamation case brought against Trump by E. Jean
Carroll. Earlier this year, Carroll was awarded an $83.3 million
judgment in her case against Trump."
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Tim adds:
None of that is pertinent to this case. The sole reason for this is to try to lay a perjury trap for Trump. And they do not want Trump to testify, so he appears guilty.
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A remarkable article, published last week in Foreign Affairs—a magazine issued by the US political establishment known as the Council on Foreign Relations—reveals a story that would have certainly been censored as disinformation at the start of the war: It was all largely preventable. In what reads as part confessional and part opening salvo for future negotiations, the expansive report begins with a lucid summation of what could have been:
"What happened on the battlefield is relatively well understood. What is less understood is the simultaneous intense diplomacy involving Moscow, Kyiv, and a host of other actors, which could have resulted in a settlement just weeks after the war began.
By the end of March 2022, a series of in-person meetings in Belarus and Turkey and virtual engagements over video conference had produced the so-called Istanbul Communiqué, which described a framework for a settlement. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators then began working on the text of a treaty, making substantial progress toward an agreement. But in May, the talks broke off. The war raged on and has since cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides.”
The piece goes on to echo the substance of what President Putin told Tucker Carlson in that infamous interview a few weeks ago, differing only in minor details and in degree of emphasis. A negotiated settlement had largely been agreed to, only to be scuttled in part because of Western indifference to the outcome:
"So why did the talks break off? Putin has claimed that Western powers intervened and spiked the deal because they were more interested in weakening Russia than in ending the war. He alleged that Boris Johnson, who was then the British prime minister, had delivered the message to the Ukrainians, on behalf of ‘the Anglo-Saxon world,’ that they must ‘fight Russia until victory is achieved and Russia suffers a strategic defeat.’
The Western response to these negotiations, while a far cry from Putin’s caricature, was certainly lukewarm. Washington and its allies were deeply skeptical about the prospects for the diplomatic track emerging from Istanbul…
So instead of embracing the Istanbul communiqué and the subsequent diplomatic process, the West ramped up military aid to Kyiv and increased the pressure on Russia, including through an ever-tightening sanctions regime.”
If the original intent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,” it would seem the war in Ukraine is accomplishing at least one of those objectives. Germany—and Western Europe in general—has suffered mightily as a consequence of policies implemented with full US support. The situation is especially acute in the energy sector, where observation would indicate the overt goal of US foreign policy is to cripple the ability of Germany to compete in the global economy. If this indeed was the objective, it seems to be working splendidly, and a recent flurry of headlines demonstrates this aspect of the war is accelerating...
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So who is funding the nationwide Hamas protests? Leftist MSN actually has part of the answer.
Hamas-friendly protest groups bankrolled by Democratic dark money juggernaut Tides
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Even they have to admit it is dark money groups tied to the Democrats - and to George Soros.
How long must we endure that evil man and his evil empire?
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April 23, 2024
Trump's lawyers argued in court "there is nothing wrong with a candidate trying to influence an election - it's called democracy".
They are absolutely correct. A man running for office is not required to disclose every personal foible, nor is it illegal to pay someone via nondisclosure agreement. There is no underlying crime here.
I suspect that if we are going to prosecute politicians who pay off every bimbo who comes out of the woodwork we are going to have to expand the number of courts.
Certainly Bill Clinton had more than his share of NDA's and in fact had a "bimbo eruption squad" to silence such women. Nobody suggested what he was doing in that regard was illegal.
In fact Mr. Clinton's people got Monica Lewinsky a job in New York to get her out of D.C. when the story first broke about their affair. No Republican suggested investigating that action then, even though it was obvious it was done to cover up a crime.
Clinton was prone to many such crimes and "election interference". He had his own brother kidnapped the day before the election and held so he couldn't screw things up at the last minute in the '92 election, for instance. But because Roger Clinton didn't press charges - and his brother now controlled the federal law enforcement authority - it went nowhere.
But Donald Trump gives a porn star who clearly hates him a few dollars to go away and he's guilty of destroying the rule of law in the minds of the press and of the despicable state of New York.
There IS a crime here, but it's being committed by the folks prosecuting the former President.
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Judge Cannon declassified documents related to the documents case that reveal the Biden junta was in intimate contact with the National Archives to plot the accusations against Trump about mishandling and destroying documents - five months before any investigation was begun.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1782486128915857520.html
Julie Kelly
Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about "independence" from investigations into Trump.
The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement--it appears the first go-around related to alleged "destruction" of government papers.
Contrary to public and legal assertions, NARA was working with DOJ/White House to craft a criminal referral by Sept. 2021--FIVE MONTHS before the "official" referral by NARA to DOJ in Feb 2022.
Now you know why the insiders like Andrew Weissmann and Barb McQuade are desperate to get rid of Judge Cannon. Without her courage on this matter, incriminating evidence of Biden's WH and DOJ running the investigative show behind the scenes would be buried maybe forever.
DOJ told NARA what to do to cover their tracks.
DOE discovered after Smith handed down his indictment that Trump had an active security clearance--so they retroactively terminated it.
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Letitia James outs herself in opposing $175 million bond for Trump.
James argued in court that Trump's bonding company couldn't possibly pay that - yet she wanted him to pay even more. There is only one reason; she wanted to seize his assets.
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Important: my latest blog post. A simpler demonstration, using official Global Carbon Project data, that Net Zero is totally unnecessary. I can only conclude the policy tail has been wagging the science dog.
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Smithsonian, America's Top Museum, Worried it Can't Hold Drag Shows Any More.
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Seems like you have to be rich enough to not care about inflation in order to vote Democrat these days … for those who do care, the facts are below.
Bidenomics at its finest.
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Re: Tidal Pumping due to our Solar System passing through the constellations of the Zodiac.
We’ve shared discussions of Tidal Pumping due to the gravity fields of the Sun and major planets out to Jupiter driving tectonics, volcanism, and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. These weather changes are observed over periods of 2 to 3 years.
Our Solar System is unique in that we do not exist in a fixed position within a single constellation. Our Solar System orbits the center of the Milky Way faster than the rotation of the Milky Way, specifically 10,000 km/hr faster. Ergo, we pass through the constellations which comprise the Zodiac. Neither Einstein, Newton, nor Kepler were aware of this.
In the same way as crustal stresses imposed by the gravity fields of neighboring celestial bodies, from the Sun out to Jupiter, our passage through the Zodiac brings us through the Gravity Wells of other Stellar System. Concentrated masses which require centuries to pass by. Logically, this phenomena causes major climate change of significant duration and it would proceed on a more or less repetitive cycle.
Haven’t we all been frustrated by the driver who can’t bring himself to get around a big rig on the interstate highway. He lingers in the truck driver’s blind spot while we’re all cussing him to "Damn it ! Just hit the gas and get around that guy !”
Pretty much the same thing.
F. Pont, July 2009
Empirical evidence for tidal evolution in transiting planetary systems
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April 22, 2024
This book is written in Latin. In 1695. Rilandy was describing what was then called Palestine.
Author Adriani Rilandi was a geographer, cartographer, traveler,
philologist, he knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek,
Hebrew.
He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible.
He made a population census by settlements.
Here are the main conclusions and some facts:
* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.
* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.
* The only exception is Nablus (now Shchem), where approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha and approximately 70 "shomronims" (Samaritans).
* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.
* In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.
* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.
* Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were engaged in trade and transportation.
The book completely refutes theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land's Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves.
Book by Adrian Reland (1676-1718) about Palestine, published in Utrecht in 1714.
And now "Free Palestine" people, remind me, please, why are you trying to free Palestine from its original indigenous people (Jews) and give it to Islamist colonizers?
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Students at Boston University, Brown, Northwestern, Harvard and the University of North Carolina said they were planning walkouts or rallies as well.
At Columbia, the new protest camp is still officially a breach of university rules. Some of the chants heard — "We don’t want no Zionists here” and "Israel is a racist state” — are ones that Shafik suggested were creating "a harassing and intimidating environment for many of our students.” But there seemed to be a lull in enforcement, at least for the moment, as university administrators considered whether to suspend and arrest even more students for participating in a movement that clearly has considerable campus support.
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Imagine if the opposite were true and Muslim students were being harassed on campus and protests calling for the extermination of Arabs were ongoing there. Somehow I suspect these universities would do whatever it took to end this. The dirty little secret is these kids didn't come up with this on their own. They were taught this by the same people who now fail to act to secure the safety of Jewish students and allow the destruction of private property. They WANT this, just don't want it getting too far out of hand and thus causing a backlash - especially in charitable endowments from alum.
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Progressive tax rates are only in place to keep the middle classes down
John R Lott Jr
The top 1% of income earners pay 45.8% of income taxes but make 26.3% of income. The bottom 50% of income earners' share of income is almost five times their share of income taxes.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2024/
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The more power "you give" to Government the "more corrupt" it will become! It's a Fact!!!
Here is an example from my life experience.
I earned a job as a Project Manager on a START II, Arms Reduction Act Project in Russia.
I had experience working on these kinds of projects in Ukraine the year before. The man who hired me was the president of a brand new company.
He was a University of Georgia Graduate, that landed an internship as a Page for Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat from GA, and he learned the ins and outs of government contracts, while working for the Senator.
With help from the Senator, and I am sure they both started out with good intentions.
They applied for an Arms Reduction Act Project, that the Senator co-authored. It was written and sponsored by the Senator Nunn and Senator Lugar.
The power of easy money is too enticing and easily corrupts good people.
So my new boss, after learning how to manipulate the system. Invented a new Construction Company out of thin air and bid on a multi million dollar project.
There was no risk to him with a taxpayer cost plus contract, and the Senator would get consulting fees and keep the appropriation committee feeding funds to the project and keep the consultants fees coming.
The phony construction company would do everything in it's control to fulfill the project, but the longer it took to complete, the more money it would make.
The Russians would ask for and receive extra funding for unforeseen costs and they re negotiated the contract throughout the life of the project.
In the end the contract was two years over schedule and five times the original cost projection.
The Russians received three new factories furnished with western technology, equipment and training to build better weapons than the ones we destroyed.
It made all Americans feel proud that we were doing SOMETHING to deter a nuclear war. It was a lie and Americans were told we made the world safer. In reality, we paid for the demolition of outdated Soviet weapons and refurbished the weapons facilities to make better weapons.
It was a Media manufactured False sense of security.
Everyone got rich, except the American Taxpayer, who got fleeced again!
As an example. The first rocket we pulled out of a silo in Ukraine, to be destroyed, was in 1995. The Russian installed Factory Director of a Ukrainian factory, closed the gates and demanded an additional $5 million.
Our Secretary of Defense, William Perry called President Clinton and asked what he should do. They were being broadcast on TV in front of the world, being embarrassed!
Bill said, give the Director the money.
It is better to look good in front of the press than to look like the fools we are!
After that day, the Russian Factory Director closed the gates to our Joint Venture factory every month to re-negotiate!
Here is a bullshit story by the AP press that accompanied Perry on that feel-good tour.
https://apnews.com/article/fec18ceca6c3964a9038e864c09bdacb
Less Government means more control of our own destiny and less chance of tyranny in the form of an abusive Government!
Government is just a propaganda machine. They lie to make you feel good about the money they rob from you!
How many people listen to the lies and propaganda being broadcast as the rewritten history of the Great Socialist Governments of the World? Russia, China and the Democrat in America are world leaders in disinformation and division!
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Oops. Toyota bet on hydrogen and it's backfiring as owners are asking for buybacks or suing.
Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks
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4/12/2024
I wrote this right after the eclipse but set it aside for a while to take a fresh look. Great art, be it poetry or music or painting or whatnot, has more than one thing you will get out of it if you look at it and that was what I was attempting to do here. Also I wanted to write a kind of biblical tale of the eclipse. See what you think:
Apoceclipse
4/12/2024
Get yourself up, they told me, and behold the death of the light
come and see they scolded me, so I went for the afternoon night
And a great multitude of people, all our nation with cars in low gear
joined together in the great migration to watch the sun's light disappear
The road was was so long; a stream of endless taillights
the engines sang their sad songs as the desperate souls took flight
Start, stop, start at the command of the red warning lights
Like the dripping sand of the hourglass time slipped away in small bites
For hours so it passed and my legs started to cramp
but there was never a rest stop, no sign of an off ramp
there was nothing but the flashing of the stream of red lamps
we kept creeping along as if under a spell, an
enchantment
hour after hour we crept to the dark
like the souls being ferried by Charon, soon to debark
The time was growing short as the hourglass neared dry
I would not make the fort even if my truck could fly
my plans I must abort or the great thing would pass me by
I found a stretch athwart the road and peered up at the sky
The night had taken a bite out of the light
Like Satan devouring souls the sun was turning into night
a round black hole chipped right out of our sight
and slowly but surely the dark one snapped another bite
to swallow up the light in hios orgy of delight
The crowd was silent as the astral specter fed
and watched the stellar violence with very few words said
they watched the grave defilement as the light appeared quite dead
as Diana feasted on the bones and dined on stellar bread
Then, as if on Calvary upon that holiest of day
the sun turned off her light, with one last glorious ray
A starburst pattern, radiant against the lunar night
then all was gone, like a shade was drawn and it
disappeared completely from our sight
The orb of night bleeding tears of light
Dark speck in God's sight
murdering the light
but the star of our birth was not done with the fight
It wasn't gone, oh no!
the mighty Helious still put on a show!
Around the usurper moon there appeared a crown of piercing thorns
placed upon the head of light, a glory to adorn
the darkness had failed and all it's schemes were derailed and the darkness lay bleeding and torn
the beast gone to Jerusalem but facing a
conundrum,never to fully be born.
The darkness held as long as it was able
overcome by it's great struggle it fell right off the table
the sunlight poured out of the bowl, was dished out with a ladle
like that ancient star that hung above the mighty Kings birth stable.
Then the light came back in all of it's splendor
the glory of ages would never surrender
the warming fingers like a mother's, so tender
and the darkness now gone but we must remember
Everyone simply turned round and left
the roadside so full now was bare and bereft
of sky gazers intent on the astral scroll's cleft
of the crime of the night and the light's seeming theft
O simple Man when will the lesson you learn
or will you forget and in darkness will burn?
you see but are blind, you never do learn
what will you do when it soon comes your turn?
I take to the road but follow another path
It is a heavier load but I hope to avoid all the wrath
was it the sun that was shadowed or our minds and our hearts?
is it the sky that was cleft or our reason that parts?
who are we to forsee, with all of our arts
when the great eclipse comes and it all falls apart?
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