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The Looming Storm
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The Looming Storm |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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there is a revealing apprehension and I see it every day never spoken publicly maybe but oh yes it is still there if you pay attention and I do there are changes in the currents of air we breathe the world is metamorphosing these winds of change a harbinger of tempestuous days not so silently anymore for there are friends in high places the highest it has been said a bloody ballet is being performed inside many countries borders people turn blind eyes refusing to see what is blatantly obvious it is as if they are self-hypnotized or too politically correct to admit it even unto themselves sooner, rather than later the audacity of the ballet is finally apparent to all and the storm is now set to unfold maybe too late we perceive its goal people are now looking really looking at what they've failed to accept before give them back their enlightened ways inside their thoughts cloistered within the walls they erected so as not to see the storm They know not how to deal with it and IT becomes stronger day after day somewhere someone is persecuted hung on makeshift gallows someone is beheaded as another one films it from their camera people the world over attacked and killed simply because they are the infidel despicable murder the world has shifted in Old Testament biblical directions the "religious" ones have crossed the threshold when they scream CONVERT . . . CONVERT or die you are beginning to see lunatics on parade Allahu Akbar they chant to their prophet western rules of law will be set aside your life will be subject to primitive ideological decrees your private life is no more you have finally seen your future for what it really is murder at every turn infiltration is their Trojan Horse they come to stay you can rest assured especially when they chant CONVERT . . . CONVERT . . . OR DIE (c)October 8, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Religious fanaticism is ever so often the cause for war and crimes. One would believe that history should have taught some lessons, but over and over again innocent blood is shed, in the name of a God Who must shudder at the horrible ways of His creatures... May humanity awaken to Love! I appreciated your thought provoking write. Margherita |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Many thanks Margherita, for your compelling thoughts concerning the history of complete insanity which has destroyed whole countries, if not continents. It is happening again. ~*~ Around here a cultured person is one that don't drink dago red from a jar. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
All the atrocities committed in the name of God since the beginning of mankind is mind boggling. So to, the number of lives lost in the name of "love"... I think blinding passion is the poison Insightful write. Lori  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Good morning, Lori. I agree, of course, with you. You have seized the question of why such things happen with your "blinding passion" comment. ~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~ |
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Zinsser Senior Member
since 2001-02-27
Posts 1641Calif. |
very well done!!! Thank You |
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Zinsser Senior Member
since 2001-02-27
Posts 1641Calif. |
Love the controversy of the topic and our blindness to things around us on a daily basis.... well done Thank You |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you Connie, for reading and commenting so favorable on my somewhat touchy poem. I surely appreciate your thoughts. ~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~ |
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
We as cattle... err, I mean humans easily, and lackadaisically are blind to much that goes on around us, but may not directly be affecting us. It's not until a cow feels the prod that he realizes something else is out there... let's hope we aren't cows. Michael |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
It takes two to tell the truth-one to speak and the other to hear. (The "hearers" are asleep). Thoreau |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
It's really thought-provoking ) I don't know, Jerry... I'm not afraid of storms. I know that the only my foe is inside me. But as you can see, people don't know where to look for their enemies, and they find them everywhere except the true place ((( |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Michael, to use cattle as metaphor is a delight, and the cattle prod brilliant. Thank you for your comments. ~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~ |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you for that quote, Ida, and there is much truth in the saying. ~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~ |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Oh Gale, there are real honest to goodness foes alive and well and wanting to disrupt our very lives, or even to kill us. I know of the internal foes, and they are bad enough, but they are usually from our own making. The looming storm I write of is evil personified and it is called radical Islam. ~*~ I want to hear a Jim Croce song, but it will cut too deep, be too real. ~*~ |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
I understand what you write of, Jerry. But I think that it's not your problem. When my compatriots do a plenty of "silly" things or let our government do it (what is the same) with corresponding consequences, they say that there are some people (usually from outside) guilty in our troubles: migrants, who steal, violate and kill; America, which always wants to fight for the natural resources; Caucasian or Asiatic extremists, which blast our houses and metro... They say it because it's a terrible accusation, and it draws national attention away from those silly and terrible things which are done inside the country by our nationals: one part of them does and others let them do it, and who has any conscience? If you remember the years before the World War II and that terrible economic situation in Germany, you can imagine how easily poor and frightened people becomes agressive. So I think that it's not Islam or Christianity, or Judaism. I think that it's our own ignorance and cowardice. It's easier "to see the mote in thy brother's eye" than to take the beam out from yours own. Perhaps you won't agree with me, but I watch the same old story every day when my brother shakes his fists and looks for the guilty ones while he can do nothing with his own life, and the less he does himself the more he shakes at his "enemies". Believe me, your enemy is always inside your mind. By the way, I'm not religious, but I know that this truth (clear even to extraterrestrials) is inscribed in many holy and wise books. But obviously people read them blindly. ((( |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
No Gale. My enemies are not in my mind. They are very real and very dangerous. ~*~ Your past is just a story. Once you realize this, it has no power over you. ~*~ |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
If that's the case, Jerry, then I'm sorry for you, because it's so nonconstructive - to have external enemies. You can't change them, you can do nothing with them, since the only person whose mind you can change and improve and whose mistakes you can fix really is you. So while you believe that you depend on somebody's thoughts and behaviour, then you're powerless. Of course you can kill your enemies (people are mortal), but as they say, if you kill a killer, it doesn't decrease the amount of killers. As well as the amount of problems ((( You can rid of them one after another and at last stay alone with your problems. Well, never mind! May be you're right, and I'm just a naive girl. |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
Jerry & Gale, I think you are talking past each other. The enemies Jerry speaks of are real enough in the threat they pose. Gale sees the self-enemy (ignorance, delusion, indoctrination?) being transferred to others as a way of preserving self. Neither is wrong. This has been going on for centuries, of course. Unfortunately, the identification of another's self-delusion does not prevent the bomb from being made. IMO, the miss-perceived "other reality", with or without the virgins, is the central column of support for a house of worship, whatever it calls itself. Nearly impossible to reason with. |
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Gale Senior Member
since 2013-06-10
Posts 578Russia |
Krawdad, either it's "past" or not, but I just meant that outer enemies are an indicator of inner problems. And if the last ones were solved then your enemies would disturb you much less. And it relates not only to your country, but to mine as well, and to others. It relates to any person particularly. I'm very sorry that people don't wanna realize it, because they won't work on yourself, no, they will fight with each other again, and no one will win this war. It's very very sad. Well, I don't wanna talk past you any more. I think I'm wrong with posting here my philosophy ((( But the poem is really thought-provoking. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thanks Krawdad, for trying to mediate this opposition between Gale and I. I think over analyzing something is like sticking your head in the sand and and just not looking at reality. ~*~ Your past is just a story. Once you realize this, it has no power over you. ~*~ |
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