David Wilkerson and the Vision

A couple weeks back, I discovered on WorldNetDaily an article about a report vision Rev. David Wilkerson had about an impending disaster.

He said that the troubles and the riots would begin in New York City and spread throughout the country, and from there throughout the world. This article gained so much traction since then among Christian evangelical circles that even Peggy Noonan, a Catholic, was aware of it.

Wilkerson was well-known for his book the Cross and the Switchblade, but he also wrote a book titled simply, “The Vision.” It was written in the late 1970′s 1973 and it foretold many of the trends and events we see today.

I’ve borrowed this book from a friend and I plan to read it over the next few weeks.

The entire idea of urban American cities burning is chilling. If his book, The Vision, turns out more than accurate… well, that too would be chilling…

Dominos in Space

Wouldn’t it be ironic if our high-tech, space-age, wi-fi, electromagnetically fried civilization be torn asunder because we’ve just gotten too greedy out in space?

I’m not saying it will (though numbers theory tends to indicate that it’s a distinct possibility), but wouldn’t it be charming if one satellite funks out, slams into another, and that one slams into another, and so on ad infinitum? It’s called a cascading failure.

Then all that wiry, jittery-pokery up in space will be a very expensive wiry, jittery-pokery junk… and we will be blown back to the Civil War era steam engine.

What a pleasant thought, eh?

I’m still around

Just wanted to let my readers know that I’m still here. At least part of me.

Recently, school and work as well as other obligations have made it difficult to generate posts for this blog.

But I will try to post at least a blurb or blog a full post once a week.

Truth and Lies

It’s a sad sorry fact of life that as people grow older, they do not become better people.

As a friend pointed out to me today, this is perhaps one of the most pernicious lies that we tell ourselves as a society. The common “wisdom” is that as people age, they become more well-adjusted; that they make their peace with themselves and the world around them. Elderly people become the gray eminence behind every family, every community, every society.

By and large, this is untrue.

Reality contradicts this emphatically. For those reading these remarks, how many have seen the elderly shove their way forward in line in front of everyone? How many of you have seen elderly men and women berate the pharmacist behind the counter or the poor clerk unfortunate enough to ring them up.

I write this not to disparage the elderly but to make a point. Over the course of a lifetime, men’s hearts coarsen, and the gravity of life pulls him ever further down day by day, not toward the virtues a tolerance, peace, and mercy, but toward the sins of judgment, condemnation, and the callous disregard of consideration.

Why does this occur? Because the majority of people do not undertake the necessity of building a character.

Life comes at us in an implacable tidal wave. For the most part, it is beyond our control what happens in our lives– the tragedies and the joys. But without building a character, wonderful men and women become horrors over time. For those standing by the sidelines watching the decline, one wonders how, from where they began, they arrived at such misery…

Obama and the Presidency

(Originally a comment on Neoneocon)

There is one possibility about Obama that I haven’t heard anyone say just yet. What if the actions of the U.S. President is no longer as decisive as it used to be?

What I mean to say is, assuming he wants to preserve the Union, what if the President of the United States has no more choice in his course of action than a mouse running down a winding tunnel?

I understand that Obama is receiving the “real briefings” now that he has won the election, and if you notice, his hair is starting to turn white before the eyes of the public and there are lines on his face that wasn’t there before. The same sort of thing occurred with Clinton between the ‘92 election and when he was first sworn in. With Clinton, it almost went white overnight. I consider this to be a good sign.

I think it is no accident that Obama has caved on almost every major foreign policy position. As odd as this sounds, at the moment, he is closer to President George Bush than to his Party on foreign policy.

Ironic, isn’t it?

… but, like I said, he may not have a choice in the matter, and I don’t think it would have been any different with a President McCain.

The US Presidency

I said above, “What I mean to say is, assuming he wants to preserve the Union, what if the President of the United States has no more choice in his course of action than a mouse running down a winding tunnel?”

Allow me to further had one more thing. I am sure there are many people who would take exception to this statement. But as counter intuitive as is, I believe that the higher one ascends in politics and power, the more one’s options are closed. Especially here in America.

As you ascend, your actions must necessarily become more constricted. You are allowed less forgivable mistakes by the populace and you’re abutted on all sides by political enemies, not least are the ones in your own party.

Many people have the false notion that the higher one goes, the more freedom one has. Quite the opposite is true. It is true for Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad, who’ve walled themselves off from the rest of the world, and it’s true of our President.

While we as freedom’s heirs can sit on our recliner and grouse to our hearts content, the President does not have that luxury neither on the domestic front nor on the foreign policy front.

We are not responsible for the lives of hundreds of millions.

He is.