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The Force Awakens opened this Friday to packed theaters across America. I haven’t seen it for a number of reasons, among which is an unwillingness to tent out for days just to buy tickets. The film will nonetheless make oodles of money, I’m sure, as Star Wars has replaced the Bible as Western civilization’s primary cultural commonality, both relevant and accessible to people across the societal spectrum.
This seventh chapter of the epic space opera may be the first to steer clear of political themes. According to film critic Matt Singer, “The Force Awakens is — arguably to its detriment — completely uninterested in politics.” This newfound political disinterest may have something to do with the fact that Star Wars is no longer the property of its creator, George Lucas, who infused the prequels and, to a lesser extent, the original trilogy, with political overtones.
Star Wars has never been what it appears to be—good clean fun with spaceships and laser beams. Don’t feel bad; that’s what I thought it was too when I was a little kid playing with action figures.
Space ships and laser beams are the packaging not the story. To get to the real story it’s necessary to turn the clock back to April 1973, a time of great disillusionment, when the last American combat troops were withdrawing from Vietnam and the Watergate hearings were only a month away. With these generation-shaping events as a backdrop, twenty-eight year old George Lucas began typing the story of a courageous farm boy from the galaxy’s rural backwaters who took on a rotting empire replete with militarism and darkness—and won.
He told his audience that it all took place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” but its actual setting was both contemporary and terrestrial. Star Wars was an allegory for the world as seen through the eyes of a baby boomer who had come of age on a college campus in the 1960s, who had felt the draft board breathing down his neck, and who had imbibed the spirit of San Francisco, where he was living at the time. The militaristic empire he imagined was his own country and the rebels were communist Vietnamese, though they could have been any number of “anti-imperialist” forces around the globe—the ANC in South Africa, the Tupamaros in Uruguay, etc. The Death Star was a warning against the destructive power of nuclear weapons, though it could be seen as analogous to the Pentagon. Darth Vader? Probably Dick Nixon or just a stand-in for the soulless admirals and generals in command of the war machine.
Lucas had other influences, of course, because inspiration is never that simple. Star Wars was also one part Flash Gordon serial and one part gun-slinging western with a whole heap of Kurosawa’s samurai cinema thrown in. The story also paralleled the Third Reich, starring Darth Vader as Hitler and stormtroopers as, well…stormtroopers.
But it was always about America, the only country George Lucas had ever known. If the film evoked images of Nazi Germany, the logical conclusion was that that’s what America had become or was on the verge of becoming. Star Wars could be read as a cautionary tale of what might happen if we didn’t change course.
Consider some of the notes Lucas scribbled in late 1973: “Aquilae is a small independent country like North Vietnam, threatened by a neighbour or provincial rebellion, instigated by gangsters aided by empire. Fight to get rightful planet back. Half of the system has been lost to gangsters…The empire is like America ten years from now, after gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elevated to power in a rigged election…We are at a turning point: fascism or revolution.”
That’s not exactly the Star Wars we all know and love, largely because Lucas’s concept still had a lot of growing to do, but the framework was there. From its earliest drafts, the script told the story of a scrappy underdog, patterned after North Vietnam, doing battle with a corrupt American empire. The underdog had only his convictions to give him heart, while the empire, which seemed invincible, was actually rotten to the core.
The politics got even more heavy in the prequels, culminating in the hyperpolitical Revenge of the Sith, which the Washington Post jokingly dubbed The Empire Strikes Bush. Actually, the Galactic Empire is Bush, but I understand it’s a fun witticism. Sith’s subliminal messages were not lost on The New York Times’s film reviewer A.O. Scott, who wrote: “’Revenge of the Sith’ is about how a republic dismantles its own democratic principles, about how politics becomes militarized, about how a Manichaean ideology undermines the rational exercise of power. Mr. Lucas is clearly jabbing his light saber in the direction of some real-world political leaders. At one point, Darth Vader…echoing the words of George W. Bush, hisses at Obi-Wan, ‘If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.’”
That wasn’t really Darth Vader; or not yet. It was Anakin Skywalker, but clearly he was mimicking Bush’s post-9/11 admonition to foreign leaders, “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
So you can imagine my disappointment when I learned that the newest film would abstain from political commentary. That’s really unfortunate because we need it now more than ever. We’re a nation adrift, led by a corrupt, unprincipled political class that seems to have pulled the wool over the eyes of half the population.
Consider for a moment the scene in Revenge of the Sith in which Emperor Palpatine convinces the Senate to cede unprecedented power to him, thus establishing the Galactic Empire “in order to secure the security” of the Republic. Queen Amidala famously remarks “So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” Lucas was surely knocking Bush though it’s even more relevant today. The scene seemed a clever reference to the PATRIOT Act which, in case you haven’t noticed, is still the law of the land because Barack Obama approved its extension. But the Senate scene was about a lot more than just the PATRIOT Act; it was about our willingness, in times of trouble, to cede the power vested in the people and their elected representatives to a single charismatic leader. In light of Obama’s imperial presidency, the scene has assumed new meaning.
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush weren’t great presidents but neither were they Emperor Palpatine. I can’t say the same about President Obama who really does bear a striking resemblance to that wrinkled geezer in a hoody. So why can’t we make a movie about his policies, about his administration?
The Obama Administration has given us so much material to work with, the script would practically write itself. Imagine an evil Sith Lord who sweeps away any restraints on his authority with the words, “If the Senate won’t act, I will” or “We can’t wait for (fill in the blank).” The same Sith Lord could go to war in a sandy place resembling Tatooine without the approval of the Senate. Here’s a better one—the aforementioned villain pits one alien race against another (Jawas vs. Ewoks?) with his constantly divisive rhetoric, then uses the crisis to snatch up all the blasters and lightsabers in the galaxy. Stormtroopers go planet to planet, kicking down doors and confiscating anything that resembles a weapon. One of the Sith Lord’s closest advisors then turns to his boss and mutters something like “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Another idea: A council of supposed sages, call them judges if you will, abandon their fidelity to the law they swore to uphold and begin making decisions based on their own personal agendas. Here’s a good one—the Jedi are prohibited from practicing their ancient religion for fear that some people might get their feelings hurt.
Why, oh why, did Star Wars stop being political at the very moment that the most Palpatine-esque president ever to defile the Oval Office came to power? Maybe it’s because George Lucas isn’t at the helm anymore, though it’s doubtful that his directing and/or production would have made a difference. I suspect that The Force Awakens would still avoid criticizing the president because Lucas has, or once had, a man-crush on him. Said Lucas in 2008: “We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama.” Whether Lucas still feels that way is unknown. Perhaps he’s been appalled with what he’s seen in the ensuing seven years but I doubt it.
It’s almost as if political commentary just isn’t cool in show biz anymore. Would a major movie studio even make a film that was so obviously critical of this president and his policies? I have my doubts. Dissent isn’t patriotic anymore, less so in Hollywood, so I guess we’ll have to settle for spaceships and laser beams. What a pity.
✝✡Please Pray for Israel and our Christian Nation USA✡✝
25) Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27) Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29) And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32) ( For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: ) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
✝✡Matthew 6:25-34 KJV✡✝
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” ( John 14:1-3 KJV )!!
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” ( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV )!!
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son ( Jesus Christ – Yeshua HaMashiach ), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be Saved.”
✝✡ John 3:16-17 KJV ✡✝
✝✡“One Nation Under GOD”✡✝
✝✡PRAY for our Judeo-Christian USA ✡✝
“If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” ( II Chronicles 7:14 KJV )
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.” ( Psalms 33:12 KJV )
“Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 )
✝✡Jesus Christ LOVES Ye✡✝
✝Proverbs 8:17 KJV✝
❤✡ Jesus Christ Loves Ye All✡❤
“I love them that love Me; and those that seek Me early shall find Me.”
✝Proverbs 8:17 KJV✝
Jesus Christ is KING of kings, LORD ( Adonai ) of lords, He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last!! Jesus Christ in the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE, No one comes unto the Father, but through Me ( Jesus Christ )!! Thus: Jesus Christ is the only WAY to enter into Heaven!!
God Said: “Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” ( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV )!!
❤✡“Please PRAY for Our Judeo-Christian Nation USA”✡❤
❤“Love Always, Shalom YSIC, Kristi Ann”❤
❤✡ Please Stand with Israel Poem ✡❤
From the River to the Sea Israel Belongs to Thee O’ God,
With God’s Hands we will see,
His Land is Called the Promised Land,
Created by God the Father which art in Heaven,
The Holy Land is where Jesus Christ was Born,
Jesus Christ will Return through Jerusalem Israel for Everyone to see,
Seeing our Messiah Jesus Christ will be Wonderful,
As He is our KING of kings, LORD of lords,
He will always Love everyone Forever,
Jesus is the Same as Yesterday and Forever,
Jesus is the First and Last,
Jesus is the Only True ALPHA and OMEGA!!
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September 3rd, 2014
Kristi Ann
MsGuidedAngel
Jesus Christ is KING of kings, LORD ( Adonai ) of lords, He is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last!! Jesus Christ in the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE, No one comes unto the Father, but through Me ( Jesus Christ )!! Thus: Jesus Christ is the only WAY to enter into Heaven!!
God Said: “Trust in the LORD ( ADONAI ) with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” ( Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV )!!
❤“Love Always, Shalom YSIC, Kristi Ann”❤
Netanyahu Says ‘No Chance’ Of Iranian Nuclear Compromise Deal Without Dismantling Centrifuges!!
Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that there is “no chance” the West will reach a final deal with Iran over its nuclear program, following comments by Iranian officials last week that they had not agreed to dismantle any nuclear centrifuges. “If Iran will stand by that statement, that means that a permanent agreement–which is the goal of the entire diplomatic process with Iran–cannot succeed,” Netanyahu said.
( Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu )
The Jerusalem Post reported Netanyahu’s comments Sunday, after he addressed his cabinet upon his return from Davos, Switzerland. Late last year, Netanyahu called the interim deal with Iran an “historic mistake” and made clear that Israel was not party to the agreement. The deal provides that Iran receives sanctions relief in return for temporarily suspending high-level nuclear enrichment and provides some access to UN inspectors. source – Breitbart
Via: Kristi Ann's Haven
I really Love this Song by Amy Grant El Shaddai, a GREAT worshio Song of Our God in Heaven Who Created the Heavens and the Earth!! God Created us in His own Image!! Jesus Christ is the SON of God Our FATHER which art in Heaven!
Love Always, YSIC \o/
Kristi Ann
10 Guidelines for Christian Living!
Over the last seven decades, Billy Graham has written 32 books which are an extension of his continued ministry and burden to reach as many people as possible with the Good News of the Gospel. In “Peace with God,” Mr. Graham outlines ten guidelines for Christian living. This classic volume by Billy Graham points to the fact that God is the only way to find authentic personal peace in a world in crisis.
Whether we are playing a game, driving a car, or baking a cake, there are certain rules that must be followed for our safety as well as our success.
The Bible teaches that the Christian life is one of constant growth. When you were born again, you were born into God’s family. It is God’s purpose that you will grow into fill stature and become mature in Christ. It would be against the law of God and nature if you were to remain a baby and thus become a spiritual dwarf. In 2 Peter 3:18, the Bible says that we are to grow. It implies steady development, constant enlargement, increasing wisdom.
For one to grow property certain rules must be observed for good spiritual health.
- Read your Bible daily. Do not be content to skim through a chapter merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart. It comforts, guides, corrects, encourages – all we need is there.
- Learn the secret of prayer. Prayer is communicating. Every prayer that you pray will be answered. Sometimes that answer may be “Yes” and sometimes “No,” and sometimes it is “Wait,” but nevertheless it will be answered.
- Rely constantly on the Holy Spirit. We know that the Holy Spirit prays for us (Romans 8), and what a comfort that should be to the weakest of us. Stand aside and let Him take over all the choices and decisions of your life.
- Attend church regularly. The visible church is Christ’s organization upon earth. Christians need one another, we need to gather together to worship God and nothing can take the place of church attendance.
- Be a witnessing Christian. We witness in two ways: by life and by word – and the two, where possible, should go hand in hand.
- Let love be the ruling principle of your life. Jesus said to those who followed Him, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:25). The greatest demonstration of the fact that we are Christians is that we love one another.
- Be an obedient Christian. Let Christ have first place in all the choices of your life.
- Learn how to meet temptation. Temptation is not sin. It is yielding that is sin. Let Christ through the Holy Spirit do the fighting for you.
- Be a wholesome Christian. Our lives and appearance should commend the Gospel and make it attractive to others.
- Live above your circumstances. Don’t let your circumstances get you down. Learn to live graciously within them, realizing the Lord Himself is with you.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
( Isaiah 40:31 KJV 1611 AV )
This Verse is One of my favorites of all time!! I think about this Verse when I am down, or when I have pain! It Proves God is There with us through Everything in our Lives!! God is our Father in Heaven who Created the Heavens and the Earth, He also Created us after His Own Image!! God Loves us through Jesus Christ His One and Only Son!! Jesus Loved everyone, before we Loved Him!!
Love Always, YSIC \o/
Kristi Ann
Lets say Rothschild was granted permission by the king to swindle the country in order to gain dominance of England over their subjects?
Only makes sense
Since no one killed him
But hey never dreamed or did they that it would lead to world dominion
World Bank world dominance
pfft so a few lousy colonist got away with some land
They would be their subjects, I mean slaves forever wether they new it or not, liked it or not
All the kings horses all the kings men
Pawns of chess expendable all day long
hmmmm... matters not King of Kings, Lord of Lords is coming to claim what is rightfully his
Then there will be HELL to PAY!
That's an eternity long time in an oven u ask me
Amazing how old the queen is, still looks great too bless her heart
Not a bit of power on her throne, just a figure head nothing more
Amazing King gives man freedom to rob all the aristocracy
Then builds empire that reigns over everyone no matter what
Treats everyone any way they deem is their authority to do so
Their divine right their blood blue and pure
Could they possibly have realized the magnitutude of what they pulled off?!
Could they have ever invisioned world dominion forever?!!!!
Keep the peons at bay
Keep em at each others throats
Use em like cattle to build the market
Let em eat brackish water and soiled mash
Matters not the King rules all the rest
But the queen in her impish elegant smile is delicate and with out airs
Off with their heads she squeals in delight
And the multitude amasses in piles of her plight
Headless and bound
Into the ground
Oh the charm oh the grace
The dignity of her lovely face
It is Royalty after all... we must give her her due...
After all she kills at her own disgression
Doesn't answer to me or you
If she sees fit to keep you in her good graces, then blessed your little heart you don't have to suffer like the feices
She giggles at the horrors of the decades past
At the slaughter of the innocence
Never looking back
Oh those sheckles of walking dead
Brings delight each and every nite
Adams apples bigger than gords bulging from a throat
Eyes popped open unable to shut
oh the carnage
oh the pain
oh the travesty
opps shes doing it again...
