tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post6327114370218568489..comments2024-03-28T19:34:12.281-04:00Comments on Not of this World: Zombies!Ed Bonderenkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-48293918375263102092013-07-15T14:51:12.504-04:002013-07-15T14:51:12.504-04:00Guy, when I first started the train of thought, it...Guy, when I first started the train of thought, it was when I was reacting to the news of a friends uncle: that I'd rather be dead than suffer that fate.<br />Obamacare wasn't a first concern.<br />But when I thought of my first reaction, I realized that I might have been conditioned to the reaction that there is a fate worse than death (and I don't mean spiritual death).<br />If I thought of offing myself in that condition, then maybe I'd think well of offing someone else in that condition.<br />Then I saw the Walking Dead episode.<br />Zombies have been with us for awhile, but not on Zombie Apocalypse scales.<br />I'm just saying that we are being conditioned that some humans have outlived their usefulness or can be viewed as a threat.<br />And I can believe that there is a spiritual force behind that.<br /><br />If you ever read "I Am Legend" (and you won't get it from either movie) you'd know that the title comes from the fact that the "hero" who has been killing "vampires" in their daylight sleeping chambers has actually been killing humans who have suffered a malady from biochem warfare, who are reassembling a valid society.<br />They capture our hero and put him on trial for murder.<br />He realizes that he has become THEIR bogeyman. <br />He is Legend.Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-88348793071463263102013-07-15T00:02:29.924-04:002013-07-15T00:02:29.924-04:00If you are implying that the desensitizing of soc...If you are implying that the desensitizing of society toward (graphic) violence , in this case the recent resurrection (pun not intended...but I'll take it.) of zombies in movies, tv shows, and comics, is in some manner a direct correlation to the upcoming fiasco of National Health Care ? (And the bean counter death panels ... yes, who else is really going to be manning...or at least pulling the strings of the puppets seen by the public at large...but the governmental bean counters?) <br /><br />Seriously, I do not think they are in direct collusion. But I am willing to bet, the bad actors on the government side of the house are going to take advantage of every and any thing they can. And if constant and or repeated exposure to violence of this type, provided by a large chunk of the entertainment conglomerate (unintentional or otherwise) helps to grease their skids...so much the better...as far as the government is concerned. <br /><br />Don't forget, al be it to a far lesser degree, this type of tale has been around for at least hundreds of years (in some form or another ...Voodoo worship for example) what is missing to a greater and greater degree, was the counter balance of a strong moral/religious underpinning to our (or any other) society. This allowed for the profane to be exposed to the public (in fact, it could be argued, it made said tales even scarier) with the knowledge they knew where the lines were clearly drawn. (If there were such things as zombies/vampires/werwolf's, etc, Those would be okay to remove....but "real people" with real illnesses...that is only up to God.<br /><br />Now however, with the chipping away of a collective moral compass. ... Just a matter of if and not when...unless things change.Guy Shttp://navvet55.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-2360643582741128022013-07-11T10:22:45.411-04:002013-07-11T10:22:45.411-04:00Interesting approach... :-)Interesting approach... :-)Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-55625555207759327022013-07-08T08:01:20.158-04:002013-07-08T08:01:20.158-04:00And in reply to Pascal:
Yes, I think it is linked ...And in reply to Pascal:<br />Yes, I think it is linked to your Neo-Malthusian theme.<br />I left that for you to mention in comments.<br />Thank you.<br />Pascal has been pointing out for a while now that the "Green" "Sustainability" movement is really geared toward paring down the population (human that is) of planet earth.Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-37901015859165489722013-07-08T07:58:18.982-04:002013-07-08T07:58:18.982-04:00Pascal:
I got this comment through e-mail.
The nef...Pascal:<br />I got this comment through e-mail.<br />The nefarious Blogger.com deleted it or didn't post it.<br />This has happened to me on other sites.<br /><br />Pascal said:<br />This touches my recurring theme. The beneficiaries of Judeo-Christian stabilized culture have been indoctrinated to toss that aside and only look at neighbors relative to their usefulness. Are they contributing or are they a burden, and forget all that nonsense like loyalty and gratitude and love.<br /><br />And what is worse, the proponents of this neo-paganism think highly of themselves because they understand, unlike those biblical morons, that they must kill mankind in order to save it.<br /><br />Like killing zombies before they contaminate the rest of the planet. You and I are zombies to them Ed. <br />Ed Bonderenkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03724552853113809036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-40863959263151858422013-07-08T01:36:38.321-04:002013-07-08T01:36:38.321-04:00what happened to my first comment Ed? It did publ...what happened to my first comment Ed? It did publish.Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481053445293173582.post-60498666347191078212013-07-07T23:08:07.794-04:002013-07-07T23:08:07.794-04:00whoops?whoops?Pascalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303025432356543062noreply@blogger.com