The 19th card of the Major Arcana,
The Sun,
can be considered the most favorable of all the Major Arcana cards; it
symbolizes knowledge, vitality and good fortune, and promises esteem and
reward. The Sun posits attributes of clarity, harmony in relationship
and fine reputation; it does, however, also indicate negative qualities
of pride, vanity and pretentiousness.
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Oh what a glorious day it was indeed on this day in the wonderful year of our lord:
1984. Yes, the year the world had been waiting for to see if
George Orwell's famous prediction from
his book
by the same name, was true. In Orwell's book, history was rewritten
daily to keep people believing in everything and nothing at the same
time. Peace was War, Love was Hate, and Justice, well, unjust
obviously.
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| Ronald |
I had just turned 20 that year and looked for the signs everywhere.
Ronald Reagan was president and there were signs. For one, Mr Ray-gun (as we called him on the streets), hosted his
1984 Republican Convention in Dallas Texas.
Protestors came from everywhere to protest the Cowboy president who had
used the Christian Church to get elected. Reagan was the first to
pretend to be a Christian to get it, before Reagan the church didn't
take sides in politics... funny, I was a Christian back then too, but
after that I decided I would rather burn in hell than follow Satan here
on earth clothed in religion. Really, it became obvious to me that
that religion
was nothing spiritual and everything to do with power -- I would spend
the next twenty years proving this by studying the rise of the Christian
church at the cost of real spirituality. The faith we all know in our
souls, not from the treat of eternal hell.
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| Dallas Protest |
Getting back to 1984 and the
Republican National Convention
in Dallas Texas. Thousands of protestors came from everywhere and they
were loud and wanted the world to know that they did not support the
Hollywood President trading a people's government for the
corporate-greed government; however, you didn't know we were there in
protest by watching the national media. All you saw on television were
the happy faces coming and going in-and-out of the convention, most
disturbingly for me, Bruce Willis. What was he doing there?
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| Dallas Airport 1984 |
What Reagan had done was brilliant and
would be used by all political parties going forward: he had
designated a "Safe Protest Zone." That's right, an area where the
protestors would be safe to express their god-given right to express
their beliefs; only thing was, this designated spot was a mile away from
the convention and any television cameras. That's right, Sir Ray-gun
had us on the banks of the Trinity River a few blocks from where Kennedy
had been slain in the hot-ass sun to think about our evil protesting
ways. Free-speech had been converted into breached-speech and it has
remained that way since.
Back then, I was certain
this unprecedented act of using "Safe Protest Zone" as a move out of
Orwell's 1984, little did I know that the real Orwellian machine was
miles away in California being manufactured by one of us. That's right,
on this day in 1984, Steve Jobs gave us the first personal computer
with a GUI interface (the mouse) which would make
computers attainable to the masses. And that machine was the monitor of big-brother today, along with cable news.
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| Big Brother |
What I'm really trying to say here is: God is the answer -- wink.
