Iconoclasm

Oh god I had a good dinner tonight.

Beef roast with black truffles, honey, lemon juice, black pepper, and maple syrup.

And roast potatoes - I mean perfect roast potatoes. And minted peas. And mushroom and beef sauce, maybe with a touch of Cognac in it.

Simple stuff. But not simple when it is done perfectly. Not simple at all.

Ah well, after all - t'is the Season and all of that.

Ah, here we go - roast beef, nicely done

But now have you noticed how so much of modern society involves iconoclasm, with just about every second person you meet being an iconodule. 

Iconoclasm - this is when people go around smashing up 'icons' or statues or monuments or just about anything and anyone associated with some cherished tradition or belief that the iconodule finds 'erroneous' or displeasing to them.

You know - like when the Islamic jihadis go around and smash ancient monuments and artefacts and temples and statues.

Or... and you may not like this - when people go around claiming that Santa Claus is actually 'Satan Lucas' (acronymic name) surreptitiously sold to an unsuspecting and naiive public.

Or that Santa Claus is a pagan idea hiding closely beneath the Christian surface; you know, like because December 25 was not Jesus' birthdate. But why wasn't it though? 'Deca' - 'ten' in Roman. And people say that Jesus' real birth month was October. I mean we all know that the months are all messed up now because of Augustus Caesar.

It's all a lot of nonsense, isn't it? And I don't say this coming from your usual modern atheistic perspective either. It's just nonsense on any level.

'Lucifer' is not a proper name, it is a descriptive.

And 'Lucas' is in any case not 'Luci-fer.' Sounds a bit like, therefore is like... According to the iconodules. What rubbish.

Since when, from the Christian viewpoint in any case, does Satan suddenly have all of this power that he exerts right across the whole globe, dominating the ideas and beliefs of everyone?

It's just so easy to be a destroyer, a naysayer, an iconoclast. A skeptic. But to actually know something concrete, and then also actually say that you do, is far too risky for the lily-liver'ed average smart-ass.

Lots of puns in Christmas stuff - cherries could be
because of the Dog Star, Xeryus (Sirius). Never heard that one before,
I'll bet. Ah, they're a dime a dozen.

Trump takes such risks. Is he going to pay for it? Time will tell. At the moment, not.

And then there is this other usual thing - whatever is from an entirely different culture, not 'Christian,' is pagan, or demonic and evil. All of a sudden now, no one, with a brain, anywhere in the world, is reasonably entitled to discover God or the genuine spiritual meaning of things, and thus anyone who has any thought at all about it - must be pagan and evil and bad.

What a lot of bloody nonsense.

'Father Christmas' is a pagan thing. And therefore it is bad! (lol).

It probably is a pagan-laden thing at that. Which doesn't make it 'bad.' Why does it make it bad?! I know there is probably absolutely no one who reads here likely to quote scripture back at me proving how the Old Testament talks about going after foreign gods and idols and all of this. 

But the trouble with these guys and a lot of gals too nowadays who quote all this stuff is that none of them has actually read the amount of original texts that experts have, and in the original languages and glyphs - and I know that because if they had, it simply would not be possible to say 'such and such' said 'this and this.'

'Such and such' is more than very often just a picto-gram or glyph with absolutely no way at all of knowing what the 'words' being written and said at the time really were.

We do NOT know, for instance, who 'Isis' this supposed Egyptian goddess was, or was meant to be. It's just a bunch of cartouche diagrams not in anything like an order that would ever make what we call a sentence. You'll find this claptrap in Wikipedia, for instance: 'Isis was the goddess who was the sister of Osiris who was killed by Set and dismembered and whose body was at first hidden in a tree and then cut into fourteen pieces and then stuck into boxes and then gathered up by Isis and then brought back to life and then they had a son, the god Horus, et cetera et cetera.'

These kinds of sentences implying what the cartouches supposedly meant, came a whole whole lot later than the time of any actual 'Isis.' And in every single case, the sentences were made not even by the people of the region, but by Greeks and Persians and far later Romans and others.

'The Virgin Mary and child' are really just the pagan Isis and Horus. Really?

Now people on the extreme 't'other' side of things will tell you: 'there is no evidence for the actual existence, ever, of the person Jesus Christ as depicted in Christian lore.'

Really? Even this, really? Ya think?

They have seen all the original texts that are used to maintain there was a real 'Jesus Christ?' Have they?

Because I have seen a lot of them... Do you know there are over 5,200 of them? Some complete texts though most fragments of many many different, now lost, whole texts. And there 43 separate main Gospel sources all of which very closely agree? The percentages of totally independent witness accounts - not Christian or even local regional people, but Romans and Persians - are very high, maybe forty-five per cent. The idea that there is no text actually dating from the actual time in question is absolute bunk. But everyone simply believes the iconoclastic version. Because iconoclasm is easy. Sure, of course, there is a lot of real ground for dispute on technical detail, and meanings and interpretations. That's because the past degrades current facts with abandon. But blanket iconoclasm, well that's the easiest thing, and people do it with no compunction and often no genuine substantive reason either.

The past cannot fight back, can it. So people do it. 

No. What we have is the typical arrogant disrespect for old things, and ancient things, and ancient cultures, and other people's things, that drives the mindset of idiots.

So what if Christianity were bunk?

And what if Islam is equally bunk?

And Isis, the ancient goddess of ancient Egypt complete and pagan idolatrous bunk?!

What in the hell does it have to do with anyone not involved in those belief systems themselves anyway?

Well but there are a whole hell of a lot of political dimensions - crucial, significant, important, and exploitable possibilities...

So trust me on this even if you don't want to follow along the line of ideology I spewed out above: 'ISIS' - namely, that ISIS we speak of today to do with Islamic Terrorists, is nothing more nor less than a disrespect to Ancient Things. It's not about 'the Islamic State in Syria.' It's not about that. Well, of course it is, but not 'only...' Or not 'exactly... It's about young punks who think it's awfully funny that the acronym is also a play on words, that it also means some 'ancient god' that most prolly never even existed 'for real' of course. Dem stoopid ancient pagans! We are so smart today!

It is no different from ISIS (jihadis) smashing up monuments. The other side of the same coin are also iconoclasts of tradition and ancient heritage. They are destructive vandals. Mindless, warmongering, uneducated, classLESS, meatheaded, unsophisticated, detesters of culture and history - and destructive, vandals.  

Lockheed's logo, when you do the usual occultic thing about twin symbols interchangeably appearing but standing for only one thing, a dark side of, and a light side of - well Lockheed's symbol IS the '666' that people go on about. Why shouldn't a war weapons promoter be less 'Satanic' than Santa Claus??

'T'is the Season to be Jolly, falalalala, la la la laaaaa.

Things are dark, and when Winter is even at its darkest, all is not yet lost.