The Beast, you say… How about reality?

The Beast of the Apocalypse, is perhaps not good enough for God, but is still what we’re left with until Europa gives birth to a line of kings founded on science and progress and not economy and politics. The Beast is the fake Jesus stories still hitting the worlds bestseller lists, completed with videos and TV shows, and the kingdoms of Europe, Babylon’s the holy Church and there’s nothing real new. Tracing their royal lineages back to all the ancient powers of the Bible, the European kingdoms are using a wide variety of totems in their heraldry and insignia to make us know who or what they are; lions, dragons, leopards, unicorns, sheep, bears, eagles you name it. Beasts. They are in control of- or “own” several currencies, they force us to adhere to laws and rituals in order to be a respectful citizen, like paying taxes and suffer prison if you don’t, or being drafted for the army, complete with a lion in gold or similar sowed onto your hat, while being taught the Beast’s (read: politic’s) favorite ultimatum; war. Which is politics, only the other way around, with expensive cruise missiles and oblivion instead of cheap lies and compromise. You salute to your king or anyone higher in rank than yourself, by raising your right hand to your forehead. If you do such a thing, you are bound to be sent to Hell, read: War, if you are needed. So, do as the Booke says and draw aside the veil. What the Apocalypse call Beast is Politics, and the ultimate consequence of politics— War, or the Sea of Fire if you like. Sorry for letting the dragon out in your back yard like that, but we're basically lost between a rolling rock and a hard place. We fell from grace before we were born, and all we have is an image of a sparkling city far ahead with pearly gates and miles wide crystals for bricks.

Anything else?
Im interested in hearing your general take on things all things.
You may as well lol

reply to post by Utnapisjtim


"The beast" as you say has many forms including some of the aformentioned and many, many, others.

the 'Beast' in ideological terms and in poetic, metaphorical & even in psychological terms ....is the action-behavior of the darker aspects of the human psyche



the 'beast' is the behavior of the lower area of the brain... which is controled from the Limbic region of every ones brain...

the higher reasoning cerebellum is not the driving force of the 'Beast' but sociopaths are very close to having the animalistic aspects of behavior intrude and be rationalized by the conscious mind as being OK by that cerebral cortex of higher understanding & ethics

reply to post by victhebutcher


Yes, but the proto-beast (in lack of a better word) are the old royal lineages. Mystery Babylon is the Catholic Church complete with the False Prophet on top, the Pope.

reply to post by St Udio


That is your interpretation and only shows how off the rails this has ended. The human brain is the end product of millions of years worth in evolution and development, but it is still based on the framework of nature. The human brain has primitive parts, typically the limbic system you mention. This is where dopamin and serotonin and several other hormones and signal substances are produced, controling our motorics and many cognitive functions by "rewarding" different areas of the brain even even the body by sending out the substances I mentioned. If this part of the brain is wired wrong, a well of symptoms emerge, like depressions, paranoia, experience of telepathy, anxiety, alzheimers, schizophrenia, bipolarity.... I don't share your view that these people have what it takes to be "the Beast". I do sense a particular purring from your side though

reply to post by Utnapisjtim


Thanks for leaving your OP a wall of text.

It should decrease the number of readers exposed to such . . . flawed notions.

reply to post by victhebutcher


Indeed. It runs deep. But the Beast counts eight empires and all the kings left of them, the one that died and came to life is Jesus, the proto-king of the new European Empire, not the real Jeshua. Upon it's fall, the Holy Roman Empire was divided into ten imperial circles or ten kingdoms in short to fulfill every bit of prophecy they could to retain some sort of dignity or whatever before the ultimate fall. Habbit perhaps, but the Beast fell, and then all hell broke loose, with two world wars, the Holocost and the Bomb. Some mess we're in…

BO XIAN
reply to post by Utnapisjtim

 

Thanks for leaving your OP a wall of text.

It should decrease the number of readers exposed to such . . . flawed notions.

Yes, naturaly, next time I'll use triangular paragraphs. Flawed notions? Keen to elaborate?

reply to post by jazz10


The way I see it, we are currently in a transitional phase where our civilisation realise that our inpact on nature costs more than it tastes, and at the same time we are technologically on our way from reason to a point where nothing is too big or too small, we will soon, if we survive the apocalypse cross the barriers of time and space in such a way that we will come into contact with other civilisations out there and if we survive that there will be new barriers to break, like eternal life and power unimaginable. And life is probably common throughout the universe. When evolution brings life down from the trees and into civilisation certain things have been shown to happen almost like there is a blueprint for civilisation that the rulers in place follow like slaves. We are currently at the edge of the foreseeable future, the last item in Pandora's jar has been let out, and the way it used to be it means the end of one civilisation or political paradigm and the start of another, the spirits and oracles of old are alive today and are walking around like humans. I believe civilisation as we know it will end with my generation, and then there will be a rough transition to some post-apocalyptic desert world where clean water and the ability to make fire will be crucial for survival. Hopefully knowledge will survive, and I believe humanity will gather under the God of Science so to speek, and build what the Apocalypse calls the New Jerusalem, a giant Rubic's cube of astronomical proportions that will save humanity from the dying planet we live on and bring nature inside walls in levels, city modules, different vacational resorts, living quarters and so on. And the ginormous proportions and mass will have profound impact on the Earth's mechanics, possibly influencing Earth spin, tilt axis, orbit, and outside the Box fire and ice will rule, and you wouldn't wanna be living there. The structure is so vast it reaches far out beyond the atmosphere and into space and God knows what will happen with the whole gravity thing. Perfect space-port, complete with a gigantic and hermetically sealed city raging hundreds of miles through several layers of differing gravity, perfect for space travellers who can gradually rebuild muscle tissue and basically rebuild their bodies after long periods in low og no gravity. There should be a computer simulator shaped like a game that allowed all humans to design landscapes and homes, buildings and so on and if you made a great concept you would advance and be awarded and there would be made complete cad-drawings of your sketches, that in sum, after a couple of hundred years of trial and error and putting together crowd-designed blueprints of the interior of our new world and also develop the science and tech needed to make the obviously drastic measure of giving up the Earth for a Box made using materials gathered from the moon and asteroids or by some new form of alchemy allowing us to produce any material down to the quarks and bosons etc. in rather effective processes. Sky was the limit. We're about to loose control over the Earth, there will be war and horror, it will transform, mame or kill everyone on it at some point. The bombs will light up the sky like deadly lightning or firework all around the world, the Apocalypse discribes how 1/3rd of the world's population will be killed. And it's about now time-wise. Now how's that for a wall of words

reply to post by Utnapisjtim


I'm pretty sure that this is what he meant by a wall of text.

Your postulations would be easier digested if you broke them into cogent paragraphs.


Eric

reply to post by EricD


Hehe. Not much I can do about that now, ey? I kindof like walls of text. It's like text, with a housing capability.