Here’s what I finally had to say about a discussion about a female sexual predator case on the posts after this counterpart of mine said something very wise!
First her comment: “which explains WHAT HAS HAPPENED & continue to happen/and be done with and to AMERICANS and (at least to a large degree if not fully) to the majority of people in the Western world. Attention: Wealth, Education & Social Position will not save you from being brainwashed and totally brainwashed till your brain becomes tabula rasa–dead as a stone.”
Wow; you’ve got to be making some good friends in the world because you made one here; and I don’t say that easily to most people! You just hit the proverbial nail on the head in regard to the underbelly of what is really going on in our conscious and subconscious narratives in this high tech everything out in the open and in your face 24/7 blasting of the brains of humans from childhood to when they die, but we always stop to point a finger or two and even punch some MF’s in the face for stepping over the line, but we ignored all the sign posts all over the place and the big F-N hole in our own personal credibility even if for only being such dumb asses all along! Time to clean up the act but that won’t come easy because this insane world we live in is based on Money and Power and them’s that got it and them’s that don’t!
This paradigm is screwed from the GET GOES! How do we fix stupid and totally broken? Can’t; not anytime soon folks! So we shovel some shit into the furnace for today then pat ourselves on the back for not letting some of that shit get loose when all along the shit is stacked higher than the clouds! We live in shit and eat it without even knowing it or in the least admitting it!
Like in the old Francis Ford Coppola film “Apocalypse Now,” Dennis Hopper says the line when talking to Martin Sheen about crazy Col. Walter Kurtz, “This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we’re in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, I’m fucking splitting, Jack.” He sees all the hell but isn’t willing to help the Capt. take down the “Mad Dog” or out of control “evil renegade commander” that the CIA and the entire Pentagon want offed anyway possible, killed!
Is that what we have here shit stacked so high that everyone figures it’s not my problem so I’m out of here or what’s the use anyway? It seems like it’s all relative or in a sense relativity, if you think you’re not part of it then it must be a time warp and you just can’t do anything about such a thing, or maybe this is a better way of saying it, let’s KICK the MFING can down the road till we need to blow somebody else up so we can say, “see, there we did something about this mess!” Aren’t, we all so nice and trying hard to live right; NOT!
Lawrence Morra
Amended on July 17, 2019 due to some commentary I had to leave with another blogger’s post that ties right into this subject and narrative!
You’ve published your photos and advocated for one thing or another have you not? So to me you have become a public image shared by virtual strangers and trust being in the public forum discussing personal circumstances or even missteps, which is sharing what was once held as private domain. What the hell is the point to having a personal life if one forfeits privacy and shares personal life with strangers? I see how the movie stars of yesteryear used to be famous and quite good at what they did on the silver screen gaining fame and fortune and a public that adored them. But then, they were very guarded with personal circumstances and family keeping those things in their inner most sanctum private as best they could because the two lives the one up on the screen and the one at home with family were two different things or worlds if I can say it that way. I just see way too many people all over the net being idiots in my book pretending this or that or seeking ways to get more likes. For shits sake I was wrapping myself up in trying to help animals, something I’ve done all my adult life and then getting in tune with certain persons online or groups I found that they were so self-serving or only interested in getting more popularity! HUMILITY is what I respect not all these people online saying look at me or I have 100,000 followers and the like! And most of the animal rights people were hell-bent on saving any animal that I or anyone brought to the public’s attention on the cyber venue but those same people most of them females were doing nothing for and wouldn’t if I asked them to help the UNBORN babies, even now day of delivery in New York and other crazy places! That spoke volumes to me and made me weak in my knees and sick to my stomach both figuratively and literally, then I blew my lid and was freaking mad at people and still am for allowing this shit to come upon us all; and all because each person was way too busy self-serving and getting what they could of material value or boosting egos! “Humility” is in short supply in this world of take, take and get what you can while you can!
Look at scum like the Clinton’s or Obama’s and the Bushes too, all wealthy because somewhere along the line they saw a way to screw the public over and get rich in the process while lying through their teeth! Again I say, look at all these people online saying look at me or I have 100,000 followers and the like! SO WHAT, it means nothing in the reality of what is meant to be important and a person’s worth. Lots of “lip service” too, people will say this or that and behind closed doors something totally different is going on! You try and tell me how you separate the BS from the GENUINE AUTHENTIC TRUTH? ONLINE it’s VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE! So, you end up taking things for face value as to what is said, but how is that worth anything? It’s not, because I know people in actual life that talk shit and are as phony as a three dollar bill. If you take things for face value then you are being foolish on the web, the “cyber spider’s web,” or if you don’t do that then you are filling your head with worthless garbage trying to have a life of value in an artificial “disingenuous” world of BS and Lies with a smidgen of truth here or there!
Come on, in this secular modern world you or anyone isn’t going to tell me that it’s all cool and no worries and I’m going to suck it up, no way, no how! I’m not falling for this load of horse shit that the public is sucking up as fast as it can be fed to them! You’re all becoming a mob of SHEEPLE, being primed and prepared for slaughter! I’d venture to guess that at least 90% of what you hear on the net is BS just like Madison Avenue hype and propaganda to promote products, that which we people “CONSUMERS” have become, being brainwashed and fed continuous trash, now even we the “products” to be implemented online to draw in attention and DOLLARS! We live in a world of “money makes the world go round” and now it’s truer than ever with the cyber world. Capturing an audience on handheld devices now is a 24/7 trillion dollar industry with clowns like Mark Zuckerberg the punk kid that became a billionaire overnight for what? He is worthless, and less than that to me! Sold his soul to Satan the material God! I don’t listen to punk ass dips shits like him about anything. ZERO character and substance with that bought and paid for tool. Like I was saying about the animal rights cause or even the Sierra Club which has now become a front for political activists and radicals who promote multiple warped and twisted agendas in society, but use the nature and wildlife theme to drawn in millions from saps to be used for political agendas; in other words what used to be an organization about hiking trails and preservation of open space has now morphed into a corrupted scheme by many nefarious persons to bilk others or get their way and more MONEY, and along with that POWER, and the internet has made this all possible practically overnight!
The shit is stacking up so high in this modern twisted high tech world that there is only one way it can end up! And that day is coming fast, we are looking straight into the face of “Armageddon” and doing nothing about it, just like the deer in the headlights which I’ve personally witnessed driving semi’s and now witness in an upside-down culture of trickery and stupidity! Practically everyone is too busy sticking their head into the cyber trap and doing jack about the REAL DEAL! Trump and Pompeo and a few others with them may be able to kick some butt, although I’m sorry to say the cat is out of the bag and much too big for anyone now to contain. TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!!!
PS If I have challenged you with my abrupt and even harsh rhetoric then good; because we all need to be, all, and as a matter of fact we all need to be chastised and corrected because we are doing wrong, every one of us is screwing up in some way or at some moment! Sure we are imperfect and human and can make mistakes but much of the wrong people are doing is avoidable and inexcusable and that gets into being evil, which I’ve experienced in my midst and people were evil with political wicked agendas and out to protect their own bottom line of past corruption and continuing nefarious ways. I’ll say this and leave it to anyone reading all of this, dump all I said and me into your own private garbage pail, but I think we all need a WAKE UP CALL, me INCLUDED!
Zero Lift-Off 
The language is un acceptable to me. I agree the the worledview is Satanic but acting like them is not the answer. Only Christ Jesus is the answer..
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Thank you for your genuine perspective! I do agree with all you said but I’m not acting like them; in reality this is literature and art to me and I don’t walk around naked but it doesn’t mean I disagree with naked paintings or photography if done in an artistic vein; both of which I have done personally in college and as work or personal expression of my feelings or view. I say to anyone that feels totally the opposite wonderful and you don’t have to look or when ill in the hospital tell all the nurses and doctors not to look if the idea of such is so abhorrent. To me reality is reality and there are much worse things going on right in our Congress with the traitors in our government, than freaking over a few four letter words or innuendo! Also, ask anyone you know if they’ve been to south Miami Florida and other such venues in recent years, what they call appropriate bathing attire isn’t really much of anything other than a few pieces of string with tiny cloth patches, reminds me of an eye patch but they don’t cover an eye if you get my drift. I try not to get too worried about foul words as long as they aren’t used around children or in a completely wrong circumstance where it would obviously show disrespect and no class. As you said leave it to God! Amen
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Ty for your explaination. I really like your personality. Remember, I am 80yr old and I don’t like my children on grands when they use ‘verbage.’ God’s word says to only say yes or no. It is wrong in any context in my opinion. It takes away what one is really explaining because it puts the focus on those words. You are free to speak as I am. I may not agree but I fight to give you the freedom to do so.:)
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Yes, as I’ve said I agree with you and actually appreciate all of what you said and came from families on both sides that referred to putting a bar of soap in the mouth if that language is used in this household and as kids a few of us got to taste soap for the first time! But, in the context of what I was illustrating as the hard core reality of the world we are now in by means of that 1979 motion picture with a great cast of actors such as Marlon Brando all directed by Francis Ford Coppola in what was really a ground breaking landmark masterpiece of a story put into very realistic as well as surreal tone and atmosphere tied into the harsh realities of the horrible going nowhere Vietnam War and the rising drug culture of the late 60’s I don’t know any better way than to depict a time other than representing it as though we are looking back into it and taking a slice of life or Reality if you will and examining it for what it is; to me anything else is fake or trying to pretend we know what was actually going on and we don’t have a clue! The real deal is always best in my opinion when trying to convey a period of history or in this case a story told back in the late 70’s about the late 60’s and how it correlates to the madness of today in our everyday societal life which in a sense is actually a war too! I don’t get into this type of essay or writing much but when I do it has to be genuine to me and this was genuine I can assure anyone that actually lived it or who will look into it. I have a brother-in-law who did several tours in Nam and during a couple of them worked as a tunnel rat, and when he described the goings on with his squad, the drugs, language and horrible conditions or how he went hand to hand combat with some Vietcong regulars and stabbed one in the neck to kill him because he was about to shoot my brother in-law in the head with a pistol; or like the stench of death in those holes in the ground I got images that seemed pretty close to what Coppola created in his film as well as my catching on to the fact that in such hellish conditions of battle in a crazy war the things being said or done are at times unbelievable and inhuman, so I see how verbalization becomes very twisted or unlike what most people are used to in their daily lives. But those guys lived it and if I’m going to bring it up within the context that I was to make a connection and illustrate a truth and the raw guts or flavor of that past reality must come out to do it justice then I say so be it! We can sit here and sugar coat things and try to sterilize what we say but that is crap, because imagine the poor bastards that went through all that and either died or came back here to the states hated and never came out of it or felt the same way they did when they signed up or were drafted! Many guys I know of came back so damaged they went off the rails and died back here after dodging bullets and booby traps during their tour in Nam. One guy that was a friend of the family came back a junkie and ended up very ill doing drugs and drinking and died young. I have to do justice and tell it like it is! Sorry if anyone feels put off but I can’t ask for permission from everyone or offer to hold all of their hands before I express my view and attempt to say some hard truth! I do write mostly G rated but some I do and will write will have to be adult content rated because I like to say it like it is or was in this case too, just like Coppola did in that film!
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Excellent explaination and well said. I was a Viet Nam wife and it destroyed my husband.
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Ah see, little do we know at times with whom we confer with on these posts! My sincere condolences to you and your entire family and I’m sure God allowed special graces for your husband who did obviously suffer and go through hell on earth coming out of that horrible war. This is all a case in point to what I was attempting to say and perhaps didn’t as well as I should have or could have with even more insight! You on the other hand are speaking from direct input and experience having a husband that went through the horror of Nam then came back to another war with his own people as well as having to deal with the sad haunting memories he obviously was from what you said; having an atrocious time disconnecting from his soul and deepest heart felt emotions. I can say I did witness the downfall and disintegration of a close relative who lost some brain function due to a serious injury while in the Army and that along with alcohol and a system that didn’t seem to care enough to come up with a better approach to helping guys with flashbacks’ and a complete mental meltdown causing chemical imbalance making them real victims; other than to dope them up! This is why I mentioned the movie in this Blog Post and that particular very agitated vulgar line that the character a photojournalist sort of my comrade in arms work wise with me, but not anything else, especially his going through that kind of assignment, he who was so hyped up and strung out to pieces trying to deal with so many things that converged at that time during the Vietnam War; which I have to say only one of those social ordeals would be enough for any human being to have to pull through and rise above; but to have multiple catastrophes or battles on one’s hands would be and was too much, and so many did turn to drugs or alcohol to escape and lost that battle; that I know from what I mentioned before individuals that were close to family or in the neighborhood got raked over the coals and were never really happy again or didn’t even last many more years cycling through rehabs or bouncing around. PTSD wasn’t even a term I recall hearing anyone talking about regarding Vietnam Vets but I used to hear the lingo that goes with drug culture of the time like strung-out, wasted or having flashbacks! This makes me sad thinking about all that horror and even in the Coppola film Marlon Brando’s last words as he is assassinated are, “the Horror, the Horror.” Then the enormous pyrotechnic sequence as the credits come up at the end of the film of the jungle and some ancient ruins as they are blow to smithereens looks like a scene of a hellish nightmare and really such Horror! I love Coppola he did some amazing work with “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now!” Both very violent and hard to look at films in many ways but true stories that had to be told and put out into the public view not just for entertainment value but to convey truths and make people think, learn and change if possible. Back then they were still making some great films with important messages unlike much trash that gets produced these days because it’s too much about shareholders or agendas and even propaganda now with the political biases or partisan cronies in high places.
Peace and God Bless!
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Ty. and I understand. You are right about movies now days. They have very little truth. I really liked on the Waterfront and The Godfather series. I could not watch Apocalypse Now. Still can’t. 😦
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First I see clearly why you won’t watch Apocalypse Now just like I find it a beautiful experience to watch The Passion of The Christ, I cry through pretty much the whole film when I watch it each year at Easter time. No sense to putting yourself though a truly painful experience like that but in my case i feel I have to do that for Christ and as a reminder of how much I need to be saved and that He did that for me and you as well as anyone who will accept Him as Lord and Savior!
On the Waterfront is a great movie and fantastic actors, a real gem of a classic which I do have in my collection. And there is the point we both agreed on how so many movies in the past had real meaning or depth of story and character, a movie in some cases but also a study on human nature in m any of them; like a good play of years gone by, like Death of a Salesman or the Glass Menagerie. Very few top notch films like that get made anymore, even the audience has changed too much and they wouldn’t be interested or get in many cases!
When I was very young and in Los Angeles I met Character Actor Sam Jaffe a fine stage and film actor while he was shopping with his wife and being so charged up about film-making I struck up a good conversation with him. I used to always love watching Sci-Fi movies as a boy so when he asked me what my plans were I said that the one movie that I identify him with is a great movie in my mind with a great director and cast; and that even though it was kind of far out fantasy it seemed so important. Then he said, “Ah, now there is a film with a meaning behind it!” And of course he was referring to the fact that it was made in 1951 at the dawn of the Atomic Age and that the Space Man with the (AI) Robot were visiting earth to let us all know that if we threaten the peace of the other planets, earth would be destroyed! Well other planets could be transposed with other nations as in our Global Nations and being destroyed would not be from an interplanetary race but would be us humans destroying the entire planet with a nuclear war! At that time when the film was made many people were in a state worrying about the nuclear arms race that had just ensued starting the Cold War, after WWII. Significance is how I see many good films of the distant past and not too distant; like The Godfather as you mention here.
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I really liked The Day the Earth Stood Still. It started people thinking but it seems that very few took the time to act on it. Movies are nonsense now and they keep redoing the old ones adding nonsense.:(
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You’re so right indeed in what you said here and I agree completely; just talking to a sister the other day and she said “how she missed those days now” just like I do I told her! The world hasn’t changed for the better as I see it at all. But, I’m not God and maybe there is hope because with God anything is possible; but too I follow the Scriptures as His word and Revelations wasn’t some fantasy projection of the End Time it was a warning that is would come and be the most horrific time this old earth has ever witnessed! I fear its very close now! Not fear in the sense of being afraid but sad; I only fear God and His judgment, I hope I can measure up it is our only chance that He has given to us.
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Christ Jesus, in us, is our measure but we must let the Holy Spirit lead. 🙂
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You’re right about that, Amen.
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Again I appreciate all you say and point out always! But I want to add to something you said about how the foul language takes away from the content and puts the focus on the bad words being said; but I say it only does that to someone who can’t look beyond the words and into the depth of another’s soul, especially those who were fighting in a living hell on earth! I love watching films and documentaries, one’s that show the real deal and how it must have been for those poor guys dealing with all that misery and insanity, all so we could have a somewhat free world back here, and maintain the balance of power in this world were conflict is the status-quo! God Bless You and Yours!
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I understand.:)
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Very kind of you and again my best to you and your family! 🙂 💜
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Thank You Hawk2017! I’ll do the same for you anytime, just let me know if I can help in any way.
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I will.:)
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Thank you!
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First I see clearly why you won’t watch Apocalypse Now just like I find it a beautiful experience to watch The Passion of The Christ, I cry through pretty much the whole film when I watch it each year at Easter time. No sense to putting yourself though a truly painful experience like that but in my case i feel I have to do that for Christ and as a reminder of how much I need to be saved and that He did that for me and you as well as anyone who will accept Him as Lord and Savior!
On the Waterfront is a great movie and fantastic actors, a real gem of a classic which I do have in my collection. And there is the point we both agreed on how so many movies in the past had real meaning or depth of story and character, a movie in some cases but also a study on human nature in m any of them; like a good play of years gone by, like Death of a Salesman or the Glass Menagerie. Very few top notch films like that get made anymore, even the audience has changed too much and they wouldn’t be interested or get in many cases!
When I was very young and in Los Angeles I met Character Actor Sam Jaffe a fine stage and film actor while he was shopping with his wife and being so charged up about film-making I struck up a good conversation with him. I used to always love watching Sci-Fi movies as a boy so when he asked me what my plans were I said that the one movie that I identify him with is a great movie in my mind with a great director and cast; and that even though it was kind of far out fantasy it seemed so important. Then he said, “Ah, now there is a film with a meaning behind it!” And of course he was referring to the fact that it was made in 1951 at the dawn of the Atomic Age and that the Space Man with the (AI) Robot were visiting earth to let us all know that if we threaten the peace of the other planets, earth would be destroyed! Well other planets could be transposed with other nations as in our Global Nations and being destroyed would not be from an interplanetary race but would be us humans destroying the entire planet with a nuclear war! At that time when the film was made many people were in a state worrying about the nuclear arms race that had just ensued starting the Cold War, after WWII. Significance is how I see many good films of the distant past and not too distant; like The Godfather as you mention here.
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