"Death is Only Natural!"
(King Crimson's Party Line)
"Once death appears as an enemy, especially an enemy with an accusing face,
pointing the finger of guilt at us, the simplest way to deal with it is to
ignore it." --Peter Kreeft
"Throughout history, truth has been considered a form of dementia, and
those who have turned away from fantasy and fixed there eyes on reality,
judged insane." --Malcolm Muggeridge
"The language of evil becomes meaningless when the standard by which an
action is judged repugnant has vanished, and that standard has vanished in
our post-modern world...It has vanished for both sin and evil. Today we can
neither explain evil, nor even sustain our belief in its existence. It is,
however, language that has to be preserved; otherwise we are left entirely
speechless before life's brutalities and atrocities." -David Wells
"What's wrong with us required much more than a hug...It required a
cross...We'd rather feel as if we're victims of a cruel world than admit we
are contributors to the world's cruelty, lost sinners who perversely love
our lostness,clinging to our treasured sins like a drowning man to an
anvil." --FredericaMathews-Greene
"Death is Only Natural!"
( King Crimson's Party Line)
Man's been dancing with Disaster...
Ignoring Truth...
His Deadly Waltz.
Finding hollow consolation
By embracing what is false.
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In this broken world there's
Evil,
And it rears its ugly head.
We can see it in disaster...
And while burying the dead.
We can smell the Breath of Darkness...
...Rasping cough
We hear its sound.
Yet we're told that dying's "natural"...
And we think that that's profound!
If it's true that death is "natural",
Why on Earth do we
resist?
Why this deep, grave-apprehension?
(Perhaps there's
something we have missed?)
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In this darkness we keep stumbling
Into ditches broad and wide...
Dark delusion brings us comfort.
In dark ditches we can hide.
See, false comfort keeps us
happy!
...A pretty feather in our hat.
And if "Death is
only natural".
Man!....
We ALL can live with that!
Adam's children love The Blinders;
...We're slow learners in the night!
We're
like pupils fast contracting
When first introduced to Light.
We recoil at Truth unpleasant,
So we scurry far away,
Where we huddle in the corner
Of denial....
Where we stay.
This dark corner we call "Freedom"..
(But it's really just a "mess"...)
And it seems we're locked into it...
"Freedom"'s Dungeon of Distress.
Yes, the glare of Truth is painful.
It reveals...
uncomfortably!
So we'd rather live in darkness
Than see Truth that sets us free.
It's a
crazy situation...
Some might even say insane!
It's King Crimson's twisted logic,
And we're subject to its reign.
He says:
"Death is Mother Nature's
Gentle call to drift away!"
Just a sleepy-time adventure...
On a dreamy pleasant day.
He tells us that this Journey
From The Stroller to The Hearse,
Has no Cosmic Consequences...
.....And there never was a Curse.
Pollyanna Metaphysics,
Eden's Garden fruit we bought...
Every bite's intoxicating!
By the fowler we've been caught!
Yes, he tells us death is
normal...
Dying's just misunderstood!
It's Mother Nature's "happy ending"
In Green Goddess Neighborhoods.
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Truth be known....
We trust The Liar
Who calls to tell us,
"Death's benign!"
"Hey! Relax, man....
Just accept it!"
(That's King Crimson's Party Line)
He says Evil's an illusion
(And if
not.... it's not so bad!)
"Do your thing!"
(He empathisizes!)
"Life's a game to make you
glad!"
He says, "Sin is not a problem!
If there's a "god", she's very nice!"
He says, "Set Your Own Agenda!"
Then he says,...
"That will suffice!"
Only
You can make the judgment...
For what's right and what is wrong;
Talking Point?....Agnosticism
"Relativity"'s his song.
Moral "truth's" a touchy subject...
It's not
kosher in his realm.
Subjectivity's the Compass
When King Crimson's at the helm.
Sin and Death aren't really issues...
Hey, man...Dig it!
Get a life!
Join the New Age Prophet Motive...
Just
dissolve this Earthly strife!
Yes, transcend those sticky problems
Death and Evil might suggest.
Make a wish and cross your fingers,
And pretend that ALL is blessed!
Disregard that nagging feeling
That you just can't seem to shake...
That this
"dyin' thing's" unnatural...
Man! Grow up...
For Heaven's Sake!
Learn to love decay and spoilage...
Decomposition can be
cool!
Yes! Embrace both rot and gangrene!
"BIG SMILE!"...............
...(The New Age Golden Rule)
Take The Path of One Hand Clapping;
Disregard atrocities!
Rise above dark implications
And the world's catastrophies.
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Do The Dance:
"Three Monkey Shuffle"!
Evolution's latest craze!
Karma calls us to the dance floor...
Join the "soft shoe"...
Happy Daze!
Yes! This side-step's
Fundamental!
(Check objections at the door....)
Close your eyes...
And catch The Fever!
On this New Age Disco-Floor.
Can't you see!?....
Out there's no Evil!
Join the swaying reverie!
Just Imagine!....
Sheer
Nirvana!
Hey, man....
What
theodicy?!
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Join the Night Life of Delusion...
Hear the drumbeat of the band.
Beelza-Bubba's got your ticket,
To
"Club Ostrich in The Sand"
We've got Nietszche on the zither,
Peter Singer's on kazoo!
There's Karl Marx!...
He's playin' bongos!
Entertaining me and you!
On triangle....Mr. Darwin!
Sigmund Freud's on piccolo!
Marquis de Sade?....
He's got the tuba!
What a Cacophonic Show!
We've got Strobe Lights....
We've got
action!
What a Carny Atmosphere!
We've got pleasure for the senses...
Pontius Pilate's pouring beer!
Adolf Hitler's in the kitchen...
Look! He's jammin' with the band!
Jeffrey Dahmer!
Man! He's cookin'!
There's Pol Pot!
Give him a hand!
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They say
evil's Good spoiled rotten
Begun at The Mutiny...
Now we're dancing with The Goddess
Around Ashtar's Deadly Tree.
Friend, this world's a "Deadly Disco",
And the beat goes on and on....
The music started playing
When man fell...
For Satan's con.
Now we choose to dance in darkness
Where it's difficult to see
Dead bodies all around us
Who died of Sin
From A to Z.
Some don't like this diagnosis...
It offends the itching ear.
In denial we're preferring
Foggy myth to Truth...
That's clear!
"For the time will come when men will not put up with sound
doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a
great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They
will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2
Timothy 4: 3,4)
"If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31b, 32)
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