The Shining Factor

Using "The Shining" is not hard, really, when simply identifying stupid people. The trick is you've got to ask The Deliverer to deliver you from your own propensity to be stupid. That can be hard.

I mention The Shining because while I don't think it is the greatest horror movie ever, I do appreciate it. I wrote a bit about it in a blog a while back. There is a sequel too, Doctor Sleep, which is pretty good but too overbearing and self-aware, I think. It is weird, Stanley Kubrick can get away with those long drawn-out scenes full of meaning and intensity, just by the way he handles them. Other directors simply can't, which is why Doctor Sleep has great potential but just isn't even close in quality.

Anyway, what makes both films compelling is they do make palpably real the malevolence that exists in the supernatural world. In film you can do it, though again I think Kubrick does it best with the people Jack and Danny encounter in The Shining. In Doctor Sleep they are really just goofy crazed vampires whom I think they feel they must showcase for a hipper 2010s audience.

The easy part is seeing those very real malevolent entities all around you is by paying attention to what's really going on in your neighborhood, at your workplace, and in the news. Really, those are the three main places you get an idea of how much those malevolent supernatural forces are at work to wreck your livelihoods and worse, your souls.

There were actually a few ZeroHedge story links I was going to put here, but I can't find them just now, and wow, there are so many that highlight those things. One of them was about how manipulation of financial markets is such as destructive force, it was just really good at describing that. But alas, there was no mention of Hell's machinations in all of that let alone the deliberate arrangement of those things by Romanist forces to destabilize things so you'll go to them for relief -- not unlike the very best midtown mob syndicate's racketeering benevolence. Also no mention of a loving, waiting God and His bountiful deliverance from such -- mostly those tomes are about how much you must resist or rebel or recommit or replappadapp or something ferocious that starts with "re-".

Here's a good one, however, from generally mainstream liberal pundit Naomi Wolf, who actually exposits about several of the iconographic signatures of the sometimes quite boastful malevolent forces trying to make more imaginative sport of the spiritually inattentive out there. Oh how many there are. Wolf employs a bit of her "shining" capacity, which in the Stephen King novels and films based on those novels is this special "vision" to see the evil that is beyond the perception of most. Those who have it may also connect meaningfully with others who have it. Pretty cool horror story device.

Truth is, anyone can have that kind of discernment by turning to Christ and living richly in His Kingdom by His grace allowing Him to heal and save and get you to see and hear and understand.

Instead these days too many are still relying on whatever those working laboriously in Cain's Legacy devise so they can feel like they are living pretty okay lives -- ouch. No worries, it is what they like to do. It is why the authentically Kingdom-dwelling follower of Christ steps out there, to love and live sacrificially so those people may see and hear and understand what they do and that they may themselves turn to Christ and take the narrow path to enjoy the real riches of the Kingdom.

One of those novel ways the World System is today keeping people in the fold is through what they profusely market as A.I, or artificial intelligence. No such thing, and I'm really just pounding out a blog post here to introduce my latest home page piece to get into that a bit. The super-duper advanced information processing will be, and already is being portrayed as our salvation -- finally the super-benevolent mind-in-the-machine that will fix everything!

Not quite, and it requires The One Who Does Actually Love You to give you the capacity to see the malevolence in that whole thing.

Anyway, here it is again, the link to my latest, hope it is edifying, would love to hear what you think. Thanks for your readership.

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The image is a stock screenshot from The Shining, one that depicts the ominous supernaturally-infused condition of the Overlook Hotel and how the malevolent forces therein possessed people who occupied the place. That is Jack Torrance there seated at the table, really not having a very good time succumbing.

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