CHAPTER 6: “One Flew “INTO” The Cuckoo’s Nest” Part 2: “Catch A Wave!”…
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I was now in Unit 3600!
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And looking out this lock-down ward’s wall-to-wall picture window, at that big, beautiful, and beckoning Mount Shasta, towering above the distant southern horizon, I longed, no, I LUSTED to be up there once again, skiing carefree in my blissful ignorance, down those massive slopes!
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Yes, I mourned and sighed for the former days of my utter cluelessness concerning the awful truth: the unnerving reality that, “the days of our naivety”, which I always took for granted, were GONE FOREVER!
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And now, those past, “old days” had turned to “dust in the wind” (as the songsters sang) and presently, were only fleeting memories.
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Now, the sub-title of this chapter is “Catch A Wave!” And the reason for this title is the really odd phenomenon: that so many societal changes come and go like the swelling/receding tides of the ocean.
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And now, at last, I understood the truth, the stark reality, that this world was and is controlled by unseen spiritual powers! And now, the “how’s” and “why’s” of these societal tsunami-like tidal-waves began to make sense.
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And by reading this chapter, you, dear soul, might just find yourself agreeing with this assessment of how and why these societal and cultural tsunamis come and go as they do…
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Mt. Shasta – snow capped – public domain – wikipedia
The Scream – by E. Munch – Wikipedia – public domain by edvard munch c.1893
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CHAPTER 6:
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“ONE FLEW “INTO” THE CUCKOO’S NEST”
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PART TWO:
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“CATCH A WAVE!”…
(Title of the 1963 Beach Boys mega-hit)
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ANOTHER DUDE NAMED CHUCK
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As already mentioned, my public schooling had a big impact on my spirituality, because it constantly pressed Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution on us kids. As a matter of fact, in the 5th and 6th grade I attended a Special-Ed. class in which various atheistic evolutionary sciences were taught to about a half dozen children of our school: paleontology, anthropology, geology, etc…
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THE SAND-DOLLAR
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One day, our little Special-Ed. class went on a field trip outside of Salem, into the little community of Turner, to do some digging for fossils where the road was excavated, about 15 feet below the surrounding terrain.
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And, while digging I discovered a fossilized sand-dollar shell. And as I carefully unlogged it. And upon inspecting it, I was somewhat surprised that even though this fossil was probably considered to be maybe millions of years old, it looked exactly like the sand-dollars one might find after an outgoing surf at the seashore: same size, same 5-leaf design on its surface.
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No evolution on that particular specimen!
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“Hmmm, very interesting, wouldn’t you agree, Oh, Mr. Darwin?
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Charles Darwin – Snake shaped like Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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A CLEAR-CUT CASE OF BRAINWASHING
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Needless to say, because of my very atheistic public schooling, my spiritual life (which wasn’t that good to begin with!) was kind-of like the Moon, when it begins to wane thinner and thinner…dimmer and dimmer.
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And anyway, I was now just becoming a teenager. My interests were turning toward other things besides pets (pets like good ol’ Sammy, the Samoyed).
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I now had new and better things to do, exciting places to go, and new people to meet!
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“Goodbye nightly prayers! Goodbye church! And goodbye God!”
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Headsets – France in XXI Century School – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“SURF CITY, HERE WE COME!”
(Lyrics from the 1963 hit by Jan & Dean, “Surf City”)
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At this point in time, a new musical genre had just taken the world by storm: that is, a storm on the sea of pop music: Surf Music! And Hot-Rod Music!
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This new cultural phenomenon opened up a brand-new way-of-life here in America for those of us who were coming-of-age in the manufactured Americana-culture of the 1960’s. Fast and heroic songs about hot-rod races and daring surfers! And syrupy-sweet love-ballads about surfer girls and falling in love under an amber summer sunset on a warm California beach (“Warm” Oregon beaches? Uh, not so much).
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Jukebox – Wikimedia – cropped image – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Global license
Ed Sullivan Show – Beach Boys wikipedia public domain
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“…AND UPON ALL PLEASANT PICTURES”
Isaiah 2:16
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And this music, with its exciting and romantic songs with flawless harmonies, and pleasant portraits of surfing, and oceans, and pretty girls, was just about as intoxicating as, well…as intoxicating as…well, I didn’t know how intoxicating it was! Because up to this point, I never tried any intoxicant. But this new music was incredible! It was fresh! It was original! It was romantic! It was “really neat” and “very cool”! And it painted such a wonderful image of the romanticism currently being attached to the ocean, and to surfing, and to being young…and in rapturous lust…uh, I mean “rapturous LOVE”!
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Surfer Girl wikimedia public domain
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LOVELY ANNETTE!
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And even my very first childhood sweetheart, Mickey Mouse Club-er, Annette Funicello (who btw, I was 100%, head-over-heals in-love with, but also had just a little competition! You see, every other boy in America also had a crush on Annette!), she had all grown up, 
and traded in her Mousketeer Hat for a swimming suit, and was now making surf movies!
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Well, I too got on board this giant wave, known as surf-music. Oh no, I didn’t take up surfing. Nor did I take up hot-rod racing (I was only 12 or 13)! But I (and everyone else) listened to that incredible music, day and night! And of course, with such romantic ballads, and other similar tunes, at a time, when I was entering teenhood, this was like nitro-to-glycerin, as far as I (and everyone else) was concerned!
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Annette Funicello Former Mouseketeer 1975 Wikipedia – Public Domain
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GIANT TSUNAMI OF SURF MUSIC!
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Yeah, Sammy the neighborhood gone-rogue-Samoyed was no more. But now, I myself had turned into a love-sick puppy dog! And my all-consuming desire had turned to finding a girlfriend…and finding one ASAP! But I was no different than any other teen of that period of time. And this entire nation of teens were swept up in this giant wave, called Surf Music.
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And in addition, in the not-too-distant future, I would find myself singing pop songs to the pretty, young girls. Oh yeah, me and a few other guys began imitating those surf-music groups, and we began singing to our girlfriends at parties, and on snow-ski buses, etc… And then eventually we formed a musical combo, and began to play dances. And what better way is there to find a girlfriend, than to play in a dance band!?
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The Beach Boys Lost Concert public domain
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MICKEY-MOUSE-CLUBBED BY CUPID
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(“IN DREAMS YOU’RE MINE…”)
(Lyrics from Roy Orbison’s 1963 song, “In Dreams”)
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And speaking of Annette, I remember on one of our family’s summer camping trips, when I was in the 5th or 6th grade. It was probably at beautiful Big Lake (or Suttle Lake or maybe even Blue Lake, I can’t remember which) up in the Cascades.
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But one day, I wandered out into the forest a short distance from camp. And as I sat on a fallen log, I began to envision Annette coming out into this little clearing in the woods, and then we passionately embraced and kissed! Well, this little scenario repeated in my teenie-tiny brain for about one rapturous hour. And the incredible thing about all this, was how intoxicating it was to me! I mean, it was like an overwhelming wave rushing over my little brain! 
Words can barely describe it!
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Now, thinking back on it, I finally understand that it really wasn’t just me in charge of this narcotic-like fantasy, but actually was that old, “Hope-you-guessed-my-name” dude, now posing as Cupid!
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And let’s not forget, that “Cupid” rhymes with…“_____”
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Annette and Frankie – Wikipedia – Public Domain
Devil-goat – wikipedia – public domain
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“EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL SOMETIMES!”
Chorus lyrics from the 1973 hit by Main Ingredient, “Everybody Plays The Fool”
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Now about this same time, there was a new girl in school. Wow, was she ever pretty! And I was so absolutely smitten by her, that I would often go about 4 blocks out of my way home from school each afternoon, just to stand there, leaning nonchalantly on the guardrail of the old Mill-Creek Bridge, hoping to see her as she passed by on her way home.
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I even remember asking a friend, who delivered newspapers to her house, if I could go with him one day. Well, as his paper-route finally arrived by her house, I asked him if I could throw the newspaper onto her porch (just hoping she’d see me in such an action-hero pose, tossing her newspaper to its appointed destination, twirling though the air, finally lighting itself nicely and neatly and oh-so-gracefully down upon her front-doorstep like a love-letter sent from Heaven!).
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But as I threw the paper, I lost my balance, and went crashing to the street. And much to my embarrassment, my dream-girl, her mother, and older brother all came hurrying out to help peel me off the pavement.
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And so, that little episode probably cured me of following her around like a love-sick little puppy dog!
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And well, this was the first time this young kid made a fool of himself over a female.
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But do you think it would be his last time?
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Well, you’re absolutely correct, of course!
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Jukebox – Wikimedia – cropped image – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Global license
monkey – wikipedia – public domain
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“AH, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, WIPE OUT!”
(Opening lyrics of the 1963 Surfaris song, “Wipeout”)
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Well, a few years passed by, from my bicycle “wipe-out” accident.
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But there was another wipe-out coming.
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And this time it was coming for all of America…and even for the entire world!
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Yeah, just about as fast as the surf music tsunami swept over the USA, there came another tsunami, which just about wiped-out surf music in a single day! Actually, it was more like a pestilence! A swarm of beetles and crickets and locusts and etc…., in the form of British music!
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And immediately, almost the entire teen population around the world, it seemed, were smitten by these British invaders! So, everybody ditched their imaginary surf boards and not-so-hot rods, and grew out their crew cuts, and the young people in many nations were led away by these pied pipers from Liverpool.
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And so was I.
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But in the process of time, these mopped-haired magician-musicians began a Magical Mystery Bus Tour, to lead the world’s young people into drugs as they began weaving hallucinogenics into their music. And millions of teens around the world hopped on board that Magical Mystery Bus Tour and began tripping out on drugs.
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And so did I.
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‘SUMMER OF LOVE’ IN HAIGHT
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Well, after a few more years, and this drug-music found its way into the new Hippy movement. But I won’t go too much into this third wave which swept over the younger generation in 
the late sixties. The Hippy Scene: Haight Ashbury, Woodstock, and all those drug-induced, long-haired rock groups. Oh yeah, I got caught up in that movement too! As a matter of fact, our band ditched all our danceable songs, and began playing what was dubbed, Acid Rock. Yeah, we had all the colored lights and vomit-inducing strobes and un-danceable, “heavy music”.
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“FAR OUT, MAN!”
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Junction of Haight, Ashbury wikipedia by Nancy, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
Flower Power Demonstrator – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“THE FOREVER 27 CLUB”
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But that whole drug-filled and really creepy Hippy music scene didn’t last long. No, it all seemed to come to an abrupt halt when three very giant super-stars met their untimely deaths, while on drugs. And they became the progenitors of, “The Forever 27 Club”, because they were all 27 years old when they, one-by-one, each got wiped-out in a one-year, 365-day span, to the day! (Plus, along with Rolling Stone, Brian Jones, also 27. Unfortunately, more club-members later joined, in the following years).
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“WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER, TURN OUT THE LIGHTS!”
(Title of the 1967 Doors song)
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As a point of interest, I got to see Jim Morrison and The Doors at an outdoor concert in Eugene Oregon, in 1969, roughly two years prior to his untimely demise. And just before singing his opening song, with his back to the crowd he apparently shot something into his veins, and then ripped off the tourniquet from his arm, swung around to face the crowd, let out a long scream as the raw, throbbing music commenced. And that began his show.
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And at the time, this teeny-tiny brain of mine thought that was a “very cool” way of opening his musical act.
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But as it turned out, the only “very cool” thing about all that, was Jim’s body, as it cooled down to room temperature, one fateful night in which the Grim Reaper kept his one-time appointment to Mr. Morrison’s house, on his closing night, July 3rd, 1971!
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Yeah, those three mega-stars (plus Brian Jones) died one after another! It was a triple shock to society. And it no doubt served as a wake-up call to the younger generation. They most likely realized that infamous, “Magical Mystery Tour”, was actually just a “dead-end trip”, a “Tour-de-Sheol”, and a “date-with-fate”!
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Oh yeah, it all lasted a few more years. But it was now like a receding tide in the “Sea of Humanity”.
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“Maybe drugs aren’t such a cool thing”, we surmised (and besides those three, also losing several high-school buddies to drugs).
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Jim Morrison print on canvas – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Dore – The Vision Of Death – creationism.org – public domain
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“CINNAMON GIRL”…?
(Title of the 1970 Neil Young’s much-loved hit song)
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P.S. – And oh yeah, by the way, Jim Morrison’s long-time girlfriend, Pamela Courson also died…of a heroin overdose…two years after Jim…at the untimely age of…you guessed it…27.
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Pamela Courson – Wikipedia – Fair-Use Rationale – click here for details
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THE FLOODS OF SATAN
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Now I’ve touched on this mid-twentieth-century American history for several reasons. And one big reason is to make a point about those gigantic musical and cultural waves which swept over the younger generation of the 60’s: Surf Music, the British Invasion, and the drug-filled Hippy Scene.
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“And what point is that?”, you ask.
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Well, as one looks at all the various cultural waves which have swept through the land, (and still do), one must ask his or her self this following question: “Why do these societal tidal waves happen?”
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Now are we really supposed to believe that these phenomena all just happened by accident?
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Are we really supposed to accept the absurd notion, that a mere handful of pimple-faced teenagers, can possess so much hypnotic power, that they and their music can actually lead an entire generation down into the moral and spiritual abyss?
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Or did they have help?
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Yes, did they perhaps have UNSEEN HELPERS? Was the same type of spiritual entities, who were now causing me all this fire & brimstone torment in the mental ward, belong to a much greater legion of unseen spiritual beings, who are leading humanity in and out of one spiritual/cultural tidal-wave after another?
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Listen to this passage… “I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; The sorrows of Hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented (or, came against) me;” Psalms 22:4-6
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Now this above passage begins to make sense of these phenomena which sweep over society like giant waves from time to time. And don’t these incredible cult-hero-phenoms seem like giant destructive waves? But the fact is, the Bible compares the activity of Satan’s orchestrating powers to waves and to waters as the previous passage reveals!
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Listen again to another passage… “And there appeared another wonder (sign) in heaven; and behold a great red dragon… And the serpent (i.e., the Dragon, Satan) cast out of his mouth water as a flood…” Revelation 12:3, 15, 16
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So, this passage also lets it be known just who is behind these floods which seem to carry away entire generations into moral and spiritual depravity, and often into destruction. His waves come, and then after a time, the earth seems to swallow them up. But after a while, another wave comes along to carry away all the naïve ones down into the bottomless pit of destruction.
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But hey! If you wanna believe that these mega-cultural-tsunamis are merely accidental or coincidental, you are certainly free to believe that way!
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But maybe you’re also being just a bit too naïve!
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Do ya think, maybe?
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WHY DID GOD ALLOW THESE THINGS TO OCCUR?
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But another question which many perplexed humans ask is, “Why does God allow all these various forms of evil to manifest themselves?”
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And to this question comes the Bible’s answer…“O LORD, Thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, Thou hast established them for correction.” Habakkuk 1:12
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Yes, God allows Mankind to experience various governments, religions, ideologies, philosophies, fads, fashions, and lifestyles, all for the express purpose of allowing us, by personal experimentation, to discover for our own selves, that all such false ways of mankind eventually result in unhappiness, failure, and eventually in destruction and ultimately in death.
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And we can all agree with Solomon, the wise man’s declaration…“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity (futility) and vexation of spirit.” Ecclesiastes of Solomon 1:13, 14
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Yes, just as King Solomon discovered the futility, stress, and unhappiness and ultimate destruction resulting from this world’s great experiment in sin, so also, humanity has been suffering for the past millenniums, going from one government to another, from one philosophy to the next, from one religion to a new one, experimenting with numerous cultural fads and societal whims, various lusts and lifestyles, so that on Judgment Day, when this unseen spiritual battle is finally done, as it is written…“As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” Romans 14:11
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Yes, on that great final Day, when all mankind’s works shall cease, and we all stand with bowed heads before God, “every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to God” (Romans 14:11), confessing that our rebellion against Heaven was a great big giant flop! Because the failure of our self-seeking ways only proved that Heaven’s unselfish ways comprise the one true pathway to health, happiness, brotherly love, and everlasting peace and never-ending joyful contentment!
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And all the redeemed multitudes will be (as one songster sang)…FOREVER YOUNG!
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Marines at Prayer by Alex Raymond – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TWENTY YEARS AFTER…
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Well, all those cultural waves from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, were now merely faded photographs, crumpled and flattened under the stark reality which I was now immersed in at this moment, in the mental ward in 1979! Those childhood and teen days were now long gone forever!
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And so now, after almost 20 years of doing my own thing…well…here I was! Ward 3600! The mental ward of Merle-West Medical Center! I had now come full circle, as they say! And presently, it was no longer my dying Sammy-dog whom I was just now praying for, in this multi-purpose room of the Unit 3600 mental ward! Now it was for me! I was the one who was now in heap-big trouble! I just had the ultimate rude awakening, of all rude awakenings (as I’ve already stressed)! And now I knew that God was for real! And now I realized that atheism was an utterly bogus ideology and a big fat lie by that great unseen deceiver, Lucifer, also called Satan, and the Devil!
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And I really, really needed God’s mercy and help…badly!
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And so, I fell to my knees, lifted my hands together, like a wounded soldier begging for mercy from his sword-wielding conqueror! And in the quietness of that multi-purpose room, but in the raging terror of my heart, I lifted my hands and cried out for His mercy… “Oh God help me! Oh God please help me!”
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My 20-year moratorium on praying had now come to an abrupt halt! I can’t remember how long this prayer went on for, nor how many times I went there to pray. And though this was the “Multi-purpose Room”, nevertheless my prayers had a very singular purpose: GOD’S MERCY!
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That’s what I needed now!
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God’s mercy!
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That’s what I needed more than anything else in the world…at this very terrifying moment in time!
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YOU ARE INVITED TO READ ABOUT SATAN’S WAVE OF WATER CONSTELLATION BY CLICKING HERE…“FLOODWATERS OF THE FALSE PROPHET”
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To go to Part 3, just click here…
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CH. 7 One Flew Into The Cuckoo’s Nest, Part 3: “Do You Believe In Magic?”
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