A National Global I.D.

[Evang.Benincasa]

https://www.endtime.com/wp-content/u...April-2012.pdf

[Amanah]

The Circle, a movie about social media:

Make no mistake: “The Circle” is not a great movie by any means.
However, it is a movie I would highly recommend that every American see. Although we’re not even halfway through 2017, it’s hard to believe Hollywood will release a more conservative movie this year.

I have not seen a contemporary film that does a better job of deconstructing the fake utopian schemes of progressivism. I only doubt whether that was the movie’s actual purpose … or the filmmakers couldn’t help but subconsciously go there, given the subject matter.

Just look at the movie’s main characters.
The heroine, Mae Holland, is portrayed by Emma Watson, of “Harry Potter” fame (who, in real life, fancies herself a sophisticated young spokeswoman for progressive causes). Yet her character is your typical millennial snowflake, languishing in a going-nowhere customer service phone-bank job (despite the highly worthwhile art history degree she went into debt to obtain).

Furthermore, she even naively encourages her fellow millennials to click social media “frowns” on a piece of protest art, in order to send a stern message to the oppressive regime it’s protesting.

You can’t make this stuff up — except there’s more.

Meanwhile, megastar Tom Hanks basically plays a sinister hybrid of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, a chill genius-mogul who demands casual dress at work and likes to surf the California waves before the workday. Hanks’ character, Eamon Bailey, is the world’s foremost progressive icon as head of The Circle mega-corporation and even goes so far as to say in the movie that he “believes in the perfectibility of man.”

Nevertheless, behind the scenes, Bailey’s just another “do as I say, not as I do” limousine liberal. He once more proves progressivism’s inherent flaw: human nature is not basically good, man is fallen, and on his own (without the help of God), he cannot hope to rise above his fallen nature.

Then there’s Mae’s love interest, Mercer, played by Ellar Coltrane. He’s a would-be boyfriend for Watson’s character and is suspicious of a cozy alliance between Big Business and Big Government. To put it another way, he prefers a real life to the fake one peddled by progressivism’s alliance between Isengard and Mordor.
Mercer desires to live off the grid and works with his hands, running a small business making deer-antler ornaments. He even drives a pickup truck, and he is constantly hounded as a “deer killer” by hordes of The Circle’s most devoted progressives (which are essentially a caricature of Berkley’s current student body).

Along the way, The Circle uses health care as the means to gain control over the average American’s life. Sound familiar?

The Circle even proposes a government mandate for purchasing its social media product (to make you a more responsible citizen, of course). Yeah … that sounds familiar, too. It’s even pointed out that nobody at The Circle has any kids, and staff members are encouraged to abandon their families in exchange for joining the collective instead.
Seriously, I’m not sure how we, conservatives, could get this movie made if we actually tried.

Heck, the movie even shows how we’re more connected with each other than ever before — but, perhaps, less fulfilled and more spiritually starved than ever before as well. Mae Holland exposes her complete life to the social media world, and the comments from the millions following her depict mostly sad, shallow, and empty lives.

In other words, while progressing technologically, we are regressing socially and relationally. For no technology can fill the God-shaped void in all our hearts. A virtual world cannot be a substitute for the fulfillment found in loving our neighbor as we love ourselves here, in the real world.

Like the better (and more brutally) made “Get Out” released earlier this year, “The Circle” turns progressivism on itself. The film’s ultimate conclusion is that the accoutrements of progressivism — material success, intellectual enlightenment, technological advancement, and utilitarian ethics — ultimately cannot satisfy the existential longing each of us has. In fact, believing otherwise leads to tyranny, as the very people progressivism claims to help the most always become its foremost victims.

Now, “The Circle,” and director James Ponsoldt, don’t point the audience to the alternative — but that’s where we come in.



https://www.conservativereview.com/n...movie-of-2017/

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Amanah

The Circle, a movie about social media:

Make no mistake: “The Circle” is not a great movie by any means.
However, it is a movie I would highly recommend that every American see. Although we’re not even halfway through 2017, it’s hard to believe Hollywood will release a more conservative movie this year.

I have not seen a contemporary film that does a better job of deconstructing the fake utopian schemes of progressivism. I only doubt whether that was the movie’s actual purpose … or the filmmakers couldn’t help but subconsciously go there, given the subject matter.

Just look at the movie’s main characters.
The heroine, Mae Holland, is portrayed by Emma Watson, of “Harry Potter” fame (who, in real life, fancies herself a sophisticated young spokeswoman for progressive causes). Yet her character is your typical millennial snowflake, languishing in a going-nowhere customer service phone-bank job (despite the highly worthwhile art history degree she went into debt to obtain).

Furthermore, she even naively encourages her fellow millennials to click social media “frowns” on a piece of protest art, in order to send a stern message to the oppressive regime it’s protesting.

You can’t make this stuff up — except there’s more.

Meanwhile, megastar Tom Hanks basically plays a sinister hybrid of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, a chill genius-mogul who demands casual dress at work and likes to surf the California waves before the workday. Hanks’ character, Eamon Bailey, is the world’s foremost progressive icon as head of The Circle mega-corporation and even goes so far as to say in the movie that he “believes in the perfectibility of man.”

Nevertheless, behind the scenes, Bailey’s just another “do as I say, not as I do” limousine liberal. He once more proves progressivism’s inherent flaw: human nature is not basically good, man is fallen, and on his own (without the help of God), he cannot hope to rise above his fallen nature.

Then there’s Mae’s love interest, Mercer, played by Ellar Coltrane. He’s a would-be boyfriend for Watson’s character and is suspicious of a cozy alliance between Big Business and Big Government. To put it another way, he prefers a real life to the fake one peddled by progressivism’s alliance between Isengard and Mordor.
Mercer desires to live off the grid and works with his hands, running a small business making deer-antler ornaments. He even drives a pickup truck, and he is constantly hounded as a “deer killer” by hordes of The Circle’s most devoted progressives (which are essentially a caricature of Berkley’s current student body).

Along the way, The Circle uses health care as the means to gain control over the average American’s life. Sound familiar?

The Circle even proposes a government mandate for purchasing its social media product (to make you a more responsible citizen, of course). Yeah … that sounds familiar, too. It’s even pointed out that nobody at The Circle has any kids, and staff members are encouraged to abandon their families in exchange for joining the collective instead.
Seriously, I’m not sure how we, conservatives, could get this movie made if we actually tried.

Heck, the movie even shows how we’re more connected with each other than ever before — but, perhaps, less fulfilled and more spiritually starved than ever before as well. Mae Holland exposes her complete life to the social media world, and the comments from the millions following her depict mostly sad, shallow, and empty lives.

In other words, while progressing technologically, we are regressing socially and relationally. For no technology can fill the God-shaped void in all our hearts. A virtual world cannot be a substitute for the fulfillment found in loving our neighbor as we love ourselves here, in the real world.

Like the better (and more brutally) made “Get Out” released earlier this year, “The Circle” turns progressivism on itself. The film’s ultimate conclusion is that the accoutrements of progressivism — material success, intellectual enlightenment, technological advancement, and utilitarian ethics — ultimately cannot satisfy the existential longing each of us has. In fact, believing otherwise leads to tyranny, as the very people progressivism claims to help the most always become its foremost victims.

Now, “The Circle,” and director James Ponsoldt, don’t point the audience to the alternative — but that’s where we come in.



https://www.conservativereview.com/n...movie-of-2017/

OK, now to the above

Very scary stuff which is closer than we think.

They are just letting us know what is coming.

[Evang.Benincasa]

In the ET magazine I posted, on the cover is Reagan saying that the National ID is the Mark of the Beast. That's no joke. While I don't believe it is the mark of the beast, it will do somethings that is horrific. When Reagan said those words he never dreamed we would be where we are now. A lot of our technology we take for granted. Which is linked to everything. We are having information on us being downloaded constantly. Social Media records our lives in ways we never dreamed.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Big Brother is watching you?

Yes, in a way he is watching you.

What he does with that information will be entirely up to him.
It usually comes out when you become the enemy of the state.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

In the ET magazine I posted, on the cover is Reagan saying that the National ID is the Mark of the Beast. That's no joke. While I don't believe it is the mark of the beast, it will do somethings that is horrific. When Reagan said those words he never dreamed we would be where we are now. A lot of our technology we take for granted. Which is linked to everything. We are having information on us being downloaded constantly. Social Media records our lives in ways we never dreamed.

Most state IDs are National ID compliant. So its just a matter of changing the looks. Your credit debit cards with a chip, DL with a scannable bar code/magnetic strip, everything going to "the Cloud", Best Buy no longer selling CDs, everybody wants "Voter ID"... and a wall, a great big wall, to keep the bogeyman out.

All in all we're just another brick in that wall. Until someone comes along with a pair of hammers...

Oh hey, Trump can't get anything done! We need someone with REAL backbone! One Glorious Leader, coming right up, as ordered and on time! Your way right away, Mr/Mrs Tranny Log Cabin Republican Progressive Conservative Murikan! Hoo-rah!

Meanwhile, He Who sits in the heavens laughs...

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Most state IDs are National ID compliant. So its just a matter of changing the looks. Your credit debit cards with a chip, DL with a scannable bar code/magnetic strip, everything going to "the Cloud", Best Buy no longer selling CDs, everybody wants "Voter ID"... and a wall, a great big wall, to keep the bogeyman out.

All in all we're just another brick in that wall. Until someone comes along with a pair of hammers...

Oh hey, Trump can't get anything done! We need someone with REAL backbone! One Glorious Leader, coming right up, as ordered and on time! Your way right away, Mr/Mrs Tranny Log Cabin Republican Progressive Conservative Murikan! Hoo-rah!

Meanwhile, He Who sits in the heavens laughs...

This is mind blowing and what’s up with 5G?

They want everyone “linked” in. We are doing it to ourselves willingly. Cultural Marxism has led us to the cliff, showed us all the kingdoms of the world, then told us that jumping off is cool. Friday working on facia boards above my head was a camara drone. Must of been some individual sight seeing the neighborhood. Anyway I looked up at it and it went from hovering to taking off . Is privacy going to be viewed as selfishness? That something is wrong with us if we want privacy? That we have something to hide? I was told the other day, if I’m not doing anything wrong why should I care if everyone can see what I’m doing round the clock? 1984? Brave New World? The Circle?

[Esaias]

All the lame stream reviewers hate it. Which is to be expected.

[Armapeet.Singh]

The man, Irvin Baxter, appears to be a false prophet.

[1ofthechosen]

Originally Posted by Armapeet.Singh

The man, Irvin Baxter, appears to be a false prophet.

Because as the scripture says in Deuteronomy 18:20-22 "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. [21] And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? [22] When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."