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A Christmas Star Is Always Born

Edward Curtin

It is no different now.
The yearning still gnaws.
The night dark, utterly silent,
Sky stretched endlessly back
Into an infinity beyond reach.
And the fears, the tears
Are they any different?
It is no different now.
Joy sometimes, hope too, divisions
Seemingly unbridgeable, vast chasms
Opening between those closest.
Little changes, though two thousand years
Dissolve into oblivion behind us.
It is no different now.
Plus ça change,
Plus c’est la même chose.
Always the same.

Yet a word is heard dimly
Laboring out of the deafening black
Silence, almost but not inaudible.
And the angel says, “Go out,”
And the angel said, “Go out,”
Always the angel, always the voice
Bearing us up along the way
(If you do not turn to the inner light,
Where will you turn?), always calling:
“Journey far through strange country,
Follow the light you barely see
But which is the light of your life.
Follow it across the desert of your heart
Where wild beasts seek to devour you.
There is no time, there is no time
To hesitate. Now is the star’s hour,
Now you are called on a fool’s journey
Into a pig’s pen and a child’s strange
And glorious presence.” Thus speaks the angel
Again and again, no matter how dark
The darkest day, nothing changes.

It is no different now.
Now as always is the star’s hour.
Now as then a star is born to men
To lead us on. A light that darkness
Cannot overcome, despite us.

Love is not a sometimes thing,
Though we abuse it like the earth.
It is all we have to hold us up,
And it always will.

A star is always born.

Edward Curtin is an independent writer whose work has appeared widely over many years. His website is edwardcurtin.com and his new book is Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.

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Hail
Hail
Dec 27, 2024 6:37 PM
Johnny
Johnny
Dec 25, 2024 9:43 PM

Nothing can be born unless there is an ‘l’ to perceive it.

May Hem
May Hem
Dec 25, 2024 8:40 PM

Did you know that the shape of a traditional Christmas Tree displays the Sun’s circular orbit above our plane(t), from the wider tropic of capricorn up to the smaller tropic of cancer.. The lights/decorations around the tree show the Sun’s path. The star on the top represents Polaris, the north pole star which is always.stationary.

entitlement
entitlement
Dec 27, 2024 7:02 PM
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KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
Dec 29, 2024 8:34 PM
Reply to  entitlement

We live on a Plane(t)

Blessthebeasts
Blessthebeasts
Dec 25, 2024 8:39 PM

The idea of Christmas is very beautiful–the hopes and fears of all the years. Sadly, 2,000 years later, here we are….

boxofcrayons
boxofcrayons
Dec 25, 2024 9:35 PM
Reply to  Blessthebeasts

yet the Fiction wasn’t advanced by the early church fathers leading to suppression and “purification” by the church of Rome – Repeat in twelve months.

les online
les online
Dec 25, 2024 8:03 PM

Three fictions people believe
God exists; Viruses exist; politician’s promises…

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Dec 25, 2024 10:00 PM
Reply to  les online

Religions are mind constructs.
If you became conscious, there would be no religion.
Or do you think that consciousness worships itself as a deity?

Mind constructs are created by our rulers. They use one mind construct to play one off against another – your classic divide and conquer methodology. – David Icke

_________

God Without Religion offers a way for individuals to discover and define God on their own rather than accepting the interpretation of a particular religious doctrine.

Calling any scripture the “Word of God” immediately lays the groundwork for prejudice, divisiveness, and even bloodshed, as history has repeatedly demonstrated. Such a claim either depicts God as contradictory, nonsensical, and violent, or implies that God has graced one group of people with the truth while excluding others. 

Every religion claims a monopoly on virtue and truth, as does every system of beliefs about gender, race, ethnicity, and national allegiances. Identifying with anything less than our humanity keeps us from inwardly experiencing the circumstances of others.

(excerpted from an interview with Sankara Saranam – Author of God Without Religion)

___________

Jesus and Other God-Men are Personifications of the Sun

___________

JORDAN MAXWELL: THE HISTORY OF SUN WORSHIP

Baldmichael Theresolute
Baldmichael Theresolute
Dec 27, 2024 10:15 PM
Reply to  les online

Two, not three fictions. Because people do not believe God exists the other two persist. They are of course fictions.

Mind you, viruses do exist as regards the original meaning ‘poison, slime, venom’, just not pathogenic microscopic entities.

https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2024/04/24/coronavirus-is-it-really-a-monster-and-if-not-what-is-it/

Edwige
Edwige
Dec 25, 2024 7:39 PM

Is that what they call “poetry”? How can you tell?

mgeo
mgeo
Dec 26, 2024 5:29 AM
Reply to  Edwige

It is like “modern” art. Join in the appreciation or be disparaged.

George Mc
George Mc
Dec 26, 2024 3:46 PM
Reply to  Edwige

It has short lines and looks profound. Rhymes are obviously optional. Or redundant. Simon Elmer likes to waft this kind of thing too but goes into some detail underneath:

https://architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2024/12/11/a-chinese-woman/

He goes into stuff about “tetrameters” and how they are “probably the closest equivalent to the five-syllable Chinese form called wujue (五絕), which was popular during the Tang Dynasty (618-907)”

Well if you’re into that kinda thing I’m sure you can have hours of fun. Never could be arsed with it myself. Mind you, I’d still prefer it to football. Or any sport. Except maybe nude female tennis.

yo-man
yo-man
Dec 25, 2024 6:58 PM

Subsequent assessment of “Hitler’s Children”:

Melodramatic oppressive horror vision, intentionally produced in colorless gloomy black and white, which was meant to be conveyed and sold to uneducated Americans as German reality. Surrounded by heartless monsters to whom even the innocent romance of a young couple is an unbearable thorn in their side. Children supposedly swore to Hitler that they would die for him and conquer the whole world because they had an innate, genetically inherited right to rule. Dissident women would have been “sterilized as punishment”.

A travesty-like lie that could hardly be exaggerated. The Nazi empire certainly had other priorities than making the fate of resistant individuals the talk of the day or even an act of state. The illogicality lies in the fact that this would have exposed and publicized their own incompetence. Nobody would have believed in their ideology any more. But the fact was that the Germans believed in Hitler to the very end and there has rarely been a happier people than the “poor seduced” Germans.

The fact that the director and all his Jewish co-conspirators portray the church of all things as the saving authority is not without absolute derision, since the Communists were decidedly worse enemies of the church than the Nazis ever were. In any case, it is not known that churches were ever destroyed. It is difficult to judge whether this abominable machination should be interpreted more as comedy and satire, or as a warning deterrent against the Hollywood house of lies, probably both at the same time.

After all, in their own consumerist society, Americans had plenty of “entertainment” (or distraction from reality) thanks to Bernays & Co, but very little reason to truly enjoy life. Because if you didn’t want to end up in the gray, stinking backyard of social decline, you had to learn to outdo your competitors and increase your own money. The oh-so-socially critical film producer must have had some reason for committing himself to communism of all things.

The fact that all these Jews and their willing (or better, will-less) satraps, who are behind the billion-dollar business in Hollywood, simultaneously pay homage to an ideology such as Marxism, is proof to me that these two sides of the same worthless coin of Talmudically founded internationalist-universalist Judeo-Bolshevism are not at all mutually exclusive, but downright symbiotically dependent. Capitalist-communist symbionts are at work here. That these are “irreconcilable opposites” is one of the greatest deceptions spread by Jews in world history.

The fact that America actually allowed itself to be lured into devastating wars countless times with such cheap kitsch and scenery magic still leaves one speechless with astonishment. But in principle, nothing has changed in the overall concept and principle of this practice over the last 100 years. Since today, thanks to technological developments, remote-controlled drones can be sent instead of soldiers made of flesh and blood, it will be interesting to see whether the next candidates of the “axis of evil” (Iran, China, North Korea, Russia?) can be put into checkmate in the same sustainable way.

According to statistics, Iran carries out the most executions in the world, over 500 in one year, making it the “world execution champion”, so to say, even far ahead of America, which still only carries out the death penalty with such “barbarian states”. On the other hand, there is hardly any crime, abortions, suicides or drug victims in this country as there is in the oh-so-tolerant-ignorant liberalism-individualism, which should keep the total number of victims in society within limits. According to All-Judah, however, this is set to change in the future.

CaptainSpock
CaptainSpock
Dec 25, 2024 5:41 PM

In Love we trust..

In amidst the dodgy dynamics of life, it’s still an incredible adventure.

Howard
Howard
Dec 25, 2024 4:14 PM

On Christmas Eve our President-Elect vowed to vigorously pursue…the death penalty. Proof not only a star but a Christmas turd is always forthcoming.

morteth
morteth
Dec 25, 2024 1:08 PM

Midnight mass was busiest I’ve seen in years.
Small revival happening as Denzel Washington and Russel Brand, Conor Macgregor heading back to Jesus and after covid and now the cost of living.. it this driving people back into faith.?
Is this all by design.?

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Dec 25, 2024 3:46 PM
Reply to  morteth

It’s a valid question. If not, then it’s definitely being “nudged” now.

Frances
Frances
Dec 25, 2024 9:24 PM
Reply to  morteth

I doubt it as the global elites want to bring in a one world religion that would appeal to all faith systems.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Dec 25, 2024 10:04 PM
Reply to  Frances

I doubt “they” concern themselves with what would appeal to us.

Fran Crowe
Fran Crowe
Dec 26, 2024 10:09 AM
Reply to  morteth

McGregor heading back to Jesus!!!!……… better chance of Humpty Dumpty getting put back together again.

Kathleen
Kathleen
Dec 25, 2024 1:01 PM

Well that was lovely. Yes love is all we have to hold us up. Thank you.