The Four Horsemen |
Friday Jul 02 2010
I was playing a trivia game and had to answer what the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are. I got three out of four, but had to go to go to Wikipedia to get them all: War, Famine, Conquest and Death. These traditional Biblical symbols mark the ‘end of time’, when all things are put right and presumably all karma is erased and this journey will be complete. In researching each of them, I learned that ‘conquest’ is best translated in today’s language as ‘corruption’. The ancient notion of ‘famine’ can also be understood to encompass epidemics and plagues. ‘War’ represents violence in all forms and Death is pretty self-evident. These seem to me to be a good list of the dark side of “The Force” which threatens our way of life and our collective future.[Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
Tagged with: apocalypse boredom choice conquest cynicism death famine four_horsemen_of_the_apocalypse future isolation john_wayne loneliness resignation war
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