Thursday, January 18, 2007
Current mood: weird

[this entry includes comments that were received on MySpace]

I had an odd dream. I don’t know why I had this dream because I didn’t see anything on TV last night, or discuss anything, that would’ve put this into my subconscious:

My world was in a post-apolcalyptic state. Government and infrastructure had broken down and there was no law. Something had happened because the negative Christians (the ones who don’t actually practice good Christianship, but use their religion as an excuse to persecute non-Christians) had whipped up so much warmongering that wars had destroyed everything.

As I was looking for shelter I thought to myself that my mom had turned out to be right — the negative Christians had won out over the real/positive Christians. I wondered to myself what the real Christians had been doing all this time and why they hadn’t organized at some point and tried to stop what was happening, or at least announce to the world that the negative activity wasn’t how a true Christian would behave.

I finally found shelter in a little church. It wasn’t in an actual church any more; the congregation had found a building they could all huddle in. They were providing what safety they could to anyone who showed up.

We were all bunched up inside this place, and one of the Christians made a smug remark to me, and I realized that he felt that the presence of this sanctuary proved that indeed, the paranoid Christians had been right all along about the world, and that this little haven proved that all of us could indeed only count on or trust Christians, and no one else. I realized that he believed that starting the wars had been justified, because of his prejudicial beliefs, and even now with everything ruined, his world view was unchanged, and he believed the warmongering had been the correct path to take.

I wanted to point out the flaw in that logic, but as I needed somewhere safe to sleep, I couldn’t say anything. I had to just sit there and not reply.

What a strange dream. It work me up early, too. I’d wanted to sleep in today. Oh well!

7:39 AM - 9 Comments - 11 Kudos

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Pete Puma

To quote Arte Johnson…”very interesting.” It’s scary that your dream is within the realm of possibility.

Posted by Pete Puma on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 10:07 AM

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MasterKajira

Sounds like the plot of a good sci-fi novel. Good as in “plausible.”

Sure you weren’t watching “The Handmaids Tale” recently?

Posted by MasterKajira on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 11:47 AM

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Lorelei

I’d forgotten about that movie! I saw that about 12 years ago. Interesting.

Posted by Lorelei on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 9:35 AM

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Duct Tape Messiah

With all the terrible real world events we see on the news every day, it’s bound to trickle into the subconscious world eventually. Keep the faith, busy lady.

Posted by Duct Tape Messiah on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 12:51 PM

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Richard

It does sound as if your dream is rooted in your concerns for the world now.

I had an unusual dream today that actually had me sleeping longer because I wanted it to play to the end. Unfortunately, the alarm clock eventually won out even though it was late. The bad thing is that, in my rush to get to work, I didn’t have much time to dwell on it and it’s all but forgotten now. When I saw your blog topic, my first thought was wondering if the dreams were related. I don’t get more than a handful of memorable dreams in any year, so it was interesting that we both had one on the same night. My dream was completely different than yours based on what I remembered.

Concerns about religion are not new. Here are some quotes from Thomas Paine in the 1700s:

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.”– Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine, (1737-1809), The Age of Reason, pt. 1, “The Author’s Profession of Faith” (1794), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Posted by Richard on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 8:31 PM

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BBQ

I’m surprized that you were able to remember every little detail about your dream. I usually forget mine by the morning. Maybe you can take your dream, and make it into a bondage movie.

Posted by BBQ on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 10:26 PM

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Ringo

I thought that this dream that you wrote down was very interesting and sadly enough there are enough ignorant people out there to claim to be Christian. I have hope for the future and that everything will be fine. Then again, well, that’s hoping.

Posted by Ringo on Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 6:42 AM

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Dark Angel Publishings

Very intersting indeed. As a Positive Christian 1st I’ll say maybe God is trying to tell you something, then 2nd I’ll say maybe God is trying to tell me something. I’m not gonna preach or anything but I find your dream eye opening because I do believe that the Christians that have real relationships with Christ are not doing enough to get the true message of the Gospels out to the world.

I’m gonna pray on that. Very good dream. :)

God Speed, the Night Angel.

Posted by Dark Angel Publishings on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 11:04 AM