PERILOUS TIMES
Welcome again to Marilyn Brown who skillfully exposes the rottenness of the philosophy of Post Modernism. I suggest my readers earnestly study these illuminating words that are most pertinent to the perilous times into which humanity has plunged itself..
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
WHAT IS POST MODERNISM?
or
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TRUTH
By Marilyn Brown August 2021
’The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’
(Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carrol, International Pocket Library)
According to Wikipedia, Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid-to-late 20th century marking a departure from modernism, which spanned the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. According to one critic, modernism developed out of Romanticism’s revolt against the effects of the Industrial Revolution and bourgeois values. Some view it as philosophically-defined characteristics like self-consciousness or self-reference, while others see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment. But, at its heart, it is the age-old determination for Man to control his destiny, by fair means or foul! And they are getting fouler by the day!
Postmodernism is generally defined by an attitude of scepticism and irony, focusing on the role of ideology. The question then becomes, whose ideology?
“There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it and talking over its head…….
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it. ‘No room! No room!’ they cried out when they saw Alice coming. ‘There’s plenty of room!’ said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.
’Have some wine,’ the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. ‘I don’t see any wine,’ she remarked.
‘There isn’t any,’ said the March Hare.
’Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,’ said Alice angrily.
’It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,’ said the March Hare.
’I didn’t know it was your table,’ said Alice; ‘it’s laid for a great many more than three.’…….
The Hatter……said…. ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’……….
’I believe I can guess that,’ [Alice] added aloud.
’Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
’Exactly so,’ said Alice.
’Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least – at least I mean what I say – that’s the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see”!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that “I like what I get” is the same thing as “I get what I like”!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in his sleep, ‘that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!’………..
The last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.”
(Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol, Publisher William Heinemann Ltd. 1974)
So goes the gloriously delightful nonsense of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But there is nothing delightful about the nonsense of Postmodernism:
“Postmodern thinkers frequently describe knowledge claims and value systems as contingent or socially-conditioned, describing them as products of political, historical, or cultural discourses and hierarchies. Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to self-referentiality, epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, and irreverence. Postmodernism is often associated with schools of thought such as deconstruction and post-structuralism. Postmodernism relies on critical theory, which considers the effects of ideology, society, and history on culture. Postmodernism and critical theory commonly criticize universalist ideas of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress.” (Wikipedia)
“You have your truth and I have mine. Don’t try to ram your truth down my throat!” (but I will most certainly try to ram my truth down yours!)
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’
‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’” (Alice Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carrol, International Pocket Library)
Postmodernist philosophers, in general, argue that truth is always contingent on historical and social context rather than being absolute and universal – and that truth is always partial and ‘at issue’ rather than being complete and certain. Postmodernism, as most use it today, is believed to decide what experiences and signs in one’s reality will be one’s reality as one knows it. (Wikipedia)
In other words, ‘truth’ is fluid and experiential! Nothing could be further from ‘the truth’!
In the “explosive” interview held between Oprah Winfrey and the privileged, wealthy, whining Prince Harry and Meaghan Markle, Oprah comments tenderly to a pouting princess, Meaghan, that this was her opportunity to tell ‘your truth’. It turned out that some of her ‘truth’ was, in fact, downright lies. She reported, unblushingly, that they had been forced to hold a secret marriage ceremony, conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, prior to the actual wedding day, a ‘truth’ that said Archbishop of Canterbury strongly denied. And the right royal pain….er, pair claimed, to a suitably aghast Oprah Winfrey, that, when they left their Royal duties, they were cut off without a penny. It turned out that Prince Charles had given them a small fortune in a lump sum to begin their self-indulgent venture. Of the rest of their ‘truth’, the Queen diplomatically responded that people may have different ‘perceptions’ of events. When one’s own idea of ‘truth’ can be so easily proven to be anything but that, one really ought to keep one’s ‘truth’ to oneself!
Postmodernism is part of the Globalist agenda. Those who believe they are destined for world domination believe that, by forcing a twisted version of the truth on the rest of society, they can throw us into confusion, fear and submission. At all costs, these essentials must be pushed to the exclusion of all else. Dissenting voices must be de-platformed and silenced; facts must not be allowed to get in the way of the agenda. AND IT’S WORKING! The clamour and hysteria that COVID-19 as a ‘pandemic’ has generated has shown that it is possible for the entire globe to be cowed into panic-stricken submission and to park their brains at the door. There is now absolutely no room for the voice of reason – for truth and facts. The majority of people don’t even want to hear anything but ‘Vaccinate! Vaccinate! Vaccinate!’ and, for those who know the truth and can’t, in all good conscience, submit to this iron-fisted, dictatorial, health-jeopardizing turn that our society has taken, the persecution has begun.
Truth is just that. It is black and white; it has no grey areas; it is unambiguous; it can’t be manipulated and it can’t be changed; it makes no allowance for people’s sensitivities or self-indulgences. Truth will stand its ground in debate; it can’t be dismantled by opposing thought; it remains consistently and reassuringly grounded in fact.
For our purposes, probably the most easily-refuted subjective ‘truth’ is that of trans-genderism. Postmodernists may pretend that there are at least ten ‘genders’, and that a male can become a female and vice versa; men may dress up in women’s clothes, have surgery to make them look more like a woman and take oestregen to enhance the process; women may dress up in men’s clothes, have surgery to make them look more like a man and take testosterone to enhance the process. Others in society may pretend along with them and call him ‘her’ and ‘she’, and her ‘him’ and ‘he’, but, beneath the outward façade, the facts – the truth – cannot be altered.
- Male and female foetuses start showing brain differences as early as 26 weeks. At that stage, female brains start developing a thicker corpus callosum, which is the part of the brain that connects the left and right hemisphere.
- In a female baby’s first few months of life, her eye contact will increase by over 400%, and a boy’s will show significantly less improvement. In a study done on 100 babies on the day of their birth, girls were found to prefer looking at a young woman’s face, while boys preferred moving objects.
- There are three major differences between a male and female forehead. The greatest difference is that men tend to have a ridge of bone running across the forehead at brow level called “brow bossing.” Women’s foreheads are smoother, flatter and have little or no bossing.
- There is a difference of 1,000 genes in male and female livers.
- Blood flow in women is more concentrated around the lower extremities, while in men it’s spread more evenly. This is why women’s hands and feet get colder than men’s.
- A woman’s blood contains more water and 20% fewer red blood cells than a man’s.
- The same hormone that produces breast milk in women also produces tears. Since women naturally have more of that hormone than men, their bodies also produce tears more easily than men. Some women have higher levels of the hormone, which makes them cry at the smallest stimulation, and not necessarily because they’re sad.
- The female brain is more flexible than the male brain, and, during pregnancy, women experience a major restructuring of the brain. Stress circuits are suppressed, the cortex increases in size, and the rest of the brain experiences shrinkage. No brain cells are lost in the transition, but new networks form and pathways change until the brain returns to normal around six months after delivery.
- Men have 10% larger noses than women. The masculine predisposition to larger noses is tied to their larger muscle mass. It simply requires more oxygen for men to maintain muscle tissue growth. And a bigger requirement for oxygen intake means a need for bigger nostrils. The difference in nose sizes starts to become apparent at age 11 when boys develop lean muscle mass and girls grow more fat mass.
- Men literally have bigger hearts than women. A female heart is about 2/3 the size of a man’s, and beats fewer times per minute.
But, even if someone is murdered, stripped naked, the head removed, and left long enough for there to be nothing remaining but a headless skeleton, the differences between the sexes are still there!
A skeleton’s overall size and sturdiness give some clues as to sex. Within the same population, males tend to have larger, more robust bones and joint surfaces, and more bone development at muscle attachment sites. However, the pelvis is the best sex-related skeletal indicator, because of distinct features adapted for childbearing. The skull also has features that can indicate sex, though slightly less reliably.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/written-bone/skeleton-keys/male-or-female
Ever since the birth of the Church, Christianity has been the most hated religion in the world because it claims to be THE Truth – an undesirable commodity in this age of ‘your truth/my truth’. One can speak in a mystic way of the influence in one’s life of ‘the Universe’; or that it’s ‘written in my stars’; or ‘what star sign are you?’ One can speak freely of practising meditation, or yoga, or Tai Chi, or Taekwando; or recommend that the kids take up Karate; and no-one turns a hair, even possibly showing some interest. But bring Christianity or prayer or the Bible into the conversation and the atmosphere turns decidedly chilly and even hostile!
Christianity has a textbook that claims not to be written by fallible men with their own agenda, but by the inspiration of the very Creator Himself:
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (II Timothy 3:16-17)
“…..no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” (II Peter 1:20-21)
Christianity is based on the Person of one Man – the Lord Jesus Christ – and all of His teachings. One may attempt to water down who He was by saying that He was just a good man, but this option is simply not available to us. Jesus Himself said, of Himself:
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” (John 14:1)
“I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” (John 14:6-7)
“And I give them eternal life and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no-one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.” (John 10:28-30)
Here is One who claims to be equal to God and has power to bestow entry into Heaven and eternal life after death to all who place absolute faith in HIS person! There is absolutely no room here for Him to be “just a good man”. Either He was insane, or thoroughly wicked, or exactly who He said He was.
We live in a Postmodern age – an age of VERSIONS of truth, even lies presented as truth, not THE truth; an age which is attempting to rob us of our individuality and force us into mindless conformity. AND IT’S WORKING! COVID-19 has been, and still is, a roaring success in furthering the goals of the Globalists. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were banned as treatments, not because they were ineffectual or dangerous but because, had they been available, Emergency Use status for the experimental vaccines that the Globalists desired to unleash on an unsuspecting world could not be granted. That status can only be granted if there are no other treatments available! Unquestioning wearing of health-jeopardising masks; submission to dangerous, experimental vaccines without due research into their safety and long-term effects; and docile acceptance of forced imprisonment has become the norm! We have yielded without a whimper to a totalitarian programme
This is the ‘woke’ generation. The term came from the American black community. When referring to someone who is very young or not very bright, they would say, “He ain’t woke yet.” Those who are ‘woke’ consider themselves to be awake to the new ‘truth’; they are the enlightened ones who are superior to those who hold to absolutes. But, instead, they are plunging deeper and deeper into the darkness that will soon engulf the world at the hand of our Creator.
“…..they…..became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” (Romans 1:21-22)
WE ARE NOT SAFE! THE WORLD IS NOT SAFE! And the danger doesn’t come from COVID-19, although our Governments would have us believe otherwise. It comes from the Postmodernist progressives and globalists who desire nothing less than world domination. Through COVID, the world is being set up for a far more sinister form of control:
“…another beast….causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no-one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16-17)
If we truly want to feel free and safe in these perilous times, we need to look beyond the present to our eternal future. We need to turn to the One who really controls the world’s fate, the only source of absolute Truth – the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Word of God – the Bible.
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Marilyn Brown was born in Sydney, Australia. A darkly unhappy child and passionately enamoured of horses but unable to own one, by the age of 10, she was suffering from ulcerative colitis, a stress-related illness, causing ulceration of the bowel. She managed to scrape through the Leaving Certificate at the Methodist Ladies’ College, where evolutionary biology and geography were two of her subjects. At the age of 21, an on-again/off-again relationship drove her to hand her life over to a God whose Word was not particularly relevant as science had proven that its opening chapters were not. Classical singing lessons produced a passion to succeed in this field and, at the age of 30, she and Max, her life-long friend and husband of 6 years, set off for England to pursue the dream. But the Lord had other plans. Instead of continuing her training, the colitis, which had come as acute attacks at times of stress, now became chronic. It was Max who directed their search for answers to the Lord, buying books on Christian healing for them to read. It was through these books that the Lord led them both to be baptized with the Holy Spirit which, soon after, prompted Marilyn to question whether David Attenbrough’s Life on Earth, showing on U.K. television at the time, were the whole story. Could the Biblical version have any support at all? As the Lord always does, once we display an interest in the truth, He will see to it that we find it. It took very few pages of a thick tome, The Creation/ Evolution Controversy, by D.L. Wysong, for the truth to burst the bubble of the evolutionary lie. From that moment, the passion of Marilyn’s heart has been to point people to the absolute, unshakeable truth of the Bible. The worsening level of the colitis would send Max and Marilyn back home to Australia where they began attending Hills C.L.C. (now Hillsong), then only 12 months old. Here they would be nurtured and encouraged to hold fast to the Word of God and would provide an Australia-wide network of prayer as the illness continued its grim progress over the next 10 years, culminating in a perforated bowel that would place Marilyn on life-support in hospital. However, after 12 years, without any fanfare, the Lord moved and the colitis began to recede so that now, contrary to all medical expectations of this disease, there have now been 19 years that have been free of colitis. When finally able to return to C.L.C., the Church that had once been Bible-based and Christ-centred seemed to be shifting away from these foundations, subtly at first and now, of course, in a landslide. It was time to move on. Marilyn continues to constantly strive to be equipped to impart Biblical truth to whomever should ask questions. “…and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you…..” (1 Peter 3:15)