January 18, 2009

• Insights
  
  What You See Is Not What You Get

  There is one thing that I’d like to especially point out about the Bible that I appreciate a lot. It does not change and what it tells us is dependable, having been tested by time. That’s like the One who wrote it in the first place through the agency of the apostles and prophets.  Even though many would like to make special interpretations of what is said in it, the original words and meanings still come out clear and concise when they are read in context with the entirety of the work and understood in the realities of the world we live in.

  Contrast that with what’s going on today. Nothing can be trusted here anymore. When the fools of today say there are no absolutes, it is not hard to look around and find the devastating results of relativism. Those who have thrown off God have instead found for themselves a hell of their own making, one that they find meets their needs and pleasures initially but in the end becomes their own condemnation and destruction. Yet it is as if they have no clue what they have done to themselves.

  Now normally I’d go into a long list of things that I see going on but  I’m going to do something different this time.  This will require some thought and you may post as many times as you like as things come to your mind that you see represented in the picture below from “photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com”. I am not only looking for the “obvious & concrete” aspects of the picture but also the more subtle aspects of it as well. I’d like to hear what you think this picture “says” to us.

  At this point, I only offer that it provides us with a remarkably profound statement of our times.  Altering photos is not a new phenomenon. It has been done before. Its perfect since it really doesn’t show the face of an important American personage so we don’t necessarily get tied up in all of that yet we can extract some deep implications of what this picture means.  It is a picture of Pope Benedict and French President Sarkozy leaving a room with people behind him yet if you gaze into the lower right corner of the picture you will see a circle.  What is notable within that circle?

    

  Some of you will see more “obvious” things and others will see more “subtle” things but I’m sure everyone is going to “see” something of meaning here.  Have fun!  Blessings, Mr.Vee

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