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Messiah Watch
I hope for the sake of both campaigns that Mark Morford is a McCain operative. Here's his argument for Obama in Friday's San Francisco Chronicle:
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
Bonus link: Time to roll this tape again.
Episiarch|6.9.08 @ 10:45AM|#
See? My jokes about Obama = Jesus to his supporters seemed over the top, but here we are, one step closer. Awesome.
No Name Guy|6.9.08 @ 10:48AM|#
Creepy. There is something a little weird about the really, really enthusiastic Obama supporters.
Ungodly|6.9.08 @ 10:49AM|#
As asinine as Morford's comments are, he's no worse than the Evangelical Christians who see Bush as God's divine instrument.
|6.9.08 @ 10:50AM|#
His midichlorians are off the chart.
But do we really want someone with that many midichlorians in
power?
|6.9.08 @ 10:54AM|#
As asinine as Morford's comments are, he's no worse than the
Evangelical Christians who see Bush as God's divine
instrument.
That's the first thing I thought of as well
(I'm related to some of these people)
|6.9.08 @ 10:56AM|#
Well, he did promise to stop the tides, or something, at his
victory speech.
What I love about Obama is the way he straddles the fence on this
country. Is it just me or is his message basically "America is the
greatest country in the world, and the only person who can save it
is me."
Martin Luther|6.9.08 @ 10:57AM|#
Away In a Manger
Away in a manger,
no crib for His bed,
The little Lord Obama
laid down His sweet head;
The stars in the heavens
looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Obama
asleep on the hay.
The cattle are lowing,
the poor Baby wakes,
But little Lord Obama,
no crying He makes.
I love Thee, Lord Obama;
look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle
till morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Obama;
I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever
and love me I pray!
Bless all the dear children
in Thy tender care,
And fit us for Heaven
to live with Thee there.
Away in a manger,
no crib for His bed,
The little Lord Obama
laid down His sweet head;
The stars in the heavens
looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Obama
asleep on the hay.
prophet|6.9.08 @ 10:58AM|#
He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them.
Elemenope|6.9.08 @ 11:05AM|#
But do we really want someone with that many midichlorians
in power?
To a dark place, this line of thinking takes us.
Also, for bonus, he poops rainbows.
Elemenope|6.9.08 @ 11:07AM|#
"America is the greatest country in the world, and the only
person who can save it is me."
Isn't it always the politician that can sell that message the best
generally the winner?
"It's morning in America"...etc.
oso|6.9.08 @ 11:10AM|#
for those that believe the comments quoted reflect Mark
Morford's POV, please RTFA.
poor choice of wording for the set-up, Mr. Walker.
|6.9.08 @ 11:13AM|#
It's exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low
vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression,
but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far
better.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA
Oh man! I'll never take the San Francisco Chronicle seriously
again. Ha ha ha ha ha
|6.9.08 @ 11:14AM|#
OK. Can I just get one of your mimeographed, handwritten,
double-sided pages and leave the subway station?
I supposed you get some of this surrounding any candidacy. I'm just
glad it isn't the candidate himself claiming to have been selected
by Jesus this time.
|6.9.08 @ 11:14AM|#
oso,
I RTFAd, and I'd say he makes it pretty clear with his last
paragraph that he's on board with all that "Lightworker"
bullshit.
|6.9.08 @ 11:16AM|#
for those that believe the comments quoted reflect Mark
Morford's POV, please RTFA.
I read it. Morford didn't throw up on his keyboard unable to finish
the thought. He is therefore part of the problem.
As asinine as Morford's comments are, he's no worse than the
Evangelical Christians who see Bush as God's divine
instrument.
If you walked into this election thinking the left is no different
than the right, this isn't a surprise.
|6.9.08 @ 11:17AM|#
Here's Morford's last two 'graphs, just for the record:
Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls-- and Obama is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.
Not this time.
No Name Guy|6.9.08 @ 11:22AM|#
I don't know which is creepier, to be honest. This, or the Republican apotheosis of Ronald Reagan.
economist|6.9.08 @ 11:24AM|#
Bush's evangelical cronies merely think he was chosen by God to
save America.
Obama's flaky spiritualist supporters think that he IS God.
Taktix®|6.9.08 @ 11:24AM|#
Yes, calling someone a "Lightworker" is a "bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bullshit."
|6.9.08 @ 11:25AM|#
identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned
being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign
policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help
usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and
connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly
experiment.
Not interested. I've already got a Messiah.
What I want from a President is a realistic, pragmatic guy with
respect for the law, the Constitution and the idea of co-equal
branches of government, not a guy who has grand messianic plans to
transform society.
We've already had that for seven years, and I think we can all
agree that was a really bad idea.
As asinine as Morford's comments are, he's no worse than the
Evangelical Christians who see Bush as God's divine
instrument.
Which makes less sense to me, because one of the founding
theological underpinings of orthodox Christianity (and one of the
repeating themes of the Old Testament) is that no matter how good a
person is, they are still corrupt and prone to error.
|6.9.08 @ 11:32AM|#
You know, it seems to me that when someone seriously deploys
terms like "lightworker" or "indigo children" or "high
fructose corn syrup" or "chakra," there's a pretty good
chance that they are not part of what one might call "the
reality-based community."
|6.9.08 @ 11:36AM|#
I don't know which is creepier, to be honest. This, or the
Republican apotheosis of Ronald Reagan.
Neither of them can touch the Jesus Churchill shtick that
surrounded George W. Bush around 2002. We downplay it because it's
collapsed so dramatically, but that was a freaky cult action right
there.
No Name Guy|6.9.08 @ 11:45AM|#
Then theres the other side of the 2002-2004 period from the
left.
WE HATES DUBYA! YES WE HATES HIM MY PRECIOUS! WE HATES HIM
FOREVER!!
alan|6.9.08 @ 11:52AM|#
"indigo children"
When that idea was taken seriously and earnestly on an episode of
CSI, I couldn't watch the show again for the rest of that season.
It was even worse than the GLAD award bait show concerning a
transvestite being killed while committing an act of heroism.
I can tell when the writer of the killer indigo child episode is
involved in the script by the ickiness factor of the dialog,
otherwise it is a fairly well written show.
|6.9.08 @ 11:52AM|#
Uh, yeah, remember all those people who thought George Bush was
a lousy president?
What a bunch of loons! Some of them thought so poorly of him that
they didn't trust him to invade Iraq!
|6.9.08 @ 11:53AM|#
Actually, we've already had the John McCain is like Jesus
quote:
"Columbus - Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said
Saturday that the party's presumed presidential nominee has a lot
in common with Jesus Christ.
"John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart
said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He
never denounced God, either."
No Name Guy|6.9.08 @ 11:56AM|#
Joe, theres a difference between disliking the mans policies or
thinking hes a lousy President, and thinking hes Satan incarnate
scheming with Cheney and Rove in the basement of the White House
for the ultimate conquest of the globe in the name of
Halliburton.
Understand?
Elemenope|6.9.08 @ 12:28PM|#
Then theres the other side of the 2002-2004 period from the
left.
WE HATES DUBYA! YES WE HATES HIM MY PRECIOUS! WE HATES HIM
FOREVER!!
Yeah, well, that's because HE WAS THAT BAD! You're telling me a
little Gollum voice didn't crawl up inside your throat every time
GWB spoke?
|6.9.08 @ 12:29PM|#
For the love of Ahura Mazda, the only vibrations that are
resonating after reading that article are the ones picked up by my
bullshit detector.
One thing I miss about living in Berkeley: the weather
One thing I don't miss about living in Berkeley: people who believe
this New Age twaddle
|6.9.08 @ 12:37PM|#
I haven't heard this term 'lightworker' before. Is it sort of like a daywalker? Sort of like they're saying he plays both sides, or serves one side while walking the path of the other?
|6.9.08 @ 12:44PM|#
Pinette,
It means that he has all of the vampire's strengths, and none of
their weakness. I think the author wants to call Obama Blacula, but
is stymied by Barry's lack of a 'fro.
Although, I'd rather be Blacula than the Cryptkeeper any day. If
McCain starts punning all the time, I'm going to get out those
sunglasses a bum gave and see if his face is rotting off. "What's
the matter, baby?"
|6.9.08 @ 12:44PM|#
here's an interesting take on Obama's faith. No it isn't an anti
muslim rant.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/02/barack-obama-is-not-a-christian/
|6.9.08 @ 12:44PM|#
Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment.
Can I hire Mark Morford to stand in my garden and spew this stuff?
Unadulterated bovine excrement.
|6.9.08 @ 12:55PM|#
brotherben,
If Cal Thomas is against him, Obama is on the right path as far as
I'm concerned.
|6.9.08 @ 12:55PM|#
I'm just glad it isn't the candidate himself claiming to
have been selected by Jesus this time.
True.
But when you watch an Obama rally -- like I did here in Missoula,
MT -- there is an overwhelming sense that Rev. Jim Jones is
speaking.
But no, they weren't serving Kool-Aid.
|6.9.08 @ 12:59PM|#
Jamie Kelly,
my youngest brother, (34 now) saw Obama at a rally in Boise a
couple months ago. Said it was the most moving thing he ever
experienced. "Church was never, ever that good," he said.
|6.9.08 @ 1:00PM|#
It doesn't matter who it is, a presidential candidate that seductive is scarin the bejebus outta me.
|6.9.08 @ 1:13PM|#
a presidential candidate that seductive is scarin the
bejebus outta me.
Wet panties galore. I could have fucked any chick in that crowd
just by telling them I'm working on the campaign.
ktc2|6.9.08 @ 1:23PM|#
Dunno if it's any worse than those who still think W is the
greatest president ever.
Did you see Jesus Camp?
All those little brainwashed fundy spawns standing arms
outstretched worhipfully towards a life sized cardboard W.
|6.9.08 @ 1:47PM|#
Ungodly
Yeah, but show me the Repub equivalent of that column in a major
newspaper like the SF Chronicle. Yikes.
|6.9.08 @ 2:09PM|#
"Yes, calling someone a "Lightworker" is a "bunch of
tofu-sucking New Agey bullshit.""
Yes, it is. But it's also not remotely newsworthy when it
emanates from the SF Bay area.
If this were printed in Houston, or was written by Henry Kissinger,
it would be news. That an SF columnist knows some loopy hippies,
this is not news.
Rhywun|6.9.08 @ 2:12PM|#
Drivel like this is precisely why I ran away screaming from California after living there for one year.
|6.9.08 @ 2:12PM|#
"Yeah, but show me the Repub equivalent of that column in a
major newspaper like the SF Chronicle."
Peggy Noonan writing about angels guiding dolphins to save Elian
Gonzales in the Wall Street Journal
Rhywun|6.9.08 @ 2:17PM|#
Is it sort of like a daywalker?
Ha ha - That was my thought too.
And WTF is an "indigo child"? Perhaps similar to a "ginger".
Manny|6.9.08 @ 2:26PM|#
I grew up with a new-ager mother. This is just how they think
about people they like. It's never enough that you're a good guy,
you have to be a being of utter transcendence who is helping usher
in the age of Aquarius or whatever the next millennial fad
is.
Think of it as the outward projection of the better-known
phenomenon of people needing to believe they were Cleopatra or a
Tibetan monk or Gandalf or whatever in a past life because their
own middle-class existence just isn't interesting enough for the
expectations of the most idealistic of the already fever-pitched
Boomer generation.
|6.9.08 @ 2:27PM|#
I just love it when folks confuse things that are said about
someone with the actual person.
Ironic that so many of those folks show up here at
www.REASON.com.
Miggs|6.9.08 @ 2:58PM|#
I just love it when folks confuse things that are said about someone with the actual person.
Ironic that so many of those folks show up here at www.REASON.com."
Thank you, I was getting rather thirsty.
Elemenope|6.9.08 @ 3:32PM|#
From "Indigo Children":
They are empathic and can easily detect or are in tune with the
thoughts of others, and are naturally drawn to matters concerning
mysteries, spirituality, the paranormal and the occult, while
opposing unquestioned authority and contradictory to convention.
They allegedly possess wisdom and level of awareness "beyond their
years." They are also said to feel a strong sense of
entitlement.
Good LORD, they've rediscovered Generation Y!
|6.9.08 @ 4:25PM|#
Ungodly,
"As asinine as Morford's comments are, he's no worse than the
Evangelical Christians who see Bush as God's divine
instrument."
Good call! We almost went ten comments about the actual topic
without anyone saying "republicans are worse!"
Gilbert Martin|6.9.08 @ 4:25PM|#
I think Obama himself believes he is some kind of Messiah.
All that nonsense in his speech about future generations looking
backing and saying this was the moment when we started to "heal the
earth" and take care of people's healthcare, etc. etc.
He is starting to remind me of Xerxes in that movie "300" - except
without all the metal piercings.
Elihu|6.9.08 @ 4:42PM|#
Hmm. I went to Google to see if I could find references to Bill
Clinton as a Lightworker, and discovered that Morford really hit
the jackpot with this column.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6o2ue8
Vanessa|6.9.08 @ 4:46PM|#
Lightworkers.org - The Essence
When we unite our focused intent and higher emotions we can
together become a powerful catalyst for elevating the collective
consciousness of our world. We unite Lightworkers from all around
the world and become one in mind, heart and spirit.
Lightworkers.org is a platform where Lightworkers can connect in an
environment that is tolerant and loving. When we connect together
in a unified thought we express our collective co-creative essence
and allow the process of ascension to unfold for all life. As a
Lightworker we simply mean a person who is co-creating a peaceful
and loving world, and there are a many of us!. We know you will
feel at home here and understand that you are a part of a world
wide movement that is co-creating an alternative way of life for
humanity and our loving world that we share. Lightworkers, we honor
you. For we are ONE!
http://lightworkers.org/about-lightworkers
|6.9.08 @ 8:24PM|#
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions
which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most
people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
|6.9.08 @ 8:32PM|#
All your hateful comments about Barack Obama (our next president) just make the baby Jesus cry.
MikeB|6.9.08 @ 10:53PM|#
I first read "Lightworker" as the opposite of hardworker. Thanks to Reason, I haved learned a new word. Now I won't be embarrased, if I meet a new age person and assume they are talking about a slacker.
MMORPG|6.10.08 @ 1:35AM|#
That wiki article on "indigo children" is hilarious. I can't say
its stupider than any other religious belief though...
I sure hope social evolution weeds out these nonsense beliefs like
'new age' and 'Abrahamic faiths' soon.
|6.10.08 @ 10:03AM|#
For those who care to listen I think I have a unique perspective
on this.
Having pursued serious very traditional yogic training over the
last decade or so I've come to a few conclusions covering this kind
of thing.
First, yogic training can increase the amount of subtle light a
person projects around them. Most people pick this up as charisma
or generic attraction. For anyone who has ever met a rock star or
movie icon in real life it comes across as "just having to look at
them." Some people have this kind of charisma naturally without any
kind of training. Although, public speakers and singers tend to
have this more often than regular folks. People with this kind of
charisma are often very emotional and the effect amplified in a
crowd or as they get worked up.
That said, with proper training you can learn to see this kind of
thing with your own eyes.
It is a very apparent phenomena that is hard to miss. Interestingly
people who are color blind have a hard time with this.
This is the part most new agers miss however. You can be a
completely murderous heathen in your regular life and still do
this. It has more to do with broadcasting emotion than anything
else. Just take a look at all of the cult leaders out there who
come across as really sincere in person.
Invisible Finger|6.10.08 @ 10:52AM|#
What I want from a President is a realistic, pragmatic guy
with respect for the law, the Constitution and the idea of co-equal
branches of government, not a guy who has grand messianic plans to
transform society.
Loser!
|6.10.08 @ 12:14PM|#
He is starting to remind me of Xerxes in that movie "300" - except without all the metal piercings.
This post is filled with so much win and I actually
(mostly) like Obama.
|6.10.08 @ 9:49PM|#
In reading over all of the comments, I was totally amazed how opened minded everyone is. It makes me truly sad that we as humans still want to see only with our eyes and can't imagine the possibilities.
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