OG: All the philosophies and religions of the world claim that the totality of our existential questions are answered by higher beings. That is, whenever a human has a question, some god, angel, space alien, or whatever conception we have of a “higher being” comes down and answers the question. This seems universal to every culture on earth. Humans have, or we believe we have, “higher beings” to look after us and answer our questions.
AC: Yes. That does seem to be the case.
OG: Well, what if you ARE the “higher being,” and you have a question that you need answers to? Who will answer it?
AC: I don’t know. That’s a good question.
While this post about the Watchmen forms a part of a series I’m trying to do about some Zack Snyder movies, this particular post is not so much going to be a movie review as a discussion of some spiritual ideas that are connected to the Watchmen mythos. The Watchmen are a group of superheroes originating with a comic book graphic novel by Alan Moore. Several of the characters, symbols, quotes, and ideas from that graphic novel, and Zack’s movie adaptation of it, have become significant to me, and I’ve built a number of ideas from these.
To begin with, as a part of my “apophenia” or “prophet sight” or whatever I’m calling it, I began to see smiley faces all over the place in Los Angeles for quite a bit of 2024. They featured significantly in one of my posts. I don’t see them so much anymore. Or, well, they’re smiley faces. I see them every time someone types an emoji. But back then, there were times where I was seeing them EVERYWHERE. While this alone is surely a standard sign of issues involving the attention span, I’ll say that I wasn’t always seeing them all the time, and also that when I did see them they would come up in the strangest circumstances.
For instance, I have quite a fan attachment to Gal Gadot, and she forms a part of the connection of the whole trek to Israel that has been consuming my life for half a decade now with aspirations that I have with writing, expressing ideas, and potentially getting involved in film. This summer, The Lady was in a Netflix film called Heart of Stone. It was an interesting movie about a superspy chick working with the aid of artificial intelligence, and I was quite piqued about AI tropes used as metaphors in film.
Also, her character’s name was Rachel Stone. In Hebrew, the name Rachel means “ewe lamb.” In Jewish tradition, God is the Rock. The New Testament adds “the Rock” as a title to the Messiah. Also, the New Testmant calls the Messiah “the lamb of God.” Interesting little series of connections there that something tells me the screen writer Greg Rucka, a long-time writer of the Wonder Woman comics, wasn’t consciously putting these terms into the script with Abrahamic spiritual aspirations. He named the main character “the ewe lamb of the rock,” which would surely capture the attention of any Christian theologians looking in that direction.
Further, the beautiful superspy had a partner. Well, a few of them. Her main partner was some other superspy who ended up betraying her. But there was this other guy, no superspy, just an average guy, but of unquestioned loyalty and dedication, whose name was Bailey. He was kinda the getaway car driver type. Yeah, that grabbed my attention. I also noted that Bailey died in the film. Oops.
I mentioned in a previous post also that the movie had a peacock in a scene that had absolutely no place in the film, and I watched it just after seeing a bunch of peacocks on a bike ride earlier in the day.
Well, finally, there is a scene where she is breaking into a base camp. When she breaks in, she gets a smiley face.
That’s how fixed I was on smiley faces. This certainly makes the Gadot connection interesting. I don’t want to spend too much time on smiley faces, but the whole episode was just so surreal.
Not only did I see them everywhere at times, and in contexts related to things significant to me at times, but I was surprised at how I would NOT see a smiley face until just the right time. For instance, one day I decided to put on some Hebrew TV to do some studying that I had been falling behind on.
Check the little plant on the far left. Check out the pink and white pot. Okay, you probably can’t see it. Let me blow it up.
Yep, there was a smiley face in my living room for six months that I didn’t notice until I decided to put some Hebrew TV on, and then POOF! I see a smiley face. Like a message from God saying, “good boy. You’re studying.” I ask myself, how could a guy like me who sees smiley faces in his cheerios everywhere not see that smiley face until he has been living in that apartment for six months?
Just weird things like that. I could post a ton of bizarre smiley face photos with stories, but I think I’ve killed this topic. Ultimately I’m saying that this symbol has come to mean something to me, even though I’m not necessarily seeing these things all the time or under the same bizarre circumstances that I was earlier in the year. The last one that struck me as unusual was actually the on the last night of the horrific bus trip I took across the country. Finally resting at my daughter’s place, I saw my last smiley face.
Now, to talk about what this symbol means, for me anyway, I am going to get into some theology.
I’m actually going to have to start with a verse from the New Testament.
so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. – Ephesians 3:10
Okay, I have shown this verse to innumerable Christians, pastors and priests even, and nobody has ever known what to do with it. That has always been a surprise for me.
In order to give my understanding of it, I’ll have to explain a lot of the vocabulary. So this word “church” doesn’t actually refer to a local church building on the corner, or a specific Christian denomination. Rather it signifies “the community of the people of God.” Kind of like an “Israel for gentiles” I guess you could say. Or Jews and gentiles together, depending on how you think of it.
From there, we have the words “rulers” and “authorities.” These words are translated as “principalities” and “powers” in some old translations, and this terminology has made its way into English language Christian demonology and angelology. I’m not going to bother to look up specifics, but let me see how many of the “nine choirs of angels” that I can remember: seraphim, cherubim, archangels, principalities, powers, angels. Okay, I got six. There are three more out there in the literature. So basically, these words got turned into a kind of “rank” for angels. Originally, though, they simply signified various spiritual beings from beyond our world.
I gave this verse from the New Testament because it was my first experience with this idea, as well as my penchant for referencing the New Testament’s broad distribution of a lot of Jewish concepts, but, of course, it can be found throughout the Rabbinic Jewish literature as well.
The ministering angels said to the Holy One, Blessed be He, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him?” God replied, “you will see that their deeds will teach you something you do not know. – Midrash Tanhuma, Pekudei 3
Above God tells the angels they can learn a lot from humanity. I actually have a number of references to this in the Midrash. I’ll just give one more for accent.
God said to Moses, “do you see these ministering angels? They have no inclination to sin, nor the ability to repent. But humanity, though it sins, has the ability to repent, and through their repentance, my greatness is made known.” – Midrash Devarim Rabbah 3:13
Rather than provide numerous quotes, however, I want to expand to the point that this idea is not merely New Testament and Rabbinic Jewish, but it is actually very broadly present in religion.
He taught Adam the names of all things, then He presented them to the angels and said, “Tell Me the names of these, if what you say is true?” They replied, “Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are truly the All-Knowing, All-Wise.” – Quran 2:31-32
Just to make it clear here, the angels are calling ADAM all-knowing here in the Quran of Islam. Not God. So the idea is not only Jewish or Judeo-Christian, but Abrahamic. However, the idea extends beyond the Abrahamic religions. Here is a bit from Buddhism, a polytheistic religion:
The gods said [to the Buddha], “we dwell in bliss, but it is you, born as a man, who reveals the supreme truth of dharma. We are humbled and seek your Wisdom. – The Sutra of Golden Light, Chapter 3
I could go on. I’ll only say that after stumbling on this idea, and discovering its breadth, I am surprised that people don’t seem to know about it. There only a few reasons that theists tend to come up with concerning the meaning of life. Life is a choice. Life is a test. Life is a purification. Life is a lesson. This last one, about life being a lesson, is expanded here to mean that life is even a lesson to the angels. This is a pretty powerful defeat of the Problem of Evil. Look up “the Problem of Evil” if you aren’t familiar with it. In order to beat it, evil must be necessary but finite, and there must be more to existence than our mortal life on this earth. That our world of suffering and evil is a lesson for angels ties both of those points together well.
On a final note, the Aramaic portions of the book of Daniel call angels “watchers.”
In the vision of my mind in bed, I looked and saw a holy Watcher coming down from heaven. – Daniel 4:10
This sentence is decreed by the Watchers; This verdict is commanded by the Holy Ones So that all creatures may know That the Most High is sovereign over the realm of man, And He gives it to whom He wishes And He may set over it even the lowest of men.’ – Daniel 4:14
Most translations actually understand the word to be more of a sense of protector or someone who watches over something, basically like watchmen or officers of the watch rather than someone who is actually watching something to learn about it. However, it is true that angels do come down and give information and guard us from evil, so they are watchmen in that sense, but along with the sum total of the various scriptures above from all other religions, I think it is safe to say that they also indeed do watch and learn.
In effect, these scriptures are saying that the angels learn God’s wisdom by looking at what is going on with God’s people down here. So, in other words, they watch us. See, in the beginning, before our world was made, the angels didn’t even know what evil was. Then Satan came along, and something called “conflict” made its entrance into history. There were vigorous debates among the principalities and powers of the heavens about what the heck was even going on and what it meant about the nature of reality and what the best way to describe reality should be.
Ultimately, Satan and his angels were expelled, but from the outer darkness they continued to level complaints, claiming that they were mistreated, and that their understanding of reality was actually correct, and that if other things had happened, all would see their perspective. Those angels who didn’t fall were left with doubts. Was it justice to cast those demons out of heaven? We don’t know the details of what all went on, but there was some unfinished business.
It was then that the king of the angels created our world and gave Satan an opportunity to affect things just a bit, and the guy ruined the world, so for the last several thousand years we have been suffering from lies, death, and hatred. And for the last several thousand years, the angels have been learning good and well what evil is, who Satan is, and what the fruits of his philosophies are.
So, returning to the Zack Snyder movie and Alan Moore graphic novel, the term “the Watchmen” has long been connected with this term for angels. However, in the Watchmen mythology, the Watchmen are superheroes. Only one of them has any superpowers, however. They are all normal humans with the one exception of Dr. Manhattan. So for me (and theologians) the watchmen are angels, but in the comic and movie, the Watchmen are humans. This brings me to the next point. Human exaltation. I’ll start with the New Testament again and do some branching out.
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! – The First Letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians 6:2-3
So the Greek word translated as “saint” above has exactly the same meaning as the Hebrew word “tzadiq” in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature. It basically means “righteous person.” However, “righteous person” doesn’t mean what most people think it means.
Christians, Jews, and Muslims have the idea of saints and tzadiqim as sinless people, perfect people, holy people with superpowers from God, etc. But really what it means is that a person has met their obligations. In religion, particularly the exclusive religions such as Christianity and Islam, there is notion that just being a Christian doesn’t do it. You have to be real about it. Walk the walk and talk the talk, and take whatever licks a spiritual life is going to throw at you. In Christianity and Islam there are the fake believers, who are actually the majority of members of these religions according to many, for whom religion is merely a social convention, and according to many denominations of those two religions, are going to hell!
Judaism is not an exclusionary religion in terms of ideas about whether someone is a valid servant of God or whether they will go to heaven or hell or something else, but there is a tremendous amount of attention to whether someone’s practice is actually authentic, proper, and faithful to the true religion.
So in all these religions, there are two concepts of this saint or tzadiq idea. The one is that they are super disciples with superpowers. The other is that it just refers to someone genuine, sincere, and committed to faith and practice. The real deal. They can still be quite fallible, weak, and lacking. However, even with this understanding of saints or tzadiqim as being more or less normal people, only genuine and committed, they are given quite a bit of honor and exaltation.
In many Jewish translations, tzadiq is directly translated as “the Righteous” or “righteous person.” The text below is actually translating the word “tzadiq.”
Rav Yehuda said that Rav said, “The righteous shall sit with their crowns their heads and enjoy the splendor of the Divine Presence, as it is stated: ‘and your eyes shall see your teacher.’ Furthermore, the righteous shall judge the world, as it is stated: ‘And the saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.’” – Sanhedrin 92a
I’d say that the above paragraph is pretty much consistent with the Apostle’s statements above about the saints judging the earth. Here is another statement about the righteous:
Rabbi Yehoshuah Ben Levi said, “the days of the Messiah will be for the righteous alone…and they will judge the nations in justice.” – Sanhedrin 98b
Now the above is interesting. Remember, in the study of the end of things, called eschatology, there are three places or states to consider. Heaven, or Gan Eden, where people go when they die, the Messianic Kingdom, which will be a kingdom on earth at the end of history, and the Coming World, or the new reality that will exist after the end of human history and the end of the Messianic Kingdom.
Christians have an understanding that Jesus will come back with angels and saints (tzadiqim) and rule the earth. Nobody else. Then, at the end of the Messianic kingdom, the saints will judge everybody else as to whether they will come into the Coming World with them. This doesn’t say anything about what happens to someone immediately upon death, who goes to heaven or hell or anywhere else when they die or if people just stop when they die to be resurrected later, or not. It only talks about the Messianic Kingdom. I thought the above from the Talmud fit rather well with that interpretation.
So we have this idea of these tzadiqim teaching the angels via our lives down here and even reaching such a state that they are counted as equals to angels, or even above them in certain respects. Humans ultimately becoming the rulers of angels. This idea is played out in a more subtle way in a number of the patterns of Torah. The main one that I have observed is the phenomenon of the younger child who surpasses and often rules his older siblings.
Ishmael was the original heir, but later comes Isaac, who becomes the heir. Jacob followed Esau out of the womb, but ultimately became the heir. Joseph was the eleventh son, and was actually oppressed by his older brothers, but he becomes the vizier of Egypt and his brothers’ master. Moving to the Prophets, David was the seventh son shepherd boy who became the ruler of all. It’s generally the meek, the weak, and the one who loves God and/or his parents who becomes the top dog. And it’s always the younger. In a culture that praised the firstborn son as heir, this is quite unusual.
From this we may derive the idea that humanity is ultimately God’s heir, but the angels are the older son now, yet at the end of things, humans will be exalted above the angels just as Isaac above Ishmael, Jacob above Esau, etc.
So, if life, for both humans and angels, is a lesson, and the humans are ultimately praised above angels, we have to think about why this would be the case. Well, the goal of a ruler is to know right from wrong and lead the people in the right direction. Now, when a tzadiq arrives to heaven and meets an angel face to face, he could ask that angel, “why should I obey you?” The angel could then say, “well, I have been watching all this garbage for thousands of years, so I know the deal pretty well.” But the human could say in response, “I WAS the garbage.” I think after that retort the angel could only render salute and say, “standing by awaiting orders, sir.”
Now, if this logic holds, that tzadiq could say the same thing to the king of the angels, to the guy who, as God’s chief representative and example, created the angels, our world, and humanity. Why should they follow him if they know more about reality than him? This brings me to another point.
The New Testament, and possibly some of the Chabadniks who revere the Lubavitcher Rebbe as Messiah, place the Messiah above the angels as their ruler, as this angelic king and ultimate example of divinity that we have been describing in various posts. This is actually consistent with the above as well as statements from Maimonides about the requirements of the Messiah.
The preeminent Rabbi Maimonides wrote a section of the Mishnah Torah called “the Book of Kings” that forms most of Judaism’s opinions about what the requirements of the Messiah are. The primary one is that the Messiah must be like the fathers. That is, human. Most assume that Maimonides derived this requirement from the idea that a non-human Messiah would somehow conflict with monotheism. I can’t say what was actually in Maimonides’ head or what he was thinking. However, in light of the logic above, the the Messiah must be human because humanity is the ultimate heir of and ruler of creation, above angels, and anyone who would rule humanity must have this unique experience that we are acquiring.
The sum of the above, the exaltation of humanity to a brotherhood with angels, even above them, brings me back to this symbol of the smiley face. For me, the smiley face symbol represents the angels, beings of pure joy.
But their brother, and even their master, is the tzadiq. The being of pure joy who WAS the garbage, and who lived the suffering.
So these Tzadiqim are humans who are genuine lovers and servants of God, and they are going to be exalted up to the level of the angels or even above them. A number of them are going to have unusual experiences, often involving unusual forms of suffering, either for themselves or those around them.
So what about everybody else? Most Christian churches would tell you everybody else goes to hell. But there are numerous indications that this could be an oversimplification. To boot, I haven’t ever really talked about what hell is. But we will leave that subject.
About this matter, however, I want to give an opinion that is not supported by any dogma of any religion I have studied and is not declared explicitly by any scripture. I am not being dogmatic about it, certainly not as some kind of prophet. It’s just what I have come up with and is my personal belief.
Many religions draw a comparison between death and sleep. Well, when we sleep, some people have good dreams some of the time, and some people have bad dreams some of the time, but most of the time most people just aren’t there. I think that some people go to Gan Eden or heaven when they die, some people go to hell or Gehenna when they die, but most people just stop. Most people don’t think about any of this, and all anybody is really ever guaranteed is that they were born, and that they were alive, and that they will die.
Now, let me bring this back to Zack Snyder for my next example. I want to talk about the idea of certain people not only being resurrected by the angels and tzadiqim, but perhaps being changed by them. I’m not going to talk about the Watchmen mythos or his movie, but the Restore the Snyderverse movement. I personally got vested in the whole Snyderverse fandom with the death of Autumn Snyder. I want to talk about that. I hope I don’t offend anyone by referencing a departed loved one, but I just want to say something on my heart.
I have been of the opinion that the whole DC implosion around those movies was so bizarre and unusual that there had to be something afoot in the spiritual realm. I got the feeling that the forces of evil out there, whatever they may be, human or otherwise, demonic, and/or merely patterns activity, could not let it stand, and wrecked all those actors and filmmakers. A crucial part of that was that Zack’s daughter, a loner he says, took her own life. Oh, I have seen what the forces of darkness can do to the mind, folks. Oh, I have seen it.
My rage at this victory of darkness is such that I am just not going to stand for it. Now I have never met Autumn Snyder. She could have been anything from a pure-hearted do gooder to a dastardly villain. I don’t know. She could have been a Christian or a member of some other religion or not at all. I never met her. But I will. Hold that thought for a second.
Now concerning myself, I’d say that on a scale of one to ten, my suffering for God has after these last years has reached a seven. I’d also say that my wisdom might be something like a six. I’d give myself about a four concerning how good of a person I actually am, though part of my suffering is a bit of pain in my heart that I carry that I am not better than I actually am, and I actually do devote a certain amount of attention to bettering myself and looking after others.
The above said, wherever she may be now, whoever she may have been on earth, Autumn Snyder is coming with me to infinite paradise. If it turns out that she needs a lot of work, I’ll just changed her in accordance with the perfect wisdom and power that I will have on Judgment Day.
What this means, however, is that Autumn is going to be okay, but because of circumstances beyond my current experience, there may be some degree of her being my Autumn Snyder, as I want her to be. Or the Autumn that God makes her, either through my agency of some other method. There is this idea of freedom and personal sense of agency to consider.
The angels never fell. They freely chose perfection, and that they have always been. I was born imperfect, but I have freely chosen the good, and when I leave this place, my garbage will be cleared away. Now it may be that Autumn was ten times the saint that I am, and it will be her up there who cleans me up, and I’ll be her Jonathan. I’ve voluntarily committed to having the powers above clean up whatever is lacking. But a person who just stopped when they died. They didn’t make any choice, so if they end up being around it will be because someone else made it so. And if someone made it so, they’ll end up being to that someone’s liking.
With these things I want to kind of a shift from the idea that the war between divine and infernal powers is simply a matter of heaven or hell. It’s more about the idea of “my way vs. your way” or “the way of the powers divine vs. the way of the powers infernal,” and that our level of active conscious involvement in that contributes to to this is commensurate with our personal autonomy and freedom.
The powers divine will win. The powers infernal will ultimately be gone. The powers divine will bring whoever they want into their club.
Don’t you think, out of all those tzadiqim and angels out there, one of them might say, “you know, I want everybody up here.” I remember Zack was once posed the question of whether he was liberal or conservative, and he said that he considered himself liberal because he wanted everyone to be included. I identified strongly with that. The United States Army does not leave anyone on the field. The United States Army does not leave the injured on the field. The United States Army does not leave the dead on the field.
If Zack wants Adolph Hitler up in heaven, he can become a tzadiq and resurrect Hitler and make Hitler into the nice guy he wants him to be. He’ll be Zack’s Hitler. A cool dude, I’m sure.
I dearly hope not to have transgressed by referencing Autumn Snyder. These movies have spiritual significance for me, and so to the events and people surrounding them. They’ve done things for God, many without knowing it. They may not have the same confidence in God that I do, and so reading scriptures out there that use powerful and ultimate language of “come to God” or “come to Jesus” or “come to this path” or things like that contrasted with alternatives such as “go to hell” or “be reincarnated as a slug” or similar things that may have turned them off to all this God and religion stuff.
For example, there is the situation of a guy like, say, Ted, who reads an uplifting phrase such as “all who come to Jesus go to paradise” and thinks, “But my beloved cousin Eddie was a Wiccan…” My understanding that those who consciously serve divinity will ultimately have their dreams come true. The rest will live in their dreams.
Autumn’s relationship with all things really is not for me to say. She could be a guardian angel on someone’s shoulder right now to due to forces, individuals, and circumstances that I am unaware of. I’ll find out what’s up with her as soon as I can. But if she hasn’t ascended to the highest heights or no one else has brought her there, well, I am a knight of the Lion of David. I’ll rectify that.
Now for a bit of a darker tone.
Shamed and chagrined shall be all who contend with you; They who strive with you shall become as naught and shall perish. – Isaiah 41:11
I don’t want to say that every servant of God will live the life that I have. I chose the to pattern my life after the desert prophets. I’ve come to understand that I had no freaking clue what I was getting into. Looking back on my post-Army life, well, I have been wandering the globe as a dog talking to demons and all the rest. I’ve even battled Jezebels and Delilahs. (I’ve lost every one!) I did not contrive this. It just happened.
I will say that I have encountered a fair bit of suffering on this path. I credit it on the one hand to my commitments to living a life associated with God earning me some enemies. I don’t have any actual human enemies. A smattering of people who don’t like me. That’s it. But patterns of activity around me, runs of bad luck, sure, disembodied spirits opposed to God, and well, I suppose there is the possibility of an Illuminati cabal that has me in its sights, if I am going to get paranoid. But, you know, toxic elements of my personality to war against, etc. None of this is without purpose.
See, I refine you, but not as silver; I test you in the furnace of affliction. – Isaiah 48:10
During this time I’ve been tempted with an idyllic life on earth that I could easily have claimed in Los Angeles, Mexico, Europe, and other places if I were willing to turn a blind eye to the suffering of others around the world. I’ve never been able to content myself with just being personally content. Paradise is the standard. Anything else is misery. Paradise for all. Not just for me.
The activity from my enemies and my awareness of suffering has hardened me. This attitude, combined with my pairing of spirituality with analytic psychology, has given me a particular identification with one particular Watchman from the mythos.
You’ll have to read the comic or see the movie to learn about Rorschach. I’ll tell you the guy is a lone wolf. A raw dog. And he doesn’t stop. He has an enemy. A big one. And fighting that enemy has cost him a lot. Everyone. Everything. So that his war is all that he has. There is nothing else. And losing is not an option.
My enemy is in fact these demons who plague humanity. Those humans who consciously, knowingly serve them, to the point that they actively oppose me and those on paths like mine in service to God and good, well, I am quite capable of withholding mercy and expressing wrath. Don’t be one of their servants. Don’t be one of their vessels.
I am being prepared to rule an endless wet dream by living a life that is in many ways a nightmare. That involves losing a lot of battles. However, I saw something on the streets of Los Angeles that has given me comfort ever since the day it appeared before my downcast eyes.
Now I am happy to believe that, ultimately, whether through their own service or through the mercy of God and his agents the angels and tzadiqim, most of humanity will somehow, eventually, be alright, but there will be those who do indeed pay for their animosity towards justice, God, and good in ways best described by Dante. I will be pleased to make that happen as my role in things allows.
Until that Day of Judgment, well, I’m still just some dude on a bicycle here on earth. Above I have compared this “here on earth” to a nightmare. It can also be compared to a prison. This brings me to one of the most famed scenes in Zack’s movie. To give it a little depth I’ll say that there are three primary fluids in the Torah: water, blood, and oil. Oil represents spirit. In this scene you get to see Rorschach without his mask played by Jackie Earl Haley. Keep an eye out for the oil.
So with this long and rambling post centered around the Watchmen, I’ve talked about myself with the smiley faces, taken a detour into several issues of theology, and returned to my own musings concerning my Rorschach rage. I do want to discuss one last point that actually relates to details of the plot of the Zack Snyder movie.
The Watchmen comic book came out in 1986. In it, the villain’s plot is to stage an alien invasion to create one world government. The idea of the world united under a single government with an evil leader opposing God and Israel has been a staple of certain fundamentalist Christians since about that time, and similar ideas can be found with the idea of the Masih Addajal (antichrist) in Islam and some interpretations of certain medieval Jewish personalities with the Moshiach Sheqer (antichrist).
Around 1991 or so I learned of the MJ12 conspiracy. It’s a conspiracy claiming that a shadow cabal in the US government actually had contact with alien beings and was getting technology from them and a variety of other various legends. With that conspiracy appeared those who thought the whole MJ12 thing was a sham designed to contribute to the world being deceived by a fake alien invasion. That is, the idea that there are no aliens, but a conspiracy about secret societies trafficking with aliens was a false flag to allow the world to be deceived by a false threat of a faked alien invasion.
Over the years I’ve noted that the concepts of gods, angels, prophets, wizards, and superheroes have all run together and occupy much of the same place in humanity’s social consciousness. Further, I’ve noticed that with the internet, and now with AI, the ability to produce, fake, and sift through information has gotten so intense that under the right circumstances, nearly anything can be faked. There was a movie called Wag the Dog that gave a fairly cute picture of an entirely faked war. Days like that seem like they could be on the horizon.
I have thought that claims about the threat of alien invasion could very easily be used to condition humanity to fight against an invading army of angels and tzadiqim who would actually be “invading” in order to put an end to suffering. So I am finding that symbols from the mythos, smiley faces and smiley faces with blood on them, fit nicely into advanced theology about angels and humans in league with them. I’m finding that characters from the mythos, Rorschach and his fellow superheroes, correspond well to spiritual warriors who are aware of things that the world at large isn’t paying attention to and fighting battles that the general public is not aware of against a foe that bears uncanny resemblance to an antichrist, and his plan is an echo of things touted by certain religious groups about what an antichrist might be up to.
Zack, however, changed that ending. In the movie, there was indeed a superbeing among those heroes who otherwise wore costumes but had no supernatural powers. Dr. Manhattan.
In his movie, Zack made the plan of the antichrist-style enemy to unite humanity by villainizing that superbeing.
A faked alien invasion is in fact a great way to get the world to unite in delusion to attack Israel and to attack those in league with angels and to attack those who serve God. With today’s technology, it could happen. But, Satan can always change his mind. He can use some other circumstance or detail to enact some other plan. But one thing is for sure, he is going to have to attack any superbeing who shows up. That’s what you really have to keep your eye on.
Do you want to know wha’s going on? Do you want to know if Zack Snyder or Alan Moore got the ending right? If so, look around you, and be one of those who watches the Watchmen. They are watching you. Please consider coming on board and returning the favor.
As they were crossing, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Elisha answered, “Let adouble portion of your spirit pass on to me.” “You have asked a difficult thing,” he said. “If you see me as I am being taken from you, this will be granted to you; if not, it will not.” – 2 Kings 2:9-10