\u201cLet us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.\u201d
\nBob Dylan, \u201cAll Along the Watchtower\u201d<\/p>\n
The hour of truth! Jehovah\u2019s witnesses are back again \u2026 just like way back when \u2026 those mythic psychics, those modern media pundits \u2026 hearing those thunderbolts, seeing those desert storms, sensing that subterranean rumbling, that trembling of the wall, fearing that all those stones will be tumbling and that a hard rain is gonna fall![1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n Albrecht D\u00fcrer, \u201cThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are right at the edge of the abyss\u201d You better watch those huddled masses They are his wild-eyed Trojan Horse, \u201cWhen you are a star \u2026. you can do anything.\u201d Toward Ground Zero<\/p>\n How they are racing toward the bottom Flashbacks and Final Fact Checks<\/p>\n In memoriam of so much more to come: Hiroshima, the scorched earth of Vietnam! The world is still hanging in the balance, Allah\u2019s Warriors and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses: Always remember that \u201cTriumph of the Will\u201d And never ever forget that foreboding fable, *<\/p>\n \u201cCome senators, congressmen, please head the call, Don\u2019t wait until it\u2019s too late to stop all those waterfalls inside and outside those gilded halls. Remember the fire and brimstone, remember the deluge! It is the underworld\u2019s ultimate subterfuge!! Some say, all this is wrought by the Wrath of God. Well, forget all your firewalls and water gates, it is our own anger and hatred that will seal our fate. Our wars are man-made wars \u2026 so stop gazing at all those late night stars \u2026![\"D\u00fcrer\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/files\/2016\/12\/D\u00fcrer.png\")
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\nJerry Falwell, Jr.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n
\nand their idol in his mighty tower,
\nrising triumphant over Manhattan,
\noh how they long to share his power.<\/p>\n
\ntheir vote is the writing on the wall,
\noh how they lust for his future force,
\nfeeding his hubris before the fall.<\/p>\n
\nDonald Trump, \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d<\/p>\n![\"D\u00fcrrenmatt\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/files\/2016\/12\/D\u00fcrrenmatt.jpg\")
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\nFriedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt, \u201cApokalypse IV\u201d<\/p>\n
\nback to the future of ancient Babylon
\nlike the Blond Beast in those prophecies,
\ncharging the Shining City of Armageddon.<\/p>\n![\"D\u00fcrrenmatt](\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/glossen\/files\/2016\/12\/D\u00fcrrenmatt-2-725x1024.jpg\")
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\nFriedrich D\u00fcrrenmatt, \u201cTurmbau V: Nach dem Sturz\u201d<\/p>\n
\nRemember the blitzkrieg over London!
\nRemember the firebombing of Dresden!<\/p>\n
\nThe showering inferno of the Twin Towers!
\nSo go see Manhattan – before it\u2019s all gone!!<\/p>\n
\nbut those global scales are quivering,
\nkeeping us all in worldwide suspense.
\nBetween Midwest and the Middle East<\/p>\n
\nBehold that restless, roaming Blond Beast!<\/p>\n
\nfrom the Nuremberg Laws to the Order to Kill!<\/p>\n
\nthat sky-scraping tower of biblical Babel.<\/p>\n
\ndon\u2019t stand in the doorway, don\u2019t\u2019 block up the hall \u2026\u201d
\nBob Dylan, \u201cThe Times, They Are A-Changin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJust read the daily papers! Earlier this year, they reported, that Kim Jong Un, the strongman from North Korea, has lately been saber rattling his nuclear missiles, claiming that he now has the ballistic capacity of actually reaching New York City. And when you are mad and mighty, such things are easily said and done \u2026 and all that the Lose Gun of Manhattan would have to do is to insult the Rocket Rattler from Pyongyang \u2026 and then \u2026 when that hard rain, that heavy water is going to fall \u2026 it will be over \u2026 once and for all.<\/p>\n