https://thehustle.co/originals/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall
The word “whore” may have different definitions to some, but I want to use it as a woman who markets herself for the sole purpose of robbing men of their life for her own gain--whatever her “gain” is: monetary, lust, or otherwise. She is the reverse-consumer and profiteer at the same time, a vampiress, a luxurious drunk, functioning alcoholic. Her appeal is a marketing scheme based on not just years of study, but an exquisite composition of research and development where she is both scientist and evidence, psychologist and client--in an endless cycle and sinister feedback loop of trial and error, hypothesis and investigation, feeding and consuming.
All the while tricking you into believing you are the main character. But it isn’t about you. You have entered her Nirvana constructed for you to “remain inside” her. Once her legs are wrapped around you, she is sure to suck your life away. And as titillating as this may sound, in the end, you are either addicted to endlessly return for more, or drained dry of all your resources--or go into deep debt. And the sad thing is, you will feel pretty good about yourself or at least the amazing experience you had with her. Your manly seed sown upon a barren field—a mirage with no real hope, faith, love, peace, or joy to come. That’s how a whore functions. That is who she is. And she is everywhere, 24/7.
But while she seems omnipresent and even omniscient, she is not omnipotent. The link to the article above gives the whore of Revelation 17 and 18 a whole different understanding because of its perspective on casinos and how they market. But God has called him people OUT of her.
Revelation 17-18,
not verse by verse, but in a more categorized way.
She is = the Great Prostitute/Harlot = one who
tricks others to buy into her “luxuries”
Her name written on
her forehead =
a mystery: babylon
the great - the mother of prostitutes - and of the abominations of the earth.
She sits by
“many
waters” = peoples,
multitudes, nations, and languages = the
inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of
life from the creation of the world and will be ASTONISHED when they
see the beast
upon which she rides, and are “intoxicated” with the “wine” of her “adulteries”
She desires the kings of
the earth to
commit adultery (share in her “luxuries”) with
her
She uses her “magic spell” to lead astray all the
nations [KEY CONCEPT].
She sits on a
scarlet beast
= Babylon/Rome/Indianapolis
Markets herself = dresses in purple
and scarlet,
glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls
She holds power = a golden
cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her
adulteries.
She overdrinks = drunk with
the blood of God’s holy people who bore
testimony to Jesus.
Hard
to understand = When John
saw her, he was GREATLY
ASTONISHED/Marveled.
INSIDE OF HER is the blood of
prophets and of God’s holy people slaughtered on the earth.
The
mystery = the
beast she rides
A historical place with historical kings/leaders = going to destruction = seven hills = Rome
The beast and the ten kings hate the
prostitute,
will bring her to ruin = leave her
naked,
eat her flesh, burn
her with fire
The woman is the
great city that rules over the kings of the earth = historical and
futuristic “Babylon”
Ten kings with one purpose = give their power and authority to the beast and wage
war against the Lamb
The Lamb will triumph over them with his called,
chosen and faithful followers.
God has put it into their hearts to
accomplish His purpose = until God’s
words are fulfilled.
I have always seen the woman as the popular culture of the day both being loved and hated by the government it resides in. The people are somewhat victims, captives, caught up in the relationship between the culture and the government. Everyone thinks they have control, but no one does. It is enough for the government to seek to organize the chaos, but in the end, neither the culture nor the governing body survives. BOTH use the natural fallen resources for its gain: power, control, luxury, attraction, marketing--using and being used—these tactics are at war with the process and purposes of the Lamb of God and His means = His people who have made it their habit with foreheads and hands to surrender too and give their lives for. They are the continuation of the Lamb’s sacrifice in reaching the tricked, the deceived, the victims and captives under the magic spell and intoxication of the culture.
The question the Whore is always asking is, “Will you surrender?”
The tactic of the casino is to keep the temporal distortion going for as long as possible—to make the people INSIDE forget about the real world. The evaporate any symbols of time, keep feeling like you are in an uninterrupted escape zone, and even block out the sunlight so you don’t know that it is day. Sounds are kept low so you can enter your fantasy world and keep the field of consciousness focus and not break.
“In the arena of chance, as though under the sway of a magnetic field, the passage of time freezes into repetition, space contracts, and the value that accrues to money is obliterated.”
The culture
seeks to break down value in the minds of the wise. There is only what
the culture, or she, says there is.
The longer you
stay the more money you spend.
You don’t think
– not about the future, just the moment you are in –that you’ve created.
Sure, all retailers
want you to buy what you’ve come in for—PLUS a few additional things.
That’s because your brain changes while shopping.
“…after 23
minutes supermarket shoppers began using the emotional part of their brain
rather than the cognitive part. That switch made it harder for people to
consider costs and made them more susceptible to marketing bargains.
After 40 minutes, their brains effectively shut down. They struggled to make any logical decisions.”
To be able to show you all available products, the retailers need to slow you down—so they create a shopping maze. Coupled with slow tempo music, you spend more time in the store. You might call this “mood maintenance,” to keep you in a “positive state” and “in the flow” so you just stay shopping. Our brains are being coded by stores!
This is my fear
for VR in the future. What will be meant and seen as entertainment will be
sugar for the marketers to capitalize on. And this means more fantasy and much
more lost time. VR will be the proverbial carrot leading sheep to the slaughter
unaware of where they are going.
Will you
surrender? --kk