The thing about interests and hobbies there is really nothing all that unique about people in the end. If you ask anyone about their interests and habits, it would typically be concluded into a couple common categories. For me interests as a boy, were very much in the imagination, and with comic books and superheroes.
Trying to navigate comics and super heroes wasn’t difficult for ne, I had a moral compass, for those who helped the oppressed and punished the wicked and evil. Not unlike the Crow, or even the Punisher. Even in movies we our vigilante’s like Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood.
For most of my life its been entangled in both the spiritual and carnal. For the better part of life growing up, it was admittedly normal and otherwise, suburban perfection. But sin, did a number on me and family. And it warped my mind concerning Christianity and everything fell apart.
I know in concern to batman and the mask of the phantasm, there exists in this universe maybe not the Christian God as we know and understand him. But when Bruce Wayne lost his parents to criminals, he did indeed start to feel a fire beneath him, that sprang him into action, to not commit evil, but to protect others from it.
Bob Kane himself is the creator of the bat man comic and universe. I was given a book when I was younger, it was called “bob kane and me”. I loved that book, for its illustrations and minimal text throughout. It was a traditional book, but it was more a visual and art display, I could flip the pages and see different people and faces, or see drawings and pictures from the batman universe.
You see a child the internet, information and technology were in their infancy stages, for me I was very drawn to comics, magazines and the like. I much preferred accompanying pictures or reference. This could have possibly inhibited my imagination, or encouraged it, I am not certain.
Any way in concern to Batman and Mask of the Phantasm, this was an old movie from the regular syndicated sitcom from DC comics. I was obsessed with the cartoon as a kid. Never much got into the comic books.
My neighbor up the street, he was a policeman in training himself. Me and him shared an interest in this. And we went and watched the movie. It was one of the few good memories, Ive managed to keep around in my brain.
I really cant hack it in concerns to best comic or superhero novelty. But for me, it was have to be between the Punisher and Batman. I did actually collect a majority of the Punisher comic books when I was younger. But that, and much like my interests and hobbies. All the physical media and the like, were all thrown out and gotten rid of.
Christian or not, you should never let people decide what you do with your property. I would get sucked into the moral and guilt, shaming of the people involved in Christianity. In the long run, it didn’t benefit much good at all. It only left me with more questions than answers, and a prominent guilt about objects and desires.
My 40 years of life thus far has taught me a lot about people, living and lifestyles. And the biggest thing that has remained evident throughout all of it?
Moderation, and discipline are the necessary resolve of any great evil. I am not in the business of hysteria, or fanaticism. I dont want religious agendas and formalities to dictate the freedom of living, in a “free” world.
I guess now comes the time where I find the conclusion between, myself, batman and Bob Kane. But our relationships are all distant, and not real. The one thing that is real, is the ability and knowing to gain from these comics, a ability to navigate good and evil. And good comes from God. Bad/evil that is a product of sin and the devil. Its good people get the distinction, and make it clear and evident. Because God works good into the details, of everyone’s lives. Whether you accept Christ or not, you have no choice in the matter.
The deliberate and determined sinner, will find for himself in the end, a terrible tragedy, and that is hell. On this earth, its painful and terrible and tragedy to live through. But the real hell is much worst than this place. I’ve seen visions, heard voices, I’ve communicated with what could be schizophrenia, hysteria, psychosis, and many other clinical and psychological terms. But I know for certain its all man’s gimmick and gag to fraud God, and benefit their taxation on medicine and helping the sick and dying. Bottom line its satanic, and demonic.
The language in this world is all wrong. We have too many different voices and not enough avenues for the right direction. All paths do lead to a destination, and that is hell. I am not all impressed by evil, contrary to whatever you have heard or seen about me. I hate death, dying, and the tragedies of life. It hurts and it destroys me. But this life has effectively sucked the life out of everything, and in place the have regurgitated their sin and hate for God in place of it.
Our consciousness does revolve around an order and balance, and its evidently clear that evil is in the favor of only one thing, and that is death. Because death hands a human life over to, the next destination. This life and world here is temporal and a training ground, for what is to come next.
The bible is instrumental in how we can navigate any of this. Its no question or rumor the book does, have a lot working against, particularly us, humans and the barrier of sin. I am convinced there is a serious barrier between myself and my bible, and even my ability to pray. I find it odd, that I can convince myself to sit down to play a video game, or to watch television,, but when it comes down to reading the bible specifically or prayer alone, that there is always something that inhibits it.
And its increasingly odd that when I finally commit to it and take reformation in it, that things diametrically turn for the better.
I am sorry I couldn’t hold it together and not just keep this piece focused around batman. But I am sorry when I write now, it is no longer about entertainment anymore, its about God and Christianity. My language and lifestyle is changing, and its encouraged and made different from God alone.
