Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsItiPfnzLI
["Lee Harvey Oswald's Phone Call Before Assassination" -- should read "after the assassination"]
Whenever you point the finger at someone, be sure to be right because if you aren't two things happen: the innocent (or else mostly innocent) are blamed and the guilty go free. Jim Marrs has some very good and interesting things to say, but he too often seems trigger happy at pointing the finger and a bit hasty at assuming conclusions. When people do the wrong thing it is not always because they intend wrong doing or a bad result, or that they themselves wish the crime or bad act to take place. Some people do wrong because others force them to; for example because of black mail. While Johnson, then and for instance, did or may have aided a cover up, it may be he did so because he was blackmailed, or because he thought it was better for the country not to pursue conspirators, and any number and more possible motives. And yet when you hear talks like this, not infrequently someone likes to jump to the conclusion simply that Johnson wanted to have Kennedy removed to start the Vietnam War and help Wall Street bankers and magnates. Perhaps. But are there not at least a dozen other possible motives? Why be so sure and quick to assume that one; including the assumption that Johnson acted with criminal mens rea at all? Another reason people do wrong, in addition to their own willful intent or else criminal coercion by the others (e.g., blackmail), is that they may be deceived and tricked into doing the wrong thing. If this is true, say and using the example of Johnson again, and that Johnson was tricked, what sense does it make to blame him for anything but being mistaken and or stupid? Be careful then folks in taking in as true all that you hear from people whom we have every good reason to believe mean well.
["Rolling Stones 2000 Light Years from Home Glastonbury 2013"]
i.e., "Get back...Get back..Get back to where you once belonged..."
"Down from th' Ecliptic, sped with hop'd success,
Throws his steep flight in many an Aerie wheele,
Nor staid, till on Niphates top he lights..."
[ch. 3]
...But what is loveable, and is not also loved by Him? And man has been proved to be loveable; consequently man is loved by God. For how shall he not be loved for whose sake the only-begotten Son is sent from the Father's bosom, the Word of faith, the faith which is superabundant; the Lord Himself distinctly confessing and saying, “For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me;” [John 16:27] and again, “And hast loved them as You have loved Me?” [John 17:23...]
...But the Word is keen-sighted, and scans the recesses of the heart. As, then, that is not light which enlightens not, nor motion that moves not, nor loving which loves not, so neither is that good which profits not, nor guides to salvation. Let us then aim at the fulfilment of the commandments by the works of the Lord; for the Word Himself also, having openly become flesh, [John 1:14] exhibited the same virtue, both practical and contemplative. Wherefore let us regard the Word as law, and His commands and counsels as the short and straight paths to immortality; for His precepts are full of persuasion, not of fear...
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), The Paedagogus, Book 1.
Introducing...
THE CONTINENTAL ARMY SERIES...Odds and Ends, for which see:
http://www.gunjones.com/CAS_odds-and-ends.pdf
~or~
https://www.scribd.com/document/338894482/THE-CONTINENTAL-ARMY-SERIES-Odds-and-Ends
More articles and entries will be added, and the .pdf updated to include the same, over time.
[ch. 2]
Now, O you, my children, our Instructor is like His Father God, whose son He is, sinless, blameless, and with a soul devoid of passion; God in the form of man, stainless, the minister of His Father's will, the Word who is God, who is in the Father, who is at the Father's right hand, and with the form of God is God. He is to us a spotless image; to Him we are to try with all our might to assimilate our souls. He is wholly free from human passions; wherefore also He alone is judge, because He alone is sinless. As far, however, as we can, let us try to sin as little as possible. For nothing is so urgent in the first place as deliverance from passions and disorders, and then the checking of our liability to fall into sins that have become habitual. It is best, therefore, not to sin at all in any way, which we assert to be the prerogative of God alone; next to keep clear of voluntary transgressions, which is characteristic of the wise man; thirdly, not to fall into many involuntary offenses, which is peculiar to those who have been excellently trained. Not to continue long in sins, let that be ranked last. But this also is salutary to those who are called back to repentance, to renew the contest...
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), The Paedagogus, Book 1.
A Person of Mystery
Lord indeed help the poor children and animals! Its hard enough living these days even for grown adults with money -- even moreover such with philosophical, religious and military training.
Why so much trouble? So much trouble making?
There are it seems four basic sorts of deceived and misled people: those who act badly in order they might be or seem great; those who act badly in order to be accepted; those who do bad in order, as they see it, to avoid being punished (i.e., for not acting badly); and last those who see themselves as the wrath of God -- all of whom strain to great length to make it appear as if they know what they are doing.
For some time now I have exerted myself to try and unmask who he is that leads all these aforesaid others on.
About a month ago or so I got to calling him the Ghoul, based on the innumerable atrocities and tragedies he and his followers have brought about. Yet what was most amusing was that goomer ghost (think of the latter as a sort of spirit person Sgt. Schultz) responded by, in effect, reacting and with some alarm "you should not call him that." I replied by saying, why not; for who better deserves the title? Yet how interesting that they would be offended by such a thing, and so you see this tells us a little something about him.
Of note also, in the country he comes from they don't mind their own business. And this is a regular trait of his. We might also with good reason infer he feels terribly sorry for himself, and as a result and for some strange cause feels the need to spend his time continually bothering people. (Why we might inquire should the one necessarily follow the other?)
At other times, I have come to see him as some sort of great failure. (Only afterward did it occur to me that "failure" is synonymous with "loser.") That is, since he could not do anything much worthwhile, he decided instead to take up a grandiose career of crime, and become someone great at that occupation; while at the same time using the same to shock others into his alleged ultra-importance. To better effect his purpose, it is part of his method to get others to be like him, and if and to the extent they do not, he holds a dire and violent grudge against them.
As well, he's figured out yet another way to bolster his status. Any one of us needs this or that thing, and here is undoubtedly someone somewhere who is ready and willing to provide it. He therefore makes it a point of seeing we cannot get it without his permission and will, and by various means obstructs people's communications.
I cannot help but think that happiness and peace, based in honest, rational, moral and charitable love, in turn grounded in religious faith, are something to believe in and to, as God allows, a large degree obtainable. But the simple logic of the matter is you can't have happiness and peace if the likes of him are empowered in your midst to work their wiles. The conclusion to be drawn then? Rid yourself of or incarcerate him and his regular followers. Not however as matter of vengeance, but rather in the same way the law is supposed to remove criminals.
[ch. 10]
...By sad experience, even a child knows how superstition destroys and piety saves. Let any of you look at those who minister before the idols, their hair matted, their persons disgraced with filthy and tattered clothes; who never come near a bath, and let their nails grow to an extraordinary length, like wild beasts; many of them castrated, who show the idol's temples to be in reality graves or prisons. These appear to me to bewail the gods, not to worship them, and their sufferings to be worthy of pity rather than piety. And seeing these things, do you still continue blind, and will you not look up to the Ruler of all, the Lord of the universe? And will you not escape from those dungeons, and flee to the mercy that comes down from heaven? For God, of His great love to man, comes to the help of man, as the mother-bird flies to one of her young that has fallen out of the nest; and if a serpent open its mouth to swallow the little bird, “the mother flutters round, uttering cries of grief over her dear progeny;” and God the Father seeks His creature, and heals his transgression, and pursues the serpent, and recovers the young one, and incites it to fly up to the nest...
And I would ask you, if it does not appear to you monstrous, that you men who are God's handiwork, who have received your souls from Him, and belong wholly to God, should be subject to another master, and, what is more, serve the tyrant instead of the rightful King — the evil one instead of the good? For, in the name of truth, what man in his senses turns his back on good, and attaches himself to evil? What, then, is he who flees from God to consort with demons? Who, that may become a son of God, prefers to be in bondage? Or who is he that pursues his way to Erebus, when it is in his power to be a citizen of heaven, and to cultivate Paradise, and walk about in heaven and partake of the tree of life and immortality, and, cleaving his way through the sky in the track of the luminous cloud, behold, like Elias, the rain of salvation? Some there are, who, like worms wallowing in marshes and mud in the streams of pleasure, feed on foolish and useless delights— swinish men. For swine, it is said, like mud better than pure water; and, according to Democritus, “doat upon dirt.”
~ Clement of Alexandria (c.150–c.215), Exhortation to the Heathen