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(All right, all right. But only because I am bored and idle at the moment.)
Reality is what some one adjudges reality to be. Who then do you or someone else say this someone is?
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The mass media of recent years and for a long time now, in its various forms and largely, is far worse in its harm than covid (Matt. 10:28). But few or no one will tell you this.
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The mass media tells people what it means to be Black, what being black ought to be and yet we know in point of fact Blacks can do infinitely better than hip-hop and boom-box rap. So who then really is keeping blacks down, and is INSISTING Black lives DON'T matter?
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He, she, they or it is or may be a thousand things or more than they seem to be, yet we only see one, two or at most three of these things, while insisting that is all there is.
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The worst teaching I ever heard of or knew? Demonism. They are always torturing people. They are always bothering people.
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His idea of living his life is being jealous, feeling sorry for himself, and getting revenge for the same; following which and hopefully you will become as angry and unhappy as he is.
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He desires peace, wants what is good, yes. Yet on terms far too generous and submissive to the devil.
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Who did Christ say he first came to save? Sinners and the tribe of Israel.
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It is the devil and his assistants, not life, that beats a person up (in the course of that life.) Yet who complains of this? Indeed, just the other day he told us that torture and being and able to torture others means so much to him.
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Mobs and masses, particularly when manipulated (as they often or invariably are), are most of the time very poor judges of excellence. Not surprisingly then, it is those lacking excellence who insist that we rely on the former as ultimate authority.
[Posted on Face Book] Hearing it again, this musically is actually quite the great song - one of several in that show. From 1962 (three years BEFORE "Rudolph" and its many song hits.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7qOFB4IXA8
[""All Alone in the World" from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol"]
[ch. 34]
...For these different tribes erected temples and statues to those individuals above enumerated, whereas we have refrained from offering to the Divinity honour by any such means (seeing they are adapted rather to demons, which are somehow fixed in a certain place which they prefer to any other, or which take up their dwelling, as it were, after being removed (from one place to another) by certain rites and incantations), and are lost in reverential wonder at Jesus, who has recalled our minds from all sensible things, as being not only corruptible, but destined to corruption, and elevated them to honour the God who is over all with prayers and a righteous life, which we offer to Him as being intermediate between the nature of the uncreated and that of all created things, and who bestows upon us the benefits which come from the Father, and who as High Priest conveys our prayers to the supreme God.
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book III
[ch. 19]
He [Celsus] says, indeed, that “we ridicule the Egyptians, although they present many by no means contemptible mysteries for our consideration, when they teach us that such rites are acts of worship offered to eternal ideas, and not, as the multitude think, to ephemeral animals; and that we are silly, because we introduce nothing nobler than the goats and dogs of the Egyptian worship in our narratives about Jesus.” Now to this we reply, “Good sir, (suppose that) you are right in eulogizing the fact that the Egyptians present to view many by no means contemptible mysteries, and obscure explanations about the animals (worshipped) among them, you nevertheless do not act consistently in accusing us as if you believed that we had nothing to state which was worthy of consideration, but that all our doctrines were contemptible and of no account, seeing we unfold the narratives concerning Jesus according to the 'wisdom of the word' to those who are 'perfect' in Christianity. Regarding whom, as being competent to understand the wisdom that is in Christianity, Paul says: 'We speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, who come to nought, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory; which none of the princes of this world knew.'”
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book III
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[ch. 13]
...so I would say that the wisest Christian was he who had carefully studied the heresies both of Judaism and Christianity. Whereas he who finds fault with Christianity because of its heresies would find fault also with the teaching of Socrates, from whose school have issued many others of discordant views. Nay, the opinions of Plato might be chargeable with error, on account of Aristotle's having separated from his school, and founded a new one—on which subject we have remarked in the preceding book. But it appears to me that Celsus has become acquainted with certain heresies which do not possess even the name of Jesus in common with us. Perhaps he had heard of the sects called Ophites and Cainites, or some others of a similar nature, which had departed in all points from the teaching of Jesus. And yet surely this furnishes no ground for a charge against the Christian doctrine.
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book III
[ch. 79]
The conclusion of all these arguments regarding Jesus is thus stated by the Jew: “He was therefore a man, and of such a nature, as the truth itself proves, and reason demonstrates him to be.” I do not know, however, whether a man who had the courage to spread throughout the entire world his doctrine of religious worship and teaching, could accomplish what he wished without the divine assistance, and could rise superior to all who withstood the progress of his doctrine— kings and rulers, and the Roman senate, and governors in all places, and the common people. And how could the nature of a man possessed of no inherent excellence convert so vast a multitude?...
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book II
["UPA - U.P.A. - Mr. Magoo - End Clips"]
$10 in cash or $20 in movie tickets to see "The Joker." Which do you choose?
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Can it be that Mary Poppins is, in reality, Duessa? If so then the Dick Van Dyke character, dancing and singing and all, is merely making a fool of himself.
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What is most truly evil is that which offends their pride.
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The world is a stage, yes we all understand that. But what is this business about him being in charge of casting?
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The voice of God, HE SAYS. But I say, and for all the magical and amazing powers, it is really only ventriloquism. But to each his own.
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What should you read to amuse yourself during the upcoming cold of Winter? The colloquies of Erasmus.
[ch. 78]
The Jew continues: “Did Jesus come into the world for this purpose, that we should not believe him?” To which we immediately answer, that He did not come with the object of producing incredulity among the Jews; but knowing beforehand that such would be the result, He foretold it, and made use of their unbelief for the calling of the Gentiles. For through their sin salvation came to the Gentiles, respecting whom the Christ who speaks in the prophecies says, “A people whom I did not know became subject to Me: they were obedient to the hearing of My ear;” and, “I was found of them who sought Me not; I became manifest to those who inquired not after Me.” It is certain, moreover, that the Jews were punished even in this present life, after treating Jesus in the manner in which they did. And let the Jews assert what they will when we charge them with guilt, and say, “Is not the providence and goodness of God most wonderfully displayed in your punishment, and in your being deprived of Jerusalem, and of the sanctuary, and of your splendid worship?” For whatever they may say in reply with respect to the providence of God, we shall be able more effectually to answer it by remarking, that the providence of God was wonderfully manifested in using the transgression of that people for the purpose of calling into the kingdom of God, through Jesus Christ, those from among the Gentiles who were strangers to the covenant and aliens to the promises. And these things were foretold by the prophets, who said that, on account of the transgressions of the Hebrew nation, God would make choice, not of a nation, but of individuals chosen from all lands; and, having selected the foolish things of the world, would cause an ignorant nation to become acquainted with the divine teaching, the kingdom of God being taken from the one and given to the other. And out of a larger number it is sufficient on the present occasion to adduce the prediction from the song in Deuteronomy regarding the calling of the Gentiles, which is as follows, being spoken in the person of the Lord: “They have moved Me to jealousy with those who are not gods; they have provoked Me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”
~ Origen (c. 184-c. 253), Contra Celsus, Book II