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While the film "White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd" (1991), and based on Andy Edmunds' book "Hot Toddy," is mostly pretty bad as far as actual history goes, it does near the end raise or at least imply the interesting point that if a criminal is powerful and influential enough, they can manipulate, coerce, and control police, investigators, experts (like coroners), and witnesses. In the case of this movie, it is alleged "Lucky" Luciano and the "mafia" were able to do such; hence the baffling and unsolved nature of Thelma Todd's death. Even if Luciano was not himself the culprit in doing such (as is posited in theory), it does help to possibly explain why sensational deaths and murders, like that of WDT, could go unsolved.
As well, I was reminded, and based on my own theorizing, that Thelma Todd's death may have been actuated by a desire to destroy Roland West -- not Thelma Todd (for reasons I have written about elsewhere, including my website.) Similarly is it possible, that the deaths of Olive Thomas (IF murder) was perhaps aimed at getting Jack Pickford; likewise Virginia Rappe (IF murder) at getting at Arbuckle? Is it possible then that Taylor was murdered not so much to get Taylor himself, but to get someone else? West was ruined by Todd's murder, Pickford by Thomas', Arbuckle by Rappe's. Could it then be that something similar -- and fully intended -- occurred with Taylor's murder?
At any rate, and for what it is worth, I pass this along for conjecture and speculation.
[ch. 30]
Such is the true doctrine in regard of the divine nature, O you men, Greeks and Barbarians, Chaldeans and Assyrians, Egyptians and Libyans, Indians and Ethiopians, Celts, and you Latins, who lead armies, and all you that inhabit Europe, and Asia, and Libya. And to you I have become an adviser, inasmuch as I am a disciple of the benevolent Logos, and hence humane, in order that you may hasten and by us may be taught who the true God is, and what is His well-ordered creation. Do not devote your attention to the fallacies of artificial discourses, nor the vain promises of plagiarizing heretics, but to the venerable simplicity of unassuming truth. And by means of this knowledge you shall escape the approaching threat of the fire of judgment, and the rayless scenery of gloomy Tartarus, where never shines a beam from the irradiating voice of the Word!
You shall escape the boiling flood of hell's eternal lake of fire and the eye ever fixed in menacing glare of fallen angels chained in Tartarus as punishment for their sins; and you shall escape the worm that ceaselessly coils for food around the body whose scum has bred it. Now such (torments) as these shall you avoid by being instructed in a knowledge of the true God. And you shall possess an immortal body, even one placed beyond the possibility of corruption, just like the soul. And you shall receive the kingdom of heaven, you who, while you sojourned in this life, knew the Celestial King. And you shall be a companion of the Deity, and a co-heir with Christ, no longer enslaved by lusts or passions, and never again wasted by disease. For you have become God: for whatever sufferings you underwent while being a man, these He gave to you, because you were of mortal mould, but whatever it is consistent with God to impart, these God has promised to bestow upon you, because you have been deified, and begotten unto immortality. This constitutes the import of the proverb, “Know yourself; ”i.e., discover God within yourself, for He has formed you after His own image. For with the knowledge of self is conjoined the being an object of God's knowledge, for you are called by the Deity Himself. Be not therefore inflamed, O you men, with enmity one towards another, nor hesitate to retrace with all speed your steps. For Christ is the God above all, and He has arranged to wash away sin from human beings, rendering regenerate the old man. And God called man His likeness from the beginning, and has evinced in a figure His love towards you. And provided you obey His solemn injunctions, and becomest a faithful follower of Him who is good, you shall resemble Him, inasmuch as you shall have honour conferred upon you by Him. For the Deity, (by condescension,) does not diminish anything of the divinity of His divine perfection; having made you even God unto His glory!
~ Hippolytus (c. 170–235 A.D.), Refutation of All Heresies, Book X
"...every day contributed to rectify some error, or confirm some truth."
~Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond (1799), ch. IX.
Heaven
Hell-ven
the outer material world
human society and other selves
the worldly self
the soulful self
Heaven, that is, if Hell-ven doesn't get you first.
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Although it is, as you know, all too common for everyone to assume they know, who REALLY is to blame, and who not exactly, is not in frequently among the greatest of all life's mysteries, and this thanks to the cleverness of certain spirit person malefactors, eluding and defying all advances in medicine, science and technology.
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In order to avert and draw off the stigma of being a plague themselves, they felt it necessary to concoct a real life and formally medical one.
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Napoleon explained.
As much or more than anything else, THESE people respect a big ego, and this Napoleon knew. And though he did have a large ego, he did not actually become the great Napoleon for his own ego's sake. Rather he did this in order to win their favor and or else offset their opposition. In this way, a big ego is like a currency with them; such that Napoleon knew and was willing to barter in that coin. But not, as we say, for his ego's sake, but to instead obtain and accomplish those things that did more truly matter to him. (Those who know THESE people will understand what I am talking about.)
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Is it possible we could we think of and contemplate the end of demonism? We could now, couldn't we?
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What must have been billions spent on anti-virus programs. Yet how much can we figure was spent on creating viruses, and who would have the resources and wherewithal to do such a thing?
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"I don't care," says one.
Another then says: "I don't care that you don't care."
We then might reasonably ask "who cares about any of this?"
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A: But I WANT to hope.
B: Well, don't. It isn't permitted.
[ch. 22]
Now the doctrine of the resurrection has also derived support among these [the Essenes]; for they acknowledge both that the flesh will rise again, and that it will be immortal, in the same manner as the soul is already imperishable. And they maintain that the soul, when separated in the present life, (departs) into one place, which is well ventilated and lightsome, where, they say, it rests until judgment. And this locality the Greeks were acquainted with by hearsay, and called it “Isles of the Blessed.” And there are other tenets of these which many of the Greeks have appropriated, and thus have from time to time formed their own opinions. For the disciplinary system in regard of the Divinity, according to these (Jewish sects), is of greater antiquity than that of all nations. And so it is that the proof is at hand, that all those (Greeks) who ventured to make assertions concerning God, or concerning the creation of existing things, derived their principles from no other source than from Jewish legislation. And among these may be particularized Pythagoras especially, and the Stoics, who derived (their systems) while resident among the Egyptians, by having become disciples of these Jews. Now they affirm that there will be both a judgment and a conflagration of the universe, and that the wicked will be eternally punished. And among them is cultivated the practice of prophecy, and the prediction of future events.
~ Hippolytus (c. 170–235 A.D.), Refutation of All Heresies, Book IX