Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
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A note in passing.
In my last post I made mention of Bill Cosby. Now I don't know or am in a position to speak about how or whether he is guilty with what he was indicted for; or, for that matter, whether in either case he himself might have been set up. But this I do know. I myself was both deliberately poisoned and physically assaulted in Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles and the University of Washington Medical Center back in 1992. And despite my efforts to get these investigated and redressed, formal investigations were refused me. Why? My guess is because criminal spirit people and on some level of participation were part of the group involved in these attacks, and given their clout and say in how decisions are arrived at, it was not possible to investigate or prosecute these people lest, so to speak, the cat was let out of the bag [i.e., about criminal spirit people], and which, of course is something completely forbidden. That is and in short, if criminal spirit people are involved, the crime cannot be looked into or prosecuted; sort of like a free ticket to get away with murder. So while Cosby, whether rightly or wrongly, can be completely embarrassed and have his career and reputation ruined, these criminals on the other hand, are not only not brought to justice, but could and can go on committing more violent crimes with impunity. (And this, as some perhaps will know, isn't even the half of it.)
For more details, see my "Narrative"
"Getting There" or What's the Point?
"And yet, O! precious inebriation of the heart! O! pre-eminent love! What pleasure of reason or of sense, can stand in competition with those, attendant upon thee?—Whether thou hiest to the fanes [i.e., temples] of a benevolent deity, or layest all thy homage at the feet of one, who most visibly resembles the perfections of
our Maker, surely thy sanction is divine; thy boon is happiness!—"
~ Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond (1799), ch. XXV.
It is extremely foolish to feel bad or put out by what persons incapable of real happiness think.
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"What! You didn't invite ME?!!!"
Uh oh, here comes trouble.
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What then do we actually know about these people? Well, for starters they dwell in darkness and insist on secrecy as to their identity. In addition, because they have means to commit and get away with the most aggravated murder and violence, they come to see themselves as arbiters and representatives of justice, law and order.
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Insofar as no mention is presently and in our time made of them, you will be most glad to know hoboes, tramps, organized crime, and mad scientists no longer exist.
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That far away hopeful unassuming look in the eyes of true innocence juxtaposed vis a' vis "the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to." Strange, yes. But that is how it is. But under the rule and regime of who?
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The obvious and undeniable implication would seem to be that if the person is in collusion with criminal spirit people they are immune from both investigation and prosecution. Here then and obviously is a device and method that can clearly be worked to the advantage of some.
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Are we to understand that Peter Pan can never grow up, or else and rather that he won't?
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Since you are so greatly concerned about it, exactly whose approval and respect are you talking about?
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Except, that is, Bill Cosby, O. J. Simpson, and Don Cornelius, and who will do as human sacrifices on the altar of our God.
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Oh, so you are going harmonize all of the universe with and in yourself? To each his own. But now me, I would need Christ to actually do that.
6. But in order that the characteristics of the divine may shine more brightly by the development of the truth, I will give you light to apprehend it, the obscurity caused by sin being wiped away. I will draw away the veil from the darkness of this hidden world. For a brief space conceive yourself to be transported to one of the loftiest peaks of some inaccessible mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, and with eyes turned in various directions look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself are removed from earthly contacts—you will at once begin to feel compassion for the world, and with self-recollection and increasing gratitude to God, you will rejoice with all the greater joy that you have escaped it. Consider the roads blocked up by robbers, the seas beset with pirates, wars scattered all over the earth with the bloody horror of camps. The whole world is wet with mutual blood; and murder, which in the case of an individual is admitted to be a crime, is called a virtue when it is committed wholesale. Impunity is claimed for the wicked deeds, not on the plea that they are guiltless, but because the cruelty is perpetrated on a grand scale.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"
(More) Criminal Spirit People 101
When I will have made reference to criminal spirit people, it may have seemed to be implied that I meant the conventional demons and devils of mythic lore. But such depictions are great distortions, and to some extent are really (though not necessarily or entirely) sorts of "costumes" or "characters" they put on to frighten people. Not that there are not genuinely spooky looking spirit people, but it is very wrong to think they are all like that: much depending on the person in question and circumstances in which you might encounter them. In fact spirit people organized crime have some very beautiful girls working for them, and which I was reminded of on seeing this clip from the 1947 film "Down to Earth," with that most eminently likable of Hollywood movie stars, Rita Hayworth. In it she plays the goddess/muse Terpsichore; who comes down to earth. Believe it or not, this, and strange as it may sound, is more what like real hell is like -- at least as seen from the top. While the Mr. Jordan character is not in appearance similar to anything I have seen, the sort of personality depicted in essence rings true. He is matter of fact, business like -- not, say, a ranging fiend, with blood spilling out of his mouth making obscene gestures or threats, scaring you to death. Of note too, Terpsichore is told that being immortal she cannot cry anymore. Now I in fact had something like this done to me. I used to be able to cry normally, but at one point in my ordeal they did something to me physically; so that I now cannot weep like I used to, as least not on the outside, but only inside (somewhat) and without the tears. (With the magician, at the time, actually telling me I could not cry any more.) Also, as we have remarked elsewhere, though you might see them with your eyes, spirit people speak to you in your head, not vocally as we "mere mortals" do.
["Down To Earth - End Scene - Rita Hayworth - 1947"]
5. But if you keep the way of innocence, the way of righteousness, if you walk with a firm and steady step, if, depending on God with your whole strength and with your whole heart, you only be what you have begun to be, liberty and power to do is given you in proportion to the increase of your spiritual grace. For there is not, as is the case with earthly benefits, any measure or stint in the dispensing of the heavenly gift. The Spirit freely flowing forth is restrained by no limits, is checked by no closed barriers within certain bounded spaces; it flows perpetually, it is exuberant in its affluence. Let our heart only be thirsty, and be ready to receive: in the degree in which we bring to it a capacious faith, in that measure we draw from it an overflowing grace. Thence is given power, with modest chastity, with a sound mind, with a simple voice, with unblemished virtue, that is able to quench the virus of poisons for the healing of the sick, to purge out the stains of foolish souls by restored health, to bid peace to those that are at enmity, repose to the violent, gentleness to the unruly -- by startling threats to force to avow themselves the impure and vagrant spirits that have betaken themselves into the bodies of men whom they purpose to destroy, to drive them with heavy blows to come out of them, to stretch them out struggling, howling, groaning with increase of constantly renewing pain, to beat them with scourges, to roast them with fire: the matter is carded on there, but is not seen; the strokes inflicted are hidden, but the penalty is manifest. Thus, in respect of what we have already begun to be, the Spirit that we have received possesses its own liberty of action; while in that we have not yet changed our body and members, the carnal view is still darkened by the clouds of this world. How great is this empire of the mind, and what a power it has, not alone that itself is withdrawn from the mischievous associations of the world, as one who is purged and pure can suffer no stain of a hostile irruption, but that it becomes still greater and stronger in its might, so that it can rule over all the imperious host of the attacking adversary with its sway!
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"
Great Mysteries Explained? (You be the judge.)
It is sometimes suggested, while pointedly reminding us, that Nature is prone to the demonic; say, in the famous cases of bats dwelling in darkness or sharks thriving on terror. Yet the truth may be that historically these and similar were per chance a case of the demonic influencing nature; not a result of nature's own untampered with disposition. Certainly the possibility at any rate is worth consideration but for the fact that it is forbidden to discuss the demonic and criminal spirit people empirically and objectively in the first place.
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Sure they would say that such and such was the lesser of two evils, but that then is easily accounted for by their being habitually dishonest, secretive, unjust, and willfully irrational.
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Perspective can change anything; not least of which things we consider as misfortune or adversity. (Though not always easy to do perhaps, still, give it a try.)
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In my opinion? In the settling of earthly affairs God will go with the group that is all around most truthful, just and virtuous regardless of orthodoxy and religious affiliation; though worldly success by no means necessarily implies God's approval. (This also will help to explain much history or how some of history turned out as it did.)
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It is the pronounced tendency of irrational people to see great good as originating and stemming from those with the greatest wealth -- rather than from God the creator. Hence atheism can be used to favor the very wealthy; for then they the wealthy take the place of God. (The same in modern times has been used to identify the "collective good" likewise and falsely.)
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"But I am afraid of these spirit people."
You and Don Knotts. While I can accept this coming from a child or a not very well educated person, is this properly becoming of someone who is supposed to be a professional?
4. These were my frequent thoughts. For as I myself was held in bonds by the innumerable errors of my previous life, from which I did not believe that I could by possibility be delivered, so I was disposed to acquiesce in my clinging vices; and because I despaired of better things, I used to indulge my sins as if they were actually parts of me, and indigenous to me. But after that, by the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart—after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man—then, in a wondrous manner, doubtful things at once began to assure themselves to me, hidden things to be revealed, dark things to be enlightened, what before had seemed difficult began to suggest a means of accomplishment, what had been thought impossible, to be capable of being achieved; so that I was enabled to acknowledge that what previously, being born of the flesh, had been living in the practice of sins, was of the earth earthly, but had now begun to be of God, and was animated by the Spirit of holiness. You yourself assuredly know and recollect as well as I do what was taken away from us, and what was given to us by that death of evil, and that life of virtue. You yourself know this without my information. Anything like boasting in one's own praise is hateful, although we cannot in reality boast but only be grateful for whatever we do not ascribe to man's virtue but declare to be the gift of God; so that now we sin not is the beginning of the work of faith, whereas that we sinned before was the result of human error. All our power is of God; I say, of God. From Him we have life, from Him we have strength, by power derived and conceived from Him we do, while yet in this world, foreknow the indications of things to come. Only let fear be the keeper of innocence, that the Lord, who of His mercy has flowed into our hearts in the access of celestial grace, may be kept by righteous submissiveness in the hostelry of a grateful mind, that the assurance we have gained may not beget carelessness, and so the old enemy creep upon us again.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"
3. While I was still lying in darkness and gloomy night, wavering hither and there, tossed about on the foam of this boastful age, and uncertain of my wandering steps, knowing nothing of my real life, and remote from truth and light, I used to regard it as a difficult matter, and especially as difficult in respect of my character at that time, that a man should be capable of being born again — a truth which the divine mercy had announced for my salvation—and that a man quickened to a new life in the layer of saving water should be able to put off what he had previously been; and, although retaining all his bodily structure, should be himself changed in heart and soul. “How,” said I, “is such a conversion possible, that there should be a sudden and rapid divestment of all which, either innate in us has hardened in the corruption of our material nature, or acquired by us has become inveterate by long accustomed use? These things have become deeply and radically engrained within us. When does he learn thrift who has been used to liberal banquets and sumptuous feasts? And he who has been glittering in gold and purple, and has been celebrated for his costly attire, when does he reduce himself to ordinary and simple clothing? One who has felt the charm of the fasces and of civic honours shrinks from becoming a mere private and inglorious citizen. The man who is attended by crowds of clients, and dignified by the numerous association of an officious train, regards it as a punishment when he is alone. It is inevitable, as it ever has been, that the love of wine should entice, pride inflate, anger inflame, covetousness disquiet, cruelty stimulate, ambition delight, lust hasten to ruin, with allurements that will not let go their hold.”
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"
Though I had known about it for years, I never did see John Huston's "The Red Badge of Courage" (1951) with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (some of the latter of whose children, incidentally and we learned as family lore growing up, my mother had baby-sat way back when.) Having done so, I was surprised at how surpassingly good it is and would now definitely put it on my personal list of among the most excellent films of all time; masterfully blending, as it does, artful psychology and story telling; earthy reality with a dream: in short and perhaps more to the point, life with death. I vividly recall how back in kindergarten our teacher had us sing "row, row, row your boat" thinking that it meant something, but didn't know what. This film, and naturally Crane's original novella, is like that.
