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You see, forsooth, that man distinguished by his brilliant dress, glittering, as he thinks, in his purple. Yet with what baseness has he purchased this glitter! What contempts of the proud has he had first to submit to! What haughty thresholds has he, as an early courtier, besieged! How many scornful footsteps of arrogant great men has he had to precede, thronged in the crowd of clients, that by and by a similar procession might attend and precede him with salutations—a train waiting not upon his person, but upon his power! For he has no claim to be regarded for his character, but for his fasces. Of these, finally, you may see the degrading end, when the time-serving sycophant has departed, and the hanger-on, deserting them, has defiled the exposed side of the man who has retired into a private condition. It is then that the mischiefs done to the squandered family-estate smite upon the conscience, then the losses that have exhausted the fortune are known—expenses by which the favour of the populace was bought, and the people's breath asked for with fickle and empty entreaties. Assuredly, it was a vain and foolish boastfulness to have desired to set forth in the gratification of a disappointing spectacle, what the people would not receive, and what would ruin the magistrates.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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Predictive programming regarding the Manson family and related murders -- circa 1966?! You have to see this episode to believe the several matching similarities, including scrawling graffiti inside the house once the hoodlum hippies have the hostages tied up; as they contemplate murdering them. All of which, while by no means absolutely conclusive, strongly suggests (to me, at any rate) criminal spirit people (and hench-person) involvement in the real life tragedies (and as I have averred and written about at this website some years back.) Something to at least consider and think about.

Run for Your Life episode "Hoodlums on Wheels," first aired 21 February 1966

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More Goomer (and related) Review

There are those who want to free up communications and those who don't.

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When persons who do not want to work, to have to compete, and or do not respect true merit insist on equality, we can justly suspect the wisdom and integrity of their motives.

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They can empower a person, while they are covertly and systematically degrading or even killing them.

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They are told: be "popular," sell and make big money, have children, and only then you are a success. (But do they care about honest truth and moral character? Not really.)

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They make it seem like that is what "everybody" thinks and wants, but rather and truly what "everybody" thinks and wants is only them endeavoring to manipulate and control us all. Yes, true, many will indeed accommodate them in this, but such are invariably dumb, unthinking people who easily succumb to a herd mentality.

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It is claimed God does not want you to be too happy, lest you lose sight of heavenly aspirations. Be this as it may, or be this as it may with qualification, certainly there are those who specialize in debasing, abusing and humiliating people who without hesitation will seek to espouse such a view.

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Although the mass of them would not engage in premeditated violence and malicious mayhem out of jealousy and self-pity, their most revered and deific master would and does.

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Sometimes they will do things (i.e., cause problems, mischief, or worse) because they have an elaborate plan and aim in mind; at other times, they will do such because they are upset about something (or things aren't quite working out for them), or at yet other times simply because they are idle and or, feeling ignored, are desirous of attention.

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On Manichaeism or moral dualism: When you mix good and bad deliberately, the result in most instances is invariably bad.

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falling down drunk with childishness.

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They live in darkness. Is there even a question by anyone of this? The only question then is are they compelled or do they choose to live that way.

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If His is in fact "the kingdom, the power, and the glory" whom or what should you ever seriously fear?

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10. But after considering the public roads full of pitfalls, after battles of many kinds scattered abroad over the whole world, after exhibitions either bloody or infamous, after the abominations of lust, whether exposed for sale in brothels or hidden within the domestic walls -— abominations, the audacity of which is greater in proportion to the secrecy of the crime—-possibly you may think that the Forum at least is free from such things, that it is neither exposed to exasperating wrongs, nor polluted by the association of criminals...

He who sits to avenge crimes commits them, and the judge becomes the culprit, in order that the accused may perish innocently. Crimes are everywhere common; and everywhere in the multiform character of sin, the pernicious poison acts by means of degraded minds. One man forges a will, another by a capital fraud makes a false deposition; on the one hand, children are cheated of their inheritances, on the other, strangers are endowed with their estates. The opponent makes his charge, the false accuser attacks, the witness defames, on all sides the venal impudence of hired voices sets about the falsification of charges, while in the meantime the guilty do not even perish with the innocent. There is no fear about the laws; no concern for either inquisitor or judge; when the sentence can be bought off for money, it is not cared for. It is a crime now among the guilty to be innocent; whoever does not imitate the wicked is an offense to them. The laws have come to terms with crimes, and whatever is public has begun to be allowed. What can be the modesty, what can be the integrity, that prevails there, when there are none to condemn the wicked, and one only meets with those who ought themselves to be condemned?
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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9. Oh, if placed on that lofty watchtower you could gaze into the secret places— if you could open the closed doors of sleeping chambers, and recall their dark recesses to the perception of sight—you would behold things done by immodest persons which no chaste eye could look upon; you would see what even to see is a crime; you would see what people embruted with the madness of vice deny that they have done, and yet hasten to do—men with frenzied lusts rushing upon men, doing things which afford no gratification even to those who do them. I am deceived if the man who is guilty of such things as these does not accuse others of them. The depraved maligns the depraved, and thinks that he himself, though conscious of the guilt, has escaped, as if consciousness were not a sufficient condemnation. The same people who are accusers in public are criminals in private, condemning themselves at the same time as they condemn the culprits; they denounce abroad what they commit at home, willingly doing what, when they have done, they accuse—a daring which assuredly is fitly mated with vice, and an impudence quite in accordance with shameless people. And I beg you not to wonder at the things that persons of this kind speak: the offense of their mouths in words is the least of which they are guilty.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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7. And now, if you turn your eyes and your regards to the cities themselves, you will behold a concourse more fraught with sadness than any solitude. The gladiatorial games are prepared, that blood may gladden the lust of cruel eyes. The body is fed up with stronger food, and the vigorous mass of limbs is enriched with brawn and muscle, that the wretch fattened for punishment may die a harder death. Man is slaughtered that man may be gratified, and the skill that is best able to kill is an exercise and an art. Crime is not only committed, but it is taught. What can be said more inhuman—what more repulsive? Training is undergone to acquire the power to murder, and the achievement of murder is its glory. What state of things, I pray you, can that be, and what can it be like, in which men, whom none have condemned, offer themselves to the wild beasts— men of ripe age, of sufficiently beautiful person, clad in costly garments? Living men, they are adorned for a voluntary death; wretched men, they boast of their own miseries. They fight with beasts, not for their crime, but for their madness. Fathers look on their own sons; a brother is in the arena, and his sister is hard by; and although a grander display of pomp increases the price of the exhibition, yet, oh shame! even the mother will pay the increase in order that she may be present at her own miseries. And in looking upon scenes so frightful and so impious and so deadly, they do not seem to be aware that they are parricides with their eyes.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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