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Note. I would post this at my Mabel Normand Home Page; however, some technical problem has been preventing me from logging in there for over a year now. Despite trying everything on my end (and I do know about these kinds of things to normally fix them myself, and for this many years), angelfire tech support can't or won't help me; saying, in effect, it is something I need to fix (not them); which to make a long story short isn't at all true.

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Psychologies Today

He is absolutely in no measure in a bad way because of his mistakes, or because he made the wrong choices, rather it is solely or almost entirely owing to this other person being too fortunate and too well treated by fate and circumstances, that he has as serious life problems he does, and hence the perceived need on his part to be violent.

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Granted he doesn't know who this person actually is, say with respect to things like is name, identity and personal history. Yet and even so he trusts his judgment to be infallible.

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Since they know in advance they will lose the argument, they won't permit the discussion. (Simple enough.)

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Yes, that's true, those are your inalienable rights, but only if you show due respect for (such as) Fred Rogers, Alex Trebek, and Scooby Doo.

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Sure they want to call and have it seem to be merely an amusing and funny little game; when, that is, they are supposed to be doing serious prison time instead.

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Theirs is not a divine mandate, but and rather a putting one over on persons; which latter are too ignorant, uninformed, timid and irrational to think of objecting to the pretensions of the former.

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But for their vandalism and violence, yes indeed you would and could safely and reasonably ignore them.

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They get themselves into no end of big messes in consequence of trusting and listening to criminal spirit people, creating all kinds of problems for themselves and others at large, while blaming the latter for not going along with them.

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"All this, and MUCH more I shall give to you, but only and so long as you are not happy, just or honest in any lasting or meaningful sense."

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The vast majority of the time and viewing things from a long term perspective (if not always the short term and immediate), there can never be an end to creativity for true artists, poets, musicians; such that they are far less worried and concerned by the accidental loss of their work or theft or plagiarism of the same than those who are false, fake, and mediocre artists, etc.

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To Rogatianus the Presbyter, and the Other Confessors. A.D. 250.

4. But I hear that some infect your number, and destroy the praise of a distinguished name by their corrupt conversation; whom you yourselves, even as being lovers and guardians of your own praise, should rebuke and check and correct. For what a disgrace is suffered by your name, when one spends his days in intoxication and debauchery, another returns to that country whence he was banished, to perish when arrested, not now as being a Christian, but as being a criminal! I hear that some are puffed up and are arrogant, although it is written, “Be not high-minded, but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not you.” Our Lord “was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.” Isaiah 53:7 “I am not rebellious,” says He, “neither do I gainsay. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to the palms of their hands. I hid not my face from the filthiness of spitting.” And dares any one now, who lives by and in this very One, lift up himself and be haughty, forgetful, as well of the deeds which He did, as of the commands which He left to us either by Himself or by His apostles? But if “the servant is not greater than his Lord.” let those who follow the Lord humbly and peacefully and silently tread in His steps, since the lower one is, the more exalted be may become; as says the Lord, “He that is least among you, the same shall be great.” Luke 9:48
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "Sixth Epistle"

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15. Do you, however, whom the celestial warfare has enlisted in the spiritual camp, only observe a discipline uncorrupted and chastened in the virtues of religion. Be constant as well in prayer as in reading; now speak with God, now let God speak with you, let Him instruct you in His precepts, let Him direct you. Whom He has made rich, none shall make poor; for, in fact, there can be no poverty to him whose breast has once been supplied with heavenly food. Ceilings enriched with gold, and houses adorned with mosaics of costly marble, will seem mean to you, now when you know that it is you yourself who are rather to be perfected, you who are rather to be adorned, and that that dwelling in which God has dwelt as in a temple, in which the Holy Spirit has begun to make His abode, is of more importance than all others. Let us embellish this house with the colours of innocence, let us enlighten it with the light of justice: this will never fall into decay with the wear of age, nor shall it be defiled by the tarnishing of the colours of its walls, nor of its gold. Whatever is artificially beautified is perishing; and such things as contain not the reality of possession afford no abiding assurance to their possessors. But this remains in a beauty perpetually vivid, in perfect honour, in permanent splendour. It can neither decay nor be destroyed; it can only be fashioned into greater perfection when the body returns to it...
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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Some matters which -- to me -- are obvious.

"For you have said: We have entered into a league with death, and we have made a covenant with hell. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come upon us: for we have placed our hope in lies, and by falsehood we are protected."
~ Isaiah, 28:15

They are not forthright or honest, therefore I don't trust them: so that to me they cannot be (true) God, heaven, or angels.

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We can only have a sense of the fleeting because we have an innate knowledge of the permanent

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Because on a given occasion we cannot digest or receive something, that doesn't necessarily mean it is always bad for us. True and without question, some things are always bad for us, but not everything that we might think or assume to be so.

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True merit is rarely if ever recognized by a poor judge.

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Wrong doing the tyrant demands, and often and much wrong doing is done simply as appeasement, not because of any really need otherwise. Why? Because it weakens us.

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In terms of "mostly," there are those driven zealously by deep and and sincere love, and others simply by fear, madness and insanity. Regarding the latter, it is required of you to credit and believe their phony thing. And if you don't, they will get all violent about it.

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"You turned yourself into a witch? Now what on earth did you go and do that for?"

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Yes, they were indeed here, and very present. But, lo and behold, now they are gone!

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The good old days were better in many ways, but even they, whether clandestine or openly, whether disguised and conveniently rationalized, always had in some measure human and animal sacrifices offered to the supposed god or gods.

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"If it doesn't kill you, it's good for you."

Sure, since they are as much as going to kill you anyway, why not make a (seeming) moral virtue out of doing so?

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"Let my people go!"

To which Pharaoh responded: "No. I won't do it...and you can't make me!"

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14. Hence, then, the one peaceful and trustworthy tranquillity, the one solid and firm and constant security, is this, for a man to withdraw from these eddies of a distracting world, and, anchored on the ground of the harbour of salvation, to lift his eyes from earth to heaven; and having been admitted to the gift of God, and being already very near to his God in mind, he may boast, that whatever in human affairs others esteem lofty and grand, lies altogether beneath his consciousness. He who is actually greater than the world can crave nothing, can desire nothing, from the world. How stable, how free from all shocks is that safeguard; how heavenly the protection in its perennial blessings,— to be loosed from the snares of this entangling world, and to be purged from earthly dregs, and fitted for the light of eternal immortality! He will see what crafty mischief of the foe that previously attacked us has been in progress against us. We are constrained to have more love for what we shall be, by being allowed to know and to condemn what we were. Neither for this purpose is it necessary to pay a price either in the way of bribery or of labour; so that man's elevation or dignity or power should be begotten in him with elaborate effort; but it is a gratuitous gift from God, and it is accessible to all. As the sun shines spontaneously, as the day gives light, as the fountain flows, as the shower yields moisture, so does the heavenly Spirit infuse itself into us. When the soul, in its gaze into heaven, has recognised its Author, it rises higher than the sun, and far transcends all this earthly power, and begins to be that which it believes itself to be.
~ St. Cyprian of Carthage (?-258 A.D.), "First Epistle"

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