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Thanksgiving Ahead (and then what?)
Was there anything ever done or urged more in bad taste than Black Friday?
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There is so much darkness in this world, in modern society, that it is easy for even the most well-meaning to stumble, trip, or lose their way.
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Like it or not, the Jews are rich by divine inheritance. Now whether a given one has used that inheritance justly and wisely or not, and or not been corrupted by such riches is, in a given instance and perhaps, another question. That they, as alleged by some, have inherently superior souls however is a wishful and imagined myth and fiction.
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If the truth be told (which it rarely is in such matters), unless you are ruled and live your life by the dictates of honest rational truth, and possess a truly generous and selflessly loving heart, all the rest you do or may have ultimately is or becomes little more than a mirage and illusion.
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The church deserving of being mocked is the church the "devil" impersonates or that part of it he has hijacked and occupies; meanwhile and do note, the "devil" (and criminal spirit people generally) is never mocked.
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We always see persons and things in their parts and never true whole or entire; due to our contingent and less than infinite grasp of things.
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If someone is jealous of you (and whom you perhaps do not even care about), does that confer a benefit on you? Are you obligated to send them, say, a check paying and reimbursing them for the supposed benefit? I would have thought the answer to this was obvious, but (to my surprise and} apparently not.
That our soul is rational, one might demonstrate by many arguments. And first of all from the fact that it has discovered the arts that are for the service of our life. For no one could say that these arts were introduced casually and accidentally, as no one could prove them to be idle, and of no utility for our life. If, then, these arts contribute to what is profitable for our life, and if the profitable is commendable, and if the commendable is constituted by reason, and if these things are the discovery of the soul, it follows that our soul is rational.
Again, that our soul is rational, is also proved by the fact that our senses are not sufficient for the apprehension of things. For we are not competent for the knowledge of things by the simple application of the faculty of sensation. But as we do not choose to rest in these without inquiry, that proves that the senses, apart from reason, are felt to be incapable of discriminating between things which are identical in form and similar in colour, though quite distinct in their natures. If, therefore, the senses, apart from reason, give us a false conception of things, we have to consider whether things that are can be apprehended in reality or not. And if they can be apprehended, then the power which enables us to get at them is one different from, and superior to, the senses. And if they are not apprehended, it will not be possible for us at all to apprehend things which are different in their appearance from the reality. But that objects are apprehensible by us, is clear from the fact that we employ each in a way adaptable to utility, and again turn them to what we please. Consequently, if it has been shown that things which are can be apprehended by us, and if the senses, apart from reason, are an erroneous test of objects, it follows that the intellect is what distinguishes all things in reason, and discerns things as they are in their actuality. But the intellect is just the rational portion of the soul, and consequently the soul is rational.
Finally, because we do nothing without having first marked it out for ourselves; and as that is nothing else than just the high prerogative of the soul—for its knowledge of things does not come to it from without, but it rather sets out these things, as it were, with the adornment of its own thoughts, and thus first pictures forth the object in itself, and only thereafter carries it out to actual fact—and because the high prerogative of the soul is nothing else than the doing of all things with reason, in which respect it also differs from the senses, the soul has thereby been demonstrated to be rational.
~Gregory Thaumaturgus (213-270), On the Soul
If they'd asked me, I would tell them. But they don't ask me. (So I'll tell you.)
"But Aristaeus, the foe [Proteus] within his clutch,
Scarce suffering him compose his aged limbs,
With a great cry leapt on him, and ere he rose
Forestalled him with the fetters; he nathless,
All unforgetful of his ancient craft,
Transforms himself to every wondrous thing,
Fire and a fearful beast, and flowing stream.
But when no trickery found a path for flight,
Baffled at length, to his own shape returned..."
~ Virgil, Georgics, Book IV,
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Repeat after me:
"covid belief
covid belief --
he believes in
covid belief"
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It is not that I don't trust medicine. Rather I don't trust their medicine and this because I don't believe they are qualified. And I don't believe they are qualified because they are such who will and merely prostitute themselves to the highest bidder, having no qualm betraying honest, rational truth in the process.
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By definition, the zombie must do as the master commands.
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They tell us we somehow are not loved, but this, they think, because no one (outside of God or a saint) really loves them; while they for their part, being so utterly self-centered, are incapable of (really) loving anyone.
In short, life, as he says himself, is over for him. Yet it does not necessarily follow, however, that it is over for the rest of us.
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The numbers, the money, the privileges? Yes. But quality, sincerity, integrity? No.
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As they see it the reason they can force ourselves on others is that they are a great people.
We say: If you are truly a great people you would not have need to force yourselves on anyone in the first place. Moreover, how can it be that persons who claim to be entitled to rule over all of us can hardly reason or behave themselves on the most basic level of competence and decency; doing everything in your power meanwhile and at every turn to prohibit and or circumscribe honest and rational debate and disquisition?
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"He accuses you of being a bunch of kooks and cranks. What then is your response?"
But it isn't us. It is rather these others pretending to be us, then some of us mistakenly believing these (pretending) are us.
Do you see that the Spirit is inseparable from the divinity? And no one with pious apprehensions could fancy that He is a creature. Moreover, in the Epistle to the Hebrews he writes again thus: “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost? ” [Hebrews 2:3-4] And again he says in the same epistle: “Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost says, Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; for they have not known my ways: as I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.” [Hebrews 3:7-11] And there, too, they ought to give ear to Paul, for he by no means separates the Holy Spirit from the divinity of the Father and the Son, but clearly sets forth the discourse of the Holy Ghost as one from the person of the Father, and thus as given expression to by God, just as it has been represented in the before-mentioned sayings. Wherefore the holy Trinity is believed to be one God, in accordance with these testimonies of Holy Scripture; albeit all through the inspired Scriptures numberless announcements are supplied us, all confirmatory of the apostolic and ecclesiastical faith.
~Gregory Thaumaturgus (213-270), A Sectional Confession of the Faith