Previous William Thomas Sherman Info Page postings, quotes, observations, etc.
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Although not owing to lack of ideas or ideas for projects, in recent years I do little or no formal writing. The two main reasons for this is that I continue to be harassed (and quite physically and otherwise) by the "ghouligans," and secondly because I receive little or no mail of any consequence (aside from routine money related matters, if that.) As one example of such, (just about) no one contacts me anymore concerning Mabel Normand, and no one yet has seriously written me about or on the subject of criminal spirit people; despite my writings on that topic having commenced over 20 years ago. In lieu of all this, and as you might already know, I will sometimes post "little" writings, jottings and notes here at this website and or on Face Book. Despite the violence and the forced isolation, I am and always was, both naturally and by the grace of God, a happy and contented person, and lack of good has never been a serious problem in my life. On the contrary, most of the time, my cup has runneth over. Rather what always was or is ever killing me was and is the "bad." Respecting which then, it just so happens I will presently make a few random and chance comments. These in their turn might be developed and expanded further than what little I put down; but personally and for me at present, they will suffice (given my aforesaid circumstances.)
* The films of Ed Wood, and later incarnations such as "Frankenstein Island" (1981), produced by "Jerry Warren," (per chance a relation of Jerry Bruckheimer?), see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPk6NvEB5A
["SGT Insomniac Theater ~ Frankenstein Island (1981)"]
are indeed "witchcraft" produced films with the full intention of ridiculing and degrading people; both at large and individuals, as in these cases, for instance, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, and Cameron Mitchell. Wood and Warren, my guess is, were merely fake stand-ins for some hitherto unknown other.
* Ultimately the best and most effective way to fight the "demons of hell" or the gods of false heaven (they are after all the same) is to, and quite simply, tell them that they are NOT WANTED (don't call us, we'll call you.) Bearing in mind that if the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, their honors and praise is nothing short of damning (as per, for example, the Cannes film festival.)
* The Alexamenos grafitti (shown here) is nothing more than a 2nd century version of "The Wickerman," "nothing new under the sun" and all that.
[Posted at the Lee’s Legion page on Face Book]
I just finished reading a survey, loosely taking the form of a review of some then recently published and related books, entitled "Origin and Character of the old Parties," found in The North American Review, for July 1, 1834, vol. 39, and I cannot praise and recommend enough as a summary of all those no little intricate, involved, and complex political events that established the United States in it's earliest formation.
In this article, the anonymous author, among key and sundry points, argues that:
1. The United States was instrumental and decisive in bringing about the French Revolution, most especially with regard to the latter's positive aspects and results.
2. Despite the bitter acrimony, whether seeming or real, associated with the "Federalists" and "Anti-Federalists" the dispute and rivalry, as it was worked out over the years from 1789 to 1815, reflects great credit on the peaceable, intelligent, approach of the American system of government.
3. At certain times in the chronology, the Anti-Federalists in name were more "Federal" than their opponents (e.g., with respect to the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson's Embargo, and establishment of the national Bank by Madison), and likewise, at other times the Federalists (some of them anyway) were for breaking with the Union (e.g., vis a vis the Hartford convention.)
4. The United States was justified in declaring war against Britain in 1812, rather than France, because (and among other reasons and despite everyone's disapproval of post-1804 Napoleon): a) the British were the first who inaugurated the seizing of neutral ships, and b) although the French Revolution was hi-jacked by Napoleon, it in some measure always remained in place and, at its heart stood for freedom and liberty; which, and again despite Napoleon, the British themselves came around in some degree acquiescing to.
...and more.
For anyone looking for a good one shot addressing of the subject, you can't do better than this. While some may understandably disagree or take exception, or require qualification of the author's views, for anyone seriously interested in the topics it covers, you simply can't (in my opinion) afford to ignore or pass this up.
See:
https://archive.org/details/jstor-25103076/page/n1/mode/2up
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Also of related interest is a no less excellent and most helpful description and account of the "The Acts, Orders in Council, &c. of Great Britain [on Trade], 1793 - 1812;" which so much of the former piece concerns itself with at: https://www.napoleon-series.org/research/government/british/decrees/c_britdecrees1.html
“—Dear Sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and ’tis thou who lift’st him up to Heaven!—Eternal Fountain of our feelings!—’tis here I trace thee—and this is thy 'divinity which stirs within me;'—not that, in some sad and sickening moments, 'my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction;'—mere pomp of words!—but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself;—all comes from thee, great—great Sensorium of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation.—Touch’d with thee, Eugenius draws my curtain when I languish—hears my tale of symptoms, and blames the weather for the disorder of his nerves. Thou giv’st a portion of it sometimes to the roughest peasant who traverses the bleakest mountains;—he finds the lacerated lamb of another’s flock.—This moment I behold him leaning with his head against his crook, with piteous inclination looking down upon it!—Oh! had I come one moment sooner! it bleeds to death!—his gentle heart bleeds with it.—
“Peace to thee, generous swain!—I see thou walkest off with anguish,—but thy joys shall balance it;—for, happy is thy cottage,—and happy is the sharer of it,—and happy are the lambs which sport about you!”
~ Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)
It is therefore right, especially in a matter on which the whole plan of life turns, that every one should place confidence in himself, and use his own judgment and individual capacity for the investigation and weighing of the truth, rather than through confidence in others to be deceived by their errors, as though he himself were without understanding. God has given wisdom to all alike, that they might be able both to investigate things which they have not heard, and to weigh things which they have heard. Nor, because they preceded us in time, did they also outstrip us in wisdom; for if this is given equally to all, we cannot be anticipated in it by those who precede us. It is incapable of diminution, as the light and brilliancy of the sun; because, as the sun is the light of the eyes, so is wisdom the light of man's heart. Wherefore, since wisdom— that is, the inquiry after truth— is natural to all, they deprive themselves of wisdom, who without any judgment approve of the discoveries of their ancestors, and like sheep are led by others...
~ Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325), Divine Institutes (Book II, ch. 8)
Dr. G. Ashenden (a former Anglican now Catholic) on the question of the separation of church and state.
["Terminal Incompetence @ Canterbury;Immigration & Resignation:A Critical Assessment-ASHENDEN SCRIPTED"]
...From what cause can we suppose this to arise? Unless we imagine that there is some perverse power which is always hostile to the truth, which rejoices in the errors of men, whose one and only task it is perpetually to scatter darkness, and to blind the minds of men, lest they should see the light—lest, in short, they should look to heaven, and observe the nature of their own body, the origin of which we shall relate at the proper place; but now let us refute fallacies. For since other animals look down to the ground, with bodies bending forward, because they have not received reason and wisdom, whereas an upright position and an elevated countenance have been given to us by the Creator God, it is evident that these ceremonies paid to the gods are not in accordance with the reason of man, because they bend down the heaven-sprung being to the worship of earthly objects. For that one and only Parent of ours, when He created man—that is, an animal intelligent and capable of exercising reason,— raised him from the ground, and elevated him to the contemplation of his Creator. As an ingenious poet has well represented it:—
“And when other animals bend forward and look to the earth, He gave to man an elevated countenance, and commanded him to look up to the heaven, and to raise his countenance erect to stars.”
From this circumstance the Greeks plainly derived the name [anthropos], because he looks upward...
~ Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325), Divine Institutes (Book II, ch. 1)
One of the very curious things about this story is that, despite my trying, I find no where an effort by anyone to disprove or debunk it.
["Major Weir Wizard of the West Bow / Scotland's History" -- account of Major Thomas Weir (1599 – 1670), occultist, Presbyterian lay preacher]
See also the pertinent Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Weir
