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And from this it is understood that it is easier for the wicked and the unrighteous to succeed in their desires, because their road is downward and on the decline; but that it is difficult for the good to attain to their wishes, because they walk along a difficult and steep path. Therefore the righteous man, since he has entered upon a hard and rugged way, must be an object of contempt, derision, and hatred. For all whom desire or pleasure drags headlong, envy him who has been able to attain to virtue, and take it ill that any one possesses that which they themselves do not possess. Therefore he will be poor, humble, ignoble, subject to injury, and yet enduring all things which are grievous; and if he shall continue his patience unceasingly to that last step and end, the crown of virtue will be given to him, and he will be rewarded by God with immortality for the labours which he has endured in life for the sake of righteousness. These are the ways which God has assigned to human life, in each of which he has shown both good and evil things, but in a changed and inverted order. In the one he has pointed out in the first place temporal evils followed by eternal goods, which is the better order; in the other, first temporal goods followed by eternal evils, which is the worse order: so that, whosoever has chosen present evils together with righteousness, he will obtain greater and more certain goods than those were which he despised; but whoever has preferred present goods to righteousness, will fall into greater and more lasting evils than those were which he avoided...
~ Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325), Divine Institutes (Book VI, ch. 4)

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The simple reason they can't write songs like this anymore is because those in power literally hate love, happiness and peace (despite the pretense perhaps of seeming otherwise.) Such sentiment after all is what ghoul power is founded on, and it is ghoul power that rules today, and which of course in turn is based on the legalized steroids of criminal spirit people involvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krt7I6nyHDc
["Chicago - If You Leave Me Now [Live]" - Jason Scheff, 1980's?]

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All these -- so many, so bright, opinionated, and well educated persons, yak-yak-yak on social media and other platforms all the time, all there to save our country, save the world, and yet who yet can or will discuss criminal spirit people (rationally, empirically, scientifically?)

Quite frankly, until they do, TRUST NO ONE. Short of divine intervention, the only way out of all THIS is rationally coherent and honest truth, and you can't have that unless people are willing to talk about (including using and applying the objective and scientific term) "criminal spirit people."

(For my own two cents on the topic, see the attached link to my book On Reason, Morality and the would-be gods.):
https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Morality-would-be-gods/dp/B0BCDB8S8T

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From nothing, therefore, can it be so plainly proved and understood that those gods, since they once lived, are dead, as from their worship itself, which is altogether of the earth. For what heavenly influence can there be in the shedding of the blood of beasts, with which they stain their altars? Unless by chance they imagine that the gods feed upon that which men shrink from touching. And whoever shall have offered to them this food, although he be an assassin, an adulterer, a sorcerer, or a parricide, he will he happy and prosperous. Him they love, him they defend, to him they afford all things which he shall wish for. Persius therefore deservedly ridicules superstitions of this kind in his own style: “With what bribe,” he says, “do you win the ears of gods? Is it with lungs and rich intestines?” He plainly perceived that there is no need of flesh for appeasing the majesty of heaven, but of a pure mind and a just spirit, and a breast, as he himself says, which is generous with a natural love of honour. This is the religion of heaven— not that which consists of corrupt things, but of the virtues of the soul, which has its origin from heaven; this is true worship, in which the mind of the worshipper presents itself as an undefiled offering to God. But how this is to be obtained, how it is to be afforded, the discussion of this book will show; for nothing can be so illustrious and so suited to man as to train men to righteousness.
~ Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325), Divine Institutes (Book VI, ch. 2)

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THE ANATOMY OF ERROR (and its effect)

Though some may take exception, and perhaps rightly, to its too frequently sarcastic tone, "Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968) is a first rate example of how historical films used to be DONE RIGHT; while providing a classic presentation of mistakes in judgment and their repercussions. To cut to the quick on this one, start at (about) 1:46:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPta6klaoM
["Charge Of The Light Brigade" -- 1968 film]

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(For those who per chance haven't yet figure it out) No, Mephistopheles, Long John Silver, and Mary Poppins are no real friends of ours.

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I recollect as a child when the Disney film "Blackbeard's Ghost" (1968) came out (this was some two years after Walt Disney himself had passed away.) I distinctly recall it being advertised in candy wrappers for such confections as Sugar Babies or Sugar Daddy. While it somewhat caught my attention, and it looked sort of fun, I did not feel especially obliged to go see, and I never did like pirates anyway. Years later, come the DVD era, I bought a copy, and it turns out, in certain respects, to be a most intriguing, if curious, film, but for both good and bad reasons. On the positive side, the players seemed to have had fun doing it and the main cast is well chosen, and the cinemagraphic use of colors is an unusual and special treat unique to Disney. On the downside and despite the good performances by the stars, the humor is rarely actually funny. But, oh well, at least we are all having fun. But the worst part of the thing is that the film is very subtle and total propaganda making Hell and ghosts of Hell friendly and appealing, and to that extent it is the movie culmination of years of like tv shows such as My Favorite Martian, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie: the message being that the dark side has its likeable and decidedly benevolent aspect. This might not all be so bad if such movies and shows were entirely based in fiction, but the tragic truth of it is and rather that such is very far from being the case. Indeed, Hell ended up taking over Disney and Hollywood as we all now have come to know, hijacking positive ideals and themes and costuming them in occultic or otherwise wrong-headed dress, and thus such movies and shows made the devil's sneaking into our culture all the easier. That said, I do recommend "Blackbeard's Ghost," at least for persons capable of critical thinking and reading between the lines, as one most interesting example of how society, especially on the family level, became so remarkably corrupted morally and in so surprisingly brief a time, and given over to blatant manicheanism or moral relativism.

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...if they would contemplate that heavenly light which we call the sun, they will at once perceive how God has no need of their candles, who has Himself given so clear and bright a light for the use of man. And when, in so small a circle, which on account of its distance appears to have a measure no greater than that of a human head, there is still so much brilliancy that mortal eye cannot behold it, and if you should direct your eye to it for a short time mist and darkness would overspread your dimmed eyes, what light, I pray, what brightness, must we suppose that there is in God, with whom there is no night? He has so attempered this very light, that it might neither injure living creatures by excessive brightness or vehement heat, and has given it so much of these properties as mortal bodies might endure or the ripening of the crops require...
~ Lactantius (c. 250–c. 325), Divine Institutes (Book VI, ch. 2)

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