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Or, like most people, be content being babysat, left to watch and generally obsess about sports and entertainment stars? It’s all fluff.
America in the 20th and 21st centuries.
People waste their lives on fluff.”
True
Well, I have some news for you. It’s theatre. Sports heroes, film celebrities, rock stars, politicians, controversies of all sorts on the news, they’re all just different channels of the same show. Distract and keep happy.”
Truth
The government was more window dressing than a representative democracy. Corporations had long replaced nation states as the power centers.
Same as today
a paradox, whose deep spiritual beliefs drove him much more than a greedy pursuit of wealth.
He speculated that all of the advanced civilizations capable of reaching us have evolved so far beyond us that they’ve vanished within themselves to another dimension, a higher realm.”
perhaps, there are no other civilizations
The ‘virtual’ world is not a place that feels very secure to me. It’s too difficult to tell what is real. It’s too easy to manipulate reality across the digital Field.”
“I’ve been in this business a long time,” Deuce said, “and I’ve learned that the only thing more dangerous than asking questions is getting the answers.”
Truth
“My theory is that the one percent or, more precisely, the top one percent of the one percent, are actually running the world. The government, elections, and the other trappings of our glorious worldwide democracy are merely theatre.”
Well at least they think they are
government’s policy of discouraging the formation of religious organizations.
People believing in something other than the government is dangerous especially to the government
peace is unattainable in the corrupt world.
True
Life is too short for retribution, grudges, and hate. Forgiveness is a beautiful power.”
Exactly what Jesus teaches
‘The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.’ I find it often applies.”
“Cicero once said, ‘If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.’ But what if you have neither?”
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what,” Runit recited.
!!!!!!!
Then we went to boardrooms and the cyber world, but today we fight a war within the sphere of one man’s life.”
“Novels hold more contentious ideas and contemplate far more truth than nonfiction,”
“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
Maybe
“Did you know Ray Bradbury wrote the initial manuscript of Fahrenheit 451 in the basement of a library?”
I did!
Whenever anyone got an implant, which were expensive to install as well as maintain, they seemed to become less human. Their emotions took a backseat to the data driven power of the implant.
This is coming ant the author is correct!
“Peace at gunpoint is not peace.”
Truth
“Truth is stranger than Fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
“Wrong! Life is a novel that no one bothers to write down.”
Even before the Banoff, there were those who sought to unite the world under one government.
They will use something similar to the “banoff” to achieve their purpose!
I’ll make it a priority to show you the proof of the conspiracy even though you probably won’t understand it or allow yourself to believe it.”
On point!
“Victory always costs more than defeat, and change often commands a high price.”
Buying a brain isn’t the same as earning one.”
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
Not exactly what my mom always said but close.
“Dear boy, we weren’t even free when we were free, but all we have now is a beautiful lie.”
This could be said about today.
“What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.”
And there is no meaning without Christ.
“Do good. Share love. Risk it all for something more than yourself,”
Truth
How does one live without unconditional love?
They don’t, really.
