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Daniel Quinn
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January 4 - January 9, 2018
In a word, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was the Jesuits’ superstar, and Bernard Lulfre is ours.
If prophecies about Christ must wait upon their fulfillment to be understood, why shouldn’t the same be true of prophecies about Antichrist? In other words, we can’t really know what John was talking about until it actually happens, so the Antichrist is almost certain to be different from whatever we imagine him to be.
The only groups notably unrepresented in the mix were skinheads, Bible-thumpers, and unrepentant Marxists.
John Le Carre
Charles Atterley
It wasn’t possible that two different speakers from America could be spreading inflammatory ideas around Central Europe at the same time.
If you met someone branded with the letter B, you knew that his sin was blasphemy.”
“This is Shirin,
For example, children in school are never encouraged to want the material rewards of success. Success is something to be sought for its own sake, certainly not for any wealth it might bring.
That mission was to maintain a special vigilance, a special watch. We were to be the first to recognize the Antichrist.”
“His name is Bernard Lulfre.”
“When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message.”
To what degree were those of the new dispensation bound by the laws of the old dispensation?
Every study of calories spent versus calories gained confirms that the more your food comes from agriculture, the harder you have to work for it.
Wow!
it will probably seem as quaintly fanciful as the humoral theory of the Renaissance seems to us today.
You’re able to hold information in your head for an incredibly long time without drawing a conclusion.
translation: you don't "get it".
“The fundamental Taker delusion is that humanity itself was designed—and therefore destined—to become us. This is a twin of the idea that the entire universe was created in order to produce this planet.
pogroms,
Averaging it out, all God has been able to tell us for sure is that we should do unto others as we’d have them do unto us.
And this is exactly true. The golden rule. But most times, we have to be constantly reminded.
What appears to be kind and is meant to be kind can be the reverse of kind.”
Baal Shem Tov
God or the gods didn’t give their creatures ‘good instincts’ that I’m now calling collectively the Law of Life.
“No two things alike in all the mighty universe, Jared.
but we have identical twins. identical people.
Among the primates only humans are hunters, because among the primates only humans have the biological equipment to make hunting a mainstay of life—and that equipment is strictly intellectual.
We didn’t cross the line when we started using tools, we crossed the line when we became hunters.
Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.
These days are still those days. Nothing’s changed in the last five hundred years—or the last thousand—except that heretics can no longer be executed in public.
confraternity,
humans had lived in a profoundly different way.
Agriculture makes it possible for more people to live in an area than that area can support—and that’s exactly where famines occur. For example, agriculture made it possible for many populations of Africa to outstrip their homelands’ resources—and that’s why these populations are now starving.
Pragya liked this
Totalitarian agriculture
In 1948 Paul Miiller of Switzerland received a Nobel Prize for his wonderful work with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, considered the completely ideal chemical means of wiping out unwanted insect species.
shattered for all time a complex of fundamental articles of our cultural faith: that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it;
Tribal laws are never invented laws, they’re always received laws.
the difference between received tribal laws and laws invented by committees.
