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Spirtus Mundi - Spirit of the World, akin to
Hedonism, i.e. worldly, of the flesh. The Prophets wrote books: Then after them came our fathers, and wrought much up on them, and again their successors committed them to memory. But then came the Generation that now is, &, wrote them on papyrus and parchments, and laid them idle in the windows.....................
Glory be to God for dappled things --- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings; Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough, And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth wholse beauty is past change: Praise him. Gerard Manley Hopkins
For C.S. Lewis fans here a contemporary letter in the style of "The Screwtape Letters" to Wormwood from Uncle Screwtape concerning the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma...... With thanks to C. S. Lewis . . . Dear Wormwood, After your well documented failures 40 years ago, I would have thought you would have learned from your mistakes. But I see your recent trip to Oklahoma City has been an unmitigated disaster. Clearly you are in need of some further refresher training. A disaster of the scope of the bombing of the Murah Building should have been a slam dunk for furthering our ends—distrust, and out right hatred should have reigned—but instead the people of Oklahoma City became a symbol of all that we oppose—sharing, caring and out pouring of love (shudder) at a size and scope that has not been seen for generations. How could your have let such a thing happen? In a nut shell you failed to create cynicism! To understand this lost opportunity, let us return to the basics on how to lay the ground work to create the distrust and hatred that we thrive on. FIRST Destroy faith in God—As you remember there are several ways to accomplish this: there is some benefit in a good juicy scandal. But this doesn’t work well if people realize that the men who make up the clergy are the same as those in the pews—fallen men who are in the pastorate vocation. Oklahoma City lacks pastors who are considered infallible and there are also far too many of them for my taste. So many of them are humble folks who live to serve the flock granted to them. We need a superstar pastor who can be the focus of all ecclesiastical activities. One who can be the standard. One who people can ask "are you with him, or against him?" Then parishioners critical thinking skills will quite working, and the ground is laid for assault. Manufacture scandal like you’ve never done before, then the faithful will pour out of the churches without help and support. They will be ripe pickings! You also need some more pastors who are willing to rip at the heart of the scriptures. Attack the conservatives and their beliefs, a pastor who will publicly mock anyone who actually believes that the Bible is true. Then this pastor can ignore true sins such as theft, murder, sexual immoralities, and create fake sins such as opposing tax increases! Imagine a faithful man, trying to make ends meet, who hears this sermon. He will probably grow upset that he was attacked for trying to give his daughter dance lessons, as opposed to spending his hard earned money for taxes on some wasteful project! Oh to delight in his growing cynicism, there is nothing like it! SECOND destroy the faith of people in their fellow men. Isolate them by creating unnecessary divisions. You need lots of hate mongers who can divide people by racial and class lines. Create greed and envy. A handful of people who are willing to despoil the environment by illegally dumping will help too. Take away their means of self-defense. Don’t allow honest citizens to defend their homes or business. Sew discord by having the media blame the victim of a crime. Get an attorney to sue the man who defends his family or his life with a gun. Force people to have to hide in their homes and apartments at night, this will keep them from getting to know their neighbors. THIRD Destroy the faith in his community. A willing newspaper can be very helpful. If the citizens wake up every morning to find their core values assaulted, he will start to lose the ties that bind him with fellow citizens. Call hard working people names like racist and homophobes if they object to special privileges for the unqualified. Allow injustices to run rampant with out any public condemnation. Smash voices of dissent. Create silly charity drives—waste his money on art that revolts him, assault his values, make him fear for his children’s future, and then mock him! Create media panics about crime, rampant Satanist activities, anything that makes him fear for his kids. Keep people panicked about gang activity, no matter how minuscule the actual crime is—remember repeat a lie enough, and people will believe it! FORTH Destroy his faith in representative government. Make the public schools use methods of education that don’t work. Assault public values be forcing students to attend propaganda sessions for causes their parents oppose. Create suspicion by having a few of your minions conduct secret personality test, or confiscate religious books or symbols from the students. Waste money through fraud and corruption while basic service don’t get met. Let the garbage rot on his driveway. Never get around to putting a stop sign on a dangerous intersection. Find crooked cops, and send them on the streets. Make a show of arresting honest citizens, while genuine criminals are touted as misunderstood heroes. For good measure, fund silly "crime prevention" programs (something like Finger Painting for Thugs). Confiscate working people’s wages to go to the slothful. Oh, the cynicism will run rampant! Wormwood, this is just a quick refresher. You have a few allies in Oklahoma City, so get to work! You must work harder to turn the citizens into hard hearted cynics, who can turn their backs on their fellows in times of need. I do not want to ever see these people tempted to return good when faces with evil ever again. Your Uncle, Screwtape author unknown
What is a Democrat made of? - What is a Democrat made of? Of purple haze and militant gaze... - That's what a Democrat's made of! Of solemn cynics and abortion clinics, - That's what a Democrat's made of! Of pseudo scholars and guilt-trip wallowers, - Hollow woe hollers, and hollower followers, Cowerers, glowers and frivolous borrowers. - That's what a Democrat's made of! Party of the strange and twisted... - Champions of each vise ounce hissed at. Mockers of the tried and true.... - Seekers who have not a C-L-U. Where hinky notions find a home, - From which the dinky dollars thrown. To anywhere, unjustified.... - Throughout the middle classes hide. Pretenders pressing vague agendas... - They pose a philanthropic menders. Pitting class and class and class.... - These zions of the stubborn ass. Kill a tree and risk their might, - Abortion, why, a woman's right! Depict George Bush as mad aggressor, - Castro, as some quaint professor! Appeasing all tyrants, who act in bold violence... - With willfulness, wishfulness, blissful dead silence. They cheat on their spouses and back revolutions, Where Marx and machine guns are posed as solutions! They run in circles, swim in seas.... - Fly from responsibilities. A criminal will earn their pity... - While victims mount in every city. The poor they say "we help upgrade!" - But back in 1978 with Democrat's as the ruling tenants, - Of White House, Congress and the Senate..... Gas lines grew, Inflation soared... - The poor did better under Ford. Jimmy and Fritz looked pale and one, - Who can we possibly blame this on? The people that's who, as they did when they said, - "Things are bad, they won't get better, - It's not our fault... Go wear a sweater!" They spent other folk's money to garner votes and praises, Leaving indexed taxing brackets that meant automatic raises! That moved the poor and the middle class, - Their special friends they said. - To brackets where scant years before, The rich and fat had laid. And when Ron Reagon said at last, "Indexing has to go!" They said the old would soon be dead, - And similar cries of woe. They cursed and worst and fairly burst with ugly historyonics. Inflation fell, but what the hell, it can't be Reagonomics?! The man's success left them a mess, - When he said with reteroic blistery.... The dreaded Reds will make their bed, - On the old ash heap of history! Abortion is lethal and communism evil! - Oh how these rubs are uncouth! What gay-bashing, chauvinist, war-monger bigots, When will they ever see truth?! So, what is a Democrat made of? - What is a Democrat made of? Of morel despoilers and strident annoyers, devious layers And pronomag boyers, of prayer interdiction and socialist Fiction, of stupid decisions and history revisions, of sheer Abdication of sex-education, equivocation and scorn for our Nation, of asinine fratricide, BULLY FOR OUR SIDE!!! - THAT'S WHAT A DEMOCRAT'S MADE OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Father must I work to eat? Oh, no, my lucky son, We're living now on easy street, With dough from Washington! We've left it up to Uncle Sam; Now don't get exercised. Nobody has to give a damn, We've all been subsidized! But if Sam treats us all so well, And feeds us milk and honey, Please tell me Daddy, where oh where, He's going to get the money? Don't worry son, there ain't no hitch To this noble plan. He simply soaks the filthy rich, And helps the common man! But Daddy, won't there come a time, If we take all their cash, When they'll be left without a dime, And things will all go to smash? My faith in you is shrinking son, You nosy little brat! You do too damn much thinking boy... To be a Democrat!!!
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