443754
From: etc., [DNS_Address]
Subject: What resides…
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“It darkens the heart to call dark deeds’ good.’ It gives place for evil to thrive inside us. Every war is fought both without and within.” Galadriel This war between darkness and light was given the green light… |
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443786
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: What resides…
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Robert Graves did a 'Republic vs Empire' study. When the Emperor Claudius had lost in his effort to return Rome to a Republic, he set forth a new regime with Nero. "Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out." And here we are. For those that remember, again. |
443790
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: What resides…
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Again. Indeed. I'd like to suggest that we can choose to acknowledge the possibility that cycles which can appear repetitively circular in nature may in fact be very slowly spiraling upward in motion, seen only when fitted into a bigger-picture frame... Perhaps in this incarnation of Rome the darkness's own momentum will ensure that it is more fully and quickly leached out and flushed from the soil than has ever been possible before... We are not the victims of those ancient times...and we will not be broken.. |
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443876
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: What resides…
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Oh, I don't think empires rising and falling are cyclical because of the similarities, just that the qualities that create a republic when they degrade create the vacuum for strongmen and emperors to move in. |
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443761
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Sometimes...
| she's good! |
443766
From: etc., [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sometimes...
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Actually she got burnt and learned a different truth there. Humans do the same. |
443768
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sometimes...
| Then I guess we're all toast. Or are we? |
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443769
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sometimes...
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The outward expression of joy sure took a hit.. but toast? Not today.. but the long term prognosis..? That's exactly what global warming means. |
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