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Free sex rites are also a reason socialist systems always devolve into paranoia, suspicion and recrimination.

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Oct 19, 2022ยทedited Oct 19, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Your pitches to upgrade to paid are getting fancier by the essay ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ‘Œ

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

I guess its clear that sex, power and control is at the root of all troubles the human race encounters no matter what year it is.

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You are unfairly misrepresenting and maligning the Cathars FFS.

They had good reason to hate the Catholic church of that period, as they were literally their mortal enemy, demonstrated by their mass-murder of the Cathars and driving what was left underground.

You've also conflated some Gnostic sects ideas into the Cathar belief system.

The Cathars did believe that the OT god was evil, b/c HE WAS. Yahweh is not the Christian god. Read Mauro Biglino (official translator of proto-Hebrew and ancient Aramaic for the Vatican and head Rabbis) to get a more accurate understanding of the Bible, and the reality of the "god" of *one* particular Hebrew tribe. Here's a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfsrrBqPCNw

Catholics need to lay off the Cathars, we're frankly getting sick of it. They didn't get everything right, but from what I can tell they are a lot closer than Catholicism or Orthodoxy in their credo.

https://www.cathar.info/cathar_beliefs.htm

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Liking this series so far Winston. Reading part 2 reminded me of what "the preacher" says in Ecclesiastes ...

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

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I just did the first English translation of Shafarevich's "Postscript to โ€˜The Three-Thousand-Year-Old Enigma'".

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/10/11/igor-shafarevich-postscript-to-the-three-thousand-year-old-enigma/#comments

It's so encouraging to see bloggers brave enough to start taking Solzhenitsyn and Shafarevich's work seriously. Both men spoke out on the greatest threat that humanity faces: the threat of organized Jewry.

Good on ya!

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