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-= how and why. did it start? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The harassment didn't start by itself, so someone. must have been there at the outset to give. it a firm push and set the "animals" after me. It looks as if I was set up in June 1990, and the timing. indicates someone from university. was responsible. [color=blue] >One thing which has been. missing from this discussion is this simple >prognosis: that maybe. he is right and that, despite his admitted >mental condition, there really is a campaign against. him organised by >now-influential ex-students of. his university.[/color] In May or June 1990, Alan Freeman on Radio 1. read out a letter from someone who had known me for. a few years, who wrote of the one who "wore out his welcome with random precision" (from the. Pink Floyd song). Freeman went on to say to. the writer "that's a hell of a letter you wrote there". The indication is strongly that people I had parted. from soon before nursed a grudge against me and were trying to. cause trouble for me. The suggestion is that Freeman might have shown the letter. to other people, and things could have snowballed from there. Right from the start. the real source (security services presumed) didn't announce themselves as. the origin, but let the "talkers", the radio DJs, believe. that they were the originators. Think. about it; if you announce, "we're MI5 and we have a campaign against this bloke" then people might not go. along with it; but if you say, "everyone else is getting at this bloke because he 'deserves'. it" then people will join in. with fewer qualms. [color=blue] >Why would "they" wish to assassinate. your character?[/color] It's the classic case of hitting a. cripple to prove you're stronger. Why would the. security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds and more than six years of manpower to try. to kill a British citizen? Because they are. motivated by people who knew me at university and feel personal animosity; because they knew me to be emotionally weak, and it is. in the nature of. bullies to prey on those known to be weak; and because they can rely on the. complicity of the establishment, which the security services manipulate and derive. funding from. This is England's biggest humiliation today,. and the British security services are intent on preventing their humiliation becoming reality by continuing their campaign of. attempted murder to suppress the truth from becoming. public. 1669 |
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that there is a
God for them. I shall not show Him to others. I shall make them see that a Messiah has been promised, who should deliver them from their enemies, and that One has come to free them from their iniquities, but not from their enemies. When David foretold that the Messiah would deliver His people from their enemies, one can believe that in the flesh these would be the Egyptians; and then I cannot show that the prophecy was fulfilled. But one can well believe also that the enemies would be their sins; for indeed the Egyptians were not their enemies, but their sins were so. This word enemies is, therefore, ambiguous. But if he says elsewhere, as he does, that He will deliver His people from their sins, as indeed do Isaiah and others, the ambiguity is removed, and the double meaning of enemies is reduced to the simple meaning of iniquities. For if he had sins in his mind, he could well denote them as enemies; but if he thought of enemies, he could not designate them as iniquities. Now Moses, David, and Isaiah used the same terms. Who will say, then, that they have not the same meaning and that David's meaning, which is plainly iniquities when he spoke of enemies, was not the same as that of Moses when speaking of enemies? Daniel (ix) prays for the deliverance of the people from the captivity of their enemies. But he was thinking of sins, and, to show this, he says that Gabriel came to tell him that his prayer was heard, and that there were only seventy weeks to wait, after which the people would be freed from iniquity, sin would have an end, and the Redeemer, the Holy of Holies, would bring eternal justice, not legal, but eternal. SECTION XI: THE PROPHECIES 693. When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe |
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benefit, even when He hides Himself, what light ought we not to expect from Him when He reveals Himself? 849. Will Est et non est.211 be received in faith itself as well as in miracles? And if it is inseparable in the others... When Saint Xavier works miracles. Saint Hilary. "Ye wretches, who oblige us to speak of miracles." Unjust judges, make not your own laws on the moment; judge by those which are established, and by yourselves. Vae qui conditis leges iniquas.212 Miracles endless, false. In order to weaken your adversaries, you disarm the whole Church. If they say that our salvation depends upon God, they are "heretics." If they say that they are obedient to the Pope, that is "hypocrisy." If they are ready to subscribe to all the articles, that is not enough. If they say that a man must not be killed for an apple, "they attack the morality of Catholics." If miracles are done among them, it is not a sign of holiness, and is, on the contrary a symptom of heresy. This way in which the Church has existed is that truth has been without dispute, or, if it has been contested, there has been the Pope, or, failing him, there has been the Church. 850. The five propositions condemned, but no miracle; for the truth was not attacked. But the Sorbonne... but the bull... It is imposs |
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most foolish. 465. The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. 466. Had Epictetus seen the way perfectly, he would have said to men, "You follow a wrong road"; he shows that there is another, but he does not lead to it. It is the way of willing what God wills. Jesus Christ alone leads to it: Via, veritas.75 The vices of Zeno himself. 467. The reason of effects.--Epictetus. Those who say, "You have a headache"; this is not the same thing. We are assured of health, and not of justice; and in fact his own was nonsense. And yet he believed it demonstrable, when he said, "It is either in our power or it is not." But he did not perceive that it is not in our power to regulate the heart, and he was wrong to infer from this the fact that there were some Christians. 468. No other religion has proposed to men to hate themselves. No other religion, then, can please those who hate themselves, and who seek a Being truly lovable. And these, if they had never heard of the religion of a God humiliated, would embrace it at once. 469. I feel that I might not have been; for the Ego consists in my thoughts. Therefore I, who think, would not have been, if my mother had been killed before I had life. I am not, then, a necessary being. In the same way I am not eternal or infinite; but I see plainly that there exists in nature a necessary Being, eternal and infinite. 470. "Had I seen a miracle," say men, "I sho |
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