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4) 'Belonging to many networks does not add up to having a community, no matter how many you belong to or how often your telephone rings.'
From “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling” (1st pub 1992,9th English print 2024) by John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018)
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The very fact that they are doing this means that they are planning a bird flu pandemic and to cull all poultry.
Hide your chickens! Build chicken bunkers if you have to!
‘Peoples who do not know where they come from do not know where they have to go; or rather, where they are being led by those who have falsified their history—towards the edge of the abyss; that is, towards their historical suicide.’
Marcelo Gullo Omodeo
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1/2 ‘Over the past decade, Western governments, increasingly concerned by the challenge to their geopolitical policies by independent media organisations and individual comment on social media platforms, ...' ...
2/2 ...'have been putting huge resources into the building of a 'disinformation industrial complex’.’
Quoting from ukcolumn.org/censored
Thanks for this and your tireless research and dissemination of discoveries, UKColumn @ukcolumn
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14) '"Language," he goes on, "has everywhere become a power unto itself, which now grabs the people with ghostly arms and forces them into places where they don't even want to go. As soon as they try to understand one another and come to some agreement, they are seized..' ..
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18) 'The term 'development', for example, when applied to whole societies, refers to a process of total transformation without limit; there is nothing that cannot be developed, and nothing, consequently, which is not development.'
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32) David Cayley, 'Pörksen undertook this investigation reluctantly. "Describing the disabling of the vernacular," he says in the introduction to his book, "has something depressing about it. It has not always been possible to approach it without breaking into a sweat..' ..
'Bavinck presses home the devasting critique that historical criticism is philosophical dogma disguised as neutral method.'
Quoting from ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published 13.1.21 @CraigACarter1
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c) 'But since the fact is that God became flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, this means that such an approach to historical research “does violence to phenomena and is nowhere capable of consistent application.” (40)'
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h) 'He is resisting the oft implied idea that old dogma is just superstition and tradition, whereas liberal theology is scientific and based on up-to-date research.'
Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published 13.1.21
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i) 'The views of Hegel, Schelling, Harnack and company are, in fact, reducible to old heresies from church history: “What appears to be new is often very old.” (41)'
Quoting from ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, 13.1.21
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1/5 ‘Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good. We are fond of talking about "liberty"; that, as we talk of it, is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good.'
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
4/5 'He says, "Away with your old moral formulae; I am for progress." This, logically stated, means, "Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it."'
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)