Recently - well; yesterday, in very point of fact - I had occasion to send an email in appreciation to political commentator Kelleigh Nelson for a column that she wrote for the online News With Views site. To herald it, she quoted the clarion call, “Carthage must be destroyed!” and credited it to Marcus Tullius Cicero. In my emil of appreciation for her article - its subject not being germane to this sharing - I pointed out to her that that quote was not from Cicero, but from Cato. She kindly replied, saying that it was Cicero who made historical reference to the inveighing against Carthage of Cato, of 100 years previously, which reference kept alive that bon mot; and mentioned in passing that Cicero was “one of her most favorite philosophers”. My response:
“Interesting 'footnote' to history. I stand corrected, of sorts. But yes, any such reference to Cicero on this matter needs to include the full of the matter.
“And yes, Cicero was some dude. I first came across him, in any considerable degree, in the novel about him and his times by Taylor Caldwell. And now, there was some person, herself.
“And do we ever have sly traitors amongst us in our times...
“Plus ca change.
“Stan”
In response, she asked me which book it was by Taylor Caldwell, “because I loved her, read nearly everything she wrote when I was a young woman”. My reply (today):
“'A Pillar of Iron'. Well worth reading, esp. since you are in to both Taylor Caldwell and Cicero. And it is particularly well worth reading for this generation of Americans as well, since we are facing the same sort of 'politics' that Cicero was in his lifetime, in the stealthy, sinister move from the Republic to the Empire. (In fact, now that I think of it, I might well check in our public library to see if they have a copy of it, and get back into it myself. Timely as it is, and all.)”
And feeling thus inspired, I in fact wrapped up my brief checkin of my emails and went out for my daily, this time to the Main Public Library in town, to see if they happened to have a copy of said book; and lo, there one was. And in checking it out, and returning home after running an errand to the supermarket, I have read its cover blurb, and, thus enticed, went on inside to read the Foreword. Satisfied that I had done a good thing for myself in checking the book out, I laid it aside, to get into it later on in my evening; and in doing so, chanced on a quote of hers on the back cover; to wit:
‘Were Cicero alive in the America of today, he would be aghast and appalled.”
I’ll tell you one of the things that he would be appalled at. Besides at our lack - or at least, our seeming lack - of widespread awareness in general at the Creature that is about to swallow our country, there is a particular factor in that demise that I am sure would attract his attention, so attuned to warning signs that he was. That warning sign in particular:
from conservative tribune (via westernjournal.com): ‘Boy Scouts Lose 425,000 Boys 1 Week After Announcing Name Change’ - Joe Saunders - May 9
(The Mormon Church is cutting its ties to the BSA. Ostensibly because it is increasingly an international membership, and wants something different for its youth; but it has also been generated by the changes in the BSA that have been going on, as in its allowing into its ranks, first, gay boys, and then gay Scoutmasters. All leading to the move now to merge the Boys with the Girls; as is happening in the larger social body…)
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RedRing (May 9)
This would appear to be another concession to abnormality, and as such is wrong, wrong, wrong to any decently intelligent society. Gender identity can be affected by abnormal levels of the maternal hormonal bath in the uterus at a particular, early stage of fetal development (I think it's between the 8-10-week period, as I recall from my research into this matter), when male-patterned brains can be 'wired' into genetically female bodies and vice versa and every abnormal level in between, like trannies. The causes of such abnormal levels are various, and instructive. An abnormality in the adrenal glands of the developing fetus or the mother or both. Estrogen mimics/endocrine disruptors in the environment, from plastics, pesticides, and/ or The Pill. Stress, of all kinds - physical, mental, emotional (there is evidence of a higher incidence of homosexually-oriented babies born in the wake of wars than the 'normal' background 'noise' can account for, e.g.). But perhaps most alarmingly is the effect of drugs like barbiturates, prescribed to pregnant women without sufficient regard for their potential effect on the developing fetus.
We have, in short, been playing with fire. We need to grow up, and reclaim our intelligence as a species, called - perhaps wishfully - Homo sapiens sapiens.
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RedRing (moments later)
I didn't mean "level" in between; I meant to say, "...and every stop along the abnormal spectrum in between..." This site does't allow for Edit; sorry.
But to emphasize: These 'gender identity disorders' are just that - disorders. Not 'natural' conditions. And they should not be treated as such. They are like canaries in the coal mine. We ignore their 'condition' in our midst - and growing condition at that - at our peril.
Don't blame the messenger. Blame those who are not acting on the message.
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Has this matter simply been overlooked by our medical profession?? I think not.
And as the Goldman Sachs gang has just recently been audaciously honestly quoted as saying (to go along with the likes of how the infiltrated Department of Justice is arrogantly stonewalling Congress on matters that they have constitutional rights to act as oversight for): They are not interested in a cure for cancer. Why? Because: “There is no money in it.”
Do you get what I am getting at, herein???
There is a Creature about to devour this country, on its way to devouring the world as a whole. And its name is Nemesis.
And we ignore it at our peril.
And it was ever thus.
Well; at least, since the invention of paper money.
And interest-bearing money at that.
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