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Our Love Affair With God

November 27, 2009

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by Henry Makow Ph.D


I was making a spaghetti sauce and put on a collection of old Paul Anka hits.

Listening to the lyrics, it struck me: If you imagine the love object is God, instead of some empty headed girl with regular features, there is little difference between popular love songs and religious hymns, prayers and chants.

We are all pilgrims and God (Love) is our Mecca.

I don't have to tell you that 97 per cent of all popular songs are love songs. A visitor from another planet would conclude that our religion is love. But instead of recognizing the real object of our desire, we have fixated on the opposite sex, whom we must mystify and idealize in order to justify our need.

I am not a Jungian, but I agree with Carl Jung's statement: "If you take away God, man will invent a thousand false ones." They have taken away God. You can't mention the word in polite company. As if the concept of a Creator and a Design is so outlandish, given the incredible organization of everything in the natural world.

The people who want to replace God (with themselves) are responsible for our inability to mention or imagine God when it is so simple.

God is synonymous with our spiritual ideals and desires: truth, beauty, love, peace, bliss, justice and harmony.  So don't blame God for letting bad things happen to good people. Bad people are responsible, the same people who abolished God.

We are God's agents. If we don't bring about his Kingdom, it won't happen. Eventually, we'll become extinct.


GETTING BACK TO LOVE SONGS

Next time you hear a love song, imagine it is about God. You will be surprised how well it fits.

"I love you with all my heart, we'll never part, please stay with me...God."

"I'm so alone. All I want is somebody to love"

"Show me, you love me too."

"I'm so lonely; I'm so blue, now that you're gone."

These lyrics remind me of Christian, Muslim and Hindu mystics pining away for Grace.  We are looking for someone to play the role of God.

We are religious zealots, just like them. All that's missing are the white robes. We don't pray five times a day. We listen to these prayers 50-100 times a day.

But we've taken a wrong turn. Instead of recognizing the true object of our desire, we have glombed on to the opposite sex. Frankly, we've been misdirected. (Think who runs the music and movie business.)  And lust has become a factor ...

CONCLUSION

If we could just begin with the knowledge that God loves us, then we wouldn't have this desperate misguided need "for love" expressed in love songs.

We are never alone. God is within.  He is our constant companion, a glowing fire at the center of our being. Our primary relationship is with Him.

 
 

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Neil said (November 27, 2009):

On your essay- Our love affair with God.

Wonderful, wonderful, The obvious so hidden!! It's crazy isn't it?
I am laughing...
I will have a silly grin on my face now everything time i listen to these songs!

Michael said (November 27, 2009):

thought this very interesting and so true an observation. I play guitar and write a little music, most of which has been melodies set to various Psalms and scripture. I have heard it taught that music is worship (of one thing or
another). By its nature often it expresses praise, adoration, desire etc. I learned to play because of John Denver's music, and even though I like to play something like "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and some of his love songs, there is a
longing and loneliness in them that perhaps is unconsciously a reach for what man is really missing most. But when I, in simple worship to the Lord, play and sing a psalm, many of which express praise and worship and love of God,
there is a depth of satisfaction, fulfillment. Very much this was one of the prime reasons we were made: to love God and worship Him...that being said, Song of Solomon has all that flowery poetry of human love, and one person I
know made a comparison of it to John Denver's "Annie's Song"...I have written a couple of "Christian romance" songs. One was for a niece's wedding. I think there is a place for them, but like anything they or the subject can be or
become an idol put before God and much of the worlds adulation expressed musically does this, and though not the case presently, I would love to have a special someone and sing one of those songs to her and have her enjoy it, and
since He created woman and men I think He would enjoy it as well.

The "Homintern"

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Only Homosexual Degenerates Win Power--Gregory Klimov

November 26, 2009


Klimov.jpegby Richard Evans

(for Henrymakow.com)


In 1981, Soviet defector Gregory Klimov (left) authored a book for the CIA to secretly distribute  to  members of the senior staff of the KGB.

His title was a play on the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Klimov's Protocols of the Soviet Wise Men. He wrote it as first person narratative of a series of lectures to top KGB insiders. The lectures are a course on the secret history of Civilization. 

In Protocol 3, The Keys to Power, the lecturer reveals that a secret society controls the world.
The lecturer said, "It's names are legion, but so you can understand I will call it the Homintern
(International Brotherhood Of Degenerates)." 

What does it take to acquire and hold power over the lives of millions of people?
 
"Only person with abnormal power drive will win in the race for positions of power. It is an axiom of degeneralogy that degenerates will make it to the top in the majority of cases.  Once this is understood, we can continue with the analogy of an Olympics competitor. Can a person with normal leg muscles participate and win a  race? Yes, he can. On the local school level.  He can also participate and win at town level. He can participate and may win at regional level. He can participate but has no chance to win at national level. He could not even participate at world level competition.

"Did you get the picture? Only person with abnormally developed legs muscles can participate and has chance to win at national or world level competitions.  It is the same in the levels of power in the world. "

GORBKISS.JPGTHE POWER COMPLEX
 
"Now we will talk Hi-Tech. Leaders of the world usually have complex of power which helps them to became world leaders. This complex is usually associated with suppressed sadism, which in turn is a result of latent homosexuality. We all have seen pictures of insane or semi-insane person, not huge at all, but 5-6 well built medical workers have a difficult time subduing him. This is perfect example of incredible energy that a semi-insane sadistical power-hungry person can produce to achieve his goals.

"Normal healthy people don't have this drive.  How does it happen?  We will be talking here about clans. It happened where two families married members to preserve land and wealth close to the clan and if this continues we have inbreeding of genes. Degeneration has three stages: 1. Sexual deviations. 2. Mental illnesses. 3. Inborn physical deformity.

"Once stage 1. infects a clan, degeneration of offspring accelerates.  Clan degenerates now consider sado-masochistic traits superior 'gifts' and seek perpetuation through tightening of mating close inside degenerate bloodlines.

"If a family tree is healthy, has many new branches with many new and healthy leaves (children) - this is certainly a normal and healthy clan. On the other hand, if family tree is drying up (childless couples) [or] has many dying branches (suicides, mental illnesses) - you are looking at clan entering golden stage of decay.
 
"Degenerates hate normal people. It is pleasure for them to watch how one semi-insane sadistic leader, chosen by them, goes to war with another semi-insane sadistic leader of another country, also chosen by them. Millions of normal people are dying for the joy and sadistic pleasure of degenerates...
 
"Masons, Illuminates etc. - are clubs, where degenerates observe behavior of possible candidates and upon verifying real homo-sadistic inclinations of the person - promote him into the real world of power.  Older clans that have reached stage 2. and 3. (losing their ability to produce surviving offspring) will seek secret insemination with new clan of physically 'healthy' psychopaths.

Bruderkuss_propaganda.JPGTHE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
 
Within the degenerative community there are different types of degenerates--the good, bad or ugly.
 
"No questions about it. There are only one thing left to determine -- is it an obedient clan or rebellious clan. Just look what this clan supports in the real life. Does it spread poison of decadence in art, science, literature or does it support normal causes, normal art, normal science, normal literature? Good degenerates honor the will of God or nature, become celibate, and do not reproduce and enjoy a golden age of decline.
 
It is the ugly degenerate clans which cause the trouble in the world. One historical example whose secrets were made public because they were so hated even among the cult was the House of the Borgias notorious Valencian-Italian  family of the Renaissance. The patriarch Rodrigo promoted Simony to become Pope or Rome  in 1492 .  He committed incest with his daughter Lucrezia who was herself a poisoner. The sons Cesare and Giovanni were also murderers, and rapists.  This family terrorized even the most degenerate families of Italy till Rodrigo was poisoned in 1503, probably by Cesare, so he could have his sister to himself.  There had been bad blood between father and son over incest jealousies. But without the power of the Pope father, Casare's fortunes reversed and he had to flee to Spain,Lucrezia remained under the protection of a powerful degenerate Italian consort.
 
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But the grandson of Rodrigo through Giovanni became a legitimate priest later.  He performed exorcism of demons on high degenerates, used his wealth to build a university, and was venerated as Saint Francis Borgia after his death.  This is example of good degenerate in the power structure of the world.
 
"Now - what is BAD? Bad do follow God and did not follow leaders of degenerate cult, but try to fool God by marrying normal person and destroying her dreams of normal happy life and healthy children.
 
"They have a weaker power complex and exercise terror at home, but they serve self interests only and cooperate with UGLY.  The Good degenerates recognize the Ugly and the Bad and help normal people protect themselves and fight them in society."

Lucifer is the archetypal revolutionary. Klimov concluded that all social revolutionaries are degenerates. Normal people are content with procreative sex, raising normal families, and do not instigate violence or crave superhuman power.  They are content with traditions which sustain equilibrium of culture.
 
 


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Joseph said (November 26, 2009):

Tremendous article by Evans.

I am getting caught up in Klimov's "Good, Bad, Ugly" scenario.

To cite an possible example of this, is the Kennedy family.

JFK looks to fit the "Good" degenerate mold, who despite his philandering, sought to protect the innocent or normal Americans (As the article stated, "The Good degenerates recognize the Ugly and the Bad and help normal people protect themselves and fight them in society.") by trying to expose the "worldwide monolithic conspiracy," as JFK described the depraved PTB to a National Press Club ... This speech probably a more suicidal stunt than Jack ever conceived and had to have contributed greatly to his Grassy Knoll murder in Dallas. I have also a quote in which JFK also reportedly said,
"The high office of the Presidency has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."

His brother, Robert looked to follow this legacy, and met the same fate. Whereas, Teddy was the "bad" degenerate, who all his life cooperated with the very same forces that killed his brothers. Maybe he was just trying to protect the rest of the Kennedy family, but anyone who did the acts of extreme cowardice as he did in the Mary Jo Kophechne incident is categorically BAD.

The father, Joseph Kennedy, looks to fill the "UGLY" category.

I am sure other readers can come up with similar examples.

Larry said (November 26, 2009):

Thanks for the Gregory Klimov article. To me that should be an obvious fact to most. Whether one chooses to associate this behavior with “psychopathy” or “possession, the fact remains that it is abhorrent. Whether it is a local group or a larger sphere of influence, it is always these self-serving “opportunists” who “rise” to prominence. So, knowing that, it does seem silly to expect them to assist the “normal” underlings with their problems. It seems the only effective thing we more balanced individuals can do, if we actually have anything to say about it, is to keep them away from any office where they wield authority.

As I’m sure you know these people (?) inhabit a very exclusive club. Mr. Klimov has it right. They don’t train them, they recognize them. Lately I’ve been playing with a thought experiment. What if we all just ignore them? Whenever they speak in public, turn your back. Refuse to talk to them or respond to anything they say or do. In other words, declare them anathema. There is nothing more terrifying to a psychopath than being ignored. The Italians actually had this down to an art form. They don’t “resist” openly. They just smile, nod their heads, and go on to do whatever they were going to do in spite of them. It makes “ruling” a bit like herding cats.

Well, again, thanks for the article. It is always encouraging to see others who are aware of a basic problem. It would be nice to see someone develop a “vaccine” for this.

Victoria said (November 26, 2009):

Hi Henry: Perhaps you would be kind enough to tell us exactly who 'Richard Evans' is? I've looked him up on the Internet and the main name that comes up is that of a professor of history at Cambridge U. Is this 'your' Richard Evans? It might be helpful (and give credibility to his reports) for people who are unsure about this information.

This is all most interesting and I was glad to see that someone, too, in a letter, has given the links to the interviews with Kay Griggs. Hers is an amazing story and she is a very brave lady. As I've said to many people - those are the ones to be trusted; those who have made a personal sacrifice or put their physical bodies at risk in order to get out the information. Those protecting the status quo are too cowardly and materialistic to risk all for their beliefs.

Well done, too, publishing the letter from 'Austin Rozzell' who challenged your courage to do just that. The hatred and vitriol imbuing that letter is exactly the venom with which our modern world is awash and shows the intensity of feeling in those who wish to deny God's supremacy over Creation.

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Victoria,

Richard Evans is the pen name of a longtime friend of mine, who is %100 reliable. I suggested this story to him.

Henry

Richard S said (November 26, 2009):

Kudos on publishing the Klimov article. I think it offers an accurate analysis of the power structures mankind has had to contend with for a very long time.

Powerful men like Caligula, Ernst Rohm and many of the “Bohemian Grove” attendees, etc. have been notoriously homosexual. I don’t think all homosexuals are power-mad psychopaths, but it does seem that many power-mad psychopaths are homosexual or bisexual. It is not surprising that Obama has been accused of being on the “down low” by Larry Sinclair and others. George W. Bush’s public smooching of Jeff Gannon and Saudi Sheiks is well known. Vladimir Putin’s extremely odd compulsion to lift a young boy’s shirt up and kiss him on the belly because “He seemed so nice” can be seen on YouTube for goodness sake!


The other key point that Klimov touches on is the idea that inbreeding among the “Elites” fosters the moral and mental degeneracy so frequently seen among them.

Meyer Amschel’s admonition to his five sons was: “Remain faithful to the law of Moses. Remain united to the end. Consult your mother. Intermarry.” Consider how many US Presidents can trace their genealogy to European Royalty. Even Lynn Cheney has admitted that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are distant cousins!

Pierre-Samuel du Pont, founder of the du Pont dynasty believed in inbreeding. He told his family: “The marriages that I should prefer for our colony would be between the cousins. In that way we should be sure of honesty of soul and purity of blood.” In 1997, one of the heirs to the du Pont fortune, John du Pont was convicted of murdering Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. John du Pont had been behaving erratically for years, driving a car into his swimming pool and exhibiting paranoid schizophrenic behavior. He was married in 1983 but the marriage was annulled 90 days later. In truth he was a known homosexual that generously funded training facilities for his favorite sport – wrestling.

The wrestlers that trained on du Pont’s estate are reported to have tolerated du Pont’s often overt advances. A gentle rebuff would allow them to maintain a working relationship with their benefactor. The unfortunate Mr. Schultz, who was married and by all accounts not interested in any sort of homosexual liaisons with du Pont, was shot and killed suddenly and without provocation by an insane du Pont. Du Pont was found guilty (there was no doubt he had done the crime) but “mentally ill.”

There are many such stories out there, and the Klimov article illustrates why.

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'Homo International' Controls East & West -- Soviet Defector

November 25, 2009


klimov.gifBy Richard Evans
(For Henrymakow.com)


In 1947: a young officer of the Soviet Military Administration (SVAG) in occupied East Germany defected to the West.  Gregory Klimov (left) didn't have any Soviet weapons secrets but he brought something far more valuable to the CIA.  He understood the hidden workings of Soviet system. 

 Klimov discovered that the Soviet system was dominated by a secret society of sociopaths bonded by a common pathology termed 'the power complex'. "This complex is usually associated with suppressed sadism, which in turn is result of latent homosexuality. Anybody who has knowledge of this forbidden area can influence and promote these leaders-to-be to position of power".

Klimov observed that admission up the ladder of the power structure required membership in the usual secret societies - "Masons, Shriners, Illuminates,  Theosophy, etc. - are clubs, where degenerates observe behavior of possible candidates and upon verifying real homo-sadistic inclination of the person - promote him into the real world of power.  Of couse there will be some normal curious bystanders, who always be in the background crowd as decoration. The real purpose of this clubs is to select active sado-homosexual maniacs who will not stop at committing any crime in order to be recognized and promoted to the position of power."

Klimov uses the term ''degenerates" to identify this secret brotherhood. Degenerates can't produce or invent or perform necessary tasks. They control and delegate.  Through a system of fear and envy.

They rely upon a social structure of hierarchy based upon fear and covetous envy - the essence of sado-masochism.  It's the 'dog eat dog' rat race culture.  As a translator and communications expert, Klimov saw normal productive individuals like himself were essentially prisoners in the system serving these degenerate 'superiors' out of fear.

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These degenerates come about as result of inbreeding.

"When close relatives marry each other - children will be degenerates. This is an old, well-known fact. If a group of religious leaders forbid marrying outside of sect  - this sect in 4-5 generations will be full of degenerates. Do you know any sect, which forbids marriages to outsiders and has been doing that for the last 5,000 years? [Jews? or Sabatean Jews? ed.] Many degenerates have some unusual qualities like incredible desire to dominate, ABNORMAL wish to rule, ABNORMAL thirst for power."
 
DEFECTOR

In his book Soviet Defectors: the KGB List, Vladislav Krason wrote of Klimov, "Having come to the conclusion ... that the hard-won victory over the Nazis was stolen by Stalin and his henchmen in the Party and KGB, Klimov decided he had no future in his fatherland."

Klimov himself wrote, "were it not for a secret agreement between the Americans and Soviet command to hand over deserters, the West would have been flooded with Soviet Army deserters."
 
Uncertain that the US Military governor of West Berlin wouldn't hand him over as a deserter, Klimov risked his life escaping to the American zone, gambling on having sufficient value to disappear through the black hole of the CIA.
 
Working inside the top secret level of the CIA it wasn't long before he recognized the same culture of degenerates operates both sides behind the scenes.
 
Krason writes, "Klimov's own encounter with the American authorities left a bitter taste with him that especially shows in his later writings".
 
'Homintern' is a play on 'Comintern'.  The Communist International.  But Klimov's Homintern  pre-dates the Soviet system by at least 5,000 years.
 
Klimov's discovery of a sado-homo-cidal mafia at the top levels of power whether East or West coincides with Jim Garrison's 1967 independent investigation into the Kennedy Assassination. Garrison was told of the Washington DC 'homosexual elite' which constitutes the secret government.  Garrison concluded that a primary reason Kennedy was so blatantly and brutally murdered before the American public was their contempt for Kennedy's heterosexuality.

ANTI SEMITISM?
 
Some of Klimov's later books are rumored to contain anti Semitic statements.
As those books aren't available in English this reviewer has found no such statements to quote.
 
A web search of sites in English does indicate some anti Semtic websites have latched onto his 'theory' of "degenerate-ocracy" in support of their own paradigm, but the following quote of Klimov seems inconsistent with the spirit antisemitism.
 
Q. 9: What do you think about "pure blood" nations?
 
A.: Good God hates racism in any form. Good God hates any concepts of "chosen" nations.
ANYBODY who tries to keep pure blood by forbidding marriages to the other normal people risks the danger of increasing degeneration process of his own nation. Especially if it is small nation. Keep in mind, that we are talking here about normal marriages between residents of community of normal people.
 
SEE -- KLIMOV'S "QUESTIONS & ANSWERS"

NEXT:  Protocols of the Soviet Wise Men: The nature and culture of the Beast.
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Robert said (November 25, 2009):

THE KAY GRIGGS INTERVIEWS

Marine leaders subject to homosexual discipline


http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-341031042963487862#
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-341031042963487862#docid=9137016279925999679

This interview of a high-ranking American military man's wife confirms the above article and will give the viewer a very disturbing perspective on all persons who attain high status in social hierarchies. The world is indeed not how the media present it to us.

R said (November 25, 2009):

Another good article (Klimov), and if I may, I would like to suggest that the elite structure is even more lost than their behavior indicates. Their sordid practices are the result of empty houses. They are places where life has gone over to a covenant of death. Their ultimate sacrifice is the shedding of their souls to accommodate
birds of prey that have no love for man. Sad yes, but never underestimate the limits of their evil.

Johnny said (November 25, 2009):

I wish you a belated happy birthday and I salute you for being in the worldwide top ten group of people who are making a difference. Actually I have been reading your articles since forever, but today brings me the pleasure to write to you in person.

The piece about Klimov's research did it for me as I have been privately contemplating the ultimate glue that holds the scum together, and the secret societies did not cut it for me. They are, as I now see, only recruitment agencies.

Is Klimov still alive and is it possible to communicate with him? This needs to be blown wide open, and pronto.

Not long ago I came across two documentaries about psychopaths and that got me going into that direction (they are on the docu hosting site sprword.com). It convinced me that the only way to prevent this in the future, if we have one, is to screen anyone for psychopathy, more so if they want to rise to the top (shit floats).

Very exciting news. Extremely valiant work. You make me a proud member of the species, no less than that.

TS said (November 25, 2009):

Your story about Gregory Klimov has interesting implications, some we could perhaps comment more thoroughly on, were any of us actual 'insiders.' (LOL, Perhaps I should have attended Yale, where I could have been recruited into the "we will be videotaping this perverse act," -Skull & Bones Club!)

Keep in mind that Bill Clinton was just as overtly 'hetero' as was Kennedy, and the differences between he and Bush remain quite clear. The differences between Obama and Bush are of course not clear at all. And, regardless of the games they play to get to the top of their invisible pyramid, the game will go on until the infrastructure that enables it to continue, falls apart.

Meanwhile, what becomes of the rich and powerful elite's 'trophy wives?' Can they find true happiness advertising their intimate services via the web? Meanwhile, the bread & circuses will continue to amaze those who cannot discern the clear implications of a simple 'administrative gesture,' like BoyGeorge kissing his buddy, 'Johnny Gosh!' on his bald head.

Again, maybe I missed out in New Haven!

Austin Rozzell said (November 25, 2009):

So I guess you are saying that the gays have outsmarted all u straight boys, and that we hold the keys of power.

Deal with it u dumb ass breeder.

Stupid pussy boys. Lolol and I know your to much of a coward to post this cunt boy

Letter from a Portland, OR Artist

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November 21, 2009


portland.jpgI myself am an artist. A pretty darn talented one at that, I might add. I'm up-and-coming in the "scene", and am knee-deep in all that entails in terms of the "culture" which comes with it. Really, I could care less about the trappings of success, impressing anybody, or elevating myself to any lofty status. Rather, I see myself as a willing instrument through which God manifests His mystery and beauty. It might be obvious that I have had the tendency over my years to idealize women, sexuality, romance, physical attractiveness (if the girl didn't turn heads wherever we went, she was usually off the radar for me), etc...often to the point of insanity. After all, artists need their Muse, right?

I've come to realize in my 34th year of being that what I was doing was externalizing the divine spark within me, projecting my innate need to love and be loved by God onto my partners. When cold-hearted reality crept into my infatuations, obviously this had the potential for obliterating my perceived harmonic and inspired state like a house of cards being placed in a wind-tunnel.

I live in Portland, which is a great city if you're an artist, despite its crippling unemployment. But one of my biggest criticisms of my beloved town is the fact that feminism, "faux"mosexuality (meaning: "I'm going to pretend I have Sapphic tendencies because it will make me appear edgy, modern, and hip...even though I'm really attracted to men"), and the ironically named "social networking", have all but decimated my generation's ability to facilitate what would be considered healthy, mutually beneficial, and dedicated relationships. It's quite heartbreaking, really. Plus, with everyone being a self-professed "liberal" here, my Obama criticisms (to put it lightly) are not as in vogue as my Bush-bashing was. I repeatedly remind people here that we used to have constant anti-war protests, rain or shine, hot or cold...which abruptly stopped around, say, November of last year. And yet the war still continues. Now you have even young, vegan liberals talking about "staying the course" in Afghanistan! Duped.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that your writings have inspired some of those that are neck-deep in the cultural trenches, and not everyone youngster born in raised in the Illuminati's holographic mind-control matrix succumbed to the bullshit. I'm a flawed person, to be sure...definitely a work in progress. Yet my hope is to transcend the lies I've been taught and, in turn, facilitate the same process in others. Having had that same experience with your writings, I simply wanted to thank you for your efforts, and wish you continued success in your personal path.

Letter from a Young American Hindu Monk

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November 20, 2009

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(Hindu Monk- cell phones are ubiquitous in developing world.)


by Corey Cananza

Thanks for your article, "On Turning 60." It is good for a young person like me to read your realizations. In traditional cultures, the elders were respected, unlike the modern American culture, where old people are abandoned to an old-age home. So by listening to the realizations of those who are older than us, we gain knowledge. It is wiser to gain knowledge about life and the various difficulties one will encounter in life through hearing, rather than direct experience.

I am a 25 year old American man, who has been living in India for the past 2 years. I am involved in an organic farm project in south India, with a school and temple also on the same property. We are trying to promote the traditional Vedic culture and show how it can be followed in a practical format. Naturally, I am very strongly against feminism, and have studied many anti-feminist articles. I spent the last 4 years of my life as a celibate Hindu monk, but am deciding to get married, and am going to find a nice young Indian village girl and live in India.
 
Reading your articles, I am struck by how similar your ideas are compared to the ideas presented in the Vedas. The Vedas also say that this life is meant for spiritual advancement, and not for simply sex life. The Vedas say that we should try to minimize sex agitation, which is why the traditional Indian culture, Vedic culture, restricted association between men and women. The Vedas say that the goal of life is to serve God in a devotional mood, or what is called bhakti-yoga. I see no difference between what you are writing and what the Vedas say, which shows that all of these different religions are presenting the same ideas, that God is one.
  
Traditional Indian culture says that life is meant for spiritual advancement, and that sex life is an insignificant part of life. In contrast, this modern atheistic society teaches us that there is no God, no soul, that we evolved from monkeys, and that sex is the highest happiness we can attain in life. I very much like your articles because you write about how traditional cultures taught people spiritual values, and how this modern atheistic western culture brainwashes everyone into a mindless zombie focused only on sex.
 
Sex is not something that we can entirely live without, at least in our youth. Marriage and sex is required for the vast majority of people during the younger part of one's life. But, we must see sex life in its proper perspective, which is to be used mainly for procreation with one's wife. Sex life should be given up after age 50 so that one can focus his consciousness more on spiritual life, on making spiritual advancement, and preparing for death.
 
God is on our side, and the good men will prevail. We will take back this world and live once again a religious and moral life, once this evil modern society totally collapses. Those who are on the side of good, on the side of God, will triumph. Gandhi said that evil may seem for a time to prevail over good, but in the end, good always prevails over evil. May that be our prayer, that those who are on the side of God, whatever religion they may be, will prevail over the evil demoniac men who are trying to destroy our planet. God will protect us.


 

The Key to Good Writing

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November 19, 2009

awriting1.jpg By Henry Makow Ph.D.

(Originally Posted in June, 2006)


The key to good writing is to consider your audience.

Recently a feminist sent me a long angry diatribe.

I replied: "What made you think I'd read this once I figured out it wasn't praise?"

People expect you to read their thoughts just because they took the trouble to write them down. Communication is not the same as self-expression. If you need to express yourself, start a diary. 

In communication, your reader must want to read your work! You must have something important, new or original to say.  You must write in an inviting and compelling way.

Put yourself in the reader's position. He doesn't have much time or patience. He's looking for something that will inform, empower or uplift him.

You must pique his interest immediately and convey your message quickly. Keep it short!  Weed out unnecessary words.  They are your currency. Don't inflate it.

The Internet is a very competitive environment. There is a plethora of good, free material. To compete, you must be as quick, easy and engaging as possible.

George Bernard Shaw said. "Have something original to say and say it in the most candid, straight-forward way possible."

Ideally you will be excited about your information or viewpoint, and will convey your passion.


CLEAR WRITING 


Clear writing requires clear thinking. If your message isn't clear to you, it's not going to be clear to your reader.

State your argument and give a few proofs. Don't cite a lot of evidence and expect your reader to figure out your argument. (The reader wants  your conclusions; he doesn't want your calculations. He will either accept or reject your views.)

Ideally, convey your message in the first paragraph so the reader can decide whether to continue.  Write in a linear way, one-thought-per sentence.

Good writing requires much rewriting. If you can, put the work away and look at it again over a few days.

None of this will stop the New World Order but it will enable us get our message out more effectively.  

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Related: George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"