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So true, Edwin. I cringe when people start talking about how this is all about money. Money is just a means. It's about the lust for power; and the transformation of our world into a playground for that lust.

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Very well said! BRAVO

Like Jason Whitlock said, "Absurdities becoming atrocities."

And atrocities becoming "normalized."

It is all right there in history, 145 million killed by modern day totalitarianism, not yet caught up with ISLAM's 240 million, but closing fast!

And now, even malaria is looking in the rear view mirror.

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Indeed Edwin!

And absurdity/atrocities comes from that Voltaire quote: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

Where are you getting that Islam number?

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I think it was from "Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West" by Raymond Ibrahim, over 1400 years.

But don't quote me on that.

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May 5, 2022Liked by Edwin

I disagree, sorry. It is about the money ultimately. With money comes power and vice versa. The governors are always stealing money from treasury and use wars, vaccines, etc to do it. If it wasn't about the money there wouldn't be trillionaires.

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Don't be sorry, everyone's opinion not only matters, but applies to the collective discussion.

It just seems to me, all that money is far less "effective" without "the power."

I mean, if you can ignore law, precedent, morality, along with everything else, because you are one of "the people we have been waiting for, us," you can do a lot more with the damn money.

No wonder the "money" ruins/seduces/corrupts everybody.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Edwin

You can't have one without the other whether you like it or not. 👍

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You are right, you can't, anymore.

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Acquiring money through thieving/lying and other underhanded means leads to a black soul. These billionaires/trillionaires that run the world are miserable people who would know no real friendship or love and need prayers for their afterlife.

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You can't do anything without lots of money (as a medium of exchange). And as money loses its value through inflation, you just need more of it. I have never heard of a powerful pauper (unless it was a faked story).

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