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Here is my thought on philosophy: Colossians 2:8 KJV
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
It matters not to me if you want to have a ghost name, but I don't want to have that ghost name, but you can have it. That does not matter to me. It does not matter to me that I have any name at all or any credit at all. So what I am saying is, "Go for it." and I will tag along but please do not make me be a stoic. I am a Christian. My allegiance is to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Written Word of God. And to me, Joe, that is the only writing that matters. The words in the Bible are not a man's words. They are the Very Word of God.
OK so you can call yourself Epictetus and that is fine by me.
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Here is what I have completed so far. I have to stop and rest before the evening round of activities hits.
It looks like I have 1/2 a page left, but I am not ready to tackle it.
First paragraph:
Added comma between: fast & but.
Started new sentence after: their pay instead
(I did this because the sentence is transitioning from a statement to a question.)
Started new sentence/removed: And
New Separated 2nd Paragraph:
Started a new paragraph: after liars (I did this to focus on the question that is asked I am assuming that the question you are referring to is the question following the statement, not the questions preceding the statement.)
Added colon: between alone & how (Also capitalized How)
Removed comma between: lies & and (because the comma is only needed in a list or between two independent clauses)
Italicized: we & we the people (for emphasis)
Replace comma with ellipse between: sun & who
3rd Paragraph:
Changed word from: done to perpetrated (just because I didn’t think done sounded good.)
4th Paragraph:
No Changes
5th Paragraph:
Removed comma between: liars & in (this is an essential clause see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/1/ )
Removed 3 commas and replaced with: Parenthesis & dash
SOMETHING FOR YOU TO CONSIDER IN PHRASE: all crimes made legal (Consider removing the word all, since all may or may not be able to be quantified as 100%.)
Removed words: when all that (to help sentence flow)
Replaced comma with question mark between: out & what (Started new sentence and capitalized: What)
Replaced question mark with colon between: Next & What
Replaced colon with period between: effort & then (Started new sentence and capitalized Then)
6th Paragraph:
Added WITH between: sing & the
7th Paragraph:
JOE: I am considering the phrase: “of making war ever so good for the economy” and that it applies both to “the fun” and “the profits” so I am editing by removing commas between: fun & and / profits & of
Replacing Comma with “and” between: bill & paying
8th Paragraph:
No Changes
9th Paragraph
Replaced comma with colon between: you & what
Removed comma between: insane & find
Changed finding to find and added semi colons between
(added capitalization to “What” for new sentence)
Replaced comma with semicolon between: Waco & or / case& or / (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/1/ Use a semicolon to join elements of a series when individual items of the series already include commas.)
Added ellipses in place of commas at the end of the paragraph.
Joe, I have not made editing notes for the rest of the article to save time so I could get this part back to you. You can compare the paragraphs with the originals after paragraph 9. OK?
Joe, I don’t understand the last part of this sentence: “No way Jose, you utopian dreamer, you fool, and you who defines the meaning of a conspiracy theorist?” Specifically: and you who defines the meaning of a conspiracy theorist? I also do not understand the question mark.
Edited version so far:
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Pending Collapse or Golden Opportunity?
News travels fast, but propaganda travels faster when the criminals take over. Such is our fate when Liberty is forsaken, dropped like an old shoe, in favor of investments in lies. When the liars who invent the best lies are given the opportunity to fix their own pay rate, they don’t, they raise their pay instead. How well does that work, and what can be expected from liars?
So the question is asked, and not by me alone: How much longer can the investors in lies and the investors in wars that are so good for the economy…how much longer can we, you know we, how much longer can we the people afford to keep on giving while the measurable benefits dry up, as the supply of ready victims are merely corpses rotting in the sun…who is going to be left to do the actual work?
What happens when the supply of frauds, robbers, pedophiles, rapists, kidnappers, slave masters, extortionists, drug pushers, torturers, serial killers, and war makers (for fun and profit, all made legal) reaches that condition of oversupply? When is it enough? When is it no longer beneficial to pay those high rates for all that crime perpetrated by those in office? When do we no longer get paid anything in return?
What happens after the fall?
What happens when the demand for very high paid liars in public office (hired to cover up all the other crimes - all crimes made legal) peters out? What happens next: when this process reaches that point of collapse, when the inevitable result of the law of diminishing returns takes hold, and that beast won’t let go without an inspired return to a demand for honest effort. Then what? Do we demand more of the same in a different suit, with a different flag, and another color of fraud money?
Do we get a new song to sing with the same old tune?
What happens when everyone and their mom have joined in the fun and profits of making war ever so good for the economy, and there are no longer any hapless victims left who are footing the bill and paying the National Debt, on schedule, as they are told to do, even while the most effective tax evaders are giving themselves the highest pay rates for jobs done to a high degree of competitive excellence?
Now what: punt?
In fact, in reality, coming to a theater near you: what happens when the hired liars who have grown fat, stupid, greedy, foolish, and insane find their way into your church, as in Waco; or your home, as in the Vicky Weaver case; or your building, falling down around you, as in 911…for fun and profit…for war and for might making right…right in your life, and right now?
Call 911, like the Branch Davidians? “They are shooting again, tell someone to call it off.”
When does the pendulum swing too far into mass insanity, passing the point of no return, where those who produce anything worth stealing are outnumbered and outgunned against those who make stealing legal, and like rats on a sinking ship, the remaining survivors have nothing to eat but each other?
When do those honest enough to admit the existence of responsibility take the time to look in the mirror and affect an accurate accounting?
If done, if done well, is it remotely possible that the accounting process discovers opportunity instead of absolute abject belief in falsehood without question?
Could there be, there in the mirror, a source of hope, of competitive invention, a spark of such incredible power as to cause within the observer acknowledgement of a reasonable path to take in avoidance of all the doom and gloom; is it remotely possible? Is there new light on the path that does not require the nailing of innocent people to crosses?
Is there a way to avoid nailing anyone, guilty or not, to crosses, a way to avoid making torture legal, for fun, and for profit?
No way Jose, you utopian dreamer, you fool, and you who defines the meaning of a conspiracy theorist?