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David Smith's avatar

"Let me frame this for you, because it is a big big stretch. I can’t attest that this is true, at this juncture I believe nothing, and sift everything pretty much continuously, since so much is being revealed."

I think I understand what you're saying here - there's a sense that I also believe nothing, but then at another level "I believe in God the Father, creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only begotten son our Saviour,"

I will continue to listen - I've been deeply moved by your story, by "The Monkey Puzzle Tree", by "180 degrees" and in some ways it's been like that early morning after coming out of my first Orange Sunshine trip to the sound of "Here Comes the Sun" - what comes to mind is a snatch of lyric, "There's somethin' happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear."

I'm hanging on solidly to my "people like me have been doing this for a thousand years" Anglican ritual - the old one, not the New and Improved - and also willing to listen prayerfully.

Be careful, Elizabeth! Watch your 6, my dear, we need you and you surely know just what danger you're in. I will suspend disbelief, keep tripping with you, and pray for your health, safety and success.

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"It’s not us, 95% of us are good, moderate, sensible people."

No, no we are not. That's exactly how you get Nazi Germany, where all the good, moderate, sensible people went along.

Solzhenitsyn: "Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil."

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