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* A half-thought apprehension prevented my doing something. The apprehension proved false. But by the time I realized it the moment to act had past. If I had only been rational!

* They will starve you from 10 things and then give you a lavish offer of one to tempt you.

* Between two conflicting goods, the one possessing greater evil should be got rid of.

* Those who listen to spirit people are the most brutal and sadistic of all people because the most brutal and sadistic of people are (certain kinds of) spirit people. Wartime violence and ruthlessness used on unsuspecting civilians and in peacetime. It's true, yet we have naught but perhaps an ad hoc army or police (that is ourselves as private citizens) to protect us from them. Where then can one find someone who can responsibly and honestly deal with something that is genuinely terrifying?

* Who would you prefer as a leader, one who (literally) listens to spirit people as highest authority, or one who is impartial and rational? You can't have both. * To Oafmore the Great
I think you're confused. It wasn't one of your movies. Those people really were murdered.
Your friend -- you think -- but, without thinking twice, he will devour you as you yourself would an animal.

* A Modern Dialogue
The Great One:: You gotta do what I say boy.
Citizen: What do you mean we have to do what you say?
The Great One: I have the money don't I? So don't give me that. You have to do what I say.
Citizen: Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on a second...
The Great One: The one with the gold makes the rules.
Citizen: Where did you get that money?
The Great One: Don't give me that boy I have the dough you have to do what I say.
Citizen: That's right he murdered some very fine and good people a while back, made his way back with his partners safely to their hide out afterward, and by next morning proclaimed brazenly to the world their new found good fortune as well as their plans to better humanity.

The Great One: Tell it to the FBI and the CIA then. I've got the money boy that's just the way life is.
* We see someone who rightly outrage and angers us. From this we might (wrongly) assume that he or she is a bad parent, or a depraved person, when really they are only a great fool on a particular point, rather than so much a all around bad person. A person might be outrageously bad in one way, yet this does not imply bad or outrageously bad in all ways necessarily. * Don't accept a strong feeling unless you have some clear idea of what it is and what it is based on. "What is this feeling? What is its cause?" Answer these first before allowing the emotion to move or possess you. Sometimes we forget to recognize and identify the emotion even though for the time we undergo it it might rule and drastically take charge of the course of our entire lives. * No one cares to be crucified. But if the choice is between being crucified and doing the crucifying, (as it sometimes is and as others would force it to be) it is I think more than clear between the two which is the lesser, more degraded sort of position. Now if someone forces the issue which would you choose?

* What is Real "X"? * Ned: "It makes me so mad because they go on television and say they really care about this country and will solve problems, but they don't do either!"
Fred: "Yes but, see here now, what on earth made you think they cared about this country or were capable of really solving problems to begin with?"
* If the world is in turmoil and this bothers you understand that for certain people it is desirable that it be so. Though you might find it hard to believe, mankind has a very real and implacable enemy. This enemy is basically made up of spirit people who, at least for practical purposes, you can think of as angels or else aristocratic spirit people. They enlist regular people (such as the Phantom of Dreamworks for example) to betray their fellow men, and these latter, and others more or less like them (and to a greater or lesser degrees) cooperate with the spirit people. Thus the enemy is let in through a back gate and permitted to make his home in our midst.
Now the story behind how this animosity toward humanity got started is not entirely obvious and open to some interpretation. But suffice to say these very hostile spirit people prefer to have us live as second class citizens, similar to how minorities of color have been treated in some human societies. These kinds of spirit people I am referring to in effect say this. "These humans are not 'righteous,' therefore they should be kept down and got to know their place." That at least is the kind of excuse they give, though they can give such a reason without it having to be their true motive (again just as certain racists might refer to certain ethnic groups as hopelessly lazy and therefore not worth assisting or educating, when he really makes his claim for other reasons.)
There are good spirit people who will help us fight these tyrant people. But as with the Americans in the Revolutionary War, though the French could aid them, ultimately the fight was the Americans and the French could only assist to the degree the Americans could carry on the fight themselves.

* One of my two (remaining) cats, named Winkle Bearstone, had to be put to sleep a few weeks ago this month. Rather than having had picked him up for adoption, he, overtime, just ended up moving into my home with Neffy (my other cat) and myself, possibly because the people who owned him did not take all that great care of him. Within just the past month or so, the nerves of his back legs had become disordered, possibly as a result of being hit by a car, I don’t know. The Hell people as likely as not had a hand in it, but in fairness, I won’t assume so, not here anyway, though I had at least once heard (not so long ago) “Winkle is not someone you want to know.”
A huge furry, white and part Persian cat (or Persian sort of cat), with big feet like a lion’s, Winkle was an unassuming and naive, if sometimes imperious, sort. When I saw him in his last hours I realized that despite the sometimes grumpy looking mien he took on (or seemed to or was made to), he really was just such a baby. When I removed him from the cat carrier at the vets and the woman vet and I petted him he purred affectionately, though he was evidently in no little pain. He was a real great kid, more than I realized, and now I miss him.
I remember looking at him one much earlier time and wondering what sort of regal and magnificent ideal or primordial archetype he (as a cat) sprang from, and could in this way see the Creator in his eyes – so innocent, so unknowing himself, yet a part and product of some great wisdom he himself could not know – or maybe he did know. Before leaving him to go I thought of him returning to that wisdom, looked for a last time into his eyes, saw in them that One, and said goodbye.

* If Only One Prayer
If I had only one prayer
it would be that those I love
whether they’re far or near
know there is always someone
to whom they’re always dear.

If forlorn, forsaken
I myself must be,
so be it!
Sinner as I am,
God’s will be done,
Lord have mercy!

Only let them always know
they’re always adored
and never for granted taken.
Though memory sleep
may love ever waken.
Though our mind forget
may our heart be ever theirs.
Keep them dear Lord
in kind, most loving care.

*
Spirit People Primer or "Spirit People for Dummies"
1. Generally speaking, spirit people are separated from regular people by a physical and moral barrier which science has as yet been unable to properly explore and explain. Whether this division is a natural one, so to speak, or the devising of some certain person or persons is also unknown as such.
2. As known in this world, those spirit people who have power over regular people, are, in truth, nothing more than rich and powerful people, who acquired their status through assassination, murder, torture, robbery, terror, slavery, sophisticated manipulation. Some see such people as representing God and Heaven. Others see such people as more or less a manifestation of Hell.
3. Spirit people, like regular people, need money to do things.
4. While persistence is a virtue, the presence of one virtue, however so excellently possessed or displayed does not absolve the person of requirement of possessing other virtues, such as common fairness and moral decency for example.
5. No spirit person is inherently better than any regular person, at least we would not know them to be such, except insofar as they displayed both higher moral character and perhaps, but not necessarily, intelligence as well. If you encounter a spirit person then, know that you should in no wise allow them to treat you any differently than how you would let other people treat you. For example, they have no right entering your home without your permission, let alone your body -- just as with an ordinary person.
5. No spirit person is inherently better than any regular person, at least we would not know them to be such, except insofar as they displayed both higher moral character and perhaps, but not necessarily, intelligence as well. If you encounter a spirit person then, know that you should in no wise allow them to treat you any differently than how you would let other people treat you. For example, they have no right entering your home without your permission, let alone your body -- just as with an ordinary person. Know also that even the most vicious regular person is a lamb compared to the most vicious of spirit people, and as a rule spirit people who are notably vicious are exceedingly more vicious than any “regular” people are or otherwise could be.
7. Even the worst and most sickening and hideous monster of a spirit person can appear as if he or she came from Heaven, that is depending on how well a person is able to tell true from false.
8. The types and character of spirit person one might find oneself dealing with is in large part a result of the moral, and intellectual caliber of the given community they live in. So the more depraved society is the more it is going to attract the worse sort of spirit people. The more well behaved and responsible society, conversely, will have less of the worse sort around, and more likely the good kind of spirit folk.
9. As a general rule, contact with conversant or else visibly manifesting spirit people is something which should be discouraged and turned away from. An exception to this, however, might be when a meeting is brought about in an open, unthreatening, and above board manner, between such spirit people and educated and intelligent "regular" people who are intellectually and morally competent to deal with them.
10. Spirit people respect religion no more no less than regular people do -- which is to say variously and differently.
***************************************************** Will you or will you not combat the enemies of life, happiness and truth? * Think of how unjustly people who have been accused and blamed of being crazy have been victimized twice -- both by the devils and by people who won't believe that it was such that literally afflicted them. * If to the extent we are not at present a free people it is because we refuse to be rational. * Before the advent of printing books were hard to come by. The Bible encouraged literacy and devotion to writing, and viewed writing, and hence thought, as something sacred. In its widespread appeal it possessed an importance few if any other books could match. In this way the Bible was not only desirable but necessary for higher literacy, and hence a higher level of culture and standard of living. * Sometimes doing the right thing is easy, even a joy. At others it is hard, a great burden, or impossible even though, in all instances, it's the same task. * Is it better or not to be able to see an imperfection in something? On the one hand we miss the defect, on the other we (in some sense) could be said to see more clearly. Which then has the greater advantage? *******************************************************
Hacker Attacks
William Thomas Sherman, Tues. 6/15/04

Within the past 24 hours my computer has been subject to over 2,000 hackers attempts or attacks. Below are a list of some of these --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the same way children are told not to talk to strangers, or let strangers touch them, adults need to be educated not to speak with spirit people unless they are proeprly honest and rational. Yet who doesn't think themself honest (enough) or sufficiently rational?
Now with some of these spirit persons it the same problem but from a different angle. I try to tell them that those who force themselves on others on a regular basis are people who in this world are understood to be mental patients. Some understand this. Some don't.
* The blood of countless victims keeps him floating gloriously in the air, and it is on this basis he can be benevolent. There are many ways to keep secret and deceive. But for the victims, the sense is he would be dragged down, down, down.
"His name?"
Does that really matter?
"And who are you to say such things?"
I am someone who, by God's grace and who with a healthy respect for common sense, fought off their whole army for over a decade now, and without a person to assist or a dime in my pocket. They were the ones with the people and the money. Not me.
I know these people.
Why? Because I beat them (many times.)
* A person of courage should never feel alone, if they but remember that the bravest in the past were all alone too -- that is, if they were the bravest. * This is the very same planet where all those great and tremendous things you heard about took place, and which you wished for, delighted in, envied or dreaded. And, just think -- you are on it. * Thank God We can Close our Eyes.
On one early meeting with some spirit people from Hell they pretended to be from or otherwise know of Heaven. They gave me to understand that in "Heaven" people were all under constant watch and surveillance. I mention this because some people will have been told the same thing yet (in their case) believe such spirit people. Part of the whole trick in a deception of this kind is that there is a "Heaven" in Hell, just as there is a "Catholic Church" there and a "House of Israel" also. But, needless to say, such is not the Heaven you and I had in mind.
* They did not explictly say they were but that was the impression I (previously unfamiliar with spirit people) was initially left with.
*
*The Goomer Game**
They told us for years that if we didn't have money (Ha, Ha, Ha) then we couldn't do anything (Ha, Ha, Ha.)
Now here they are, with their 60% violence, 25% noise, 10% devious cleverness, and 5% charm and talent, having left most of us by the roadside.
They have all the money in the world (and for some time) now.
And they still can't do anything.
* Refers to a game a person cannot possibly win.
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67.98.69.136:3644 207.220.158.84:139 NETBIOS Session A computer at IP Address 67.98.69.136 has attempted to access one of your system ports (TCP port 139). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool.
TCP port 139 is commonly used by the "NETBIOS Session" service or program. NetBIOS is used for Windows file sharing. It can be exploited to access files on your computer.
Your computer is being protected from this type of potential attack. >>>>>>>>
A computer at IP Address 199.174.135.108 has attempted to access one of your system ports (TCP port 445). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool.
TCP port 445 is commonly used by the "Microsoft-DS" service or program. This port is used by Windows 2000 and XP to access File sharing services. The firewall has blocked a potential attempt to access this port >>>>>>>>>
A computer at IP Address 165.121.64.151 has attempted to access one of your system ports (TCP port 445). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool.
TCP port 445 is commonly used by the "Microsoft-DS" service or program. This port is used by Windows 2000 and XP to access File sharing services. The firewall has blocked a potential attempt to access this port
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A computer at IP Address 217.195.199.102 has attempted an unsolicited connection to TCP port 1433 on your computer. TCP port 1433 is commonly used by the "Microsoft-SQL-Server" service or program. This port is used by the popular Microsoft SQL server database server. SQL server has several well known vulnerabilities and worms associated with it. The firewall has blocked access to this port. However, if you are using SQL server and it is not functioning properly, you may need to open this port. Only open this port after making certain you are using the latest service pack, have assigned a strong pass code to the SA account and followed other industry guidelines to secure this server from threats.
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A computer at IP Address 165.121.212.82 has pinged your computer. >>>>>>>>>
(TCP port 80). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool. TCP port 80 is commonly used by the "World Wide Web HTTP" service or program. HTTP is used to serve and request WWW pages. The Source computer has scanned your computer for a Web Server. Personal Web Servers, while common, are not always secure. Some Personal Web Servers can be used to gain access to files on your computer. Many Trojan/Worm attacks spread via this port (such as the infamous Code Red). The firewall is protecting you from this threat. However, if you are running a web server or are publishing web camera photos to the web and that application is not working you will need to open this port.
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A computer at IP Address 67.98.69.136 has attempted to access one of your system ports (TCP port 110). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool.
TCP port 110 is commonly used by the "Pro Mail Trojan / Post Office Protocol - Version 3" service or program. The standard port for the POP3 Mail protocol. POP3 is used to receive email. Home systems will rarely be running a mail server. Usually, this port is often used by several Trojan programs. If you are running an email server, you may need to open this port via "System Services" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A computer at IP Address 4.12.150.211 has pinged your computer.
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A computer at wbar3.sea1-4-5-146-162.sea1.dsl-verizon.net has pinged your computer. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A computer at dialup-4.242.177.224.Dial1.Seattle1.Level3.net has pinged your computer.
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A computer at dialup-4.242.171.79.Dial1.Seattle1.Level3.net has pinged your computer.
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A computer at IP Address 165.121.166.19 has attempted to access one of your system ports (TCP port 135). If you want to allow this traffic, you should either Trust the IP address or open the port in the System Services Tool.
TCP port 135 is commonly used by the "DCE endpoint resolution" service or program. Port 135 is used by Windows and presents a considerable security risk. The firewall has blocked an attempt to access this port. This port should NOT be opened except in certain circumstances where you are protected by another firewall (e.g. in a corporate DMZ situation). If needed, this port can be opened in the "System Services" tab
------------------------------- I will possibly be posting more of these later. – WTS. Additional Hacker logs:
Log attacks file 1
Log attacks file 2

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