THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. – Thomas Paine
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GJ - This is always my antidote to the students' desire to open an essay with universal truths and philosophical words of many syllables.
Paine's essay kept Americans in the Revolutionary War when times were bleak, almost hopeless. Washington had Paine's essay read to the troops.
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| The armor of God passage, used in Pilgrim's Progress, is frequently quoted by Q. |
Those who make fun of Q probably never read the posts. Ephesians 6 and the injunction to pray for leaders - those passages have been repeatedly used by Q to guide the readers.
Q - led by Trump and some military officers - uses a method called gamification. As everyone knows, a vast amount of information is available and free, but how do leaders get people to dig into the mountain range of data and find out for themselves?
Here is a fascinating parallel between the development of Hitler, his associates and the tactics of today's rainbow revolution - Chapters linked here.
If I wanted to make a game of it, I would ask,
- Who among Hitler's closest associates was not...?
- Who were the philosophers of this group?
- Who were the activists who paved the way for acceptance?
- Why did two of Hitler's women commit suicide?
That would be far more productive for general knowledge than simply copying and pasting the chapters for readers to study or ignore. If people began debating the truth of these claims on a separate platform, even more learning would develop.
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| This has been quoted by Q more than once. |
