1216) Unread books are like unmined gold.

Ron Robertson
personal communication (8/20/95)

[Note: Unfortunately, the size of the deposits of unmined gold in my apartment have increased tremendously in the past decade.]

1217) If we are not our brother's keeper, let us at least not be his executioner.

Marlin Brando
Academy Award acceptance speech
New York Times (3/30/1973)
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

1218) Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters
A Passion for Excellence (1985)
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

1219) I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

Ella T. Grasso
Governor of Connecticut, the first women
elected Governor of any American state (1974)
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

1220) Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

Katherine Whitehorn
The Observer (1975)
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

1221) Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert (widely attributed)
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

[Note: cf. #1268 English]

1222) Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

unknown
posted by Jeff Shepherd [ISQ] (8/22/95)

[Note: This quote has been attributed to both Samuel Johnson and advice columnist Ann Landers. No citation has been located for either.]

1214)
Oh the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks,
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule,

But during
National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
are dancing cheek-to-cheek,
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks,
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie,

But during
National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic,
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate 'em if you try.

Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hate the Jews,

But during
National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-Anotherhood Week,
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week so have no fear,
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year.

Tom Lehrer
"National Brotherhood Week" from
That Was The Year That Was (lp, 1965)

1215) Until the philosophy that holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned [everywhere is war]; that until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation; until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes [there is war]; that until their basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race [there is war]; that until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained; [everywhere is war. War in the east. War in the west. War up north. War down south.] And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that now hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique, South Africa, in sub-human bondage, have been toppled, utterly destroyed; until that day the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

Haile Selassie
speech in California (2/28/1968)
adapted and set to music by Bob Marley
as the song "War" on
Rastaman Vibration (lp, 1976)
[additional words by Marley]

1203) Beginnings are a delicate time.

Dune (film, 1984)
directed and screenplay by David Lynch
based on the novel by Frank Herbert
spoken by the character "Princess Irulan",
played by Virginia Madsen

1204) Forrest Gump!! Man, I violently hated that reactionary piece of subtle pseudohip drivel [...] Jesus -- a movie that really makes the audience wish they were obedient and stupid?? What gives?? It's like something out of the depths of a Stalinist purge.

Bruce Sterling (attributed)
Usenet "sig" (signature) of Michael Jennings,
seen on rec.art.sf.written (7/4/95)

[Note: The only Google hits for this quote are a very small number of instances of Michael Jennings' sig dating from the mid-90's, suggesting that its authenticity is extremely tenuous.]

1205) As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand.

Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Josh Billings: Hiz Sayings (1865) [WQ]
NBrooks, personal e-mail (8/5/95)

1206) For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

Richard Clopton
quoted in 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996)
James A. Haught, ed. [PAQ]
NBrooks, personal e-mail (8/5/95)

1207) The chap who said that truth is stranger than fiction died before fiction reached its present state of development.

Elmira Star Gazette (attributed)
posted by Chris West [ISQ] (8/15/95)

1208) The unexamined life is not worth living. On the other hand, too much processing and you get Velveeta.

VR.5 (TV series, 1995)
created by Jeanine Renshaw
spoken by the character "Duncan"
played by Michael Easton

[Note: "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being." Socrates, as quoted by Plato in Apology [WQ]]

1209) This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole
letter to Sir Horace Mann (12/31/1769)
posted by Haavard Fosseng [IQM] (8/17/95)

1210) Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway (widely attributed)
posted by George Osner [ISQ] (8/16/95)

1211) Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

Aliens (film, 1986)
story by James Cameron and David Giler & Walter Hill
directed and screenplay by James Cameron
spoken by the character "Ripley",
played by Sigourney Weaver

1212) Congratulation, n. The civility of envy.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Chris West [ISQ] (8/15/95)

1213) Oh well, forget it.

Robert Ashley
Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) (opera, 1991)

1195) Unlike the useless versifying and arbitrary punishments that filled my [British public-]school days, science is an ordered realm of theory, law and facts, where mysteries are resolved and reason prevails, though often not without struggle. Like a slowly spreading pool of light, science now comprehends much of the natural world and is fast reaching to describe the central verities of living things. The achievement bespeaks a degree of understanding that the thinkers of past centuries would have deemed beyond price. An education that doesn't reflect the hard-won ability to comprehend much of the natural world, and rates science no more necessary than Latin, would befit the Dark Ages.

Nicholas Wade
"Method & Madness: Learning Disabled"
New York Times Magazine (7/23/95)

1196) To be a scientist--it is not just a different job, so that a man should choose between being a scientist and being an explorer or a bond-salesman or a physician or a king or a farmer. It is a tangle of very obscure emotions, like mysticism, or wanting to write poetry; it makes its victim all different from the good normal man. The normal man, he does not care much what he does except that he should eat and sleep and make love. But the scientist is intensely religious--he is so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.

Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith (1925)
spoken by the character "Gottleib" [WQ]
posted by Susan L. Forsburg [UAQ] (7/7/95)

1197) Scientists are so blamed wise and so packed full of knowledge that they cannot comprehend why God has made nearly all the rest of mankind so infernally stupid.

Edwin W. Scripps
quoted by Dorothy Nelkin in
Selling Science: How the Press Covers
Science and Technology (1987)
posted by Louise Winder [IQM] (7/5/95)

1198) Much in the humanities has no answer, for the language is innocent of data. They lack the rub of the real.

Gregory Benford
"A Scientist's Notebook: Sex, Gender, and Fantasy"
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (9/95)

1199) Could the rigid rectangularity of the checkerboard midwest have a great deal to do with their sex lives? The furrow lines in fields draw you forward to the infinity where parallels meet, over the horizon. In the grip of such geometry, such mathematical order, the impatient, snaky pant and slither of sex doesn't fit. The American instinct, pinned to the Euclidean landscape, has been to mechanize their own reproduction, just as they did to wheat.

Gregory Benford
"A Scientist's Notebook: Sex, Gender, and Fantasy"
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (9/95)

1200) A recent study of psychotherapy techniques showed that patients had just a good a chance of improving if they skipped their Freudian-based therapy sessions entirely, and went for a walk.

Gregory Benford
"A Scientist's Notebook: Sex, Gender, and Fantasy"
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (9/95)

1201) The fashionable attitudes of our time hold that homosexuality is perfectly all right because it is a right, like free speech. The political language revolves around "sexual preference," trivializing a profound inner sense into a fashion choice. [...] A more persuasive argument rests on biology itself. Homosexuality persists in all societies, and indeed, among the higher primates generally, because it has an evolutionary role. [...] [A] gay man or woman can work for the betterment of his or her relations, laboring in the tribe as specialized labor, free of the burden of child rearing. Gay males may have been leaders, or explorers, or craftsmen. They might have stayed close to their mothers, to protect while the other men were away. Lesbians could have done general service in child rearing, or helped hunt (woman often have a better sense of smell). There are available, specialized labor, just as men and women adapt to special tasks.

These are "Just So"-style stories explaining why given traits emerged. The crucial point is that they did, in the crucible of rapid human evolution. [...] [B]ecause the gay brother or sister labors on, the tribe as a whole has a better chance of surviving. Homosexuality need not be accepted because it is a right, but rather because it is indeed natural. It is preferred as a minority strategy by evolution of the hunter-gatherer hominids we once were [...] and still is.

Gregory Benford
"A Scientist's Notebook: Sex, Gender, and Fantasy"
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (9/95)

1202) The rule of the genes was like the government of the old Hapsburg Empire, 'Despotismus gemildert durch Schlamperei' ('Despotism tempered by sloppiness').

One of the most interesting developments in modern genetics is the discovery of 'Junk DNA,' a substantial component of our cellular inheritance which appears to have no biological function. Junk DNA is nucleic acid which does us no good and no harm, merely taking a free ride in our cells and taking advantage of our efficient replicative apparatus. It is difficult to measure the fraction of our DNA that is functional. Several lines of evidence indicate that as much as half of it may be junk. The prevalence of Junk DNA is a striking example of the sloppiness which life has always embodied in one form or another. It is easy to find in human culture the analogue of Junk DNA. Junk culture is replicated together with memes, just as Junk DNA is replicated together with genes. Junk culture is the rubbish of civilization, television commercials and astrology and jukeboxes and political propaganda. Tolerance of junk is one of life's most essential characteristics. In every sphere of life, whether cultural, economic, ecological or cellular, the systems which survive best are those which are not too fine-tuned to carry a large load of junk. And so, I believe, it must have been at the beginning. I would be surprised if the first living cell were not at least 25 percent junk.

Freeman Dyson
Infinite In All Directions (1988)
Cynthia Price, personal e-mail (7/11/95)

1187) If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

Carl Schurz
speech to members of the Republican Party
in Massachusetts (4/18/1859)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1188) The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the palladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people. The power of entailing estates is more dangerous to liberty and republican government, than all the constitutions that can be written on paper, or even than a standing army.

Noah Webster
"A Citizen of America" (10/17/1787)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1189) The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless. In such a case, the popular power would be likely to break in upon the rights of property, or else the influence of property to limit and control the exercise of popular power.

Daniel Webster
"First Settlement of New England" (12/22/1820)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1190) The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke
letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (4/3/1777) [WQ]
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1191) When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Charles Evans Hughes
address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 150th
anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill (6/17/25)
posted by jr3000 [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1192) Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Mohandas K. Ghandi (widely attributed)
(1931)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (7/4/95)

1193) The Pledge of Allegiance says 'Liberty and Justice for All.' Which part of 'All' don't you understand?

Representative Pat Schroeder (widely attributed)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (7/4/95)

1186) Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Russ Allbery [UAQ] (7/2/95)

[During World War II] Japanese scientists pursued a number of secrets weapons, none more bizarre than the "death ray". By the end of the war they had developed an electronic device based on a high-frequency electro-magnetic wave tube emitting 13-foot waves that could stop a petrol engine at a short distance, or kill a rabbit at 10 feet from haemorrhages of brain and lungs. The plan to turn the ray on enemy bombers never materialised.

1171) I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

John Stuart Mill
letter to Sir John Pakington,
Conservative MP (3/1866) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

[Note: Aphorized as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."]

1172) We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this programme. It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are more concerned with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government, nor to suggest at any point that they sacrifice their credibility by denying free debate on vital matters in the mistaken impression that party unity comes before the well-being of the people they supposedly represent, nor to imply at any stage that they are squabbling little toadies without an ounce of concern for the vital social problems of today. Nor indeed do we intend that viewers should consider them as crabby ulcerous little self-seeking vermin with furry legs and an excessive addiction to alcohol and certain explicit sexual practices which some people might find offensive.

We are sorry if this impression has come across.

Monty Python
(Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam,
Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV series)
Episode 3.06: "The War Against Pornography" (11/23/1972)

1173) He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

Moliere
The Misanthrope (play, 1666)
spoken by the character Celimene

1174) In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.

J.G.C. Minchin (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1175) [T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill
"On Liberty" (1859) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1176) Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Charles de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws (1748) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1177) The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Charles de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1163) There is just one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you said in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

John Galsworthy
Maid in Waiting (1931)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

[Note: In a speech made at Princeton University (5/11/1954), Senator John F. Kennedy quoted Galsworthy, saying:

To those who have carried the practice of campaign utterances beyond election day, I would refer these words of John Galsworthy, written many years ago ... The Republicans have not yet learned this lesson.]

1164) When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1165) Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

James Madison
"Concerning Public Opinion"
National Gazette (12/19/1791)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1166) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1167) The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1168) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

[Note: Sometimes attributed to Barry Goldwater.]

1169) It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

Friedrich August von Hayek
The Constitution of Liberty (1960)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1170) We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Helen Keller (attributed)
(1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1156) Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggie" 'til you can find a rock.

Wynn Catlin (attributed)
quoted by Bennett Cerf in
The Laugh's on Me (1959) and
Laurence J. Peter in
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) [CAS]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

[Note: Frequently attributed to Will Rogers, but I can find no citation for it, which seems odd if it was legitimately by him. Also, often seen with "stick" substituted for "rock".]

1157) I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1158) Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest things in the nicest way

Isaac Goldberg
The Reflex (c.1930) [B16] & [MAC]

1159) Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.

unknown
Cincinnati Enquirer (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1160) The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1161) Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1162) All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation as ever sued its way to greatness.

Richard Lamm (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

A New Hampshire teenager's yearbook photo has been rejected, because she's holding a flower. Merrimack High School student Melissa Morin's senior photograph featured her and a small red flower. School officials, however, said the picture is not going to make it in the yearbook because props aren't allowed.

In the photo, Morin, 17, who loves acting, is sitting on a costume trunk backstage at the Palace Theatre in Manchester. She wore a black and white sundress and clutched the flower.

"I totally understand that schools have right to dictate policy," said Manchester photographer Brett Mallard. "I think the issue is people need to be made aware that we've thrown common sense out the window. When we're restricting kids from holding a stupid flower in their hand, it's kind of silly, quite frankly."

The policy stemmed from a 2005 controversy in Londonderry, where a student posed with his gun. A judge ruled in favor of the school, but Merrimack officials said they didn't want to face similar scuffles.

• Losing My Tolerance for ZT


• WaPo op-ed


• ZT Nightmares


• Zero Intelligence


• Zero Common Sense


• ABA Report


• Parents Against Zero Tolerance

1142) Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1143) Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1144) Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1145) Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of
misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1146) Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness:
Notes from a Secret Journal (1989)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1147) Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

Aesop (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1148) Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Attlee
speech at Oxford (6/14/1957)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1149) A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

Ivern Ball (widely attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

1150) In politics an absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (7/3/95)

[Note: A more often cited variant is: "In politics stupidity is not a handicap." I have not been able to find a source citation for either.]

The Messiah is to hold a press conference this week.

Date: Thursday 6 September 2007
Time: 14:00
Place: to be arranged

Journalists are asked to arrive with an open mind as this is a truth which they are in no position to determine and they may be risking their chances of eternal life. I will be discussing my journey of spiritual redemption, why I know in my heart I am the Messiah and the mission to teach humanity in the run-up to 2012.

This is all rather embarrassing for someone who was an atheist technocrat three years ago. And I am painfully aware how mad all this sounds.

There is however ancient evidence to show that the Messiah is phonetically called ‘David Shayler’. When added to recent signs which have appeared independently of me – including a Messianic Cross of Saturn, Mercury, Venus and the Sun in the skies on 7/7/7, the day I was proclaimed Messiah -- it has become inescapable that a higher power is indicating that I am the anointed or chosen one who has come to save humanity.

To any who might find this surprising, I point out that I have spent ten years standing up for truth, justice and human rights with little concern for my own life, liberty and livelihood.

To clarify the position: I am the last incarnation of the Holy Ghost (aka the Holy Spirit) or the Yeshua or Jesus Spirit (aka the Christ consciousness). As the Holy Spirit is God incarnate as essence, I am God incarnated as spirit and man. Many cultures have accepted that the gods incarnate as humans, including the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. In the West, this knowledge has been preserved as the unwritten Qabalah, the real secret guarded over the centuries by groups like the Templars and the Rosicrucians.

Other incarnations have included Tutenkhamen, King Arthur, Mark Anthony, Leonardo da Vinci, Lawrence of Arabia and Astronges, a Hebrew shepherd and revolutionary leader crucified in Palestine in 1 BC. I am both a re-incarnation of King David and of his bloodline.

It is absolutely clear to me that the world is going to hell in a handcart. Few would dispute that humanity needs a Messiah to get it through these difficult times. Those who follow the real teachings of Jesus – unconditional love and absolute faith -- have nothing to fear from the New Universe.

David Michael Shayler
Hebrew for Beloved King (who) shuffles through the Other World
3 September 2007