On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:35:44 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:08:49 -0500, Leonard Martin wrote:

This kind of stuff is part of a trend that's been going on, to my
amazement, for a couple of decades now. It might be summed up as
"Business is more important than anything. The market is God. Whatever's
good for either is great, and the devil take the rest!" Under this
regime each new enormity perpetrated by some business, like this one by
Aligent (or the copyright extension that business got away with a while
ago) first causes a bit of squirming on the part of the victims, but
then other virtuous souls remind them of the three divine maxims set out
above, and everyone then naturally knuckles under.

How did a once-free, and in fact instinctively rebellious, people come
to this?

"The shadow of Love is Power. Love first gave much of his Power to
Lucifer. And then over time he denied the rest of his Power, handing it
to Ahriman.

"Love, real Love feels much better than Power... yet most humans have
chosen to worship the god of Power, not the God of Love. Praised from the
pulpits and beseeched in the deepest prayers for relief from pain and
oppression, the god of Power has been very popular.

"Power has constantly affirmed that he and only he is God. And he has
been very successful at this... many beings have never even known that
the God of Love exists."
- Heart: http://www.godchannel.com/lovepower.html

But I have it on Good Authority that this is changing, even as we speak.

You really mean "even as we cut and paste."

John