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Date: May 05, 2025 04:25AM

Fun fact: Teutonic (where English and a few other languages come from) had the word 'wis-an': to be, remain, continue to be. In Gothic it was 'wes-an'. With the arrival of catholicism and its technique of defining right from wrong to suit those in power, so they would be dependent on the monks and priests, the word and concept dropped out of the language.

Fun quiz: what influence has this had on the mind and governments?

Hint: ideas and concepts influence events, events affect people. Ideas and concepts affect behaviour. It's hard to adopt an idea or be influenced by a concept if you don't have words to express it in.

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Date: May 06, 2025 12:00AM

Fun fact: the vatican launched the Albigensian Crusade, or Cathar Crusade, a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III, to eradicate Catharism in 1209. All who participated on the catholic side were promised forgiveness by God for whatever sins they had committed. Just like that. A very flexible depiction of God. On this crusade a noble asked the Papal Legate how they would distinguish between Cathars and catholics. He replied: "Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are His". This introduced the term and concept: 'Kill them all, God will sort them out' ever since.

The Cathars were not only a rival hierarchy preaching from the bible, but... wait for it... let women hold positions in the hierarchy! The vatican would use a book it published: The Witches Hammer, to teach its monks and priests how to identify women to be killed, for speaking out of their level in society, questioning catholic doctrine, whatever. A murder campaign that shaped Europe for centuries.

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Date: May 07, 2025 04:18AM

Fun fact: catholic monks and priests used to claim water from the ocean travelled underground, up inside mountains and hills, then out again as brooks, creeks and streams. If you argued you could be burned at the stake. It wasn't until the 1640's that experiments by protestants demonstrated the amount of water flowing down from the mountains and hills was almost the same as the rain. It seems obvious to us now, but it was a revolution then.

This was the time of Robert Boyle, whose 'Boyle's Law' states that the pressure of a gas will double if its volume halves. This seems obvious to us now, but it paved the way for the steam age.

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Date: May 08, 2025 08:31AM

Fun fact: in Old Teutonic (where English, German, Dutch, Icelandic and Scandinavian languages come from) 'man' meant 'one'. In English, this has broken down into 'an': an house, an year, an object. 'An' has further broken down into 'a': a house, a year, but we don't say a object. Jane Austen, in the late 1700's-early 1800's, wrote "an house". That was accepted as correct English at the time.

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Date: May 12, 2025 08:21AM

Fun fact: in Old English, the word 'a' would not be used if only one instance of the subject was then mentioned. It acted as a double negative. For example: "He waes God man" (He was a good man) - around 1100AD. 'God' was the same spelling as an attribute of God, 'good' and you read it in context. 'Waes' reflects that written English followed the local dialect at the time. Strangely, royal documents and laws written in London used 'a' as we do, and of course, royal and government use affected the language.

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Date: May 13, 2025 08:29AM

Fun fact: the first attempt at a standard English dictionary was in the 1700's. This led the catholic monks and priests in France to counsel the French king to plan a war against England, for this dictionary was organised in the protestant manner (called 'English manner' in academia): alphabetically.

In France under the Bourbon Kings the monks and priests controlled the French dictionary, and organised it by subject. That meant a word had very different meanings, not only regards different subjects, keeping the general population confused with a word trick, but regards subjects only taught to select groups - so in theory different groups could not work together against those in power, as they couldn't properly understand each other. It's a trick described by Machiavelli, and allegedly still used in rural Italy.

So the dictionary was a tool of mind control - a power taken from them by a much needed revolution.

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To be frank:
- dictionaries must always be organised alphabetically;
- words must always mean what the dictionary says they do, and;
- it must always be the same dictionary for everyone.

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Date: May 15, 2025 08:56PM

Fun fact: by telling those who trust them they're Christians, yet teaching them to pray to someone else, Mary, catholic monks, priests and nuns condition them to be gullible. Mary is dead. She died two thousand years ago. She can't hear you.

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Date: May 16, 2025 10:00PM

Fun fact: cognitive dissonance is where the mind believes conflicting things. This creates a mental stress. This in turn can be exploited by one offering a solution. Viewing the fact above, think of the mind of their follower as like the ball in a pin ball machine, they are able to bounce it around as they wish.

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Date: May 19, 2025 04:17AM

Fun fact: statements where words have second meanings are called concatenations. By talking to those who trust them, whilst deliberately using concatenations, and constantly correcting them, catholic monks, priests and nuns condition them to think they're not as intelligent as the monks, priests or nuns. It's word tricks. Subjugating your mind.

If you're often confused in talking with a catholic monk, priest or nun, you're as yet still too intelligent for them.

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Date: May 19, 2025 09:54AM

Correction: "concatenation" should read "double entente".

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Date: May 21, 2025 07:58AM

Fun fact: at an upper level, amongst the sects, members of the vatican hierarchy are taught to do algebra, at the same level as primary school. Each equation is given a special meaning. They are just made up, yet presented as knowledge. Studying maths teaches you to analyse. Yet it's a doctrine of the Vatican that their priests are instruments of the faith, not its analysts. This conflict in reasoning acts as a filter, ensuring only the stupid pass. The last equations are: three times three is nine. One times nine.

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Date: May 27, 2025 07:53AM

Fun fact: in 1129AD King Henry I overruled the papal order that archdeacons and priests could not have wives, and they kept their wives. It was one of the precedents and things used by Henry VIII four hundred years later. There's a list of those.

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Date: June 01, 2025 07:15AM

Fun fact: soon after King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, the pope 'annulled' it. Catholics use this to morally claim there is therefore no Magna Carta. But King John promised the pope money to 'annul' it and excommunicate the barons.

He also promised "Lands, and large possessions" to any foreign soldiers came to England to help him in his planned war against the barons. Fourteen thousand people answering this call, told to them encouragingly by catholic bishops and priests, were at sea when they were hit by a "sudden tempest" and all were drowned, the shore was "infected with their putrid bodies". Echoed by the Spanish Armada 370 years later.

1218AD: "Waldo the legate being sent for by the pope to return, departed toward Rome with an infinite quantity of money gotten by one means or other."

Having no support from the barons or the townspeople and lost the foreign soldiers, the only way he could keep the support of the catholic bishops was to pay up.

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Date: June 02, 2025 08:38AM

Fun fact: above we can see a pope's decision was bought and paid for. Centuries later catholics claim the decision is moral.

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Date: June 05, 2025 09:23AM

1241AD: "The fourth day after Christmas the legate was by the pope to the court of Rome: whereupon taking his leave of all the prelates, he took his journey towards the sea, whom the king with great pomp and an innumerable company of the nobles, with trumpets sounding before them brought to the seas, so that on the morrow after the twelfth day, the legate (after the king with great sorrow for his departure, had embraced him) took shipping at Dover, at whose departure no man was sorry but the king, and such as the legate had enriched."

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Date: June 08, 2025 09:06AM

Fun fact: in 1326 King Edward II set up the militia in England. All church steeples and other high buildings had iron brackets placed on them, to hold torches to warn all surrounding able bodied men between 16 and 40 to arm themselves and assemble at their assigned places. The arms and equipment were regulated by the value of their (land based) estates. They had to present the arms and equipment in good condition twice a year. They were organised by shires and hundreds.

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Date: June 11, 2025 07:59AM

Fun fact: in 1522 there was a tripartite alliance between France, the German Emperor and England. Disputes between Germany and France led to war. The French attacked the English, who were not involved in the disputes.

So King Henry VIII enrolled the whole militia and its office bearers, and for every organised 100s of militia, what local industries could be used to maintain the war against France, who were their owners, and the names and places of all foreigners and of what birth and current nationality, and what their occupations were. This was the planning and mobilising of what we would call total war, and completely bypassed the old systems of the king simply employing soldiers, or relying on nobility and bishops to supply money and/or armed men. Henry VIII also maintained a large navy, one more than able to control the "Narrow seas".
- 26 May: the German Emperor, with 8 bishops, 10 abbots, 30 chaplains and others, arrived in
England before travelling to Spain, to form alliances against France.
- June: the alliance with Germany was concluded.
- 1 July: the Emperor's navy with 180 ships arrived to transport him to Spain, arriving there 10
days later.
- During this time the Earl of Surrey, Lord Admiral, attacked and burned towns, castles and
anything else along the French coast.
- Ever since Edward Long shanks (1239 – 1307), wars between England and Scotland were proxy
conflicts for French interests. Knowing this, Henry VIII's navy burned all ships in Scotland's
ports. England then assembled a sufficient Northern army that the Scots signed a truce for six
months.
- 1523: after the truce, the Northern army burned 37 villages, and "dispoiled" the south of the
country from East to West, destroying their strongholds.
- England's parliament, including the catholic bishops, raised a great sum of money for the
coming war, agreeing to do so for five years. "Such war in France as had not been seen."
- For the second time, the catholic bishops in England overstated how many parishes they had
and how wealthy they were, promising they could fund the needs of government, so making it
dependent on them.
- September: the first English army of 10500 men seized and demolished a French castle.
- The Duke of Burgundy rebelled against France and joined Germany and England.
- Spain entered the war.
- 1524: the Northern English army invaded Scotland, the Scots army ran away.

The French army at that time relied on nobility, who saw nothing wrong in riding over their own vanguard to attack the English, as was their right to do, and catholic bishops, in armour and carrying weapons, who brought their own armed men to battle and fought in the battle themselves. Some of these bishops died fighting the English. In times past catholic bishops in England did exactly the same thing. At least one died in battle in one of England's internal wars. Therefore it isn't odd that Cardinal Richelieu wore a sword whilst besieging Protestants at La Rochelle in the 1620's.

Thus the mass mobilisation under a civil administration was not only a threat to France, but to the catholic bishops' status and power.

Note that the Act of Supremacy, where Henry VIII broke from Rome and became head of the Church of England, was not until 1534.

- 1526: The French king being taken prisoner, peace was agreed between England and France.

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: June 11, 2025 10:08PM

fun fact: no one has read any of that ^^^^^

quasi Report This Comment
Date: June 12, 2025 10:27AM

Actually, I read it, but it wasn't fun at all. Fun facts are generally along the lines of, "The opossum is the only North American marsupial."

pulse Report This Comment
Date: June 12, 2025 10:39AM

Fun fact: Wombat poo is square.

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Date: June 14, 2025 03:58AM

Fun fact: 1326-1328: Whilst the former Edward II was imprisoned at Barkley, "For as touching poisons, which they gave him often to drink, by the benefit of nature he dispatched away."

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Date: June 15, 2025 07:37AM

Fun Fact:
As of 2025 California has been owned by;
Spain 52 Years
Mexico 27 Years
USA for 177 years

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Date: June 17, 2025 01:07AM

Fun fact: 1326-1328: whilst some catholic bishops supported the imprisonment and 'abdication' of the former king Edward II, those catholic bishops opposed to it were beheaded. The parliament then voted the Queen what amounts to a pension, equalling 2/3rds of government revenue. The chronicles don't record where the money went.

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Date: June 20, 2025 06:28AM

Fun fact: All catholic bishops who had been part of the coup conspired to have the former king Edward II assassinated, and the men who carried out the work then accused of it, and driven out of the country. One was seized abroad and beheaded at sea, so he couldn't accuse anyone in England, the others lived out their days in exile in Holland.

The instruction to assassinate the former king was written in two parts, so it could be claimed to have another meaning. A typical catholic trick. See note about words having second meanings, above.

After a conspiring bishop, of Canterbury, died, the main conspirators who were not bishops were arrested and hanged, with the vast sums being paid to the queen confiscated, and more besides. No bishop or part of catholicism was punished.

Odd, this method, of 'we encourage you to do to them, then we do to you' was explained to me in parts by a sect of catholicism that tried recruiting me over some years, in Kuringai, or Sydney's North Shore: that all of us will be betrayed, losing all wealth, assets and power (including "influence", by the politicians, the lower politicians will be betrayed by the middle ranking politicians, they will be betrayed by the senior politicians, and "When the leader has betrayed the last of his followers, the clergy will betray the leader" (as I told police). This is the system, adopted by the Babylonians, that weakened the Empire before its conquest by Cyrus the Persian in 539 BC. The system is described by Isaiah in the bible. Whilst the ancient writer was denouncing the system, it is described in the English chronicles as functioning up to 1331 AD, and was described to me in my youth as functioning now.

1333: Suddenly, the English kings 'request' whom will be bishop when and where.

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Date: June 23, 2025 05:09AM

Fun fact: then there was a change back again:

1343: King Edward III, his nobles and the parliament demanded the pope should no longer appoint anyone to church office, nor take money out of the kingdom, and waited for the reply (there appears to have not been one).

1365: King Edward III ordered that 'Peter's Pence' formerly paid to the vatican, would now be paid to him. And it was.

1371: the catholic bishops in England held the posts of Chancellor, Treasurer and Privy Seal. they were so busy running the secular country they had no idea of the state of catholic administration. When they promised the Crown a large sum, by taxing each parish an equal amount, so richer parishes helped poorer ones, it was found there wasn't nearly as many parishes as they thought, and most of them too poor to pay the sum. The bishops were removed from their secular offices and lay men put in their place.

Note this is before the Vatican declared the pope is absolute monarch of all nations and people.

1373: "In a parliament it was granted that the cathedral churches should enjoy their elections (as guaranteed by Magna Carta) and that from thence forth the king should not write against the elected, but should by his letters help towards their confirmation, but this statute took small effect." The end result of this centuries long see-sawing is that elections in churches are free, they cannot be apointed from above or abroad, yet the monarch may dismiss someone from that position. You would really have to make a mess of it. Such as, in 2025, a man named Welby: [www.bbc.com]

1389: Richard III's parliament ordained that none should purchase positions from the pope.

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Date: June 26, 2025 10:24AM

Fun fact: Multiple times the Welsh and Southern scholars at Oxford fought the northern scholars, members of both sides killed members of the other. It's not recorded what it was about. This lasted for years. Of note is that some of these scholars became catholic bishops, most of the rest priests.

1396-8: The Crown not only minted coin, but farmed out coinage to towns that could afford it, and after 30 years of peace it was noted the country had "heaped up" a great amount of wealth.

Note that once there is money in circulation, people, corporations and governments save up for projects, these create industries, skills and residual wealth as assets, such as household goods. Note also that money was gold and silver, so not subject to inflation, nor was government in any debt.

During this time the great hall of Westminster was built, joining the palace and the clock tower.

Trouble came in a four-way struggle to consolidate wealth and power: two factions of catholic bishops with their allied nobles; the King, and; the commons. Both factions of bishops and their nobles engaged in beheading members of the other, whenever they held the upper hand. Other people died too. It may seem cynical, but is also clear-eyed, that the winner in the long term is the party that supplies the money: that is, the taxpayer: the general public. Also, the principle that a clear division between civil and ecclesiastical jurisdictions functions best was established and still runs. Any attempt to violate this division must be crushed.

1413: King Henry IV observed that as long as the English had wealth, something they always want, they obey government, and as long as they are poor, they rebel. That's an observation from this time of four-way struggle. It's also a question that's relevant today: the amount of wealth in a nation and its distribution.

Witness the Australian Liberal Party spent 10 years using mass immigration to keep salaries down, abolished tariff protection, so manufacturing and trades wages were lost, and rampant inflation, to drain wealth from the majority of the population. For this they have suffered increasing defeats at two elections, and the sooner the architects and willing hands of that process cease to exist the better. They also made a 'law' that has no effect: claiming Australia doesn't have the death penalty. It's in our Constitution for Treason. This non-effective 'law' was eagerly announced by the supporters of the Australian Prime Minister at the time: Scott Morrison - it effectively means our Constitution has no meaning, revealing the darkest and most evil of souls and intentions.

1419: during the four-way struggle, not only were catholic bishops approving and assisting in members of their competing faction being beheaded, but one catholic priest killed another in the Tower of London. It isn't recorded how violent it was in the regions.

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Date: June 27, 2025 03:32AM

"inflation, to drain wealth from the majority of the population"

Note: wealth lost to inflation does not disappear, it's transferred.