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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.