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I.O.U

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How can people accept a theory that has potential to clarify and solve our social discord, if the theory itself poses a threat to the current flaw we have assumed to be our only solution.
 

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Consider that anything outside a persons personal belief of what is good happens to be what is evil.
Consider that everything people believe is also their only solution when solving what they believe is evil.

Question: In this context how is it possible for all human beings to accept one universal belief system?
 

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Consider that anything outside a persons personal belief of what is good happens to be what is evil.
Consider that everything people believe is also their only solution when solving what they believe is evil.

Question: In this context how is it possible for all human beings to accept one universal belief system?

Practically speaking, it isn’t. The devil will see to that.

Now what?
 

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Practically speaking, it isn’t. The devil will see to that.

Now what?
Why do you follow me around on all the threads I create. While everyone here has given up on most of the topics I post, you never leave me alone. Why? Also why does a male from Kentucky USA think that I am writing love poetry to them?
 
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Why do you follow me around on all the threads I create. While everyone here has given up on most of the topics I post, you never leave me alone. Why?

I like you, find you interesting, consider you a friend and a Godsend.

Also why does a male from Kentucky USA think that I am writing love poetry to them?

As I’ve mentioned before, one of my direct ancestors (Sir Thomas Wyatt) was a famous poet in the time of King Henry VIII. I like poetry. I suppose that I get that interest from him.

I don’t think you’re writing love poetry to me. I think you’re writing various types of poetry and posting it online for a general audience to read.
 

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How can people accept a theory that has potential to clarify and solve our social discord, if the theory itself poses a threat to the current flaw we have assumed to be our only solution.

One should not "except" or chase after "theories."

Among the many theories known to humanity, there is only one exception, one that is not a theory.
 

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As I’ve mentioned before, one of my direct ancestors (Sir Thomas Wyatt) was a famous poet in the time of King Henry VIII. I like poetry. I suppose that I get that interest from him.
Let's give old Thomas a bit of publicity, eh? I'd never heard of him, and I read a lot of English poetry. This is fairly good, I think:

Is It Possible?
Is it possible​
That so high debate,​
So sharp, so sore, and of such rate,​
Should end so soon and was begun so late?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
So cruel intent,​
So hasty heat and so soon spent,​
From love to hate, and thence for to relent?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
That any may find​
Within one heart so diverse mind,​
To change or turn as weather and wind?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
To spy it in an eye​
That turns as oft as chance on die,​
The truth whereof can any try?​
Is it possible?​
It is possible​
For to turn so oft,​
To bring that lowest which was most aloft,​
And to fall highest yet to light soft:​
It is possible.​
All is possible​
Whoso list believe.​
Trust therefore first, and after preve,​
As men wed ladies by licence and leave.​
All is possible.​
 
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Let's give old Thomas a bit of publicity, eh? I'd never heard of him, and I read a lot of English poetry. This is fairly good, I think:

Is It Possible?
Is it possible​
That so high debate,​
So sharp, so sore, and of such rate,​
Should end so soon and was begun so late?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
So cruel intent,​
So hasty heat and so soon spent,​
From love to hate, and thence for to relent?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
That any may find​
Within one heart so diverse mind,​
To change or turn as weather and wind?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
To spy it in an eye​
That turns as oft as chance on die,​
The truth whereof can any try?​
Is it possible?​
It is possible​
For to turn so oft,​
To bring that lowest which was most aloft,​
And to fall highest yet to light soft:​
It is possible.​
All is possible​
Whoso list believe.​
Trust therefore first, and after preve,​
As men wed ladies by licence and leave.​
All is possible.​
And then is it really worthwhile to know or believe what is impossible?
 

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You'll have to ask Thomas Wyatt, or perhaps @Matthias can channel him for us since he died in 1542.
Really, can he do that for me...I know he channeled(s) in many comic cartoons authors and their works, that are too hilarious at times to stop laughing.
 
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Really, can he do that for me...I know he channeled in many comic cartoons authors and their works, that are too hilarious at times to stop laughing.
You don't even need @Matthias. Just stare at old Thomas for ten solid minutes - really put your heart and mind into it - and you'll start hearing him directly. Never been known to fail.

I think we've "lost the thread," as the saying goes, if this thread ever had a thread to lose.

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You don't even need @Matthias. Just stare at old Thomas for ten solid minutes - really put your heart and mind into it - and you'll start hearing him directly. Never been known to fail.

I think we've "lost the thread," as the saying goes, if this thread ever had a thread to lose.

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He just hailed me. I think he's wearing a Klingon uniform and he just asked me to raise my shields in the interests of peace of common understanding. Is it possible that he being truthful as his poetry suggests?
 

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Let's give old Thomas a bit of publicity, eh? I'd never heard of him, and I read a lot of English poetry. This is fairly good, I think:

Is It Possible?
Is it possible​
That so high debate,​
So sharp, so sore, and of such rate,​
Should end so soon and was begun so late?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
So cruel intent,​
So hasty heat and so soon spent,​
From love to hate, and thence for to relent?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
That any may find​
Within one heart so diverse mind,​
To change or turn as weather and wind?​
Is it possible?​
Is it possible​
To spy it in an eye​
That turns as oft as chance on die,​
The truth whereof can any try?​
Is it possible?​
It is possible​
For to turn so oft,​
To bring that lowest which was most aloft,​
And to fall highest yet to light soft:​
It is possible.​
All is possible​
Whoso list believe.​
Trust therefore first, and after preve,​
As men wed ladies by licence and leave.​
All is possible.​

He is often credited as “The father of the English sonnet”.

Heavily involved in politics, the family (via his son) was ruined in Wyatt’s Rebellion.
 

Matthias

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You don't even need @Matthias. Just stare at old Thomas for ten solid minutes - really put your heart and mind into it - and you'll start hearing him directly. Never been known to fail.

I think we've "lost the thread," as the saying goes, if this thread ever had a thread to lose.

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I inherited his love of poetry and his hairline.
 
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