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'I am far from supposing that all affections do show a tender heart: hatred, anger, vainglory, and other selfish and self-exalting affections, may greatly prevail in the hardest heart. But yet it is evident, that hardness of heart and tenderness of heart, are expressions that relate to the affection of the heart, and denote the heart's being susceptible of, or shut up against certain affections; of which I shall have occasion to speak more afterwards.'
Excerpt from Part I in 'A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections' (1746) by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
| 2 | 'Of course, if instead of carrying out that work – which I recognise is meticulous, laborious, and so on – you simply copy what others have said, those who are continuing to work on the assumption that there is a documentary hypothesis, then, of course, this is absolutely regrettable.
In this very course [a programme of Biblical study designed and taught by Vidal], I was citing the case of an Old Testament scholar who recounted that he’d bumped into a colleague of his at university and the colleague had said to him, "Well, why don’t you believe in the documentary hypothesis?" And so he explained to his colleague why not. When he had finished, his colleague replied: “Well, actually, you’re right, actually, you’re right, it doesn’t hold water.” And so he said to his colleague, "Well, in other words, you’re not going to teach it any more." His colleague replied "No, I’m going to carry on teaching it because I’ve already prepared the lecture notes; it’s what I’ve been teaching for years. Think about it," he continued, “I would have to start studying all over again, defend the opposing position, and so on and so forth."
Well, this shows a lack of intellectual honesty. I won’t even mention spiritual honesty – truly staggering intellectual dishonesty.'
The comment from César Vidal in the interview at around 1:01:09, in English translation https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8053 | 27 |
| 3 | ''Claro, si en lugar de realizar ese trabajo que yo reconozco que es un trabajo prolijo, laborioso, etcétera, tú te dedicas a copiar lo que han dicho otros que ya parten de la base de que hay una hipótesis documentaria, pues claro, esto es absolutamente lamentable.
Yo citaba precisamente en este curso citaba el caso de un erudito de Antiguo Testamento que contaba que había coincidido con un colega suyo en la universidad y el colega le había dicho, "Bueno, ¿y usted por qué no cree en la hipótesis documentaria?" Y entonces yo le expliqué por qué no. "Si cuando acabe me dice, dice, pues la verdad es que tiene usted razón, dice, la verdad es que tiene usted razón, no, no se sostiene." Dice, y entonces yo le dije, bueno, o sea, usted no la va a enseñar más. Y dice, no, yo la voy a seguir enseñando porque ya tengo hechos los apuntes de clase, lo que llevo enseñando desde hace años. Usted imagínese que ahora me tengo que poner a estudiar otra vez, defender la posición contraria, etcétera, etcétera.
Bueno, esto es de una falta de honradez intelectual. Ya no voy a decir espiritual, eh, de honradez intelectual verdaderamente pasmosa.'
El comentario de César Vidal en la entrevista, aproximadamente en el minuto 1:01:09
https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8053 | 20 |
| 4 | Part 5 of The Weaponisation of Law
This article completes the structural critique of our constitutional system by exposing the mechanisms of impunity that prevent accountability, neutralise challenge, and make coercive outcomes irreversible
This piece also discusses how modern governance now operates within a wider network of corporate, financial, and transnational actors. Executive dominance in our system is real, but it is also instrumental - the channel through which these actors shape law, policy, and surveillance systems that reach deep into our private lives
I also show that our current constitutional architecture is not designed to restrain power. With this the question becomes unavoidable: what can? Part 6 addresses this and turns toward natural law, moral universality, and the foundations of genuine self‑governance
https://clarewillsharrison.substack.com/p/the-weaponisation-of-law-the-architecture | 18 |
| 5 | Quoting from about 38 minutes into the interview:
'Y entonces es para decir, pero bueno, ¿quién les ha nombrado ustedes nuestros guardianes? Es decir, yo no tengo ningún interés en que el Papa Francisco o la familia Rothschild se dedique a guardarme. Vamos, todo lo contrario. Preferiría que estén lo más lejos posibles. ¿Quién ha decidido que esa gente que incluye a los a la Organización Sindical Mundial, a el crédito de las tarjetas de crédito, a la Big Pharma, a la Bigtech, al Vaticano, a los Rothschild? ¿Quién ha decidido que esa gente va a guardarnos? O sea, en todo caso habría que guardarnos de ellos, no que ellos nos guarden a nosotros.'
El vídeo se publicó el 26 de octubre de 2008, pero parece que la entrevista probablemente tuvo lugar hace unos años. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbOH_0IuuZc | 19 |
| 6 | 'En Samuel [1] capítulo 8 aparece un episodio tremendo y es que de pronto los israelitas, viéndose derrotados una y otra vez por sus enemigos, en vez de reflexionar en que cuando son derrotados es porque Dios los está castigando por su infidelidad al pacto, llegan a la conclusión de que no tiene nada que ver con su culpa, ni tiene nada que ver con su infidelidad al pacto. Cuando tienen derrotas, lo que pasa es que no tienen una estructura política como el resto de las naciones.'
Cita de la presentación: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGfBULMeNDY | 37 |
| 7 | In English.
https://brownstone.org/articles/you-didnt-get-sick-you-got-enrolled/ | 39 |
| 8 |  〈 1/2 〉“No te enfermaste. Te suscribiste” por Joshua Stylman vía Brown Stone Institute
Pastillas para despertarse, pastillas para dormir
Pastillas, pastillas, pastillas todos los días de la semana
Pastillas para caminar, pastillas para pensar
Pastillas, pastillas, pastillas para la familia
– St. Vincent
¿Se está volviendo loco el mundo, o es que todos están bajo los efectos de alguna sustancia? Miro a mi alrededor y, sinceramente, ya no sé qué pensar.
Tu hijo no puede quedarse quieto, así que el doctor le receta algo antes de preguntarle qué come o cuántas horas pasa mirando una pantalla. Él no está mal. Es un niño de siete años.
Tu amigo no puede tener una erección, así que recurre a la pastilla azul en lugar de dejar la cerveza y las papas fritas. Tu cuñada quiere tener el cuerpo de una influencer, así que se inyecta para llegar a una versión más delgada de lo que es estar enferma. Una enfermedad diferente, encubierta como disciplina.
¿No puedes dormir? Ambien. ¿Estás ansioso? Xanax. ¿Llevas más de una semana triste? Un antidepresivo. Es fácil: una consulta de quince minutos y ya tienes la receta en la mano antes de que termines de explicar qué te pasa.
Y los comerciales. Veinte segundos de una pareja tomándose de la mano en un campo, seguidos de cuarenta segundos de una voz que enumera las formas en que el medicamento podría hacerles daño o matarlos. Accidente cerebrovascular. Pensamientos suicidas. Muerte súbita. Consulte a su médico. Y la gente lo hace.
Tenía veintinueve años cuando visité a mi médico de cabecera en el Upper East Side de Manhattan. Era uno de esos doctores de renombre con una lista de espera de un mes. Fui a un chequeo de rutina y a hacerme unos análisis de sangre. Me dijo que mi colesterol estaba “en el límite alto”. Esto fue años antes de que me enterara de que la mayor parte del discurso sobre el colesterol es una campaña de mercadotecnia farmacéutica disfrazada de bata de laboratorio. En ese momento, simplemente confié en él.
Me dijo: “Toma esta pastilla”.
Le pregunté por cuánto tiempo.
Me respondió: “El resto de tu vida. Dados tus antecedentes familiares, no podemos correr ningún riesgo”
Mi papá había empezado a fumar a los treinta y tantos años para lidiar con el estrés de una afección preexistente. Cuatro paquetes de Marlboro al día. Después de muchos ataques cardíacos, falleció en uno. Esos eran los antecedentes familiares a los que se refería mi doctor.
Le pregunté el nombre del medicamento. Me dijo que era Lipitor. Entonces bajé la vista hacia su talonario de recetas. Decía Lipitor. Miré el bolígrafo que tenía en la mano. También decía Lipitor.
Salí lentamente de la sala caminando de espaldas y nunca más lo volví a ver. De hecho, prácticamente dejé de ir al médico después de eso. No por una cuestión de principios (al menos no todavía). Solo por la sensación de que algo en esa sala no había estado de mi lado.
Las generalizaciones pueden ser difíciles. Por si sirve de algo, conozco a algunos médicos excelentes en quienes se puede confiar plenamente. Y, por supuesto, mucha gente acude al consultorio de un médico porque realmente está enferma y el medicamento indicado podría ayudarla.
Me refiero al resto. Alguien entra cansado. O un poco distraído. Un poco triste en febrero. Un niño que no está quieto o una esposa que está más callada de lo que solía estar. No hay ninguna enfermedad, hay una vida. Y el sistema que antes ayudaba a distinguir la diferencia ahora convierte la vida en una suscripción.
Además, la situación sigue. Los ISRS te dejan sin energía, así que te recetan un estimulante para despertarte. El estimulante te altera los nervios, así que te recetan un benzodiacepínico para calmarte. El benzodiacepínico te arruina el sueño, así que te recetan Ambien. Cada nueva receta trata el efecto secundario de la anterior. En algún momento, dejas de ser el paciente y te conviertes en el efecto secundario.
Siguiente ⇨ | 30 |
| 9 | ‘Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.’
Isaiah chapter 58, verses 5-14. https://www.kingjamesbible.me/Isaiah-Chapter-58/
Priceless treasures, the wisdom and grace of God as spoken through the prophet Isaiah.
Clicking on any verse in the link brings up options to read insightful commentaries on the each chosen verse. | 26 |
| 10 |  Reader comment on OffG
https://off-guardian.org/2026/08/16/the-persistence-of-us-strategy-anthony-fauci-and-limited-hangouts/#comment-777854 | 22 |
| 11 | 'Now we can sum it all up in a phrase. Do you remember what we are told in Luke's gospel in chapter 22, in verse 48, how just before the end, on the sort of day corresponding to this Palm Sunday, just before our Lord was actually crucified on the tree and put to death, Judas Iscariot had fallen away and he'd gone over to the side of the enemy and he told the authorities that he could lead them to our Lord. Of course, he knew his customs, he knew his habits, he knew where he'd be and what he was likely to do, and Judas says, ‘I can lead you to him’ - a traitor, you see, in the camp, and he's helping the enemy. And the devil, we are told already had entered into Judas, and here he is, the instrument of the devil. But this is the point I'm emphasising, how was it that Judas went about to betray our Lord? Well, the account there tells us that this is what he was proposing to do. He had told these people that the one whom he should kiss would be the one. And so he comes along with these enemies of our Lord, and he was on the point of kissing our Lord when our Lord turned to him and said, ‘Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?’ What a terrible thing - a would-be friend, a would-be follower, not betraying Him with sarcasm and with scorn and vituperation - ah, but coming as a friend, as one who'd companied with Him, as one who belongs to Him - ‘betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss?’ That's what he was going to do, and that's what they're still doing. That is still how the devil exercises his wiles. The devil is not fool enough to put men into pulpits or anywhere else to make blatant ridiculous statements, no, no, they praise the Lord Jesus Christ, they laud Him. They magnify Him in their way and according to their ideas. The Son of Man is ever being betrayed with a kiss.
It is in the house of His own friends that He is constantly betrayed and put to death. He said, ‘a man's foes shall be they of his own household’ - how true that has been of Him throughout the running centuries, and how true it is still today. This is the supreme tragedy of all the ages, that it is so often the Christian church herself, so called, that has led the people astray at this most vital point.
Now the history of the last hundred to 120 years is in a sense, nothing but just this. That terrible so-called ‘higher critical movement’ which began in Germany about 120 years ago, that's what it was concerned about. The attack upon the scriptures was only a part of this other attack. And those who think that the only difference between evangelicals and others is a matter of belief in the inspiration of the scriptures are making a tragic mistake, this is but one of the instruments that is being used. The attack is upon Him, always upon Him, and as I say, He has been betrayed with a kiss.'
A 4th quote from transcript of sermon #4204: God in the Flesh - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 26, 1961
1st quote from this sermon: https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8044 | 27 |
| 12 | 'You read the history of the church as you get it in the New Testament, and then in the days of the fathers, the great fathers of the church, the early centuries, and you will find that this was one of the greatest fights of all. The fight concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, His person and His work. It's in the New Testament - the devil began at once. He began to manifest these wiles of his immediately, and he's continued it ever since. That is why the church, the early church, had to call together certain great councils. The leaders had to come together and they had to decide what was true and what was false. Hence your creeds - that's how they came into being - because the devil had succeeded in persuading a number of Christian people in the church to go wrong and to go astray in their whole view of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and His work on our behalf - there would never have been these creeds but for them. And obviously the idea is this, that if we go wrong at this point, we shall go wrong at every point. Well, now, unfortunately, my dear friends, I'm not talking past history. All this has happened, all this is still happening. The fight still is about the person of the Lord and about the work of the Lord. The devil is unusually active in these present days, still, along these same lines, anything to cause us, God's people, to be confused about our blessed Lord. And what we want to notice in particular, of course, is this is the way in which he manifests his wiles in doing this.'
A 3rd quote from transcript of sermon #4204: God in the Flesh - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 26, 1961
1st quote from this sermon: https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8044 | 26 |
| 13 | ...'we must look at, to some extent at any rate, the work and the wiles of the devil in the production of heresies. Now, we've already glanced at this a few weeks back. But then we were only concerned with establishing the fact that there are such things as heresies. We had to do that because the whole climate of opinion today is that it doesn't matter very much what you believe, and that at a time like this, the great thing is that we should be Christian, that we can't define the faith. We simply established the fact that the faith can be defined and that the faith must be defined. Otherwise, as we saw, if you have no definition of your faith, you will probably have no answer to give to the cults that are ever round and about us and trying to mislead us and delude us. It is essential that we should know what we believe and that we should be able to give a reason for the hope that is in us.
But now that was simply a general statement to the effect that the faith can be defined and must be defined. But we have to become a little bit more particular this morning and to look at any rate, at some of the heresies, these false views with regard to particular doctrines with which the devil has constantly afflicted the Christian church. Now we cannot hope to do this in detail, we haven't the time to do so, and perhaps it would not be right to do so. But we do have to indicate certain things very definitely.
There are certain heresies about which all Christian people should be aware. It is essential for our whole life and well being as Christians that we should be aware of them, they are of central importance. What are these? Well, what I want to talk about particularly this morning are some of the heresies with regard to our blessed Lord himself. Now it's not a bit surprising that the devil comes and tries to confuse us and to confound us at this particular point. Christianity, after all, is Christ. It isn't just a teaching, this isn't just one of the philosophies, it isn't just a collection of ideas. There are, as I've been saying, such ideas, doctrines and so on, but after all, they are but means of trying to bring us to an understanding and a knowledge of the blessed person Himself. He is Christianity. And what makes us Christians is not the mere acceptance of a number of doctrines, but our relationship to Him. And therefore, I say, it's quite obvious that the devil should be particularly concerned to confuse us at this particular point. And of course, he has done so from the very early days of the Christian church, indeed from the very earliest days of God's dealings with mankind.'
A 2nd quote from transcript of sermon #4204: God in the Flesh - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 26, 1961
https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8044 | 21 |
| 14 | Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6, 10-13
'Now, we are still considering this most important statement which the great apostle makes here. And we are looking in particular at this phrase about the wiles of the devil. And we've already seen that it's a very great and a very large subject. The devil and all these forces gathered round him and which he governs and controls, as we've seen, are intent always upon trying to destroy God's work. And therefore, it is not surprising that a very special attack should be made upon Christian people, members of the Christian church, those who are followers of our blessed Lord and saviour. And we have been trying to classify the way in which the devil in these wiles of his, attacks us as God's people. And we've seen that there are three main avenues along which he does so. He does so through the mind, he does so through the realm of experience, and he does so in practice, in our conduct and behaviour.
Now, at the moment, we are looking at the efforts of the devil to confuse us and to confound us and to harm our Christian witness and testimony through his attacks upon the mind. And we've been so far, looking at that in general, noticing his tactics, the way in which he would make us misuse the mind and the understanding. Nothing is more important about men than his mind. Nothing is more important about the Christian life than an understanding and an apprehension of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. So the devil comes, and he would upset our balance, turn us into pure intellectualists or into traditionalists, make us take a purely academic interest and lose sight of the blessed person Himself and our relationship to Him.'
Quoting from transcript of sermon #4204: God in the Flesh - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 26, 1961
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermon/god-in-the-flesh/ | 21 |
| 15 | ‘You had it in the early church, of course. The Jews were in a very difficult position. I mean the Jews who had become Christians. They'd got this great tradition behind them of Judaism and the Old Testament teaching and doctrine, but now they'd become Christians and these gentiles had come in as christians. It was very difficult for the jew to realize that this man who just come in from paganism was really in exactly the same position as himself. See, that was what was happening, as I say, in Galatia and in other places. They couldn't shed something that they've brought in with them from the past, and the moment we bring in anything from that past, we are already in trouble we are already in a very dangerous position. We must never allow traditionalism to govern us. That doesn't mean that we despise the past - of course not, let's learn from it - but let’s not become slaves to it. We must never become traditionalists. Thank God for every good custom and tradition, but the moment I worship tradition, I'm in a terribly dangerous state. We must be always open and always fresh in this way, we must be guided by the truth of the New Testament and not held by certain things that come from the past. This is so obvious in the life of the church today. They talk to a great deal about union and ecumenicity. Well, why are they not all one? The answer is they're held by their traditions, nothing else at all. And it can happen to us who are evangelical. We must beware of these traditions that don't really belong to the vital Christian life which we have, but are mere accidents of history or of circumstances.’
Quoting from Sermon #4203, ‘Knowledge Puffs Up’ - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 19, 1961
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermon/knowledge-puffs-up/ | 30 |
| 16 | ‘The second thing I mentioned this morning is intellectual pride. It's not the same thing as the last thing, but the last one tends to lead to it. It doesn't always lead to it, but it tends to. It's what the Bible calls being puffed up. Knowledge, says Paul in one Corinthians eight, knowledge puffeth up. And it does, of course, all sorts of knowledge puff up. But this one in particular. And so a man becomes proud of his knowledge and of his understanding. He becomes an authority. And in turn, of course, he despises others. That was one of the great troubles in Corinth, wasn't it? The strong brother, the weaker brother. ‘That ignorant fellow, doesn't know anything. Oh, no doubt he saved, but well, after all, what does he know?’ And there they were, these strong, enlightened, knowledgeable persons, despising the other brethren for whom Christ had died. And the apostle doesn't spare them, he deals with them - ‘Knowledge,’ he says, ‘puffeth up.’ But love or charity builds up. That's what we need. Well, there it is, I needn't stay with that, the thing is so obvious, but God knows, it’s a terrible temptation. But you become proud of your knowledge of the Bible, proud of your knowledge of doctrine. And you see, while you're proud, you're showing quite plainly that you're not in contact with the person. Nobody can be proud in the presence of God. Nobody who really knows the Lord Jesus Christ can be puffed up. As the apostle says, we know nothing yet as we ought to know. At best, we only see as in a glass darkly, in this life and in this world. You have nothing to be proud of, my friend. No. No,’ …
Quoting from Sermon #4203, ‘Knowledge Puffs Up’ - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 19, 1961
https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/8041 | 31 |
| 17 | ‘If I can study this book without being searched and examined and humbled, without being lifted up and made to praise and to feel as much of the desire to sing when I'm alone in my study as when I'm standing in this pulpit, I'm in a bad state. This is the truth of God. It is the power of God, and we must ever feel its power. And it applies, I say, to the listening to the truth. If you are able to come to these services and to go away without having felt the power, well, then I'm failing miserably, and so are you. If it's just a matter of intellectual entertainment, given a certain amount of knowledge, seeing this exposed and that, or this thing divided and explained and the truth set forth, and if it stops there, I say it's a terrible thing. If it doesn't come to you and make you feel uncomfortable, if it doesn't make you realize your deficiencies, your unworthiness, your failures, if it doesn't expose hidden, secret things in your heart, if it doesn't make you feel ‘I’ve got to pull myself together, I've got to rise up, I've got to do something about this' - if it doesn't ever move you and thrill you and make you feel like shouting in praise, well, then I say it's a dangerous state to be in. But that's what the devil will try to do: ‘Oh, yes, of course you must. The more you know, the better, and study it’ and so on, and you do it, and you are all so one-sided and intellectual and theoretical. You've never felt the power. And if anybody's in that state this morning, I say, let him repent. Let him realize that he's in one of the most dangerous conditions imaginable. His conscience perhaps has been seared with a hot iron. If you can listen to this truth without being terrified at times, well, then I say there's something wrong with you. Especially those of you, may I say, who only come on Sunday morning - if you've got into that state, you better start coming Sunday night again and come under the power of conviction and be made to wonder whether you're christians or not. If you can handle it all lightly and in this detached manner, in this purely objective way: ‘Oh, of course, I've been saved years ago, I'm a Bible student now, I'm one who's interested’, you better examine the foundations, my friend. It's one of the most dangerous states the soul can ever know.’
Quoting from about halfway through Sermon #4203, ‘Knowledge Puffs Up’ - a sermon on Ephesians 6:10-13 preached by Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) on March 19, 1961
https://www.mljtrust.org/sermon/knowledge-puffs-up/ | 27 |
| 18 | https://t.me/Miscellaneous_Illuminations/70 | 25 |
| 19 | The genetic sequences used in PCRs to detect suspected SARS-CoV-2 and to diagnose cases of illness and death attributed to Covid-19 are present in dozens of sequences of the human genome itself and in those of about a hundred microbes. And that includes the initiators or primers, the most extensive fragments taken at random from their supposed "genome" and even the so-called "target genes" allegedly specific to the "new coronavirus". The test is worthless and all "positive" results obtained so far should be scientifically invalidated and communicated to those affected; and if they are deceased, to their relatives.
Original Spanish article https://www.dsalud.com/reportaje/la-estafa-se-constata-la-pcr-no-detecta-el-sars-cov-2/ (November 2020)
English translation attached. | 20 |
| 20 | Another sermon full of extraordinary wisdom from Welsh minister Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
Sermon #4202
Philosophy and Vain Deceit - preached on March 12, 1961 https://www.mljtrust.org/sermon/philosophy-and-vain-deceit/
A sermon from a series of sermons he gave on Paul's epistle to the Ephesians chapter 6 https://www.mljtrust.org/scripture/ephesians/6/ | 40 |
