Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: "I am glad to report to you that it will be some time before we hear anything from Brother Benson, who is now on his way to Great Britain where I suppose he will be, at least for the next two years. When he returns I hope his blood will be purified."

(Wilkinson diary, 14 Dec. 1963; Joseph Fielding Smith to Congressman Ralph Harding, 23 Dec 1963)

        "The biotech equipment transfer opens up a new and dangerous front in the mushrooming Chinagate scandal, in which China's People's Liberation Army spies conspired with Clinton-Gore bagmen to illegally sway the election and influence White House trade and military policy. The PLA is frantically trying to modernize its weapons systems, and needs U.S. military technology to do it."

-- Paul Sperry
WorldNetDaily, Feb. 27, 2000

        "Inside the New Age Nightmare reveals Baer's tale of seduction, from teen-age dabbling in Eastern religions to a meteoric rise in New Age leadership. He details the sequences of uncanny events and bizarre experiences that led him to become an internationally recognized expert in 'crystal power' and New Age philosophy. In the midst of a storybook career, Baer had a dramatic and horrifying encounter with the evil forces behind the New Age movement."

-- Flyleaf description Inside the New Age Nightmare,
by Randall N. Baer

War between Communist China and the United States is "inevitable," according to General Chi Haotian, Defense Minister of the People's Republic of China.  The Hong Kong newspaper Cheng Ming reported in early January that Chi, in a December address at a military conference, had stated: "Seen from the changes in the world situation and the United States' hegemonic strategy for creating monopolarity, war is inevitable."

This is the same Gen. Chi Haotian, Communist leader of the People's Liberation Army, whom the Clinton administration greeted with honors in 1996 on the anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre.  [He] was warmly introduced by then Secretary of Defense William Perry as "my colleague." The red carpet treatment for Comrade Chi included a 19-gun salute at the Pentagon and a 20-minute White House meeting with President Clinton.

The New American, Feb. 14, 2000, p. 7

"Sen. Orrin Hatch giving Gov. George W. Bush the nod as he bows out of the race further proves that he is no David going after the Goliath of big government, but is just another establishment man, toeing the line. Then he wonders why there was no groundswell of support for him. Alan Keyes is far more the David in the Republican Party, deserving of miracles, as he stands boldly for moral principles."

-- Sterling D. Allan, Manti
(Salt Lake Tribune, Public Forum, 2/17/00, p. A18)

"What had been holding me back [from a conversion to Christianity] has not been so much a difficulty in believing as a difficulty in knowing what the doctrine *meant*: you can't believe a thing while you are ignorant *what* the thing is. My puzzle was the whole doctrine of Redemption: in what sense has the life and death of Christ 'saved' or 'opened salvation to' the world..."Now what Dyson and Tolkien showed me ... was this: that if I met the idea of sacrifice in a Pagan story I didn't mind it at all: again, that if I met the idea of a god sacrificing himself to himself I liked it very much and was mysteriously moved by it: again, that the idea of the dying and reviving god (Balder, Adonis, Bacchus) similarly moved me provided I met it anywhere except in the Gospels. The reason was that in the Pagan stories I was prepared to feel the myth as profound and suggestive of meanings beyond my grasp even though I could not say in cold prose "what it meant". Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that *it really happened*: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God's myth where the other are men's myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call "real things". Therefore, it is *true*, not in the sense of being a description of God (that no finite mind would take in) but in the sense of being the way in which God chooses to appear to our faculties. The "doctrines" we get *out of* the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our *concepts* and *ideas* of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection."

-- C.S. Lewis

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In April 1995, the Third Army had crossed the Rhine, rolled across Germany, and were within 50 miles of Berlin, when Patton's superiors issued a nearly inexplicable order: He was ordered to withdraw 100 miles west, over captured territory. The vacuum was quickly filled by the Red Army, which swarmed over Czechoslovakia and eastern Germany.

"This war stopped right where it started," observed Patton during a closed, off-the-record press conference on May 8, 1945. "Right in the Hun's backyard which is now Hitler's graveyard. But that's not the end of this business by any means. What the tin-soldier politicians in Washington and Paris have managed to do today is another story you'll be writing for a long while.... They have allowed us to kick the hell out of one bastard and at the same time forced us to help establish a second one as evil or more evil than the first. We have won a series of battles, not a war for peace. We're headed down another long road to losing another peace."

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(Source: The New American, Dec. 20, 1999, p. 38.)

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein

"Only dead fish go with the flow."

-- Blayne Sukut
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    "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

-- Blaise Pascal

    "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

- G.K. Chesterton

    "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

--Christopher Wynter
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"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac."

-- George Carlin

I am all that I have been, and I am becoming that which I wish to become.

That is who and what I am.

-- Marylin, Jan. 17, 2000
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-- J. J. Dewey
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-- J.J. Dewey (Eternal Lives)