[betty boop]

In our country they were officially diagnosed as sexual deviants, people who had a peculiar mental illness. Today the society treats it as the "other" normal [sic]. Was that pecuniary as well?

Well you tell me. All I know is that a whole lot of people who "lobbied" the publishers of psychiatric diagnostic manuals to expunge all references to homosexuality as a "diseased" or "deviant" condition [back in the 1970s] are still highly paid and highly regarded "experts" today (if still living) — in academe and elsewhere. If not they themselves, then their students.... They are the recipients of the "spoils of victory" in a culture war they are determined to dominate, in which they fully expect to prevail against all dissent. By hook or by crook. For the ends justify the means....

[Personally, I suspect that homosexuality has less to do with psychopathology than it does with pneumopathology.... the latter seems to me always involves a sense of grievance against God and the Order He created.]

Nowadays, if it ain't about money, it's about power. And "power" has a magical way of transforming into pecuniary gain for power seekers. Always at other people's expense.

You can't defend yourself against such social predators if you have no truth to stand on. They create "second realities," by which to eclipse the world in which I actually live. But I cannot live in a second reality! For it has no Truth.

Still there are people who evidently believe that if you tell a lie often enough, it acquires a semblance of truth by virtue of sheer repetition.

Do you believe this, kosta?

[kosta50]

All I know is that a whole lot of people who "lobbied" the publishers of psychiatric diagnostic manuals to expunge all references to homosexuality as a "diseased" or "deviant" condition [back in the 1970s] are still highly paid and highly regarded "experts" today

So, why did they succeed?

Nowadays, if it ain't about money, it's about power.

And in the past it was different? One of the biggest obstacles the Framers encountered as regards abolition of slavery was the financial burden on the states compensating the slave owners. Money talks...

You can't defend yourself against such social predators if you have no truth to stand on

Still there are people who evidently believe that if you tell a lie often enough, it acquires a semblance of truth by virtue of sheer repetition.

You mean like talking donkeys?

Do you believe this, kosta?

Not I, betty boop.

[Alamo-Girl]

Nowadays, if it ain't about money, it's about power. And "power" has a magical way of transforming into pecuniary gain for power seekers. Always at other people's expense.

You can't defend yourself against such social predators if you have no truth to stand on. They create "second realities," by which to eclipse the world in which I actually live. But I cannot live in a second reality! For it has no Truth.

Still there are people who evidently believe that if you tell a lie often enough, it acquires a semblance of truth by virtue of sheer repetition.

That is exactly what they do. "Yes, we can" when no, they can't. It's all about "sex, sex, sex" when it was really about perjury and obstruction of justice. It's a "fetus" when it's an unborn child. It's "choice" when it's murder. It's an "alternate lifestyle" when it's an abomination.

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

You can't defend yourself against such social predators if you have no truth to stand on. They create "second realities," by which to eclipse the world in which I actually live. But I cannot live in a second reality! For it has no Truth.

Those are four great sentences. Thanks, BB.