The one true national Gd is wealth; material collectivism for the edification of a single individual. Whether stock certificates, gold or diamonds, cold cash, wealth in countable dollars, euros, rubles, yen, or yuan, what have you, these the various and varied appellations, connotations for the Gd in which we trust.
If we follow the principle of "don't listen to what they say; WATCH what they do," then it is perfectly obvious that money is the only object of devotion in the West and quite possibly the world.
Thomas Paine differed in this as well. He repudiated the copyright of all his works after COMMON SENSE, letting them be published freely and at will, and the money he made on COMMON SENSE he donated to the Revolutionary cause ... to purchase mittens and winter clothing for the revolutionaries.
Historians lie or err, however, when they say he died in poverty. Not so. His biographer Gilbert Vale (1788-1866) documented that Paine was financially comfortable at this death, in part because of an award of land given him by the State of New York in recognition for his services to the American Revolution.
The one true national Gd is wealth; material collectivism for the edification of a single individual. Whether stock certificates, gold or diamonds, cold cash, wealth in countable dollars, euros, rubles, yen, or yuan, what have you, these the various and varied appellations, connotations for the Gd in which we trust.
If we follow the principle of "don't listen to what they say; WATCH what they do," then it is perfectly obvious that money is the only object of devotion in the West and quite possibly the world.
Thomas Paine differed in this as well. He repudiated the copyright of all his works after COMMON SENSE, letting them be published freely and at will, and the money he made on COMMON SENSE he donated to the Revolutionary cause ... to purchase mittens and winter clothing for the revolutionaries.
Historians lie or err, however, when they say he died in poverty. Not so. His biographer Gilbert Vale (1788-1866) documented that Paine was financially comfortable at this death, in part because of an award of land given him by the State of New York in recognition for his services to the American Revolution.
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