Degenerative Social Effect of Music Lyrics

Plato would have banned all musicians from a society, yet some music seems good for the soul. Even so one must wonder about the degenerative social effects of males listening to popular music lyrics designed to be heard by women. The long term effects of rock and roll music lyrics designed for women along with illegal drug use may have some sort of feminizing impact on the American psyche and grease the skids for judicial activist foisting of homo marriage on the states. In many work facilities male workers are required to listen to musical agents of socialization even such as 'everyone has a devil inside'. I saw an Army Sgt. listening to such a song long ago on a radio like a dumb animal conditioned for Satanic taking.

Perhaps that isn't so however. One might believe that black hip hop culture arises in southern states to continue the practice of not appearing rural or servile amidst the ancestral white slave-owning culture, and that is reasonable enough although it does provide fertile ground for hispanic illegal migrants without slave ancestors happy to form the underground economy doing work that blacks are reluctant to. Such a theory may be incorrect. It might be easier to test the social effects of effeminizing lyrics on males in a controlled research study environment. I wonder if such a study was been made.

Edicting of Nantes and Relious Selections in Politics & Nations

 Evidently the French are reenacting Napolean's defeat at Waterloo. Its a society for creative anachronism sort of event. People do not think about how feudalism controlled society including religion in Europe as much as they ought to. After the edict of Nantes kings choose the religion a state would have. Individual liberty from political power was difficult regardless of the social organization it flowed through. Spiritual thought differs from political, secular interests more than a little, in its true form, although one might not want to preclude all political events from being teleological actualization tools of God. The edict of Nantes and its religious tolerance was later revoked by Louis XIV (a rather swishy image below). In "30 states a head of state must belong to a certain religion" (or vice versa?)... http://www.pewresearch.org/.../in-30-countries-heads-of.../ With so many Muslim heads of state required to be Muslim, there is something of a standing Muslim political-religious pressure toward militancy and Muslim law. Such a political tree sends its nuts to many nations hoping to take root. The left does not view things that way and seeks to disarm Americans and repress religion to create a faggy little state useful to Wal Street.

World Chess Rankings; Tactics

Casual chess players wonder about the jockeying for positions in the present professional super-GM chess tournaments leading to the next Candidate's tournament. Magnus Carlsen is still the world's number one ranked player yet in live chess his ranking has dropped 20 points. Carlsen is experiencing something of a slump during the Norway 2015 Super-Tournament  losing a few games. Fabiano Caruana who was won seven in a row at last year's Sinquefeld has also dropped a more than 40 points from his second-highest-ever rating.  With the candidate's tournament to determine who will play Carlsen in the World Championship in 2016 not being held until January 2016 there are some tactics that be be a factor in immediate wins and losses, world rankings and standings. Does Carlsen have much reason to show anything new the rest of the year to his potential challengers?

Another chess Grandmaster of very high rank Levon Aronian has dropped about 40 points since the last candidates tourney. There may be a lesson in being a very high second ranked player before the candidate's tournament; all the other players pay especially attention to you and it is difficult to win the tournament (unless you are Magnus Carlsen). So Caruana and others may be conserving their play once they have already earned a place in the candidates' for 2016. Carauana and American Hikara Nakamura have already won places in the 2016 Candidates with wins in the FIDE Grand Prix series this year.

http://www.2700chess.com/

It is very difficult to say who will make it to the Candidates Tournament besides those already qualified. Vishy Anand, former World Champion has an auto-slot for winning last time. There are a few open invites for high ranking players and Americans hope that Wesley So is selected; So and others that might go because of high world chess ratings need to keep their scores as high as possible.

China's Wei Yi is at this stage seemingly another Magnus Carlsen. At age 16 he is already a Super GM and it is theoretically possible that he could surge in rankings and be at the Candidate's Tournament too. At about 2730 he would need to rise another 70 points the rest of the year to have much of a chance. The top ten in World Chess rankings will probably win spots and Yi is presently 29th ranked. One wonders if Yi will be the first player to reach 3000. Carlsen fell just 15 points short of that.

Multiculturalism and The Violence of Integration

President Obama's immediate left-wing disarmament reaction to the killing of Christians at church in Charleston exemplified the simplistic attitude toward violence of the Clinton-Obama tangent. Instead of noting the fact that multiculturalism and integration drives conflicts and killings the response of the left is to disarm the populace and put them in civil chains.

President Obama has said that of the world's civilized or post-industrialized nations the United States has the highest murder and gun violence rate and that eventually something needs to be done about that. Fundamentally his analysis is dead wrong. The United States has the most free and open society with the most numerous people on Earth with a reasonably high standard of living, although the wealth is concentrated and 1% own something like half the wealth and 50% share less than one-half of 1% of the wealth. I suppose Mr. Roof (what did the dog say when asked what covers a tree?) of scythe the Christians notoriety belongs in the poor-class. The primary cause for violence anywhere besides domestic strife is multi-cultural transformations and economic insecurity.

When I was walking into a store yesterday an automobile drove in through plate glass windows and the wall about ten feet away to come to a stop. The shaken driver got out and said the accelerator stuck. She probably had trouble with multicultural auto design and got a shoe and the accelerator mixed up with the brake-easy to do when multicultural snafu fail to install motion-sensing tech solid object ahead auto-brake features.

If one briefly considers nations such as have low crime and violence rates they are those with low levels of multiculturalism such as japan, Britain, China and some European nations. Multiculturalism brings violence such as the Muslim train bombing in Spain that drove the country to accept queer marriage, Muslim violence in China, Muslim killing of French journalists, and Muslim beheading of Jewish journalists and American journalists. Multiculturalism is the source of conflict in the U.S.A. today as descendants of African slaves experience violence from a descendants of a former oppressor class with economic insecurity because of multi-cultural illegal alien immigration to take up all the easy labor jobs of the Carolinas (I was riding a bike around S. Carolina looking for a job once when five illegal Mexicans appeared with painting tools from a project for a white home owner. Being a painter I could see the competition).

Certainly people need to work to live peacefully together, yet racial groups do not hire other racial groups except as cheap labor generally, and the upper classes support multiculturalism in order to get cheap labor-its not a new thing anywhere. It is the perennial human struggle of exploiters versus exploited and of all the hapless idiots on both sides of the line.

The United States has a fairly constant 14-15,000 murders annually now. There has been little change during the Obama years. It was more violent during the Vietnam and integration era when there were about 20,000 murders annually. The innocence was lost in 1960 when slightly fewer than 10,000 people were murdered. its the way it goes. The remedy io job security for a certain percent, and environmental security will keep the rate from rising in the future I would think. Yet compared to America's involvement in foreign wars and stimulating foreign conflicts where hundreds of thousands die the loss of life is not so horrific.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

Janet Yeltsin Boots Smart Alek Hamilton; & To Place Fem Founder on Ten-Spot

I have often thought Betsy Ross deserved the ten dollar bill feature photo slot and Alexander Hamilton should be moved to the label of a bottle of Jamaican rum. Fed Chef Yelin is giving Hammy what he deserves. Real power has its privileges.

All of the Feds bills have feature individuals that founded the nation or kept it together in the case of Lincoln-a dubious choice for being there with the founders yet because of his possibly Indian ancestry he deserves right of place. In a way though restricting face-bills to just founders was exclusive-everyone knows who the founders were but is Crispus Attucks on even the dollar?

It is females that are being considered though for the tenner. So I will consider more females as Vanity Fair considerations may be relevant.  Plainly it might be a better idea to sell the face-place of honor on bills for a billion a year to those that can afford it. Would Donald Trump or Bill Gates, Warren Buffet or Bill Clinton pay a billion to get their face on a ten-spot for a year's issue of currency?

That issue aside, Sacajawea is perhaps the sole female realistically qualified to be on the bill as a builder of the American Republic for leading Lewis and Clarke's expedition to the Promised Land, before it was all polluted and ugly from deforestation and auto exhaust etc. There is a credible report that the expedition saw a salmon in Montana or Idaho as impossible to believe as it is.

If no one remembers Susan B. Anthony it may be because she represented a special interest. Formerly to qualify one needed to represent the interests of all Americans directly rather than just a portion. Picky, picky, picky- Dwight Eisenhower probably deserves an honorable mention though he was only Supreme Allied Commander. One might want to increase the range of women eligible for the ten dollar bill to include movie stars and country western singers like Dolly Parton or Jane Fonda.

Charleston Church Slaughter; Fibe Bottles of Single Malt Scotch and a Bag of Chips

When nine Christians were slaughtered in a Charleston church (Emmanuel African-Methodist) by a young white man seeking prey at a prayer meeting the firestorm of media exploitation was sure to follow. The federal Government began a Hate Crimes investigation. It is o.k. to hate the government yet not to act upon it except at the ballot box. Crimes made up on politically protected elements of the population are regarded as hate crimes while some elements are unprotected. That discrimination seems hateful to those left out in the heat without a raindrop of relief, yet to move on.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/18/us-usa-shooting-south-carolina-idUSKBN0OY06A20150618

The brains of 21-year olds are not yet fully wired. They still short-circuit things and act rashly. I believe the brain is complete at 23 when the synapses are fully insulated. With the economic challenges young people face it is sometimes simpler to just act upon a fantasy and end the challenge. Young Mr. Roof will have a lifetime in the Aryan nation or some other prison gang or a date with smoky the chair some decade ahead very likely if South Carolina has the death penalty. The penalty for hate crimes on Christians may be death, and for being black and Christian, maybe 2x death, yet Christians themselves would probably forgive the crimes 70x7 if they could, well, the laws were probably designed to protect Muslims anyway rather than whites (or does that cross category lines?). The Tao of terrorism seeks the lowest course through multiple channels falling as rain from the rich and rising up through the scuppers of the slave-labor hold as the heavy ship of despair takes on water and merges to become one with the sea.

The majority of Americans don’t want white supremacy. With the practical problems of getting a job and a place to live in America for youth with such a profusion of corrupt corporate networks and fast trade housing derivatives swindles endemic to banking and lending tradition traditional avenues to prosperity may seem out of the realm of possibility. Some youth may fantasize of the glory days of Rhodesia and the Congo, King Leopold and Robert Conrad’s river trek to the Heart of Darkness where all was sweetness and light. Most people don’t, and do not even reflect wistfully upon General Gordon and the glory days of the Klu Klux Klan when it was easy to have job security. Most Americans and most white Americans prefer to try to view others as equals socially and spiritually speaking and desire to flow through the masses like guerrilla economic warriors without being singled out for their race or genius and thereby have problems getting a safe parking spot at night on the South side of Chicago.

The founders knew that the majority might need to revolt against a corrupt minority. Some might have felt it would make their day if they got the chance to hunt down some Tories and add another notch to their gun belts. Others were of a more philosophical turn and considered that all human life, even that of oppressive rulers was precious and should be terminated only with careful deliberation even perhaps, sending them to Valhalla with respect, bagpipes and a sacrificial bottle of single malt scotch. The founders wanted people to have guns in their homes to defend against criminal threats of union thugs at their door to steal their lunch, computer and valuable baseball cards, in addition to the opportunity to defeat homeland gestapo forces in a pitched battle if they come to cut off their balls to enforce Z.P.G. except for illegal aliens. Sometimes a well-organized militia with unbreakable codes might crowd-source flash rebellions against hated governments that oppress the masses, outsource jobs to China and throw every American citizen into a global labor pool.

It is an important historical point to learn that one cannot have a Jacobean reaction with a revolution and arrest of politicians of interest for summary trial and execution of judgment. Mass movements leading to revolt may be indexed by sociologist of course and pre-empted by pollster distros that everyone is against revolt. As the propaganda may have some 10% truth content per serving and be selectively featured the necessary degree of ability for subversives to organize a community to revolt may be challenging to attain.

The founders probably felt that some sort of Occam’s razor existed within a sane boundary such that individuals would not just go out and throw away their life in a single attack because they hate the government or the job situation or minimum wage and homelessness, or because they don’t have a Lamborghini. Though one needs guns for self-defense against gangsters usually one waits for gangsters to attack before shooting in self-defense.

The founders were preponderantly honest revolutionaries that would not have thought of doing anything dishonorable like shooting Christian fish in a church barrel like some sort of Darwinian predator fish eating the littler fish. If Fast Tramp authority is given by Congress to let extremists lever trade advantages for planetary plutocrats with a simpleton's majority assent no one thinks of putting on the suicide vest waiting by the door to be a minute-demolition visitor to the hallowed halls. The founders waited until the time was right to stand their ground and blast hated British oppressors into Fish and Chips Valhalla with musket fire and mobile artillery. King Gustav of Sweden invented the mobile artillery practice in one of the wars of the reformation era. The founders knew history rather well. Without the destruction of British imperial power in the U.S.A. Adam Smith’s capitalist techniques wouldn’t have had much traction and Captain. Morgan’s rum would have been the only alternative supplier without a mercantilist tax.

The founders wouldn’t have expected individuals to wear suicide vests and blast churches or NPR, Homeland Security or Fast Food Trade Franchises as a way to express their own dissent with policy that does not support their own financial advancement because it is counter-productive kill oneself, in-effect, for upward-mobility. In this era of mass-produced drugs maybe some do not reason so acutely and just fuel up with bad music, flags and theory, put their foot on the accelerator and blast away the bad dream and themselves in the process. Even so the founders would have supported rational government environmental policy and directed economic practices that would negated the circumstances that lead to such mass-produced, common, individual irrational behavior.

The Charleston Church should have been a priesthood of believers, Mr. Roof should have been walking and riding mass transit or a bicycle and not driving a petrosaur sedan. Maybe the African Method-Episcopal should not have a racially discriminating name indicating racial or ethnic origin. Maybe Methodists and Episcopalians should not support a homosexual clergy or marriage (some sects are working on it). It is certain that Prot churches are environmentally challenged to one-up Pope Francis' illuminating environmental encyclical communique.

Perhaps the government should provide a minimum income to all citizens. Perhaps all illegal drugs that provide revenues of a vast sum to criminal gangs should be duplicated with synthetic federal production and distributed at low cost in order to put drug gangs and cartels out of business. If people are dumb, good government need take that into account. Then with better education about the real hazards of certain drugs a majority might choose to remain healthy and uncorrupted so far as possible with all the food additives, air pollution and chemicals poured onto their lawns not to mention copper dust brake pad death of Alaskan frogs.

Guns are not the problem-bad government is. Bad government kills far more people that cars, and bad government makes life while alive, bad.

Seven Characteristics of False Teachers

In this era of apostasy and defection to wicked revisionist doctrine Thomas Brooks' experiences in a prior age of evil is informative on the subject of how false teachers in churches, government, politics, media and Hollywood deceive souls.

Thomas Brooks wrote on page 152 of 'Precious Remedies to Satan's Devices';

"The first help If you would not be taken by any of Satan's devices, then walk by rule of the Word of God (Prov. 12:24; Gal. 6:16) He who walks by rule, walks most safely; he who walks by rule, walks most honorably; he who walks by rule, walks most sweetly. When men throw off the Word, then God throws them off, and then Satan takes them by the hand, and leads them into snares at his pleasure. He who thinks himself too good to be ruled by the Word, will be found too bad to be owned by God; and if God does not, or will not own him—Satan will by his stratagems overthrow him. Those who keep to the rule, shall be kept in the hour of temptation. 'Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.' (Rev. 3:10)"

 Following is some of what Brooks wrote on the subject of false teachers in Precious Remedies to Satan's Devices;

"SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF  FALSE  TEACHERS-

Satan labors might and main, by false teachers, which are his emissaries, to deceive, delude, and forever undo the precious souls of men (Jer. 23:13) 'I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.'

Micah 3:5: 'The prophets make my people to err.' They seduce them, and carry them out of the right way into by-paths and blind thickets of error, blasphemy, and wickedness, where they are lost forever. 'Beware of false prophets, for they come to you in sheep's clothing—but inwardly they are ravening wolves' (Matt. 7:15). These lick and suck the blood of souls (Phil. 3:2), 'Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers.' These kiss and kill; these cry, Peace, peace, until souls fall into everlasting flames! (Prov. 7). (Acts. 20:28-30; 2 Cor. 11:13-15; Eph. 4:14; 2 Tim. 3:4-6; Titus 1:11, 22; 2 Peter2:18,19.)

Now the best way to deliver poor souls from being deluded and destroyed by these messengers of Satan is, to discover them in their colors, that so, being known, poor souls may shun them, and fly from them as from hell itself.
Now you may know them by these characters following:

[1.] False teachers are men-pleasers.
Such are not true teachers; Gal. 1:10, 1 Thess. 2:1-4. They preach more to please the ear than to profit the heart (Is. 30:10): 'Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things: speak to us smooth things; prophesy deceits.' Jer. 5:30, 31: "A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?" Jeremiah 5:30-31. False teachers handle holy things rather with wit and trifling, rather than with fear and reverence. False teachers are soul-murderers. They are like evil surgeons, that skin over the wound—but never heal it. Flattery undid Ahab and Herod, Nero and Alexander. False teachers are hell's greatest enrichers. Not bitter—but flattering words do all the mischief, said Valerian, the Roman emperor. Such smooth teachers are sweet soul-poisoners. "This is my warning to my people," says the Lord Almighty. 'Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you, filling you with futile hopes. They are making up everything they say. They do not speak for the Lord! They keep saying to these rebels who despise
my word, 'Don't worry! The Lord says you will have peace!' And to those who stubbornly follow their own evil desires, they say, 'No harm will come your way!'" (Jer. 23:16, 17).

[2.] False teachers are notable in casting dirt, scorn, and reproach upon the persons, names, and credits of Christ's most faithful ambassadors.

Thus Korah, Dathan, and Abiram charged Moses and Aaron that they took too much upon them, seeing all the congregation was holy (Num. 16:3). You take too much state, too much power, too much honor, too much holiness upon you; for what are you more than others, that you take so much upon you? And so Ahab's false prophets fell foul on good Micaiah, paying of him with blows for lack of better reasons (1 Kings 22:10-26).
Yes, Paul, that great apostle of the Gentiles, had his ministry undermined and his
reputation blasted by false teachers: 'For his letters,' say they, 'are weighty and powerful—but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible' (2 Cor. 10:10).

They rather condemn him than admire him; they look upon him as a dunce rather than a doctor. And the same hard measure had our Lord Jesus from the scribes and Pharisees, who labored as for life to build their own credit upon the ruins of his reputation. And never did the devil drive a more full trade this way than he does in these days (Matt. 27:63). Oh! the dirt, the filth, the scorn that is thrown upon those of whom the world is not worthy! I suppose false teachers mind not that saying of Augustine: 'He who willingly takes from my good name, unwillingly adds to my reward.' The proverb is, 'A man's eye and his good name can bear no jests.'

[3.] False teachers are venters of the devices and visions of their own heads and hearts.

Jer. 14:14: "Then the Lord said unto me—These prophets are telling lies in my name. I did not send them or tell them to speak. I did not give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts." "This is my warning to my people," says the Lord Almighty. "Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you, filling you with futile hopes. They are making up everything they say. They do not speak for the Lord!" Jeremiah 23:16.

Are there not multitudes in this nation whose visions are but golden delusions, lying vanities, brain-sick fantasies? These are Satan's great benefactors, and such as divine justice will hang up in hell as the greatest malefactors, if the physician of souls does not prevent it. Matt. 24:4, 5; 11:14; Titus 1:10; Rom. 16:18

[4.] False teachers easily pass over the great and weighty things both of law and gospel, and stand most upon those things that are of the least importance and concern to the souls of men.

1 Tim. 1:5-7: 'Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith sincere; from which some having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling, desiring to be teachers of the law, and understand neither what they say nor whereof they affirm.' Matt. 23:23: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for you pay tithe of mint, and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.' False teachers are nice in the lesser things of the law, and as negligent in the greater. 1 Tim. 6:3-5: 'If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing—but doting about questions and strife of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.' If such teachers are not hypocrites in grain, I know nothing (Rom. 2:22). The earth groans to bear them, and hell is fitted for them (Matt. 24:32).

Luther complained of such in his time as would strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. This age is full of such teachers, such monsters! The high priest's spirit (Matt. 23:24) lives and thrives in these days.

[5.] False teachers cover and color their dangerous principles and soul-
deceptions with very fair speeches and plausible pretenses, with high notions and golden expressions.

Many in these days are bewitched and deceived by the magnificent words, lofty strains, and stately terms of deceivers. As strumpets paint their faces, and deck and perfume their beds, the better to allure and deceive simple souls; so false teachers will put agreat deal of paint and garnish upon their most dangerous principles and blasphemies, that they may the better deceive and delude poor ignorant souls. They know sugared-poison goes down sweetly; they wrap up their pernicious, soul-killing pills in gold! (Gal. 6:12; 2 Cor. 11:13-15; Rom. 16:17, 18; Matt. 16:6,11,12; 7:15.)

In the days of Hadrian the emperor, there was one Ben-Cosbi gathered a multitude of Jews together, and called himself Ben-cocuba, the son of a star, applying that promise to himself (Num. 24:17)—but he proved Bar-chosaba, the son of a lie. And so will all false teachers, for all their flourishes prove at the last the sons of lies.

[6.] False teachers strive more to win over men to their opinions, than to
better them in their lives.

Matt. 23:15: 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves!' They busy themselves most about men's heads. Their work is not to better men's hearts, and mend their lives; and in this they are very much like their father the devil, who will spare no pains to gain proselytes. For shame! says Epictetus to his Stoics; either live as Stoics, or leave off the name of Stoics. The application is easy.

[7.] False teachers make merchandise of their followers.
"But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false
teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping." 2 Peter 2:1-3. They eye your goods more than your good; and mind more the serving of themselves, than the saving of your souls. So they may have your substance, they care not though Satan has your souls (Rev. 18:11-13). That they may the better pick your purse, they will hold forth such principles as are very indulgent to the flesh. False teachers are the great worshipers of the golden calf. "From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit." (Jer. 6:13). Crates threw his money into the sea, resolving to drown it, lest it should drown him. But
false teachers care not who they drown—so they may have their money.

Now, by these characters you may know them, and so shun them, and deliver your souls out of their dangerous snares."

Brooks also writes, on page 146 of Precious remedies, that it is not accurate to blame all sin upon Satan, for he can only tempt the soul to sin and set snares for the unwary straying from grace. The propensity to sin exists originally within the human being; people are only saved by the grace of the Lord.

Brooks;"Satan has only a persuading sleight, not an enforcing might. He may tempt us—but without ourselves he cannot conquer us; he may entice us—but without ourselves he cannot hurt us. Our hearts carry the greatest guilt in every sin. Satan can never undo a man without himself; but a man may easily undo himself without Satan. Satan can only present the golden cup—but he has no power to force us to drink the poison that is in the cup; he can only present to us the glory of the world, he cannot force us to fall down and worship him, to enjoy the world; he can only spread his snares, he has no power to force us to walk in the midst of his snares. Therefore do the devil so much right, as not to excuse yourselves, by your accusing him, and laying the load upon him, that you should lay upon your own hearts.

We are no sooner born, than buried in a bog of wickedness (Cicero).

The fire is our wood, though it be the devil's flame (Nazianzen)."