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Looks like Graphene Oxide will replace asbestos caused mesothelioma and chronic lung disease with the stupid mask mandates being forced on people the last 2 years. And where were all those masks made?

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Excellent. Clearly at work are transnational forces. Perhaps supernatural. Here in my comment I slightly rework an essay by Berdyaev. http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1916_225.html

Material power is not itself per se an existent reality. Material power is begotten of a manifestation of spiritual power. The material technical aspect is a manifestation of the inner power of a nation. But insofar as a material manifestation of spiritual power resorts to coercive force, the spiritual power proves insufficient for mastering and co uniting, for a mastery over existences, over the souls of people and things.

In the world there is evil coercive violence, insofar as Divine power fails to take root in the world, and does not take hold in the world down to its very depths. Power always proceeds from within and goes inward. Power -- is ontological, real in the deepest meaning of this word, it is contrary to all illusiveness and all non-being. An insufficiency of power is a diminuation of being. And insofar as the world cannot yield and be brought under the mastery of an inner spiritual power, it is illusory and of non-being. No other sort of power, except spiritual a power, can there be. Only God is powerful, the devil however is completely powerless, he only pretends to be powerful, and his mastery in the world -- is illusory a mastery. The powers of this world in an ontological sense can prove to be very weak. For all of us is needful a consciousness of the majesty of power, its spiritual and Divine aspect. And for us it is necessary to surmount the externalistic attitude towards power. For the purpose of the spiritual hygiene of the individual man and the entire people it is not good to sense oneself as weak, on all sides beset by dangers and dwelling upon one's weaknesses, such as humility, as a quality, almost unknown to other peoples. Power is not a given, received externally, power is drawn forth from the inner depths. Power can and ought to increase in oneself, and needful for this is a spiritual hygiene of the person and the nation. Out of a mistrustful anxiety, out of fear, out of an idealisation of weakness, power is lessened and falls for real. And power for real grows and rises forth out of an awareness of oneself as strong, out of a love for power, out of a fearlessness in the face of dangers.

It is needful to call forth from the depths a feeling of power and to strengthen the awareness of power as spiritually higher an existence. In the depths of each man and each people there is power, but in slumbering a condition and weighed down beneathe the external layers of life.

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