Nay, but a Teufels Schwein, for all swine do what they do.
George Carlin, noted comedian (d. June 22, 2008):
I noticed that of all the prayers I used to offer to god, and all
the prayers that I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answer at about
the same 50%% rate. Half the time I get what I want. Half the time I
don't. Same as god 50/50. Same as the four leaf clover, the horse
shoe, the rabbit's foot, and the wishing well. Same as the mojo man.
Same as the voodoo lady who tells your fortune by squeezing the goat's
testicles. It's all the same; 50/50. So just pick your superstitions,
sit back, make a wish and enjoy yourself. And for those of you that
look to the Bible for it's literary qualities and moral lessons; I got
a couple other stories I might like to recommend for you. You might
enjoy The Three Little Pigs. That's a good one. It has a nice happy
ending. Then there's Little Red Riding Hood. Although it does have
that one x-rated part where the Big-Bad-Wolf actually eats the
grandmother. Which I didn't care for, by the way. And finally, I've
always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty.
The part I liked best: ...and all the king's horses, and all the
king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. That's because there is
no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no god. None. Not one. Never was.
No god. [George Carlin, from "You Are All Diseased".]
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_GCarlin.htm
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be
that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
~~Jesus Christ, the Firstborn and the Savior of all that repent
(Matthew 18:7)
7 For the things which some men esteem to be of great worth, both to
the body and soul, others set at naught and trample under their feet.
Yea, even the very God of Israel do men trample under their feet;
I say, trample under their feet but I would speak in other words—
they set him at naught, and hearken not to the voice of his counsels.
(Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 19:7)
REVELATION ON THE SECOND DEATH
Destruction of the spirit in hell. Promise of translation.
Received Spring, 1982, Archdale, N.C.
1 Thus saith the Lord, Yea, there is that second death which
pertaineth unto the destruction of the spirit of man in that hell
spoken of, for it is that spirit shall return unto the native element
from which it was formed or begotten by me in that day,
saith the Lord God.
2 And it is that this death cometh upon all those who deny me
in this day, saith the Lord God.
3 And it is that this death cometh upon all those who deny me and
PERSIST therein and who will not repent, neither can they, saith
the Lord God of Israel who it is that doth speak unto thee, O man,
whom I the Lord God have created in mine own image, even the image
of mine Only Begotten Son have I created thee.
4 For it is that these are they who have denied the Holy Ghost and
for whom there is no salvation.
5 And the resurrection shall come upon all but these who are sons of
perdition, and the end thereof no man knoweth save he or she shall be
made a partaker thereof, and the height or the depth or the misery
thereof no man knoweth, nevertheless I the Lord God show it by vision
unto many and shut it up straightway again.
6 And all who deny these things, saith the Lord, shall partake of
that second death and they shall not escape my wrath which shall be
poured out upon them that they be utterly annihilated back to the
native element from which they are formed.
7 For all, saith the Lord, who deny these Revelations which I the Lord
God have caused to be put into the world as a witness of me shall deny
the Spirit and shall not be redeemed in the resurrection but shall go
away into that lake of fire with the devil and his angels and there
their torment is as a flame.
8 For mine anger, saith the Lord shall even be spent upon them, in my
terrible fury and might which cannot be stopped by man in the flesh,
and their worm dieth not, and the flame thereof ascendeth up forever
and is not quenched until they die, saith the Lord, even the
Second Death, according to that torment of which hath been written.
9 For I the Lord thy God shall not be mocked by them who are under
my feet in that day that the earth shall be redeemed, even from the
fall thereof.
10 Even so, beware how thou holdest the oracles of God! For it must be
unto this generation, saith the Lord on the one hand, even as it is on
the other, even Eternal Life, and the fruits thereof, or Death and its
portion on the other, and ye of this generation are free before me,
saith the Lord, to choose, either life in my presence, or the second
death in the presence of him whom ye served deliciously, even that
devil spoken of.
11 And if it is that ye hearken, saith the Lord, and are obedient unto
my servant in these things which he shall command thee in my name,
saith the Lord, by the Authority Of The Holy Priesthood Which Is After
The Order Of Melchizedec, then it is that the second death shall have
no power over thee.
12 And it is that if ye are obedient, saith the Lord, in all things,
then it is that ye shall be redeemed also from the fall and dwell with
me and my angels in regions of bliss and light forever and ever.
13 And it is that the first death, which is the death of the body
which is physical, shall not have power over thee at all.
14 For it is that ye shall become quickened by me and by my power,
saith the Lord, which power is after the Order of an Endless Life.
15 For I the Lord thy God am the creator and Father of all life and
all life is in me, that thy body, O man, is changed and quickened that
it shall never die, if it be that ye are obedient unto me through him
whom I have appointed and ordained unto this power through the
ministration of messengers or angels from my presence, saith the Lord
God of Israel, as anciently.
16 And this is according to the pattern of that which I the Lord God
did unto Enoch and the City thereof as recorded in the eleventh
chapter of the Book of Hebrews by the hand of my servant Paul, who is
now with me, saith the Lord, in the might and power of my glory which
is beyond the mind of man to comprehend in the fulness thereof.
17 Even so. Amen.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 43:1-17
(Received by Art Bulla, Apostle of Jesus Christ)
Brigham Young, Apostle of Joseph the Seer:
The salvation offered in the Gospel is one of the most consoling,
one of the most merciful, one of the most magnanimous principles that
can be advanced in all the revelations of God to man. All the sons and
daughters of men will be saved, except the sons of perdition.
~~Journal of Discourses, Vol.7, Pg.281, October 7, 1859
Paul, Apostle of Jesus Christ:
[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another]
star in glory.
So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in
weakness; it is raised in power:
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
~~1 Corinthians 15:41 - 44
20 For it was that them before the flood obtained promise of
deliverance in the resurrection from hell, which shall not be given
unto this generation, saith the Lord, for thou hast also blasphemed
against the Holy Ghost, O liberal man and woman, which they did not do
before the flood.
21 And it is that unless ye speedily repent, ye shall be destroyed
both body and soul in hell for I love the effortless fury of the
battle, and the blood shall run to the bridles of the horses
in that day, saith the Lord God of Pharaoh, and whose destruction unto
thee, O liberal man and woman is beyond the mind of man to comprehend
in the height and depth thereof, which no man knoweth save he shall be
made partaker thereof.
22 Yea with the devil and his angels ye shall suffer the second death,
in my fury and wrath upon thee, O man and O woman, who darest
lift up thy feeble head against my legions who shall come in this day,
saith the Lord God.
23 And also mine own arm which shall fall upon thee to thy destruction
as before the flood, and by pestilence and plague and earthquake,
as mine armies which shall go through as a young lion in the midst of
sheep, and the fall of thy economy, and thy utter destruction both
body and soul which hangeth over thee, O man, even now, and these
things are upon thee except ye repent and come unto me through
him whom I have appointed for the deliverance of the righteous in
these things, saith the Lord God of Joseph Smith and Hyrum, whom your
fathers, O ye Gentiles killed, and rejoiced in their deaths.
24 And did I not pour out the civil war upon them as punishment, even
in these things, saith the Lord, to requite the blood of the prophets
upon their own heads, saith the Lord God of destruction and terrible
vengeance?
Revelations of Jesus Christ 24:20-24
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the
beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God
the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and
in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is]
with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up.
[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and
godliness,
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and
blameless.
And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given
unto him hath written unto you;
As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in
which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are
unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
~~Simon Peter, Apostle of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:3 - 16)
19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall
of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the
enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and
becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and
becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love,
willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict
upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
20 And moreover, I say unto you, that the time shall come when the
knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred,
tongue, and people.
21 And behold, when that time cometh, none shall be found blameless
before God, except it be little children, only through repentance and
faith on the name of the Lord God Omnipotent.
(Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19 - 21)
We enjoy privileges that no other people on the earth enjoy; and
the greatest of all is to enjoy communion with our Father and his Son
Jesus Christ. There is no blessing equal to that, whether it is
enjoyed in palaces or in prisons, in wandering in the mountains, or
passing our time pleasurably in great cities. Whoever the Lord
Almighty enlightens and fills with the joy of the upper world is
happy: the Spirit, the joy, the peace, and the comfort are within
them.
We are to learn how to enjoy the things of life--how to pass our
mortal existence here. There is no enjoyment, no comfort, no
pleasure, nothing that the human heart can imagine, with all the
spirit of revelation we can get, that tends to beautify, happify, make
comfortable and peaceful, and exalt the feelings of mortals, but what
the Lord has in store for his people. He never objected to their
taking comfort. He never revealed any doctrine, that I have any
knowledge of, but what in its nature is calculated to fill with peace
and glory, and lift every sentiment and impulse of the heart above
every low, sad, deathly, false, and groveling feeling. The Lord
wishes us to live that we may enjoy the fulness of the glory that
pertains to the upper world, and bid farewell to all that gloomy,
dark, deathly feeling that is spread over the inhabitants of the
earth.
My brother Joseph, before "Mormonism" came to us, was a man of
sad heart, seeking to find in the Bible the principles of eternal
life. He once said to me, "Brother Brigham, there are no Bible
Christians upon the face of the earth, and I do not see any possible
escape for the human family. According to the writings of the Old and
New Testaments, all must go to perdition." I do not suppose that he
had a smile on his countenance for years. I said to him, "You and I
believe in God and in the Bible. We suppose the Bible to be true, or
at least the most of it. I admit it to be true, and admit that there
is a God. We have always been taught so, and that we have a just God,
if we have any. I believe in a just, holy, equitable Being; and if
the Gospel is not on the earth, my feelings are to do about the best
I can; and when I am through, I shall be in the hands of the same God
in whose hands I have been all the time, and I will risk it. I did
not produce myself--I did not cause my existence. A being superior to
me has done this; and if I do as well as I know how, I will then risk
all in his hands, and be perfectly contented and satisfied. I shall
go with a cheerful countenance, and shall pass through the world as
cheerfully as I can, making the best of it." But there was more or
less of a gloom over my feelings from the earliest days of my
childhood that I have in any recollection, until I heard the
everlasting Gospel declared by the servants of God--until I heard men
testify, by the power of the Holy Ghost, that the Book of Mormon is
true, that Joseph Smith is a true Prophet of the Lord, who had
revealed the holy Priesthood from heaven, had established his Church,
was going to gather Israel, and was coming to judgment. Under that
preaching the gloom vanished, and has not since troubled me for
a moment.
The dark shade of the valley of death is over the nations of the
earth; the vail of the covering is over them; they are hid from the
presence of the Lord. They do not behold his glory--they do not
understand his providences; the fear of death is over them, and it is
a dark shadow. That was over me, and I made the best of it. But
"Mormonism" has opened up light. Removing the curtain from the broad
sunshine, it has lighted up the souls of hundreds of thousands, and
they have been made to rejoice in the light of truth. Continue to be
faithful to your calling. It is your privilege and duty to so live as
to be able to understand the things of God. There are the Old and New
Testaments, the Book of Mormon, and the Book of Doctrine and
Covenants, which Joseph has given us, and they are of great worth to
a person wandering in darkness. They are like a lighthouse in the
ocean, or a finger-post which points out the road we should travel.
Where do they point? To the fountain of light. Joseph has gone to
the spirit-world: he is on his way to his glory and exaltation, and
all his sayings, from first to last, lead us to the fountain of light,
where we can understand for ourselves and walk in the light. That is
what these books are for. They are of God; they are valuable and
necessary: by them we can establish the doctrine of Christ. I never
asked for any book when I was preaching to the world, but the Old and
New Testaments to establish everything I preached, and to prove all
that was then necessary--that it was the duty of the people to throw
off their sins, cast evil from them, return to the Lord their God,
embrace the fulness of the Gospel, be baptized for the remission of
sins, receive the Holy Ghost, and then go forward in all the
commandments and requirements of heaven, walking in the light of
eternal truth.
Our duty is to make the best of our present position. We have the
Gospel of life and salvation, to make bad men good and good men
better. We are to preach, exhort, expound, continue in our duty,
be fervent in spirit, bearing and forbearing with our brethren, being
filled with love and kindness; and we will yet, perhaps, get some of
our froward connections into heaven. Jesus said, when the woman
caught in adultery was brought to him, "He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone at her." We are all sinners, and it
is our duty to cast sin from us when we learn what it is. If we are
a little good, become a little better; if we have a little light, get
a little more; if we have a little faith, add to it; and by-and-by
we shall be prepared to build up and beautify Zion, and to be exalted
to reign in immortality and be crowned with the Gods.
God bless you! Amen.
~~Brigham Young, the Lion of the Lord
(Journal of Discourses, Vol.8, Pgs.129-130, July 22, 1860)
118 For would not the wicked and ignorant of the children of men
tread under foot the very God of Israel if in their power?
119 And for this reason they shall be ground, even into powder
by my warriors, who are full of honor, saith the Lord.
120 For is thy slavery, O my people, not worse than that of Pharaoh?
121 And did I not prophesy these things through the mouth of
my servant Moses, in the Book of Deuteronomy in that day?
122 And these, servants of the world, if they retreat not from their
stand, shall suffer the second death, for who shall withstand the
Holy One of Israel, who is a consuming fire of those who are mine
enemies as in the days of Pharaoh.
123 And this hath been my gospel, saith the Lord, in all ages of
the world upon which thou standest.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 2:118-123
1 There were present at that season some that told him of the
Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these
Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered
such things?
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.
4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew
them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in
Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise
perish.
(New Testament | Luke 13:1 - 5)
27 Yea, ye shall have signs aplenty, but more
unto thy destruction, O man, if ye turn not from
thine evil way, which provoketh me, as in the
days before the flood.
28 For ye shall behold, even thy destruction,
as them before the flood, when it is that
my mighty ones, who laugh and make merry with
me come at thee, with my vengeance, that ye be
ground, yea, even unto powder, and burned in
that day in which more than twelve legions of
my warriors shall reap down, even the earth
upon which thou standest.
29 For where is the disputer that there is a God
in that day which shall burn, even as an oven,
saith the Lord?
30 Now of these things, ye must judge.
31 For it is that by what judgment, saith the Lord,
that a man judgeth, that he shall also be judged, and
it shall be unto every man, even according to his work.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 8:27-31
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was
given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of
God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not
to give him glory.
(New Testament | Revelation 16:8 - 9)
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060925_temperatures_high.html
This URL includes NASA data showing a net rise since 1978 of annual
means in global land-ocean temperatures, with occasional year-to-year
dips having been observed also, but consistently recorded higher than
the preceding mean temperatures of the pivotal year 1978, during which
the latter-day Church of Jesus Christ, or the Mormons, completed their
prophesied apostasy. Hence the indisputable phenomenon of Global
Warming, by man's science as well as by revelations of Jesus Christ,
a measure of which I bear by the Spirit of the Living God given me,
and most certainly in the matter of Global Warming, for which man's
recourse has not been unto his Maker in solemn repentance but
unto defiant chemtrails spraying.
Brother Ames has said that " 'Mormonism' will progress." If it
does not, God will be dethroned, for when He undertakes to do
anything, it will be done, notwithstanding every opposing influence.
When the wicked have power to blow out the sun, that it shines no
more; when they have power to bring to a conclusion the operations of
the elements, suspend the whole system of nature, and make a footstool
of the throne of the Almighty, they may then think to check
"Mormonism" in its course, and thwart the unalterable purposes of
heaven.
~~Brigham Young (Journal of Discourses, Vol.1, June 13, 1852)
161 And the height and depth of the suffering of them who deny the
Holy Ghost no man knoweth save he shall be made a partaker thereof,
for it doth require millenia for the spirit to die and be ground back
down to its native element from which it was begotten, and this by the
devil and his angels who are mighty to the destruction of men, and
they are without hope having crucified mine Only Begotten unto
themselves afresh.
162 And this fate cometh upon all of this generation who receive not
my gospel, whether it be Billy Graham, or the Pope, saith the Lord,
for they were given much, and where much is given much also is
required, even obedience to mine anointed and diligence in keeping his
commandments which I the Lord shall give him.
163 And the rest of the vision of the resurrection of the dead is
contained within that volume of scripture which I the Lord God did
grant unto the people of that generation through the mouth of my
servant Joseph Smith, who is even now with me, saith the Lord, in the
might of my power as a witness against that generation who killed him
in that day, that the foundation of Zion should even be laid.
164 Therefore cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils,
saith the Lord.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 3:161-164
Mr. Wheeler, do not make the error, saith the Lord thy God, of thy
protege Richard Feynman.
(Received of Israel's God and sent to the noted nuclear and
theoretical physicist John Wheeler of Princeton University
on June 26, 2007.)
OBITUARIES
John A. Wheeler, 96; physicist coined the term 'black hole'
April 15, 2008
...
Wheeler died Sunday morning of pneumonia at his home in Hightstown,
N.J., according to his daughter, Alison Wheeler Lahnston. He had been
in poor health for the last week.
In the world of science, the 20th century was seen as the century of
physics, and Wheeler was its most imaginative adman. He was also
science's Zelig, seeming to be present at every important event or
discovery.
...
To Wheeler, quantum mechanics was a "great smoky dragon," particularly
with respect to the bizarre behavior of the electron, which defied
classification as a wave or a particle. It could be anywhere,
everywhere or nowhere, depending on the observer.
This led him to the conclusion that reality, as we know it, comes into
existence only because we are here to see it and bring it to life.
"How come the universe? How come us? How come anything?" he wrote in
his journal, according to a visiting reporter who saw it in 2002.
Happily, he said, the answer lies in the observers. "That's us,"
he said.
Even at an age when most physicists' best ideas are decades behind
them, Wheeler remained active and relevant. Isaac Asimov's
biographical encyclopedia of science, written in 1982, said Wheeler
has "remained in the forefront of theoretical thinking," matched only
by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
...
Once asked if he had a central vision, he replied: "It's the picture
that the whole of this existence will someday have its single, central
principle spring to life, that will be so natural we will say to
ourselves: 'How can it have been otherwise? And how could we have been
so stupid all these years not to have seen it?' "
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-wheeler15apr15,0,3823137.story?page...
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-wheeler15apr15,0,3823137.story?page...
20 For this is denial of the Holy Ghost, yea, even thy sciences are
organized according to this blasphemy, and are based upon the lie that
all things which are eternal are denied by them, that there is
no absolute truth.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 159:20
Yea, there is an absolute frame of reference, saith the Lord.
(Oct. 28, 2007)
Update on John Archibald Wheeler, by Ken Ford, Ph.D.
(Princeton Physics News, vol. 2, issue 1, winter 2006, p. 6):
John is much taken with the idea that evolution may not be just a
feature of biology. He wonders whether physical laws and physical
constants evolve, too, through a process of natural selection-whether
what we see around us and the rules that govern our world have not
been here "from everlasting to everlasting" but have been shaped by
evolution.
...
Why 3 + 1 dimensions? he asks. Why not more? There is no law against
more. Is the dimensionality of space and time itself a product of
natural selection? And even more importantly: How does something arise
from nothing? He is still fascinated with quantum mechanics and its
interpretation. He ponders the question whether we humans actually
create the laws by our observations, in the way that a magician
creates illusion-that what we observe around us is no more real than
what we observe at a magic show.
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/www/jh/newsletter.pdf
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won
first prize in the lottery of life. Cecil Rhodes 1902
http://www.englandism.com/home.htm
Well, how come they can't win the Euro (in soccer)?
Coningsby, by Benjamin Disraeli:
'But then you know virtually,' said Sir Joseph, 'the Parliament,
that is, the House of Commons, governs the country.'
'It did before 1832,' said Coningsby; 'but that is all past now.
We got rid of that with the Venetian Constitution.'
'The Venetian Constitution!' said Sir Joseph.
'To be sure,' said Millbank. 'We were governed in this country by the
Venetian Constitution from the accession of the House of Hanover.
But that yoke is past. And now I hope we are in a state of transition
from the Italian Dogeship to the English Monarchy.'
'King, Lords, and Commons, the Venetian Constitution!' exclaimed
Sir Joseph.
'But they were phrases,' said Coningsby, 'not facts. The King was
a Doge; the Cabinet the Council of Ten. Your Parliament, that you call
Lords and Commons, was nothing more than the Great Council of Nobles.'
'The resemblance was complete,' said Millbank, 'and no wonder,
for it was not accidental; the Venetian Constitution was intentionally
copied.'
'We should have had the Venetian Republic in 1640,' said Coningsby,
'had it not been for the Puritans. Geneva beat Venice.'
'I am sure these ideas are not very generally known,' said Sir Joseph,
bewildered.
'Because you have had your history written by the Venetian party,'
said Coningsby, 'and it has been their interest to conceal them.'
'I will venture to say that there are very few men on our side in the
House of Commons,' said Sir Joseph, 'who are aware that they were born
under a Venetian Constitution.'
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So did Casanova have a heart too?
CASANOVA by Ian Kelly (Hodder & Stoughton, £25)
By George Walden
Last updated at 5:03 PM on 17th June 2008
Casanova is one of those historical figures so famous we think we know
everything about them, but don't. This enthralling new biography puts
us right.
Our image of the woman-chasing Venetian is as a sexual cynic, a conman
and a boastful memoirist, yet Kelly shows he was a far more complex
and - more importantly - appealing fellow, whom with some reservations
we end up actually liking.
His sexual exploits, though far from the total of his life, were
a central part of it. His background predisposed him to what became a
kind of career. The son of an actress, he was born into the louche
sexual atmosphere of the 18th-century Venetian theatre world. But he
was no mere rake.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(New Testament | Matthew 16:26)
