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      "body": "<center>http://i.imgsafe.org/55f57490cb.jpg</center>\n# Israel vs. Yasarel And Election 2016\n\n**America** is at an impasse.\n\nNo matter who \"wins\" the election this year, it won't bode well for the U.S. for one main reason the controlled press will never tell you.\n\nIt all has to do with a major event in our recent history, that took place 15 years ago today. 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All of which relates to current events and the pending election, as you are about to discover.\n\n### Fifteen Years Later...\n\nThis is being written September 7th, and on this date fifteen years ago I was preparing to publish a newspaper, the lead headline article of which spoke about prophesied judgments on the United States in relation to Ezekiel 22:23-29.\n\nIn the fifth paragraph of the first column of page 1 of **The Hamilton Crier** newspaper the date of September 11, 2000 was cited in relation to a hearing involving myself that had occurred the prior year, which actually took place a day later, on the 12th of September, but was mistakenly entered in an official court docket by a visiting judge as having taken place on the prior day.\n\nOn that very day, one year prior to 9-11-01, the neo-nazi-cons of the then active political think tank called **Project For A New America** (PNAC) published a report titled:  *Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,* on page 51 of which the proposed \"transformation\" and \"revolutionary change,\" as a result of the military build-up of America called for in that document, admitted this process:\n\n> *\"...*[W]*ould likely be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.\"* <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20130817122719/http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">See the document archived here</a>.\n\nThe newspaper I published a year later was printed and distributed between September 7th and 10th 2001, on which latter date I also published an email newsletter in which more than a dozen statements were made, such as:\n\n> *\"*[T]*o hijack,\" \"*[W]*hat do you do when there is no true adversary...?\", \"How can you agree with someone who springs upon you like a vicious animal out of the blue, without warning?\", \"In such a case you never have the ability to make peace with your adversary...!\", \"emergency 911,\" \"none of their usual alarms went off,\" \"sounds like deliberate sabotage.... We may or may not ever be told the full story,\" \"'gone to ground' and burned out,\" \"deluge of heat,\" \"possible government or cartel (gangster) suppression,\" and \"stung by a scorpion.\"*\n\nAccording to the date and time stamp, this email was sent around 8:00 pm on September 10, 2001. Looking back, in light of what would take place less than 14 hours later, all of these statements combined indicated an intuitive (possibly prophetic) advance notice of what would become one of the darkest days in the history of America.\n\nNot so much because of the attack itself, but rather the revelations that are now coming to light as to precisely what and who was actually behind it, which is altogether different from what you may have assumed or been told.\n\nThe key smoking gun \"catastrophic and catalyzing event\" seen as a \"new Pearl Harbor\" being the destruction visited by alleged kamikaze-like destruction upon the U.S. Pentagon facility 15 years ago today.\n\nFor further research into the factual history of this pivotal event, you should definitely watch the following video: <a href =\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvJ8nFa5Qk&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">9/11 Pentagon Attack - Behind the Smoke Curtain - Barbara Honegger</a>\n\nAs we observe the 15th anniversary of 9-11 it is vital to understand these matters as they relate to the current election now underway.\n\n### Nebuchadnezzar vs. Jezebel?\n\nAs I see it, neither of the only two \"viable\" choices most Americans see as their \"best\" alternatives for the POTUS (president of the United States) this year will be truly good for the nation, or the world for that matter.\n\nWhichever of the two, Trump or Clinton, is \"elected\" this year, terrible times lie ahead for our nation as a whole, due to the extreme polarizing effect both of these candidates has upon the factious political landscape of America; which as never before is conflicted and divided over issues of race, sex, religion, war and the economy, to name but a few.\n\nThere is also a chief, underlying but mostly hidden reason why America is about to undergo the most troubling times since its inception, which may very well destroy the \"land of the free\" as surely as the old Nazi and Soviet regimes of Germany and Russia were eventually vanquished, largely due to the very same cause.\n\nAmerica has been co-opted, against the better judgement of its founders, such as George Washington, who warned against intrigues and entangling alliances with foreign nations.\n\nWe are now expected to battle the nations considered to be the \"enemies\" of the state of Israel, which is an issue akin to a third rail in American politics (whoever touches it gets \"electrocuted\" instantly in the arena of \"popular\" public opinion).\n\nIt seems the racist \"anti-semitism\" slur is always held ready to halt all debate, factual inspection or discussion of the chief instigator of troubles in our supposedly \"enlightened\" age, of a nation apparently incapable of living at peace with any of its neighbors, or even a large proportion of its own native populace (the Palestinians).\n\nSo now, America is faced with choosing either a Nebuchadnezzar (a successful warrior and king of commerce in the ancient nation that became Babylon) or a Jezebel (a deceitful, militaristic, murderous, conniving first \"lady\" of the ancient nation of Yasarel) as our next president.\n\nI use Ya-sar-el, based upon the name of the patriarch's grandmother Sar-a, which indicated she was of royal lineage, that in modern times is still used in the form of words such as czar and kaisar (the surname of a maternal great-great-grandfather of mine, who was once a baker for the White House and for the north during the Civil War, who later owned and ran the Kaiser bakery in Kansas City).\n\nThis is in contrast to what I consider an incorrect Anglicization based on the English Bible translation of \"Israel,\" now used as the name of a modern nation in the Middle East, the proponents for which claim it to be a fulfillment of such prophecies as \"Ezekiel\" 36:24, but which in contrast stands today more in fulfillment of the prophecy against \"Edom\" found in \"Ezekiel\" 35:5 and 10.\n\nModern Israel in no way fulfills the prophecies found in both \"Isaiah\" 14:1 and \"Ezekiel\" 47:21-23, of being and remaining at peace with its neighboring nations or giving the foreigners in its midst an inheritance in the land!\n\n### Where America Is Headed After Election 2016 Is Over:\n\nIn an eerily prescient statement that speaks to America even today, William Jennings Bryan once said, concerning America's \"theory of evolution\"-based form of fascism, epitomized in recent years since the Bush family first came into political power (the same family that helped finance Hitler's rise to power in post-Weimar Republic Germany) by the events of 9-11, and the changed global geopolitical landscape since that crossing of the Rubicon-like event:\n\n> *\"And so with the nation.  It is of age and it can do what it pleases; it can spurn the traditions of the past; it can repudiate the principles upon which the nation rests; it can employ force instead of reason; it can substitute might for right; it can conquer weaker people; it can exploit their lands, appropriate their property and kill their people; but it cannot repeal the moral law or escape the punishment decreed for the violation of human rights.\"* (<a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjbryanimperialism.htm\" target=\"_blank\">*Imperialism*</a>, August 8, 1900, Indianapolis, Ind.)\n\nSadly, regardless who \"wins\" the election this year, the ancient curse against all nations that interfere in the rights and affairs of others – conducting ceaseless wars of aggression and thereby raising up a force of enemies we seemingly love to fear most – will eventually be visited upon our nation as well, in final judgment of its errant foreign and national policies.\n\n### Why You Should Be Concerned\n\nLook, I get it. A true prophet's message is almost never received joyfully or with anything like acceptance.\n\nAfter a long drought lasting decades, to those who have never experienced it during their lifetimes, gathering storm clouds and flashes of lightning signaling a coming downpour seem threatening and ominous.\n\nEven the first drops of rain on moisture parched, sun-baked ground evaporate almost immediately while increasing rainfall results in runoff and flooding, because the hardened soil cannot easily absorb all the water at once, just as urgent warnings such as this can be extremely hard to accept in the spirit of patriotic concern underlying the effort. \n\nSo I fully expect this message to result in few openly or immediately accepting or endorsing it.\n\nThat does not lessen or detract from the import of what is about to transpire in the very near future, should America fail to heed and humbly, repentantly alter its present course.\n\nHowever only those who are capable of hearing it and putting their lives into the hands of our Creator, who alone can guide us safely through the troublesome, difficult times ahead, are liable to understand just how serious and vital this message is, just as it is one that you will never see raised by the  corporate controlled-media press.",
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All of which relates to current events and the pending election, as you are about to discover.\n\n### Fifteen Years Later...\n\nThis is being written September 7th, and on this date fifteen years ago I was preparing to publish a newspaper, the lead headline article of which spoke about prophesied judgments on the United States in relation to Ezekiel 22:23-29.\n\nIn the fifth paragraph of the first column of page 1 of **The Hamilton Crier** newspaper the date of September 11, 2000 was cited in relation to a hearing involving myself that had occurred the prior year, which actually took place a day later, on the 12th of September, but was mistakenly entered in an official court docket by a visiting judge as having taken place on the prior day.\n\nOn that very day, one year prior to 9-11-01, the neo-nazi-cons of the then active political think tank called **Project For A New America** (PNAC) published a report titled:  *Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,* on page 51 of which the proposed \"transformation\" and \"revolutionary change,\" as a result of the military build-up of America called for in that document, admitted this process:\n\n> *\"...*[W]*ould likely be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.\"* <a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20130817122719/http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">See the document archived here</a>.\n\nThe newspaper I published a year later was printed and distributed between September 7th and 10th 2001, on which latter date I also published an email newsletter in which more than a dozen statements were made, such as:\n\n> *\"*[T]*o hijack,\" \"*[W]*hat do you do when there is no true adversary...?\", \"How can you agree with someone who springs upon you like a vicious animal out of the blue, without warning?\", \"In such a case you never have the ability to make peace with your adversary...!\", \"emergency 911,\" \"none of their usual alarms went off,\" \"sounds like deliberate sabotage.... We may or may not ever be told the full story,\" \"'gone to ground' and burned out,\" \"deluge of heat,\" \"possible government or cartel (gangster) suppression,\" and \"stung by a scorpion.\"*\n\nAccording to the date and time stamp, this email was sent around 8:00 pm on September 10, 2001. Looking back, in light of what would take place less than 14 hours later, all of these statements combined indicated an intuitive (possibly prophetic) advance notice of what would become one of the darkest days in the history of America.\n\nNot so much because of the attack itself, but rather the revelations that are now coming to light as to precisely what and who was actually behind it, which is altogether different from what you may have assumed or been told.\n\nThe key smoking gun \"catastrophic and catalyzing event\" seen as a \"new Pearl Harbor\" being the destruction visited by alleged kamikaze-like destruction upon the U.S. Pentagon facility 15 years ago today.\n\nFor further research into the factual history of this pivotal event, you should definitely watch the following video: <a href =\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvJ8nFa5Qk&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">9/11 Pentagon Attack - Behind the Smoke Curtain - Barbara Honegger</a>\n\nAs we observe the 15th anniversary of 9-11 it is vital to understand these matters as they relate to the current election now underway.\n\n### Nebuchadnezzar vs. Jezebel?\n\nAs I see it, neither of the only two \"viable\" choices most Americans see as their \"best\" alternatives for the POTUS (president of the United States) this year will be truly good for the nation, or the world for that matter.\n\nWhichever of the two, Trump or Clinton, is \"elected\" this year, terrible times lie ahead for our nation as a whole, due to the extreme polarizing effect both of these candidates has upon the factious political landscape of America; which as never before is conflicted and divided over issues of race, sex, religion, war and the economy, to name but a few.\n\nThere is also a chief, underlying but mostly hidden reason why America is about to undergo the most troubling times since its inception, which may very well destroy the \"land of the free\" as surely as the old Nazi and Soviet regimes of Germany and Russia were eventually vanquished, largely due to the very same cause.\n\nAmerica has been co-opted, against the better judgement of its founders, such as George Washington, who warned against intrigues and entangling alliances with foreign nations.\n\nWe are now expected to battle the nations considered to be the \"enemies\" of the state of Israel, which is an issue akin to a third rail in American politics (whoever touches it gets \"electrocuted\" instantly in the arena of \"popular\" public opinion).\n\nIt seems the racist \"anti-semitism\" slur is always held ready to halt all debate, factual inspection or discussion of the chief instigator of troubles in our supposedly \"enlightened\" age, of a nation apparently incapable of living at peace with any of its neighbors, or even a large proportion of its own native populace (the Palestinians).\n\nSo now, America is faced with choosing either a Nebuchadnezzar (a successful warrior and king of commerce in the ancient nation that became Babylon) or a Jezebel (a deceitful, militaristic, murderous, conniving first \"lady\" of the ancient nation of Yasarel) as our next president.\n\nI use Ya-sar-el, based upon the name of the patriarch's grandmother Sar-a, which indicated she was of royal lineage, that in modern times is still used in the form of words such as czar and kaisar (the surname of a maternal great-great-grandfather of mine, who was once a baker for the White House and for the north during the Civil War, who later owned and ran the Kaiser bakery in Kansas City).\n\nThis is in contrast to what I consider an incorrect Anglicization based on the English Bible translation of \"Israel,\" now used as the name of a modern nation in the Middle East, the proponents for which claim it to be a fulfillment of such prophecies as \"Ezekiel\" 36:24, but which in contrast stands today more in fulfillment of the prophecy against \"Edom\" found in \"Ezekiel\" 35:5 and 10.\n\nModern Israel in no way fulfills the prophecies found in both \"Isaiah\" 14:1 and \"Ezekiel\" 47:21-23, of being and remaining at peace with its neighboring nations or giving the foreigners in its midst an inheritance in the land!\n\n### Where America Is Headed After Election 2016 Is Over:\n\nIn an eerily prescient statement that speaks to America even today, William Jennings Bryan once said, concerning America's \"theory of evolution\"-based form of fascism, epitomized in recent years since the Bush family first came into political power (the same family that helped finance Hitler's rise to power in post-Weimar Republic Germany) by the events of 9-11, and the changed global geopolitical landscape since that crossing of the Rubicon-like event:\n\n> *\"And so with the nation.  It is of age and it can do what it pleases; it can spurn the traditions of the past; it can repudiate the principles upon which the nation rests; it can employ force instead of reason; it can substitute might for right; it can conquer weaker people; it can exploit their lands, appropriate their property and kill their people; but it cannot repeal the moral law or escape the punishment decreed for the violation of human rights.\"* (<a href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjbryanimperialism.htm\" target=\"_blank\">*Imperialism*</a>, August 8, 1900, Indianapolis, Ind.)\n\nSadly, regardless who \"wins\" the election this year, the ancient curse against all nations that interfere in the rights and affairs of others – conducting ceaseless wars of aggression and thereby raising up a force of enemies we seemingly love to fear most – will eventually be visited upon our nation as well, in final judgment of its errant foreign and national policies.\n\n### Why You Should Be Concerned\n\nLook, I get it. A true prophet's message is almost never received joyfully or with anything like acceptance.\n\nAfter a long drought lasting decades, to those who have never experienced it during their lifetimes, gathering storm clouds and flashes of lightning signaling a coming downpour seem threatening and ominous.\n\nEven the first drops of rain on moisture parched, sun-baked ground evaporate almost immediately while increasing rainfall results in runoff and flooding, because the hardened soil cannot easily absorb all the water at once, just as urgent warnings such as this can be extremely hard to accept in the spirit of patriotic concern underlying the effort. \n\nSo I fully expect this message to result in few openly or immediately accepting or endorsing it.\n\nThat does not lessen or detract from the import of what is about to transpire in the very near future, should America fail to heed and humbly, repentantly alter its present course.\n\nHowever only those who are capable of hearing it and putting their lives into the hands of our Creator, who alone can guide us safely through the troublesome, difficult times ahead, are liable to understand just how serious and vital this message is, just as it is one that you will never see raised by the  corporate controlled-media press.",
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      "body": "Great reply @dan5! However I think it best to await return of the One who alone can right all these wrongs, set the record straight, and banish all the liars, deceivers and their supporters.\n\nUntil then, we have the \"best\" leaders we collectively deserve, in order to awaken a few advance men and women to prepare us all for that inevitable conclusion of this massive mess our world has become.\n\nBe sure to see the added link above to find the special offer at the end of that re-post of this article.",
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      "body": "Your dreams can become a joyful reality, even go viral, if you learn this vital lesson from my life...\n<center>http://i.imgsafe.org/5ae3576230.jpg</center>\nIt very nearly turned into the nightmare of a colossal failure.\n\nOnce upon a time, in the early 1970s, a richly ornate one-of-a-kind auditorium was built, and about to welcome an invitation-only crowd of VIPs for its 3-day gala dedicatory inaugural concert.\n\nThe Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by famed conductor Carlo Maria Giulini, was to perform selections by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Brahms to an exclusive group of invitees for all three concerts, starting April 7, 1974 the final two nights of which were to be broadcast live over a local Los Angeles radio station.\n\nThe opening night's concert would be attended by dignitaries from around the world, including a member of the Japanese Diet, the Jordanian Ambassador to the U.S., the Ethiopian Ambassador to Kenya, a World Court at the Hague judge and his wife, among many others, including the visionary founder and originator of the plush, richly finished premiere performing arts palace, and the college campus where it was built in Pasadena, California, Herbert W. 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**A Narrow Escape...**\nAfter two years of university in Kansas City, followed by two years struggling to start, then maintain, a fledgling commercial art business in Denver with no startup capital other than the tools and skills I brought to the task, I had finally reached the end of my financial rope more or less.\n\nBefore another harsh winter could hit and once again put my business on hiatus, I took the last several hundred dollars to my name, rented a trailer and hitch for the second hand Ford Galaxy automobile I bought for less than $100 and, with my brother Terry who was visiting from Kansas City at the time, we loaded all my belongings into the trailer.\n\nWith just barely enough funds left over to buy gas for our planned cross-country trip, my brother and I set out for Pasadena, California with the promise of a job as head of a new television studio animation department upon my arrival.\n\nAlong the way, having traversed the Colorado river by way of the Hoover Dam on the state line between Arizona and Nevada one night, we pulled over for a rest stop at the first off-road area we came to, past steep ravines which dropped precipitously away from the winding two-lane highway with harrowing hairpin curves, having barely enough left to pay for gas the remainder of the trip into the Los Angeles area, and nothing left to spare even to buy us a little food.\n\nFollowing a brief rest, as we tried to pull back onto the road, the trailer suddenly jerked to the right with a thud, throwing sparks off the pavement, forcing us to pull back off the road to investigate what had happened.\n\nOne of the four tires, the back tire on the passenger side of the four-wheel trailer, was missing entirely!\n\nTerry and I spend a cool night sleeping in the car until early the next day, when we unhitched the trailer and retraced our route back toward the dam, searching for the missing tire still on its wheel, which had somehow detached from the axle and flown off, without causing the trailer to lurch, swerve or flip the previous night.\n\nDown a steep ravine on the opposite side of the road we had traveled I spotted a tire, and pulled over to attempt to retrieve it.\n\nSomehow I managed to clamber down the precipitous slope and, pushing the tire above my head, slowly and painstakingly struggled back up the near vertical incline, loading the tire in the back seat of our car, then turning around to return to the trailer still parked on the opposite side of the road heading toward Las Vegas.\n\nAs we pulled up I noticed something odd.\n\nThe off-road strip of a tourist stop building (now long since converted into a lodge, casino and cinema complex) where we had first pulled off the pavement to rest, had been built on the western end of an old railroad spur line, about which there was constructed a chain-link fence for approximately twenty or so feet out from the east end of the building, with a gate closing off access to this rectangular fenced enclosure.\n\nThere, resting against the gate, I spied yet another wheel and tire, apparently our missing tire which had detached, rolled and come to rest there, just as we had pulled off the road the night before!\n\nWe had narrowly escaped a major accident, had this happened while driving over the Hoover Dam or the dangerous curves of the old highway 172 just beyond it, in pitch darkness near midnight of the previous evening.\n# **Hard Work And Preparation Pays Off**\nCalling the nearest trailer rental agent in Henderson, Nevada for roadside repair resulted in a refusal to come to our aid, despite our contract stipulating such help, unless we paid for their time and gas, for which we had no funds to spare.\n\nLeaving the trailer on the side of the road once again, we drove the twenty-three miles to the rental trailer dealer to discuss the matter with them.\n\nThe answer was still an emphatic \"No,\" they would not make the repair trip without payment of some kind up front.\n\nAs I related the story of finding the lost tire, which was still in the back seat of our car, when I showed it to the dealer, he suddenly remarked that the wheel was a rare, hard-to-find 5 lug variety and wondered aloud if we would be willing to sell it to him.\n\nI replied that we would be happy to trade it in return for the needed repair trip, to which he instantly agreed, making the remainder of our journey possible, after a brief stopover in Vegas that morning for some much needed free food at several casinos along the way!\n# **\"Never Give In. Never Give In. Never. Never. Never.\"**\nThose are a few of the words from a short speech delivered to a student assembly at the Harrow School for Boys in London, England on October 29, 1941 by one of its former pupils, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill.\n\nI had never heard this quote personally, until decades later in life, but the events that followed for my brother and I were certainly indicative of the wisdom of those words, which continued:\n\n*\"In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.\"*\n\nYet, despite discovering my promised job had been given to someone else before my arrival in Pasadena, thereafter living in a cramped, small and cold converted garage, taking whatever work I could quickly find, including briefly delivering the Wall Street Journal to businesses in downtown L.A., and a brief stint as an unpaid disc jockey with my own call-in nighttime show for an area cable radio station, I still had the gall to dream big.\n\nAnd this apparently irritated and irked many of my acquaintances, whose attitudes were far less positive, uplifting or visionary.\n\nAs April 7th approached, I spent the only $100 I had struggled to save the previous several months, to buy a used rental tuxedo, shirt, bow tie, and a pair of patent leather shoes to complete the very first formal attire I had ever owned.\n\nWith plans to become a successful performer, this was to be my on-stage costume, but initially I planned to use it for attending the inaugural concert of Ambassador Auditorium.\n\nWhich very nearly never happened, due to the derisive words of my nay-saying friends, which disheartened and almost cowed me into surrendering my dream and giving up on my vision.\n\nIn fact, the night of the concert, I almost didn't put on my \"new\" tux, or mount my only mode of transportation at the time, a bicycle, to ride the roughly two miles mostly uphill from my apartment in South Pasadena to the Ambassador College campus and its brand new performing arts Auditorium.\n\nArriving a little later than planned, and despite having no clue how I might actually gain entrance without an invitation, I nervously approached the door just after the overture had begun, following which the ushers had been instructed no one was to be permitted to enter the auditorium, even if they held an invitation!\n# **Success!**\nOnly once I was almost at the door, did a possible plan to attend the concert then already in progress present itself to my conscious mind.\n\nSpeaking with an usher at the door I asked if there were any empty seats available, due to invited guests who had failed to attend that evening, and offered myself as a suitably attired fill-in, helping them fill an empty seat for the sake of appearances to the other attendees invited that night.\n\nAfter hurriedly speaking with his supervisor, the usher returned to inform me that my request had been granted, but that I would need to wait until the overture was finished before I could be seated!\n\nSoon I was quickly ushered into the main floor of the auditorium and shown to a vacate seat, with the curious heads of some of the rich and famous, movers and shakers in attendance that night wondering who this was of such apparent importance, being seated after strict instructions that no one was to be admitted after the concert had begun.\n\nLater, in the ornate rose onyx and gold leaf decorated entrance foyer and grand lobby to the auditorium, under a huge bronze chandelier containing hundreds of individual crystals, standing on the 100% wool royal purple and gold carpeting custom fabricated and imported from Hong Kong, I was introduced alongside Herbert Armstrong to various other dignitaries that night, including the representatives from the Japanese Diet.\n\nAfterward, I joined the crowd in attending a lavish reception with large ice sculptures in the nearby Student Center building, before finally retiring to return home that night, riding my bicycle in full tux over the mostly deserted city streets, back to my poor and humble abode.\n# **Going Viral!**\nTo say the least, my former nay-saying friends were astonished and almost speechless when they learned of my exploits of the previous night!\n\nThis began a hurried spat of rumors and gossipy tale-bearing, as my brother Terry donned my tuxedo (which fit him a bit too snugly), to try and attend the following night's concert along with a few others of those who previously had thought this an impossibility, as I stayed home and recorded the concert from the radio broadcast.\n\nNot only did they succeed, there were approximately 50 total hopefuls without invitations who showed up at the door that night seeking seating, all of whom where allowed to attend!\n\nOn the third night I again put on my tux and, along with a couple of widows visiting from Denver, tried to gain seating for the final night's inaugural concert. However by then there were nearly 100 others who showed up early to form a line of hopefuls also seeking non-invitation seating that night.\n\nSo many, in fact, that there were only enough spare seats for all but one of us.\n\nSatisfied over being the only non-invitee in attendance at the opening concert, I returned home after being turned away that night, happy that some of my friends and acquaintances were able to follow my initial success to attend a once-in-a-lifetime event they never would have dreamed possible only a few days before.\n# **The Moral Of This Story**\nStubborn perseverance can pay off, if you persistently follow your dreams and visions; but this will more than likely mean also facing up to your worst fears and overcoming them first.\n\nDon't be afraid to look foolish in the eyes of some, or give in to peer pressure to abandon your dreams.\n\nAll success is finally achieved in defiance of possible and even some actual failed attempts.\n\nYou'll never know the thrill of achievement without risking your current status quo, to boldly step forward and accomplish what others only vainly dream of obtaining.\n\nAll the discouragement and struggle getting there will soon fade away, as you enjoy attaining lofty goals and fulfilling aspiring visions of successful accomplishments that most never attain.\n\nMainly because the majority give up just short of the final achievement that would have made their success a reality.\n\nDon't ever allow pessimism, doubt or discouraging words to derail, dissuade or sidetrack you from your course.\n\nThat's really your only sure ticket to being in the \"right place\" at the \"right time,\" to finally make your dreams come true!",
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      "body": "Nice post. I wish your dreams to come true while I work on mine.",
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