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They took the temperature
Of the crowd,
And realized they could
Twist skeins of truth into
Great blobs of knotted lies,
Then sell
As remedy
To now a fevered mob,
A distorted gospel
Bloated with melodramatic
Sighs.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt of: Temperature in 37 words
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Na'ama Yehuda 
80 degrees of lies.
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Exactly …
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There ain’t no fiction in this one, my friend.
How they have become such experts at this is stupifying.
Well done!
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Perhaps because there is a historical repetition of some whipping up a frenzy for distortion, in the name of devotion … I am reminded of neighbors burning neighbors at the stake “in the name of” their supposed God, with a messianic fervor no less jarring than what we see today. Or of sheet-wearing men lynching other human beings, under the guise (and in cowardly disguise) of morality, but for the sake of hate, violence, and power. And then I don’t wonder quite so much how. Perhaps some humans are attracted to being intoxicated by supposed superiority, at the cost of real morality. …
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It goes back milennia…. all in the name of some god or another. The cowards (KKK-genre) are the biggest cowards.
There has to be some sort of feeling of power to squash another. Awful.
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It is a distorted, lowest-of-the-low kind of ‘power’, but apparently some can’t feel ‘high’ enough unless they trample someone down in order to feel better about themselves… A sign of weakness, that.
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It truly is. Power is lifting others up, not crushing them. But these people don’t understand (nor want to). Extremely weak.
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EXACTLY!
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💞
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Sadly, that’s true.
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Through time immemorial, perhaps, though amplified these days by the ease of mass-distortion and the ease of disseminating dissonance … oy …
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The facilitators of misinformation make it easy.
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Indeed! For greed. …
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Greed or power
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Or, most often, both …
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Sadly that’s true
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Fabulous!!!!
Sending love and comfort.
💚💚💚
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Thank you, dear Adele! xx
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