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Isn't She Beautiful? Isn't She Beautiful? About God, royals, magic, medicine, arts, business, the Brexit, refugees, sports and comedy. A free Text by Bertram Eljon and Sofia Ewa Holubek, 2021 – also about language. Version 4.1 This text is mainly about Great Britain, but also about royals, religion, magic and medicine. Starting with the case of Duchess Meghan, it questions standards of beauty, expertise, quality and goodness. Why do so many people let preachers and pundits, wights and physicians mislead and mistreat them? Why do modern people give up so easily on better European traditions of culture, and instead are fond of bad and bastardized, rude and low quality world cultures? Those who try to correctly distinguish foul and fair must become newly wise Titans of a new era. History however teaches us that all things go wrong with the wrong people on top. Isn't she beautiful? Above to the left we see puny Meghan Markle. Most recently she became the wife of Prince Harry. That extremely good looking nobleman surely reminds of the two brothers, and royal heirs, Edward-8 and George-6. Unexpectedly the latter became king of Britain in 1936. So could this happen to Harry too? Strange things occur in a time of miracles and wandas. Prince Harry surely makes many think again of Harry Potter, that excellent fantasy wizard apprentice. One of the scenes of this saga I liked best was the scene when Harry Potter threw away his magic wand in the end. This prick was just misleading him, and he sensed that it had a negative magic. So what kind of magic made Prince Harry fall for Meghan? I present evidence for black magic! Above to the right we see a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, it's from a coronation remembrance coffee pot. So wasn't she beautiful then? No she was, I say. On the pot we also read the slogan: LONG MAY SHE REIGN OVER US. That wish of the people of Britain was granted, surely by God too. Elizabeth-2 became queen at the age of 26, in February 1952. That was 66 years ago! People who are into quack-science may find this number worrying. Not so far away from these are those science experts who rely too much on unreal computer models and fantasy calculations, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking. We might wish, from the point of view of numerology, that the Queen will preside over her great nation for at least four more years. Since she also is the head of the Anglican church, it might well be justified to add this to the common prayer wishes. How long does a human life last? Aren't such wishes things that God can grant or unexpectedly deny? That is another issue that is much feared but little understood. The UTR has it that there is indeed a God. She's a perfectly developed and super-evolved creature who owns and operates this planet already for 624 million years. So Sophia Ewa is the Queen of Queens. But so far she just didn't come out, to become officially introduced to her humans, a new sort of creatures that she managed to create, within the time of the blink of an eye. She rather preferred to remain unknown and anonymous. One of the reasons is that Ewa is not that good looking. She's not charming like the actress Tamzin Merchant, but she is a super-sized pale blind-worm. So can you see her on the above text banner? For a reason she only cautiously showed up in works of art. Yes, she's ugly! Human and other beauty is surely a matter of contention. But there are some facts that are beyond dispute, and facts are the basis of the Universal Truth Religion (UTR). One obvious phenomenon is that dark southerners or colored people tend to wither more quickly. Another such phenomenon is that ugly people tend to have worse magic, while a worse fate makes people get uglier. Thirdly, some exotic and dark people sometimes appear to be attractive and really charming, yes some can become extraordinarily bedazzling. But that murky magic of attractiveness depends on dark rules, for instance on masturbation. The destiny of the children of darkness is simply constructed from more dark elements, and these tend to fail them in the wrong moment. Fourthly, there are cultural and other processes who try to twist the natural order. A reversed and foul perception of what is fair and what is somber, what is strong and what is feeble, what is sound and unsound; will be the consequence of a misleading religious education, and let's count in the Harry Potter saga. That is also what the witches meant, in Shakespeare's play Macbeth (here recomposed in my Version 2): »Fair is foul and foul is fair!« – Swirls through clouds and grimy air. Goland and Mélisande He is no more a boy, For such a long time now; And yet, he marries her, A puny girl, no frau. This may appear to those, As a caprice of fate, Who do ignore it's side, Where there are love or hate. Don't press her little hands, Don't watch her face at night! To keep her wedding ring, She may not have the might. The Main Points on one Page God teaches: The world needs royals and nobles, for a number of reasons. One reason is that God is the king of kings, and the queen of queens. Without queens and kings the Holy Empire has no structure. Nobles must also serve as beauty ideals and role models. In the absence of a classy and able hierarchy, common or ignoble people become liked and mighty. Of bad people we can expect that they confound God with demonic forces. That means that the emperor of this planet can't be anyone else than the Savior. Only he has the truth. His power comes from the Goddess of Earth. While the mild goddess is the only strong divine power living right here, she with difficulty tries to save the Earth. Many alleged witches tried sorcery, and often with the good intention to make rain. But they often were unaware about the good or evil powers. The hostile Greys can stop the rain from falling. It was often typical that people then gave the blame for bad climate to alleged witches. It is in principle true that wishes and creativity can change all reality. But the congeras good or evil are so powerful that they can absolutely fool all humans. On the field of medicine miracles often happen. But while the minds of the medics are often like blinded, they cannot understand that the congeras manipulate their expertise. Looking at homeopathy we understand why alcohol and poisons seemed to cure people. The Universal Truth Religion has it that young, well developed, white and bright people are the better creatures of God. Mainly these profit from divine wisdom. Dark or colored people but are nearer to the Greys, and this most generally spoils their destinies. Weak or elderly, lazy or unfit, badly nourished or addicted people also have worse luck. The Greys draw them nearer, they lose lifeforce and change to the worse, due to traumas. Also artwork creatively changes the world. Good artwork is also beautiful, bringing forth the good development of planet Earth. But while shady people prefer and value diverse and exotic artwork of coloreds, they also share with lesser people their worse destinies. On a painting of Picasso we even see the strong influence of the leading Grey Ga-Dora. The Brexit is a decision that was mainly caused by the incompetence and haughtiness of leading Eurocrats (EU leaders). These guys just failed to secure the EU borders in times of terror troubles. Of course Britain does not leave Europe. The text also points out the many links of British culture to ancient Greek and European culture. It worked functional when the Queen, with a sly fashion trick, alleged to European ideals. Sadly our younger ones are often too much under the sway of nevergrownups, of morbid rebel natures. The framework of this text is the strange story of duchess Meghan. Is that dark girl the miraculously white child of Negress Doria? Once again the name links to Ga-Dora, who has a tendency to try and work misleading magic here. Learn more and don't get fooled. The text also has some of my poems. These are often inspired by Anglo-American tales or songs. Today it is in fashion to think that on the field of culture many different styles are acceptable. But chapter 18. shows how slyly Catholics move their lot to the stages. There is also something in here about soccer. Did you realize that the Deutschland team most ingloriously failed at the world championship of 2018? That was also due to magic. The text can best explain why Jogi, the trainer of the Deutsche team, sticks to his seat. But our most serious problem is right now the question of diversity and the migration of bad and lowquo coloreds. Must we reconstruct Britain and the western world to harbor especially bad Islamic and African refugees? While bad people spoiled their homelands we should not let them ruin our lands too. We need to keep up and renew our cultures. That was already the proposal of Prince Charles. A more diverse Britain also looks uglier. Table of Contents Part One Highlight: This Kanaka dressed down Prince Charles! 1. The Queen and the ugly Eurocrats The Brexit doesn't mean the End of Europe 2.
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