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THE RELIGION OF THE IGNORANT

tred. They gossip, stir fitnah and insult people or attack them. Do
you have no light of love in your soul? Love a flower, feel love for
people. Feel compassion for a cat or a human being. Have friends,
intimates. They hate everyone. They have conflicts with their chil-
dren and husbands and attack their parents. They are aggressive to-
ward their neighbors. Such people have appeared, and this is very
wicked, of course.

People with an Affected Character
Pay Little Attention to Cleanliness

From the outside, such people may seem to be rather well
groomed, because display occupies an important place in the af-
fected personality. As in all matters, however, these people's under-
standing of cleanliness is directed only towards display. They live
quite filthy lives in those areas nobody can see. Cleanliness is
merely a troublesome chore performed to gain others' esteem.
According to this mindset, therefore, there is no need to be clean if
there is nobody around.
In the homes of people with an affected character, close atten-
tion is paid only to cleanliness in the guest room. Only the visible
parts of that room are actually cleaned. At first glance the armchairs
look very clean, but the backs have in all likelihood not been wiped
down for months and everywhere is covered in dust. The radiator
covers are clean, but when you remove them, the sight that emerges
is exceedingly primitive. There may be places in such homes that
have not been touched for years. Dirty areas include neglected
places containing old furniture, cupboards, underneath the carpets
and the bathroom walls, generally harboring germs.
Most important of all, however, is the lack of attention such
people pay to personal cleanliness. One distinguishing feature of

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