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escape from hell so that we can kill them again once and for all at Armageddon?
Why not just kill them now properly and get done? I think the system in heaven
is ineffective and the known intelligence is poorly utilized. This is not SAP COIN's
way of doing business!"
They looked at me as if I was mad as I continued: “While you contemplate an
answer let me share a couple poems with you since I love poetry, and I need an
explanation from educated men such as yourselves. The first one is by a Roman
citizen named Horace, but made famous by and Englishman named Wilfred
Owen in 1917 and goes like this:
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidove tergo.
And while you are still contemplating, let me recite poem number two by Leo
Marks, a SOE officer (Special Operations Executive) during the Second World
War written as one-time code for SOE Agent Violet Szasbo, who would later die
in a Nazi concentration camp. But note Chaplain, the poem was not originally
written for her, but for his fiancée, who also died before her time:
The life that I have
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
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