"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

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"Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing."

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"But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth."

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"When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth."

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