Economic hardship signs of spiritual disorder - Prof. Agbozo

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HE`S NOT AFRAID 9 years ago

ECONOMIC HARDSHIP SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL DISORDER

ECONOMIC HARDSHIP SIGNS OF SPIRITUAL DISORDER
Mahmoud 9 years ago

At the beginning of Part I of the Age of Reason, Paine lays out his personal belief:

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that relig ...
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At the beginning of Part I of the Age of Reason, Paine lays out his personal belief:

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
But, lest it should be supposed that I believe many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.[16]

Paine's creed encapsulates many of the major themes of the rest of his text: a firm belief in a creator-God; a skepticism regarding most supernatural claims (here the afterlife, later in the text, miracles); a conviction that virtues should be derived from a consideration for others rather than oneself; an animus against corrupt religious institutions; and an emphasis on the individual's right of conscience.[17]
Mahmoud 9 years ago

After establishing that he would refrain from using extra-Biblical sources to inform his criticism, but would instead apply the Bible's own words against itself, Paine questions the sacredness of the Bible, analyzing it as on ...
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After establishing that he would refrain from using extra-Biblical sources to inform his criticism, but would instead apply the Bible's own words against itself, Paine questions the sacredness of the Bible, analyzing it as one would any other book. For example, in his analysis of the Book of Proverbs he argues that its sayings are "inferior in keenness to the proverbs of the Spaniards, and not more wise and economical than those of the American Franklin".[21] Describing the Bible as "fabulous mythology", Paine questions whether or not it was revealed to its writers and doubts that the original writers can ever be known (he dismisses the idea that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, for example).
My intention is to show that those books are spurious, and that Moses is not the author of them; and still further, that they were not written in the time of Moses, nor till several hundred years afterward; that they are no other than an attempted history of the life of Moses, and of the times in which he is said to have lived, and also of the times prior thereto, written by some very ignorant and stupid pretenders to authorship, several hundred years after the death of Moses, as men now write histories of things that happened, or are supposed to have happened, several hundred or several thousand years ago.[22]
Using methods that would not become common in Biblical scholarship until the nineteenth century, Paine tested the Bible for internal consistency and questioned its historical accuracy, concluding that it was not divinely inspired.
Paine also argues that the Old Testament must be false because it depicts a tyrannical God. The "history of wickedness" pervading the Old Testament convinced Paine that it was simply another set of human-authored myths.[23] He deplores people's credulity: "Brought up in habits of superstition," he wrote, "people in general know not how much wickedness there is in this pretended word of God." Citing Numbers 31:13–47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women, and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls, at God's behest,[24] Paine calls the Bible a "book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!"[25]
(KOLA outside LONDON) 9 years ago

The country’s economic hardship is the manifestation of spiritual disorder on the part of Atuguba,Afari Gyan and Mahama, we have to direct every blame to those corrupt fools.

The most serious issue in the whole thing is ...
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The country’s economic hardship is the manifestation of spiritual disorder on the part of Atuguba,Afari Gyan and Mahama, we have to direct every blame to those corrupt fools.

The most serious issue in the whole thing is that, Mahama killed Mills.
Akos 9 years ago

The economic hardship is due to irresponsibility, incompetences, corruption, nepotism, visionless & clueless politicians, not due to some spiritual disorder. God gave humans brain for a reason and he expect us to use it wisel ...
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The economic hardship is due to irresponsibility, incompetences, corruption, nepotism, visionless & clueless politicians, not due to some spiritual disorder. God gave humans brain for a reason and he expect us to use it wisely, unfortunately for our leaders, there were born brainless.
KnYc(USMC) 9 years ago

Well said Akos. This useless Agbozo call himself a Reverend, Professor God know what is next a Doctor. He can't see that because of useless decision making, including people who are not fit to make critical thinking decisions ...
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Well said Akos. This useless Agbozo call himself a Reverend, Professor God know what is next a Doctor. He can't see that because of useless decision making, including people who are not fit to make critical thinking decisions are the cause of our problems. The fact is that NDC cannot governing. I am sorry to say this man is stupid. Blaming it on poor people.
Kwadjo 9 years ago

Why always Atuguba, Afari Gyan and Mahama. Let's learn to address issues.So called nana addo can never be president of Ghana. God is waching his wicked ways.

Why always Atuguba, Afari Gyan and Mahama. Let's learn to address issues.So called nana addo can never be president of Ghana. God is waching his wicked ways.
MAHAMA KILLED MILLS!!!!!! 9 years ago

SPIRITUAL DISORDER IN GHANA IS BECAUSE MAHAMA SACRIFICED PROF. MILLS FOR POWER AND FOOLS ARE PRAISING HIM!!

SPIRITUAL DISORDER IN GHANA IS BECAUSE MAHAMA SACRIFICED PROF. MILLS FOR POWER AND FOOLS ARE PRAISING HIM!!
Humanity 9 years ago

kwadjo, I CAN SEE you are FULLY signed up to being MISLED by POLITICAL PARTIES...they have you believing your LOYALTY is to the party not GHANA, and as such politicize without thinking...USE YOUR BRAINS, OR GOD WILL ASK FOR I ...
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kwadjo, I CAN SEE you are FULLY signed up to being MISLED by POLITICAL PARTIES...they have you believing your LOYALTY is to the party not GHANA, and as such politicize without thinking...USE YOUR BRAINS, OR GOD WILL ASK FOR IT BACK OHHHH!
Asea Ho 9 years ago

The Supreme Court Judges to the best of my knowledge are the "Christ" of Ghana. The were fair and will not allow all-die-be-die lead them to make unfair judgment. If for this reason NPP hate them then they can go to hell.

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The Supreme Court Judges to the best of my knowledge are the "Christ" of Ghana. The were fair and will not allow all-die-be-die lead them to make unfair judgment. If for this reason NPP hate them then they can go to hell.

The country’s economic hardship is the manifestation of spiritual disorder on the part of people like Amoateng, who sell cocaine and use the money to sponsor political and get paid back through other dubious but seemingly good means so that people could not track the source of their illegal money; Kesseben, who to create problem for a government will dubiously transfer over S$127,000,000 and blame the government for the exchange rate; Mahama (of course) for not sending such nation wreckers to jail or the Teshie range as Kuffour and Rawlings vindictively did.
CHARCOAL SELLER. 9 years ago

The people who pray the most suffers the most, is it because they talk to themselves and think that invisible god and dead white Jesus is listening? Mi don't know, mi Just asking.

The people who pray the most suffers the most, is it because they talk to themselves and think that invisible god and dead white Jesus is listening? Mi don't know, mi Just asking.
SGT ANAI FIADZOE 9 years ago

This Professor "Me nnim hwee" speaks like an uneducated idiot. Why can't he
say the national economic hardships rest
on the shoulder of Dramani Mahama and his loot and share NDC idiots?

When Mahama buying 30 V8 Land Cru ...
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This Professor "Me nnim hwee" speaks like an uneducated idiot. Why can't he
say the national economic hardships rest
on the shoulder of Dramani Mahama and his loot and share NDC idiots?

When Mahama buying 30 V8 Land Cruisers
each costing $130 Thousands American Dollars, and distributed to chiefs in the country for free when he (Mahama) is knew Crystal clear that he and his NDC incompetent fools has manipulated
the national economy for their own selfish interest.

When NDC crooks, because of power distributed every penny in the National kitty to NDC stupid idiots
for their votes, how much did Afari Djan received and how much did Atuguba also received for turning white to black?

How much did 350 bedroom Hotel built in Dubai by Mahama cost our nation?

How much did $152 million American dollars paid to Alfred Agbesi Woyome
for free reflected on our economy,
Professor, GYEEDA, SADA, ISOFOTON,
the money spent by Elvis Afriyie Ankrah in Brazil, the mansion he built
in the Brazil at the expense of the
Tax Payers, loot and share activities
by Mahama and his NDC incompetent fools reflected on our economy?

Professor in fact if you are transparent enough, please call spade
a spade, NDC Government is a curse
to our nation, I can refer you to
the scriptures the Holy Gospel according to John Chap.10 v 1 - 10
it will tell you clearly that you
are "Professor me nnim hwee"
Humanity 9 years ago

GOD loves all his CHILDREN the world over. what spiritual? NONSENSE.
Ghanaians need practical solutions to the problems we are facing, these pastors and evangelists "spiritualise" everything holding most citizens to ransom e ...
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GOD loves all his CHILDREN the world over. what spiritual? NONSENSE.
Ghanaians need practical solutions to the problems we are facing, these pastors and evangelists "spiritualise" everything holding most citizens to ransom effectively...GOD GAVE US BRAINS TO USE...SOON HE'S GOING ASK GHANAIANS/AFRICANS IF YOU don't want to use the brains I gave you, GIVE IT BACK....
Voice of Reason 9 years ago

DISSIPATE $4.5 BILLION IN A RECKLESS PRE ELECTION GIVEAWAY SPREE AND RUN CUP IN HAND TO IMF AND BEG FOR FOR A FEW HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.....ONLY A DUMD,SELFISH AND IRRESPONSIBLE PERSON WITH NO LOVE FOR COUNTRY WILL CONTEMPL ...
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DISSIPATE $4.5 BILLION IN A RECKLESS PRE ELECTION GIVEAWAY SPREE AND RUN CUP IN HAND TO IMF AND BEG FOR FOR A FEW HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.....ONLY A DUMD,SELFISH AND IRRESPONSIBLE PERSON WITH NO LOVE FOR COUNTRY WILL CONTEMPLATE SUCH A THING
KOZI AGBE 9 years ago

COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE MEANING OF EDE BI K3K3. IS IT AN APPROPRIATE SLOGAN TO BE USED FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS? LASTLY, CAN A SERIOUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WIN AN ELECTION JUST BY SAYING EDE BI K3K3? SOMEONE PL ...
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COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE MEANING OF EDE BI K3K3. IS IT AN APPROPRIATE SLOGAN TO BE USED FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS? LASTLY, CAN A SERIOUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WIN AN ELECTION JUST BY SAYING EDE BI K3K3? SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME UNDERSTAND THIS ISSUE BETTER. OR IS THAT THE MASSES ARE IGNORANT.
WILD AND WISE 9 years ago

Just move with the winds - no definite policy or vision. The masses actually didnt understand the folly behind the slogan until now. The were mesmerized by the fifty cedi bills given out as voting baits during campaigns. Ofos ...
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Just move with the winds - no definite policy or vision. The masses actually didnt understand the folly behind the slogan until now. The were mesmerized by the fifty cedi bills given out as voting baits during campaigns. Ofosu Ampofo distributed money in churches and taxi ranks as if the money was coming out of a garage factory. Now that the wildness has subsided the reality of depleting the nation's coffers is hitting home hard. No more hallucinating slogans - welcome to the real world. GHANA IS BROKE !! We outspent our brains under the slogan "ede bi keke" under wild rampage of the new fifty cedi notes freshly minted as a ploy for the election. We are back to Square One - The IMF. IDIOTS !!!
obiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 9 years ago

evil, deep rooted corrupt men are ruling instead of serving and leading us. he spirit of the Lord is no more in Ghana and God has distant Himself from us because of the evil deeds happening. However we thank God ebola has n ...
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evil, deep rooted corrupt men are ruling instead of serving and leading us. he spirit of the Lord is no more in Ghana and God has distant Himself from us because of the evil deeds happening. However we thank God ebola has not been added to our punishment of incompetent, inexperienced NDC.
CHARCOAL SELLER. 9 years ago

Sooo TRUE Skains, sooo TRUE, thank you.

Sooo TRUE Skains, sooo TRUE, thank you.
SAM 9 years ago

GBY

GBY
Voice of Reason 9 years ago

ALL HE WANTED WAS HIS DUMB FIXATION ON BECOMING THE PRESIDENT AT ALL COST......EVEN AT THE COST OF BANKRUPTING THE NATION

ALL HE WANTED WAS HIS DUMB FIXATION ON BECOMING THE PRESIDENT AT ALL COST......EVEN AT THE COST OF BANKRUPTING THE NATION
WILD AND WISE 9 years ago

And he did it to the folly of the dumb masses even as he coined a slogan they hardly understood then but now has meaning each day the cedi slumps --- ede be keke. It is beginning to sink into those hardened brains of disappoi ...
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And he did it to the folly of the dumb masses even as he coined a slogan they hardly understood then but now has meaning each day the cedi slumps --- ede be keke. It is beginning to sink into those hardened brains of disappointed supporters . Quo Vadis now ? The IMF ? The Evil Gods ? We as a nation are completely at a loss and without direction. Mahama must resign to save the nation from further woes. The next president may carry the real load with empty coffers. Anything will be better than this nothing as evidenced each day. The sooner the better.
Nana Yaw 9 years ago

Bible indoctrinated fool!

Bible indoctrinated fool!
Skains 9 years ago

One of the chief problems of Ghana is the misguided use of religion to address pressing problems. Worst of all, it's borrowed religion, not religion born from the womb of the Ghanaian culture. Instead of being logical, imagi ...
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One of the chief problems of Ghana is the misguided use of religion to address pressing problems. Worst of all, it's borrowed religion, not religion born from the womb of the Ghanaian culture. Instead of being logical, imaginative and hardworking, one finds all sorts of Ghanaians using the name of religion to identify problems or seek their redress. What a nation!
Humanity 9 years ago

YES, do you believe some GHANAIANS have been asking for PASTORS TO BECOME PRESIDENT, as they believe they aren't corrupt. GOD HELP US!
GHANAIANS SHOULD GIVE THIER BRAINS BACK TO GOD, AS WE DON'T NEED IT.

YES, do you believe some GHANAIANS have been asking for PASTORS TO BECOME PRESIDENT, as they believe they aren't corrupt. GOD HELP US!
GHANAIANS SHOULD GIVE THIER BRAINS BACK TO GOD, AS WE DON'T NEED IT.
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

Liar, it's the result of nyebro tribalism, nepotism , and crass incompetence of your NDC

Liar, it's the result of nyebro tribalism, nepotism , and crass incompetence of your NDC
THE PROPHET 9 years ago

Why is it that ghanaians believe that without God we cannot solve our problems? What at all is our use as human beings with brains and created in the image of God?Did God tell Adam and Eve to rely on Him to solve their proble ...
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Why is it that ghanaians believe that without God we cannot solve our problems? What at all is our use as human beings with brains and created in the image of God?Did God tell Adam and Eve to rely on Him to solve their problems? Wake up ghanaians for God will not solve our problems for us.He created us with all that we need to solve our problems.
ASH TOWN ABRANTIE MMROM KSI 9 years ago

WHEN OUR POLITICIANS SHED HUMAN BLOOD TO GAIN POLITICAL POWER, BURY HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE AS RITUALS FOR POWER, THIS WENT ON IN RECENT ELECTIONS,THE LIES TOLD ABOUT THE DEMISE OF THE LATE ATTA MILLS, NO DOUBT, GHANA IS INCURING ...
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WHEN OUR POLITICIANS SHED HUMAN BLOOD TO GAIN POLITICAL POWER, BURY HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE AS RITUALS FOR POWER, THIS WENT ON IN RECENT ELECTIONS,THE LIES TOLD ABOUT THE DEMISE OF THE LATE ATTA MILLS, NO DOUBT, GHANA IS INCURING THE WRATH OF GOD. THE NATION IS CURSED. SEE HOW SO CALLED MEN OF GOD ARE USING EVIL POWERS IN WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOUSE OF GOD.WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT TO BE A PROPHET IN GHANA(IF YOU ARE SPIRITUALLY MATURED U DONT NEED ALL THESE PROPHETS) HOW THESE PROPHETS ARE MAKING MILLIONS IN GODS NAME. NO DOUBT GHANA IS CURSED. SEE HOW MUCH RESOURCES WE HAVE IN GHANA ALONE AND STILL REMAIN POOR. WHICH RESOURCES DO WE LACK IN GHANA. BOB MARLEY SAID IN THE ABUNDANCE OF WATER THE FOOL IS THIRSTY,. NO DOUBT, GHANA IS CURSED.
KKA 9 years ago

Oh Africa, when will our leaders think? Instead of depending on religion. My question to them is, why did God give us ( human beings) brains? Why are we different from animals.

Oh Africa, when will our leaders think? Instead of depending on religion. My question to them is, why did God give us ( human beings) brains? Why are we different from animals.
joe 9 years ago

The problem with Ghana is that the talking is too much, everything is religion.

lets take Rwanda for exbample.

Go and see Rwanda after the war, they are building the country seriously and quicly. they are not talki ...
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The problem with Ghana is that the talking is too much, everything is religion.

lets take Rwanda for exbample.

Go and see Rwanda after the war, they are building the country seriously and quicly. they are not talking.

they even have airlines that operates world wide.. ours is a shame....
Adrian 9 years ago

Hmmmm. Tooo difficult to believe.

This are the economic indicators.

1. G.D.P
2. C.P.I
3. Forex.....

Hmmmm. Tooo difficult to believe.

This are the economic indicators.

1. G.D.P
2. C.P.I
3. Forex.....
Asea Ho 9 years ago

I agree with Rev. Abozo. But The politicians belongs to one religious belief or the other. I recently learned that some Pastors charge consultation fees before a counseling session and all kind of dubious things by the mallam ...
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I agree with Rev. Abozo. But The politicians belongs to one religious belief or the other. I recently learned that some Pastors charge consultation fees before a counseling session and all kind of dubious things by the mallams, traditional healers and the Okomfos.

Rev. Abozo the truth is that it is the religious/spiritual groups that breeds the politicians. And I believe a Nation's political and economic strength is contingent to the political and economic state of the Church or the leading religion of the country. What do we see in the Ghanaian Church today? 419 pastor/members, corruption, struggle for position, undermining leadership, false doctrines and materialism.

Finally, we hear leading Pastors and members of the Church accusing state officials of becoming rich overnight when they get state appointments. Are we saying that Rev. Martey still drives in the saloon car he had when he became the moderator the Presby Church, if Mensah Otabil, Duncan Williams, Kuranchie Ankrah, Obinim, and others remained average when they became ministers of the Church. Have they questioned their members who became rich overnight when they got a job at the ministries, customs, police, airport, the bank.
jack 9 years ago

If you are having people who believe that everything god will have to for them''''''

Do you think if the israelees are thinking the way we think, do you think they can defend their country.

the next time we are under a ...
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If you are having people who believe that everything god will have to for them''''''

Do you think if the israelees are thinking the way we think, do you think they can defend their country.

the next time we are under attack we will be sitting dowing waiting for god to come and save us...
sane man 9 years ago

what is wrong with these people, if god is so great, why is Ghana still a shit hole..... by the grace of god crap, Ghanaians need to do things to improve life themselves, not wait around for god to do it !!!!!!

what is wrong with these people, if god is so great, why is Ghana still a shit hole..... by the grace of god crap, Ghanaians need to do things to improve life themselves, not wait around for god to do it !!!!!!
Humanity 9 years ago

SANE MAN, GOD WILL SOON AS GHANAIANS FOR THEIR BRAINS BACK, AS THEY DON'T USE IT. WHAT A BUNCH OF FOOLS

SANE MAN, GOD WILL SOON AS GHANAIANS FOR THEIR BRAINS BACK, AS THEY DON'T USE IT. WHAT A BUNCH OF FOOLS
Kast 9 years ago

I live in London and i have observed that the NDC ministers and and cronies have been sending their children to universities here - paying up to £9,000 a year just for school fees alone alone. A 3 year university course will ...
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I live in London and i have observed that the NDC ministers and and cronies have been sending their children to universities here - paying up to £9,000 a year just for school fees alone alone. A 3 year university course will amount to £27,000- just for one child- can u imagine what these monies could do for the health/ school feeding/sanitation problems in the country.
They have also been houses houses abroad. This trend is causing massive capital flight from Ghana aiding to the depreciation of the cedi and inflation. The ordinary Ghanaian, i am afraid has no chance.
Bernasko 9 years ago

Mahama and the entire NDC congress people are criminals

Mahama and the entire NDC congress people are criminals
Dr.med.Acquah 9 years ago

When will these so-called men of God wakeup?Are these people educated at all? I doubt it.

When will these so-called men of God wakeup?Are these people educated at all? I doubt it.
Humanity 9 years ago

THEY (PASTORS) WANT TO BECOME PRESIDENTS, AND IN GHANA, I wouldn't rule it out. what a shame.

THEY (PASTORS) WANT TO BECOME PRESIDENTS, AND IN GHANA, I wouldn't rule it out. what a shame.
WATCHER 9 years ago

Looting, thievery and incompetence are the causes of the economic hardships.

Looting, thievery and incompetence are the causes of the economic hardships.
Dr Robert K Glah 9 years ago

Prof stop preaching to us.

This is not the hour of preaching signs of spiritual order and disorder and national hardship.

God cannot help us because we are not helping ourselves.

The solution is to stop preaching, li ...
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Prof stop preaching to us.

This is not the hour of preaching signs of spiritual order and disorder and national hardship.

God cannot help us because we are not helping ourselves.

The solution is to stop preaching, listening to the word of God and focus on working for honest living.

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