Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People generally react to complexity in one of two ways: inducing rules to explain what is happening, or confecting jargon to obscure what is happening. Thus in this best and worst of times, with Murphy's law (If anything can go wrong, it will) as the only constant in a world of nonviable alternatives, two unusual guidebooks have become hits of the winter season...
Canada Bill Jones' Motto and Supplement. It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement: A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.−Anonymous...
...warned me, "We don't want any photographs," but as the Jeep backed through the crowd, I climbed aboard anyway. One man perched on the hood and fired his rifle into the air to clear the crowds as we careened the wrong way down a one-way street at full speed. As we neared the embassy, we heard a fusillade of shots from machine guns, semiautomatic rifles and pistols. Then came the thump of tear-gas canisters exploding and we were enveloped in a heavy, stinging fog. We jumped off and started crawling on our bellies toward the embassy...
...plane while denying responsibility for the subsequent massacre; he maintained that the craft had been carrying military equipment. Nkomo's excuse last week was similar. He acknowledged that "if the plane was fired on, it can only have been our chaps." Alas, he said, his guerrillas hit the wrong aircraft: they had intended to kill Walls and had reason to believe he was on the first plane. So, Nkomo insisted, it was Walls who was "responsible for the deaths of all these other people because he is the biggest military target...
...cross represent four of the faith's eight dynamics. These eight dynamics stress the dedication and protection of one's self, of the family, the group, mankind, plants and animals, material objects, other spiritual beings and the "supreme being." According to Velona, the questions of right and wrong and all ethical questions revolve around the eight dynamics. In measuring the good one must attempt to consider and respect as many of the dynamics as possible. This "measurement" of good is left up to each individual because "scientology is not dogmatic, it is not a set of dictums that...