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Remember when Paul says, "Pure, unrefined spice." Isn't that actually an oxymoron? Wouldn't pure spice be refined, which would remove all the impurities?
WAIT ye forgetteth, thine Apostle Paul was mentally Ill.......
"You don't have to read many of Paul's letters to observe violent swings of mood from deep depression to exaltation," Buechner wrote in Peculiar Treasures. "Pauls' passionate likes and dislikes. His boasting. His dark sense of guilt. Almost certainly it was some sort of neurosis that was bugging him. Three times he prayed to God to get rid of it for him, he said, but God never did. Maybe it's not hard to guess why."
SO space, unrefined, refined, pure, impure, who knoews from the perspective of someone who was mentally ill? The guy hallucinated hearing a diety, hallucinated a blinding light, and had an ego bigger than the Roman Empire.... COnsider that when reading anything that nutjob (Paul) Wrote
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Jedi Master Yoda
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it is gone past me I will turn to see fear's path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
WAIT ye forgetteth, thine Apostle Paul was mentally Ill.......
"You don't have to read many of Paul's letters to observe violent swings of mood from deep depression to exaltation," Buechner wrote in Peculiar Treasures. "Pauls' passionate likes and dislikes. His boasting. His dark sense of guilt. Almost certainly it was some sort of neurosis that was bugging him. Three times he prayed to God to get rid of it for him, he said, but God never did. Maybe it's not hard to guess why."
SO space, unrefined, refined, pure, impure, who knoews from the perspective of someone who was mentally ill? The guy hallucinated hearing a diety, hallucinated a blinding light, and had an ego bigger than the Roman Empire.... COnsider that when reading anything that nutjob (Paul) Wrote
Huh? What are you talking about? Sure, Paul did have spice-induced hallucinations, but it allowed him to look where no Bene Gesserit could look. In fact when they tried to look there, it WAS Paul. After this Paul became the Messiah to the Fremen - the Kwisatz Haderach!. LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS!
Everything you have just said is because your mind thought it first.
"The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. Habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring out of love. Born out of concern for all beings. As the shadow follows the body as we think, so we become..." ~Shakyamuni Buddha~
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Remember when Paul says, "Pure, unrefined spice." Isn't that actually an oxymoron? Wouldn't pure spice be refined, which would remove all the impurities? 
LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS!
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