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Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.” “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”   John 3:1-8

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.   Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

memories fade,

people forget,

they say they never will,

but they do,

time moves on,

the old die,

the new take over,

the cycle repeats,

new names,

new methods,

same old shit;

change is not an option,

it is only an illusion;

there is nothing new under the sun;

all the injustice,

all the greed,

all the killing,

all the lies,

all the hypocrisy,

all the senselessness;

for what?

no shame,

no repentance,

pointing fingers,

blaming the other,

justifying evil in the

name of righteousness;

where now America?

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