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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1039189)	11/16/2017 9:50:07 PM
From: Mongo2116	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579770

Germany has topped the United States as the most admired country worldwide and experts blamed the "Trump Effect" for the drop.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1039189)	11/16/2017 9:50:52 PM
From: Mongo2116	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579770

how do you know what he said?? were you there?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1039189)

11/16/2017 10:39:19 PM

From: James Seagrove

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What happened to Trump is not much different than what happened to Pascal. What happened to Pascal transformed him and I believe what happened to Trump transformed him as well. Was Trump perfect before the presidency? NO. Is he perfect now? NO. I sincerely believe Trump is the best person for the job of President and I believe he has surrounded himself with the best people to achieve what is in the best interest of America and the world.

“On the evening of November 23rd, 1654, the brilliant polymath Blaise Pascal was thrown from his horse-drawn carriage, the creatures having been frightened by a thunderstorm. The horses fell off the bridge they had been crossing into the turbulent river below, and Pascal was left dazed in the road.

That night, toward the midnight hour, a grateful 31-year-old Pascal (who was still recovering from, and spiritually reflecting on, the death of his beloved father three years before) had an intense, mystical vision for close to two hours. Following the vision, Pascal wrote on a piece of parchment, “Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy… This is life eternal that they might know you, the only true God.” He sewed the parchment into the lining of his coat, and seemed to have carefully moved it to new garments every time he changed his clothes. He told no one—a servant found it in the last jacket he wore, years after he died.

Pascal may have almost died that day, and he was supremely lucky to have not, but he also believed that he was lucky in another way as well; for this singular event so focused his mind that all of the spiritual writing he had been drawn to during years of his father’s illness was crystallized. He believed the incident had saved his soul as surely as blind chance had saved his body on that bridge over stormy waters. Inspired by that experience, he would go on to place luck at the center of his Christian apologetics.”