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Titolo: M'I.5'Persecuti on   harassm ent at wo rk

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Once I stopped watching television and listening to the. radio at the end of
1990, "they" had to find other ways of committing abuses. So they. took what
must be for them a tried and tested. route; they get at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that. with my family or
friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace. to be their
mouthpieces. and do their dirty work for them.
They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from what was going. on in
my private life, and what I and other people had said at my. home and
accommodation in Oxford. So people at. work repeated verbatim words which
had. been said in my home, and repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
the most trivial things, the ones. from your domestic life, are the ones
which hurt most. One. manager in particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten months with verbal. sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to terminate
my employment. After ten months I was forced to. seek psychiatric help and
start taking. medication, and was away from work for two months. I spoke
later with a. solicitor about what had happened at that company; he advised
it was only. possible to take action if you had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such an action. would have to be started very soon after
leaving.
Over a year later the same manager picked on another new worker, with. even
more serious results; that employee. tried to commit suicide with an
overdose as a. result of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his job.
But he didn't take action. against the company, either. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in that tangible evidence is difficult. to
produce,. and the abusers will always have their denials ready when
challenged. And even if. a court accepts what you say happened, it still
remains to prove that abuse causes the. type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent case before a British court, a former. member of the
Army. brought a case against others who had maltreated him ten years
previously. Although the court accepted that abuse. had occurred, it did not
agree. that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice to
the. plaintiff.
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is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the
invisible. Ut sciatis... tibi dico: Surge.127
Isaiah says that Redemption will be as the passage of the Red Sea.
God has, then, shown by the deliverance from Egypt, and from the sea, by the
defeat of kings, by the manna, by the whole genealogy of Abraham, that He
was able to save, to send down bread from heaven, etc.; so that the people
hostile to Him are the type and the representation of the very Messiah whom
they know not, etc.
He has, then, taught us at last that all these things were only types and
what is "true freedom," a "true Israelite," "true circumcision," "true bread
from heaven," etc.
In these promises each one finds what he has most at heart, temporal
benefits or spiritual, God or the creatures; but with this difference, that
those who therein seek the creatures find them, but with many
contradictions, with a prohibition against loving them, with the command to
worship God only, and to love Him only, which is the same thing, and,
finally, that the Messiah came not for them; whereas those who therein seek
God find Him, without any contradiction, with the command to love Him only,
and that the Messiah came in the time foretold, to give them the blessings
whi

killing the person, will cause him to love her no more.
And if one loves me for my judgement, memory, he does not love me, for I can
lose these qualities without losing myself. Where, then, is this Ego, if it
be neither in the body nor in the soul? And how love the body or the soul,
except for these qualities which do not constitute me, since they are
perishable? For it is impossible and would be unjust to love the soul of a
person in the abstract and whatever qualities might be therein. We never,
then, love a person, but only qualities.
Let us, then, jeer no more at those who are honoured on account of rank and
office; for we love a person only on account of borrowed qualities.
324. The people have very sound opinions, for example:
1. In having preferred diversion and hunting to poetry. The half-learned
laugh at it, and glory in being above the folly of the world; but the people
are right for a reason which these do not fathom.
2. In having distinguished men by external marks, as birth or wealth. The
world again exults in showing how unreasonable

and tyrannical: "I am fair,
therefore I must be feared. I am strong, therefore I must be loved. I am...
Tyranny is the wish to have in one way what can only be had in another. We
render different duties to different merits; the duty of love to the
pleasant; the duty of fear to the strong; duty of belief to the learned.
We must render these duties; it is unjust to refuse them, and unjust to ask
others. And so it is false and tyrannical to say, "He is not strong,
therefore I will not esteem him; he is not able, therefore I will not fear
him."
333. Have you never seen people who, in order to complain of the little fuss
you make about them, parade before you the example of great men who esteem
them? In answer I reply to them, "Show me the merit whereby you have charmed
these persons, and I also will esteem you."
334. The reason of effects.--Lust and force are the source of all our
actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
335. The reason of effects.--It is, then, true to say that all the world is
under a delusion; for, although the opinions of the people are sound, they
are not so as conceived by them, since they think the truth to be where it
is not. Truth is indeed in their opinions, but not at the point where they
imagine it. Thus it is true that we must honour noblemen, but not because
noble birth is real superiority, etc.
336. The reason of effects.--We must keep our thought secret, and judge
everything by it, while talking like the people.
337. The reason of effects. Degrees. The people honour persons of high
birth. The semi-learned despise