Ezra is presented as an exiled-family priest and intellectual who is considered the creator of the Bible in its current form.
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Priest
Stalin defeated priest-like Bolshevik intellectuals because he operated as a spy: multiple personalities, emotional intelligence, trust manipulation, and power-seeking rather than truth-seeking.
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Stalin defeated priest-like Bolshevik intellectuals because he operated as a spy: multiple personalities, emotional intelligence, trust manipulation, and power-seeking rather than truth-seeking.
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"Gave to the priest Ezra, the scribe. A scholar of the text of the commandments of the Lord and his status for Israel."
"...from a family that was exiled to Babylon. But he's a priest, and he's an intellectual. So he is considered actually the creator of..."
"...so very simple formulation. Lenin, Trotsky, or Stalin. They were all priests, okay? But Stalin was a spy. And so let's look at the..."
"...able to make you trust him, all right? The last is priests are concerned with the pursuit of truth in God. Spies only want..."
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