Re: GR translation: claiming your belief in so much that isn’t true

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 16:51:39 UTC 2022


It is the way I read it, yes.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 12:48 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V134.27-30, P137.1-4   Come then. Leave your war awhile, paper or iron war,
> petrol or flesh, come in with your love, your fear of losing, your
> exhaustion with it. All day it’s been at you, coercing, jiving, claiming
> your belief in so much that isn’t true.
>
> Here "claiming your belief in so much that isn’t true" means forcing you to
> believe many things that are not true, is that correct? The published
> translation thinks it's the exact opposite, which doesn't make sense to me.
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