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==Quotes==
 
==Quotes==
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*''The gift of mental power comes from [[God]], Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the [[Bible]]; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work.''<ref>{{cite book |title= My inventions: The autobiography of Nikola Tesla |author=Nikola Tesla |publisher=NuVision Publications LLC |year=1982 |pages=41 |isbn= |url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=no&id=uBafTxRVtkAC&q=Bible#v=snippet&q=Bible&f=false |quote= Up to that time I never realized that I possed any particular gift of discovery, but the Lord Rayleigh, whom I considered an ideal man of science, had said so, and if that was the case, I felt that I shold concentrate on some big idea. At this time, as many other times in the past, my tought turned towards my mother's teaching. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few  months to the study of this work.}}</ref>
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*''The gift of mental power comes from [[God]], Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the [[Bible]]; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work.''<ref>{{cite book |title= My inventions: The autobiography of Nikola Tesla |author=Nikola Tesla |publisher=NuVision Publications LLC |year=1982 |pages=41 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=no&id=uBafTxRVtkAC&q=Bible#v=snippet&q=Bible&f=false |quote= Up to that time I never realized that I possed any particular gift of discovery, but the Lord Rayleigh, whom I considered an ideal man of science, had said so, and if that was the case, I felt that I shold concentrate on some big idea. At this time, as many other times in the past, my tought turned towards my mother's teaching. The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few  months to the study of this work.}}</ref>
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*''I made a further careful study of the Bible, and discovered the key in Revelation.''<ref>{{cite book |title=  The Wall of Light: Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship, the X-12 |author=Arthur H. Matthews |publisher=Health Research Books |year=1973 |pages=27 |isbn= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=La0bllTbTM0C&pg=PA27&hl=no#v=snippet&q=%22careful%20study%20of%20the%20Bible%22&f=false |quote= It seemed a hopeless undertaking, but I made up my mind to try it and immediately on my return to the United States in the summer of 1892, after a short visit to my friends in Watford, England; work was begun which was to me all the more attractive, because a means of the same kind was necessary for the successful transmission of energy without wires. At this time I made a further careful study of the Bible, and discovered the key in Revelation.}}</ref>
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*''I made a further careful study of the Bible, and discovered the key in Revelation.''<ref>{{cite book |title=  The Wall of Light: Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship, the X-12 |author=Arthur H. Matthews |publisher=Health Research Books |year=1973 |pages=27 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=La0bllTbTM0C&pg=PA27&hl=no#v=snippet&q=%22careful%20study%20of%20the%20Bible%22&f=false |quote= It seemed a hopeless undertaking, but I made up my mind to try it and immediately on my return to the United States in the summer of 1892, after a short visit to my friends in Watford, England; work was begun which was to me all the more attractive, because a means of the same kind was necessary for the successful transmission of energy without wires. At this time I made a further careful study of the Bible, and discovered the key in Revelation.}}</ref>
 
== A Machine to End War ==
 
== A Machine to End War ==
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The [[liberal]] [[Wikipedia®]] quotes the 1937 interview ''"A Machine to End War"'' made by a German-American pro-[[Nazi]] [[propaganda|propagandist]] George Sylvester Viereck where then 80 years old Tesla is supposedly promoting [[eugenics]] and other anti-[[Christian]] and radical views inherent to [[political agenda]] of Nazis.<ref name="Viereck1937">{{cite web |title=A Machine to End War |publisher=PBS.org |last=Viereck |first=George Sylvester |date=February 1937 |url=http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref> This controversial allusions should be treated with extreme care as they are neither based on Tesla's own handwriting nor supported with audiorecords (cf. ''"by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck"''). The problems with 1:1 actual quotations of sources is one of the [[Gnosticism#Gnostic traits in Nazism|gnostic]] traits that Nacism was demonstrably marked with.{{#tag:ref|Similarly weird case that smacks of adopting the same [[Psychological manipulation|manipulative]] method was a 2012 interview with a then already retired [[Columbia University]] [[psychiatrist]] Robert L. Spitzer suffering from [[Parkinson's disease]] by proponents of gender [[Ideology#Pejorative definition|ideology]]. Spitzer, at that time one week before turning 80, allegedly had spared to that very moment of interview the important claim about recanting his earlier papers (cf. ''"Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself"'') declaring the possibility, with the help of the [[reparative therapy]], to forsake the [[ABC Theory of Emotion#Homosexual Lifestyle|homosexual lifestyle]] for [[Ex-Homosexuals|people who are strongly motivated to change]]. The article with interview is supporting views of [[radical]]ist [[Wayne Besen]] and political agenda of so called ''"gay support groups."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer apologizes for a controversial study about ex-gay therapy, which has since been used by socially conservative groups arguing that homosexuality is a choice. |author=Sushma Subramanian |publisher=Everyday Health Media |date=18 May 2012 |url=http://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/0518/psychologist-recants-gay-cure-study.aspx |quote=Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer apologizes for a controversial study about ex-gay therapy, which has since been used by socially conservative groups arguing that homosexuality is a choice. ... Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer, 79, has long supported therapy to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals, as promoted in a study he published in 2001. But April 11, he retracted the study. ... Spitzer's study has been a political lightning rod for decades. Socially conservative groups have turned to it as evidence that homosexuality is a choice; gay support groups argue that the study is faulty. |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’ |author=Benedict Carey |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 May 2012 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html?_r=0 |quote=Dr. Spitzer, who turns 80 next week, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has trouble walking, sitting, even holding his head upright. ...The word he sometimes uses to describe these limitations — pathetic — is the same one that for decades he wielded like an ax to strike down dumb ideas, empty theorizing and junk studies. Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself, a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change. |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref>|group=note}}
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The [[liberal]] [[Wikipedia®]] quotes the 1937 interview ''"A Machine to End War"'' made by a German-American pro-[[Nazi]] [[propaganda|propagandist]] George Sylvester Viereck where then 80 years old Tesla is supposedly promoting [[eugenics]] and other anti-[[Christian]] and radical views inherent to [[political agenda]] of Nazis.<ref name="Viereck1937">{{cite web |title=A Machine to End War |publisher=PBS.org |last=Viereck |first=George Sylvester |date=February 1937 |url=http://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref> This controversial allusions should be treated with extreme care as they are neither based on Tesla's own handwriting nor supported with audiorecords (cf. ''"by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck"''). The problems with 1:1 actual quotations of sources is one of the [[Gnosticism#Gnostic traits in Nazism|gnostic]] traits that Nacism was demonstrably marked with.{{#tag:ref|Similarly weird case that smacks of adopting the same [[Psychological manipulation|manipulative]] method was a 2012 interview with a then already retired [[Columbia University]] [[psychiatrist]] Robert L. Spitzer suffering from [[Parkinson's disease]] by proponents of gender [[Ideology#Pejorative definition|ideology]]. Spitzer, at that time one week before turning 80, allegedly had spared to that very moment of interview the important claim about recanting his earlier papers (cf. ''"Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself"'') declaring the possibility, with the help of the [[reparative therapy]], to forsake the [[ABC Theory of Emotion#Homosexual Lifestyle|homosexual lifestyle]] for [[Ex-Homosexuals|people who are strongly motivated to change]]. The article with interview is supporting views of [[radical]]ist [[Wayne Besen]] and political agenda of so called ''"gay support groups."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer apologizes for a controversial study about ex-gay therapy, which has since been used by socially conservative groups arguing that homosexuality is a choice. |author=Sushma Subramanian |publisher=Everyday Health Media |date=18 May 2012 |url=http://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/0518/psychologist-recants-gay-cure-study.aspx |quote=Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer apologizes for a controversial study about ex-gay therapy, which has since been used by socially conservative groups arguing that homosexuality is a choice. ... Psychologist Robert L. Spitzer, 79, has long supported therapy to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals, as promoted in a study he published in 2001. But April 11, he retracted the study. ... Spitzer's study has been a political lightning rod for decades. Socially conservative groups have turned to it as evidence that homosexuality is a choice; gay support groups argue that the study is faulty. |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay ‘Cure’ |author=Benedict Carey |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 May 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html?_r=0 |quote=Dr. Spitzer, who turns 80 next week, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has trouble walking, sitting, even holding his head upright. ...The word he sometimes uses to describe these limitations — pathetic — is the same one that for decades he wielded like an ax to strike down dumb ideas, empty theorizing and junk studies. Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself, a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change. |accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref>|group=note}}
    
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