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The Beast Is The Modern World That We Live In! The Material World. The Physical World. The World Of Illusion That We Think Is Real. We Live For It; We're Enslaved By It. And It Will Ultimately Be Our Undoing.

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The Beast Is The Modern World That We Live In! The Material World. The Physical World. The World Of Illusion That We Think Is Real. We Live For It; We're Enslaved By It. And It Will Ultimately Be Our Undoing.

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