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Monday, September 29, 2014
The South is still ruled by feudal lords who hate everyone else
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Are there any Atheists trying to kill Believers? No. Believers killing everyone else.
Overheard at the "stand-up Sermons" club:
ISIS is boasting of their reintroduction of slavery and children as sexual booty for their "holy" warriors. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/isis-confirms-and-justifies-enslaving-yazidis-in-new-magazine-article/381394/. Here is a photograph of a Yazidi woman from times of peace.
ISIS has declared a Caliphate. A distant descendant of a "Sunni" (ironically Jewish) family, obscured by the complex history around the Judaic Kaaba in Mecca, has declared himself the Caliph. The man urges warriors to join him, with promises of pillage and enslaved women. They walk into banks and take the gold, they sell oil on the black market, and they have killed more Arabs in one year than the Americans killed in ten.
He must be a real genius, this Caliph.
He must be a real genius, this Caliph.
ISIS is boasting of their reintroduction of slavery and children as sexual booty for their "holy" warriors. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/isis-confirms-and-justifies-enslaving-yazidis-in-new-magazine-article/381394/. Here is a photograph of a Yazidi woman from times of peace.
Please help.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Israel and Zion; Islam and War
I have never understood how so many people want to form opinions about Israel without having read any of the Zionist Founders. "Palestine" and its inhabitants at the time, were well-considered with all other possible alternatives for a place for Jews to go who were fleeing from persecution.
Herzl to this day is one of the best thinkers and objective journalists who ever lived. He was the German reporter who first came to fame for his articles on the "Trial of the Century", when the French condemned an innocent man to life imprisonment. As another great writer, "J'accuse!" Zola, also pointed out, the only "evidence" against Alfred Dreyfus was that he was a Jew. For that he was condemned.
This is the same kind of "trial" Israel is experiencing today. Israel is condemned by people who hate Jews.
More Jewish (and Christian, Druze, etc) property has been confiscated by Islamic Arabs than there is property in all of "Palestine". The tyrant state of "Saudi Arabia", and the old "King of Jordan" have each killed more Arabs in single years of peace than all of the Arabs killed by Israel in war.
For those interested in Justice, read Herzl. And listen carefully to what the Wahabis and Ayatollahs are saying. They intend to kill Jews. The signs in the mosques say "Death to Jews" with lots of repetition. If all the Jews are killed, do you think the killing will stop? Who is next?
Sadly, there is great unrest today throughout the regions on the map in green. Millions of Jews, Christians, and other "nonbelievers" have been purged from all of those areas. For the prayers of the oppressed in those areas, and for the gullible outside those areas, this war on Jews is a historical distraction.
Islam must be destroyed, from the inside. That is literally what is happening today. What looks like Arabs fighting against each other everywhere, and Islamic revolutionaries everywhere pressing against the Serbs, and Sudanese, and Polisario people, among others, is going to end up transforming Islam. It cannot bear up to competition or exposure.
And Arabs, at the core, clinging to Wahabi "purity" will rise above that un-natural concept. Arabs who become aware of their great history and unique opportunities today, will no longer be held back by concerns about "humiliation". The Arab world will flower. And they will be the first to teach us to stop destroying others, because they themselves have seen the self-defeating effects of demonizing and attacking the perceived "others".
Herzl to this day is one of the best thinkers and objective journalists who ever lived. He was the German reporter who first came to fame for his articles on the "Trial of the Century", when the French condemned an innocent man to life imprisonment. As another great writer, "J'accuse!" Zola, also pointed out, the only "evidence" against Alfred Dreyfus was that he was a Jew. For that he was condemned.
This is the same kind of "trial" Israel is experiencing today. Israel is condemned by people who hate Jews.
More Jewish (and Christian, Druze, etc) property has been confiscated by Islamic Arabs than there is property in all of "Palestine". The tyrant state of "Saudi Arabia", and the old "King of Jordan" have each killed more Arabs in single years of peace than all of the Arabs killed by Israel in war.
For those interested in Justice, read Herzl. And listen carefully to what the Wahabis and Ayatollahs are saying. They intend to kill Jews. The signs in the mosques say "Death to Jews" with lots of repetition. If all the Jews are killed, do you think the killing will stop? Who is next?
Sadly, there is great unrest today throughout the regions on the map in green. Millions of Jews, Christians, and other "nonbelievers" have been purged from all of those areas. For the prayers of the oppressed in those areas, and for the gullible outside those areas, this war on Jews is a historical distraction.
Islam must be destroyed, from the inside. That is literally what is happening today. What looks like Arabs fighting against each other everywhere, and Islamic revolutionaries everywhere pressing against the Serbs, and Sudanese, and Polisario people, among others, is going to end up transforming Islam. It cannot bear up to competition or exposure.
And Arabs, at the core, clinging to Wahabi "purity" will rise above that un-natural concept. Arabs who become aware of their great history and unique opportunities today, will no longer be held back by concerns about "humiliation". The Arab world will flower. And they will be the first to teach us to stop destroying others, because they themselves have seen the self-defeating effects of demonizing and attacking the perceived "others".
Devils and Details
The devil that is in details is not invited, but is almost always created by them.
One tries to do something. The very act creates consequences One balks at doing anything. Everything reels in the vacuum, the omission creates.
But what is really happening? Why is this so?
And if the devil resides in the details, where are the damn angels?
Most people working with intention -- trying to live examined lives, looking for opportunities to help -- come to realize that this play of consequences is always complex. We rarely compass what we are doing. Nothing is ever "accomplished" or completed, but it falls apart or entropy savages the working parts. Action is what you "try" to do. And you cannot just sit there either, just "being". Because you have no idea where you came from, and you'll get hungry and sleepy. You'll just be "trying" to Be, and you might as well "try" to do something with it.
Perhaps we should get to know our devils. One reason science has been such a powerful tool is that it is not content with the abstractions of the process, but lays out the steps. By measuring intervals, weights, and dimensions, and by identifying the constituent parts, we are able to control the demons. Although the devil is still living in the complexity, the scoundrel can be analyzed--pulling apart his parts and appearances.
And notice the relationship between the "abstract" devil, and the details we think of as the perceived reality? There is this play between what is not real and what is real, where the real things create a piffer in the mind, and next thing you know, your mind is now distracted. And the distracting unreal thing held in your mind becomes more real than the things you are holding in your hands.
One tries to do something. The very act creates consequences One balks at doing anything. Everything reels in the vacuum, the omission creates.
But what is really happening? Why is this so?
And if the devil resides in the details, where are the damn angels?
Most people working with intention -- trying to live examined lives, looking for opportunities to help -- come to realize that this play of consequences is always complex. We rarely compass what we are doing. Nothing is ever "accomplished" or completed, but it falls apart or entropy savages the working parts. Action is what you "try" to do. And you cannot just sit there either, just "being". Because you have no idea where you came from, and you'll get hungry and sleepy. You'll just be "trying" to Be, and you might as well "try" to do something with it.
Perhaps we should get to know our devils. One reason science has been such a powerful tool is that it is not content with the abstractions of the process, but lays out the steps. By measuring intervals, weights, and dimensions, and by identifying the constituent parts, we are able to control the demons. Although the devil is still living in the complexity, the scoundrel can be analyzed--pulling apart his parts and appearances.
And notice the relationship between the "abstract" devil, and the details we think of as the perceived reality? There is this play between what is not real and what is real, where the real things create a piffer in the mind, and next thing you know, your mind is now distracted. And the distracting unreal thing held in your mind becomes more real than the things you are holding in your hands.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
The Quran is a relatively recent work; it has no archeological verification. Unconfirmed text.
Serious Question: What "translation" of what Quran are which Islamicists using? There are several hundred "schools" of Islam with dozens of Qurans. None of them date back to the century in which the Prophet Muhammad lived. Apparently the text was not considered very important to his peers....
If the Quran was written from oral dictation of the Angel Gabriel to Prophet Muhammad, was Gabriel speaking Arabic? If it was re-transcribed by Aisha, Muhammad's child-wife, where was she educated and taught to write? At that time, 600 AD, there was no written Arabic language.
Perhaps it was written in Hebrew or Aramaic, two written languages used by Christians and Jews in the immediate vicinity, and which appear to be the direct sources of the earliest "versions" of what became the Quran. But the earliest versions of a written Quran are in classical Arabic. That language is as incomprehensible to modern Arab speakers as Olde English (think pre-Beowulf Anglo-Saxon) is to Americans.
The oldest versions of the Quran which have been found, under the ruins of a Manichaean Christian temple, upon which a Mosque was built, are very different from the current translations making the rounds in modern Arabic.
If the Quran was written from oral dictation of the Angel Gabriel to Prophet Muhammad, was Gabriel speaking Arabic? If it was re-transcribed by Aisha, Muhammad's child-wife, where was she educated and taught to write? At that time, 600 AD, there was no written Arabic language.
Perhaps it was written in Hebrew or Aramaic, two written languages used by Christians and Jews in the immediate vicinity, and which appear to be the direct sources of the earliest "versions" of what became the Quran. But the earliest versions of a written Quran are in classical Arabic. That language is as incomprehensible to modern Arab speakers as Olde English (think pre-Beowulf Anglo-Saxon) is to Americans.
The oldest versions of the Quran which have been found, under the ruins of a Manichaean Christian temple, upon which a Mosque was built, are very different from the current translations making the rounds in modern Arabic.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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