2.06.2015
***** Outcry from 'christians' over Pr. Obama Remarks. Christians have been behind 100 times the murder of the 20th century, as have Muslims." Must Read: "What ISIS is doing to Yazidi's and other groups it has deemed the enemy, Christian militias in the Central African Republic are doing to Muslims."
Pr. Obama: “If in fact we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults and stand shoulder to shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are targets of such attacks,” Obama said.
Pr. Obama: “If in fact we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults and stand shoulder to shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are targets of such attacks,” Obama said. http://nation.com.pk/national/06-Feb-2015/obama-blasts-extremists-who-seek-to-hijack-religion
nd. The media is near 100% corrupt, making being an informed citizen practically a full time job. Tho forever the media is a tool of the oppressors, the rulers, the powerful.
The media is near 100% corrupt, making being an informed citizen
practically a full time job. Tho forever the media is a tool of the
oppressors, the rulers, the powerful.
nd. You know, in the scheme of things the pain and fear that 9/11 caused is nothing, NOTHING, compared to the horror we Americans, by not regulating our war industry, have visited on places like Afghanistan, and the entire middle east? 3000 Americans killed on 9/11? That's nothing. That's about how many we killed a DAY by bombing Iraq. That's how many we kill every few years in Palestine. We are so fing ego-centric we Americans. There is no Hell hot enough or big enough for us.
You know, in the scheme of things the pain and fear that 9/11 caused is
nothing, NOTHING, compared to the horror we Americans, by not
regulating our war industry, have visited on places like Afghanistan,
and the entire middle east. 3000 Americans killed on 9/11? That's
nothing. That's about how many we killed a DAY by bombing Iraq. That's
how many we kill every few years in Palestine. We are so fing
ego-centric we Americans. There is no Hell hot enough or big enough for
us.
2.05.2015
I can assure you that if we heard racist, anti-Semitic, or homophobic remarks (instead of just these Islamophobic remarks) by Republican elected officials, Democrats would speak out.
I can assure you that if we heard racist, anti-Semitic, or homophobic
remarks (instead of just these Islamophobic remarks) by Republican elected officials, Democrats would speak out.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/muslims-infiltrate-the-white-house-me-included.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/muslims-infiltrate-the-white-house-me-included.html
nd. Code Pink - Undignified. After many years I've gained massive insight into my horror at near all of Code Pink's 'activism.' Two days ago I saw on my newsfeed that a pro-Palestinian human rights group was urging attendance at a criminally rigged Capital Hill 'hearing' to punish Palestine for joining the ICC. What struck me, and Instantly I thought of Code Pink was... this group emphasized that it was calling for a "DIGNIFIED" presence. Code Pink is religiously, flagrantly, proudly, arrogantly, contemptuously... Undignified, for reason's I can't figure other than an orgy of self-righteousness and self-indulgence, and maybe, fundraising. Such a terrible waste, at best, and more usually a major hindrance of the causes I care about, Palestine now. In fact, their presence at yesterday's hearing doubtless contributed to even the DIGNIFIED Pro Palestine activists being ejected from the hearing. Yes, the do-nothing, risk-nothing, pay-no-personal price, lip-service left is giddy over Code Pinks 'activism.' And the all important undecided decent people are justifiably appalled, repulsed, repelled, turned off.....
Code Pink - Undignified. After many years I've gained massive insight into my horror at near all of Code Pink's 'activism.' Two days ago I saw on my newsfeed that a pro-Palestinian human rights group was urging attendance at a criminally rigged Capital Hill 'hearing' to punish Palestine for joining the ICC. What struck me, and Instantly I thought of Code Pink was... this group emphasized that it was calling for a "DIGNIFIED" presence. Code Pink is religiously, flagrantly, proudly, arrogantly, contemptuously... Undignified, for reason's I can't figure other than an orgy of self-righteousness and self-indulgence, and maybe, fundraising. Such a terrible waste, at best, and more usually a major hindrance of the causes I care about, Palestine now. In fact, their presence at yesterday's hearing doubtless contributed to even the DIGNIFIED Pro Palestine activists being ejected from the hearing. Yes, the do-nothing, risk-nothing, pay-no-personal price, lip-service left is giddy over Code Pinks 'activism.' And the all important undecided decent people are justifiably appalled, repulsed, repelled, turned off.....
nd. Cancer update: no word yet on whether the tumor they removed from me late December is malignant or not. I meet with my oncologist in 2 weeks and I expect to learn more then. I saw my saintly general practitioner today to get some cold medicine so that I can sleep and I asked her weather what I have experienced post operation was reasonable. I told her that although I considered it a minor operation, just one day in the hospital, 3 hours under anesthesia, just three holes drilled between my ribs, for a full 6 or so weeks after the operation my body told me forcefully everyday that it was incapable of doing the free Palestine vigil at the White House or on Capitol Hill. This seemed absurd to me but what my body was telling me seemed so concretely real. Her response to me seemed to be honest. She said that a general rule of thumb is that every one day of intensive work in the hospital requires at least a month for the body to recover. This was comforting for me to hear.
Cancer update: no word yet on whether the tumor they removed from me late December is malignant or not. I meet with my oncologist in 2 weeks and I expect to learn more then. I saw my saintly general practitioner today to get some cold medicine so that I can sleep and I asked her weather what I have experienced post operation was reasonable. I told her that although I considered it a minor operation, just one day in the hospital, 3 hours under anesthesia, just three holes drilled between my ribs, for a full 6 or so weeks after the operation my body told me forcefully everyday that it was incapable of doing the free Palestine vigil at the White House or on Capitol Hill. This seemed absurd to me but what my body was telling me seemed so concretely real. Her response to me seemed to be honest. She said that a general rule of thumb is that every one day of intensive work in the hospital requires at least a month for the body to recover. This was comforting for me to hear.
Nd. I never stop, I'll never stop, trying to become a significant force for good. With every breath I study, practice, fail, succeed, ponder, try again.... Moments ago a thought came to me that strikes me as promising. It is that the work consists of, the nature of the battle is, two different cultures warring for propagation in the same petri dish. The nervous systems of humanity collectively are the petri dish. The two alternative cultures are self centeredness versus other centeredness; being sociopath versus being empathy; being cancerous tissue versus being life giving tissue; exploiting vs loving . Yes, there are shades of gray and they are 100 percent cancerous tissue. So the work, the task at hand, is to realize that with every waking breath one is advancing one of these two cultures, inescapably. The work is to figure out how to be an accelerant for the culture of loving and inhibitor of the culture of exploiting.
I never stop, I'll never stop, trying to become a significant force for good. With every breath I study, practice, fail, succeed, ponder, try again.... Moments ago a thought came to me that strikes me as promising. It is that the work consists of, the nature of the battle is, two different cultures warring for propagation in the same petri dish. The nervous systems of humanity collectively are the petri dish. The two alternative cultures are self centeredness versus other centeredness; being sociopath versus being empathy; being cancerous tissue versus being life giving tissue; exploiting vs loving . Yes, there are shades of gray and they are 100 percent cancerous tissue. So the work, the task at hand, is to realize that with every waking breath one is advancing one of these two cultures, inescapably. The work is to figure out how to be an accelerant for the culture of loving and inhibitor of the culture of exploiting.
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Nd. Only those who live with great passion live at all.
Only those who live with great passion live at all.
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***** I am wealthier than any but one in a million in history that I see, wealthier in joy, loving, piece of heart; and yes, destitute, when it comes to the wealth of men, which is worthless in the kingdom of God. I am not talking religion here, I am talking human experience, I am talking my experience, I'm talking physiology, psychology . If there is any wealth worth having beside joy, loving, piece of heart someone needs to let me know. Otherwise, they might want to learn from my example as I continue to learn from that of others. 100 percent lived solidarity, serving the global neediest, from the soul, regardless of any personal price for doing so.
I am wealthier than any but one in a million in history that I see, wealthier in joy, loving, piece of heart; and yes, destitute, when it comes to the wealth of men, which is worthless in the kingdom of God. I am not talking religion here, I am talking human experience, I am talking my experience, I'm talking physiology, psychology . If there is any wealth worth having beside joy, loving, piece of heart someone needs to let me know. Otherwise, they might want to learn from my example as I continue to learn from that of others. 100 percent lived solidarity, serving the global neediest, from the soul, regardless of any personal price for doing so.
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2.04.2015
Nd. ***** I know of only one really good test of a person's humanity, be it my own, or that of someone who I am observing. Is the person in question behaving exactly as they would if they experienced the global neediest as their own, immediate, family?
* I know of only one really good test of a person's humanity, be it my own, or that of someone who I am observing. Is the person in question behaving exactly as they would if they experienced the global neediest as their own, immediate, family?
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Nd. Most American women are Lustly. The Muslim women I see in the United States and around the world are lovely.
Most American women are Lustly. The Muslim women I see in the United States and around the world are lovely.
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Nd. I spent my first 45 years being carefully raised to be and then practicing as a high priced prostitute, selling my very being to the highest bidder., as an executive in high-tech industries. Yes, I always had strong, deep, moral inclinations that shaped my response, but I lacked the courage to leave my profession which was fundamentally prostituting myself to the system, fundamentally, profoundly, absolutely. I left my $300,000 a year profession about 16 years ago now, giving 100% of my accumulated wealth to my 3 dependents so they could continue on with their life in the matrix which is what they were choosing to do. Since the instant of changing course, leaving prostitution as a profession, I have felt only gratitude relief and regret that I wasted 45 years that I could have been attempting to do good. And having the infinite joy of making the attempt. Yes, all of the intoxications, all of the pleasures, 100%, were left behind me the day that I changed direction. Never have I felt regrets, zero regrets, only relief , joy, aliveness, freedom, health .
I spent my first 45 years being carefully raised to be and then practicing as a high priced prostitute, selling my very being to the highest bidder., as an executive in high-tech industries. Yes, I always had strong, deep, moral inclinations that shaped my response, but I lacked the courage to leave my profession which was fundamentally prostituting myself to the system, fundamentally, profoundly, absolutely. I left my $300,000 a year profession about 16 years ago now, giving 100% of my accumulated wealth to my 3 dependents so they could continue on with their life in the matrix which is what they were choosing to do. Since the instant of changing course, leaving prostitution as a profession, I have felt only gratitude relief and regret that I wasted 45 years that I could have been attempting to do good. And having the infinite joy of making the attempt. Yes, all of the intoxications, all of the pleasures, 100%, were left behind me the day that I changed direction. Never have I felt regrets, zero regrets, only relief , joy, aliveness, freedom, health .
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Nd. “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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2.03.2015
nd. Republicans demand right to life? Given their stand against gun control, contraception, abortion, education, vaccination... What they demand is the right to torture, torment, abuse, deprived, starve, infect, and kill American children once they are born. It seems that they hate abortion because it decreases the number of live children they can terrorize , torment, torture, and murder . Please tell me where I am wrong. these are nothing more than fing satanic psychopaths and they need to be stopped.
Republicans demand right to life? Given their stand against gun control, contraception, abortion, education, vaccination... What they demand is the right to torture, torment, abuse, deprived, starve, infect, and kill American children once they are born. It seems that they hate abortion because it decreases the number of live children they can terrorize , torment, torture, and murder . Please tell me where I am wrong. these are nothing more than fing satanic psychopaths and they need to be stopped.
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a senior Joint Chiefs of Staff officer who regularly briefs the U.S. high command was willing to speak bluntly in exchange for anonymity. “There’s always been a lot of support for Israel in the military,” the officer said, “but that’s significantly eroded over the last few years. This caps it. It’s one thing for Americans to criticize their president and another entirely for a foreign leader to do it. Netanyahu doesn’t get it. We’re not going to side with him against the commander in chief. Not ever.” Retired Army Gen. Paul Eaton concurs. He warned that Netanyahu’s appearance would be “perilous to both countries” but saved his harshest criticism for Boehner, saying, “It is highly inappropriate for the speaker of the House to so publicly meddle in foreign affairs,” he said. “It is a gross breach of protocol to invite a head of state without due coordination with the president.”Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Richard Klass, an Air Force Academy graduate, called Netanyahu’s scheduled congressional appearance “a new level of chutzpah” and argued that it raised the question of “whether Israel is becoming a strategic liability for America. “Netanyahu gives new meaning to the term ‘bull in a china shop,’” he said."
a senior Joint Chiefs of Staff officer who regularly briefs the U.S. high command was willing to speak bluntly in exchange for anonymity. “There’s always been a lot of support for Israel in the military,” the officer said, “but that’s significantly eroded over the last few years. This caps it. It’s one thing for Americans to criticize their president and another entirely for a foreign leader to do it. Netanyahu doesn’t get it. We’re not going to side with him against the commander in chief. Not ever.” Retired Army Gen. Paul Eaton concurs. He warned that Netanyahu’s appearance would be “perilous to both countries” but saved his harshest criticism for Boehner, saying, “It is highly inappropriate for the speaker of the House to so publicly meddle in foreign affairs,” he said. “It is a gross breach of protocol to invite a head of state without due coordination with the president.”Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Richard Klass, an Air Force Academy graduate, called Netanyahu’s scheduled congressional appearance “a new level of chutzpah” and argued that it raised the question of “whether Israel is becoming a strategic liability for America. “Netanyahu gives new meaning to the term ‘bull in a china shop,’” he said."
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Construction union leader’s beating triggers renewed concerns about industry Matshidiso Moeti steps into WHO’s most challenging position Matshidiso Moeti steps into WHO’s most challenging position The colder it is, the bigger the discount at Mark’s The colder it is, the bigger the discount at Mark’s News / GTA Be wary of Harper’s anti-terror bill, Edward Snowden warns Toronto students Via streaming video, the NSA whistle blower’s discussion with a journalist touched on national security, surveillance and their recent tumultuous years. Share on Facebook Reddit this! Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald delivered a keynote for a Toronto high school Monday night. Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald delivered a keynote for a Toronto high school Monday night
2.02.2015
***** WOW. '“We don’t read anymore,” Goldman said. “We don’t learn anymore. History is disappearing. People talk about living in the moment as if it is a virtue. It is a horrible vice. Between the twitterverse and the 24-hour cable news cycle our history keeps disappearing. History is something boring that you had to endure in high school and then you are rid of it. Then you go to college and study finance, accounting, business management or computer science. There are damn few liberal arts majors left. And this has erased our history....' [Brilliant article: Two fatal flaws: 1. Empire is not the problem. The problem is the hearts of the victims that allowing Empire is worth prostituting themselves for to pay, whether they are at the top, bottom, or in between; 2. Willingness it kill is not the solution, tho it may at times be a necessary tactic. King was right, 'Hate cannot eliminate hate; only love can do that.' We must Truly Hate the Sin, and even kill to stop it; but the instant we are not Loving, all hope is lost.]
“We don’t read anymore,” Goldman said. “We don’t learn anymore. History
is disappearing. People talk about living in the moment as if it is a
virtue. It is a horrible vice. Between the twitterverse and the 24-hour
cable news cycle our history keeps disappearing. History is something
boring that you had to endure in high school and then you are rid of it.
Then you go to college and study finance, accounting, business
management or computer science. There are damn few liberal arts majors
left. And this has erased our history....'
[Brilliant article: Two fatal flaws: 1. Empire is not the problem. The problem is the hearts of the victims that allowing Empire is worth prostituting themselves for to pay, whether they are at the top, bottom, or in between; 2. Willingness it kill is not the solution, tho it may at times be a necessary tactic. King was right, 'Hate cannot eliminate hate; only love can do that.' We must Truly Hate the Sin, and even kill to stop it; but the instant we are not Loving, all hope is lost.]
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/malcolm_x_was_right_about_america_20150201
[Brilliant article: Two fatal flaws: 1. Empire is not the problem. The problem is the hearts of the victims that allowing Empire is worth prostituting themselves for to pay, whether they are at the top, bottom, or in between; 2. Willingness it kill is not the solution, tho it may at times be a necessary tactic. King was right, 'Hate cannot eliminate hate; only love can do that.' We must Truly Hate the Sin, and even kill to stop it; but the instant we are not Loving, all hope is lost.]
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/malcolm_x_was_right_about_america_20150201
nd. When earlier in my years I was becoming a technically world class skier, there were mtns that terrified me, made my stomach churn... until I learned to metabolize them. Every moment my life is agony... refusing to turn away from, choosing to sprint toward... the world's horrors. But I've learned to metabolize them, devoting my life to gain this capacity, so my life is Heaven, and HELL, each moment. Near-pure Loving, every breath, the most profound Peace, and Agony. The agony AND the ecstasy.
When earlier in my years I was becoming a technically world class skier, there were mtns that terrified me, made my stomach churn... until I learned to metabolize them. Every moment my life is agony... refusing to turn away from, choosing to sprint toward... the world's horrors. But I've learned to metabolize them, devoting my life to gain this capacity, so my life is Heaven, and HELL, each moment. Near-pure Loving, every breath, the most profound Peace, and Agony. The agony AND the ecstasy.
nd. Every waking breath of my life is 'peace' precisely because I refuse to not fight, to not serve, in lived solidarity, from my soul, for my most suffering Family. It is the only real peace possible, physiologically.
Every waking breath of my life is 'peace' precisely
because I refuse to not fight, to not serve, in lived solidarity, from
my soul, for my most suffering Family. It is the only real peace
possible, physiologically.
nd. My family in Palestine is dying, suffering, every second of every day. I don't want to get away, until they can. I'm sure you understand.
My family in Palestine is dying, suffering, every
second of every day. I don't want to get away, until they can. I'm sure
you understand.
nd. I think it is all doomed, but I refuse to live that way, so I choose to fight it anyway, with every breath. That's who I want to be. The internet will accelerate the doom, or, if enough of us make the choice, part of the salvation. It has all gotten so evil, so depressing, the only thing worth living for is to try an fix it.
I think it is all doomed, but I refuse to live that
way, so I choose to fight it anyway, with every breath. That's who I
want to be. The internet will accelerate the doom, or, if enough of us
make the choice, part of the salvation. It has all gotten so evil, so
depressing, the only thing worth living for is to try an fix it.
***** FB friend: "James, Good to see someone so devoted." My reply: "I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been, that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue."
I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness
for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried
other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the
choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been,
that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and
mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global
neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any
consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In
that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue.
2.01.2015
***** Hey, seriously - you know how business sell trips to kill oh, elephants, lions, giraffes... in Africa? Well, GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!!!! SELL TRIPS TO PALESTINE SO US CHRISTIANS CAN SHOOT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN. SERIOUSLY. ASK YOUR CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PALS ABOUT THIS IDEA!!!! (Huge market! There are 50-100 million of these US Christian Zionist Psychopaths! WE CAN MAKE A KILLING!)
***** Hey, seriously - you know how business sell trips to kill oh, elephants, lions, giraffes... in Africa? Well, GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY!!!! SELL TRIPS TO PALESTINE SO US CHRISTIANS CAN SHOOT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN. SERIOUSLY. ASK YOUR CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PALS ABOUT THIS IDEA!!!! (Huge market! There are 50-100 million of these US Christian Zionist Psychopaths! WE CAN MAKE A KILLING!)
nd. Is clearly labeling the 'Truth' as best one can see it 'name calling?' No, it is not. Is speaking Harshly when the Truth is Harsh... inappropriate? No, it is DEMANDED. It is ESSENTIAL. I see this 'truth' more every day. The 'shaving' we do of the 'truth' to be 'kind,' 'non-offensive,' 'politically correct,' 'palatable....' is EXACTLY the shaving that the 'cell' in the body does when it deviates ever so slightly from the 'truth' of what its DNA was telling it to do. That's exactly what makes it cancerous, deadly. We are dying from shaving the truth... for oh such 'nice,' reasonable, reasons.
Is clearly labeling the 'Truth' as best one can see it 'name calling?' No, it is not. Is speaking Harshly when the Truth is Harsh... inappropriate? No, it is DEMANDED. It is ESSENTIAL. I see this 'truth' more every day. The 'shaving' we do of the 'truth' to be 'kind,' 'non-offensive,' 'politically correct,' 'palatable....' is EXACTLY the shaving that the 'cell' in the body does when it deviates ever so slightly from the 'truth' of what its DNA was telling it to do. That's exactly what makes it cancerous, deadly. We are dying from shaving the truth... for oh such 'nice,' reasonable, reasons.
nd. HEY ISIS! DON'T BEHEAD PEOPLE!!!! 1. LIE AND CALL THEM 'TERRORISTS,' 2. EXTERMINATE EACH OF THEM AND AT THE SAME TIME A DOZEN OR SO OF THEIR RELATIVES, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS WITH ARIAL DRONES, F16'S, SATELLITES, 1 TON BOMBS... SNIPERS ... AND YOU'LL BE RIGHTEOUS, 'CHRISTIAN,' HEROES!!!! RIGHT AMERIKKKA????? RIGHT OBAMA????????
HEY ISIS! DON'T BEHEAD PEOPLE!!!! 1. LIE AND CALL THEM 'TERRORISTS,' 2. EXTERMINATE EACH OF THEM AND AT THE SAME TIME A DOZEN OR SO OF THEIR RELATIVES, NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS WITH ARIAL DRONES, F16'S, SATELLITES, 1 TON BOMBS... SNIPERS ... AND YOU'LL BE RIGHTEOUS, 'CHRISTIAN,' HEROES!!!! RIGHT AMERIKKKA????? RIGHT OBAMA????????
1.31.2015
***** MUST READ... "my own long-term reaction to the Holocaust has led me not to focus on anti-Semitism and Jewish security (although neither can be ignored) but on the values and teaching that I see as central to Judaism. Justice, Compassion, Humility, individual and collective Responsibility. These are not new lessons but very old ones. As a Jew, I choose to apply these to our relationship with the Palestinian people because this is the issue on which we must judge ourselves. In the 21st century this is ‘the Jewish question’... While a growing number of Jews both in Israel and around the world share this perspective, it is still a minority opinion. When it comes to the Palestinian people, the Holocaust has hardened our hearts and closed our minds. The scale of our own suffering has made us blind to their suffering – which we see as all of their own making....Perhaps this was inevitable. Why should a people abused and broken become saints? The opposite result is more often the outcome. I am asking for too much. Expecting something that no group is capable of. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/auschwitz-revisited#sthash.d1NkFQKE.dpuf
"my
own long-term reaction to the Holocaust has led me not to focus on
anti-Semitism and Jewish security (although neither can be ignored) but
on the values and teaching that I see as central to Judaism. Justice,
Compassion, Humility, individual and collective Responsibility. These
are not new lessons but very old ones. As a Jew, I choose to apply these
to our relationship with the Palestinian people because this is the
issue on which we must judge ourselves. In the 21st century this is ‘the
Jewish question’... While a growing number of Jews both in Israel and around the world share this perspective, it is still a minority opinion.
When it comes to the Palestinian people, the Holocaust has hardened our hearts and closed our minds. The scale of our own suffering has made us blind to their suffering – which we see as all of their own making.
...
Perhaps
this was inevitable. Why should a people abused and broken become
saints? The opposite result is more often the outcome. I am asking for
too much. Expecting something that no group is capable of. - See more
at:
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/auschwitz-revisited#sthash.d1NkFQKE.dpuf
- See more at:
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/01/auschwitz-revisited#sthash.d1NkFQKE.dpuf
1.30.2015
STOP. WATCH: Dolphin Asks Diver for Help Removing a Fishing Hook Read more at http://blog.therainforestsite.com/dolphin-hook-rescue/#psRuigYJxtPyFMJm.99
WATCH: Dolphin Asks Diver for Help Removing a Fishing Hook
Read more at http://blog.therainforestsite.com/dolphin-hook-rescue/#psRuigYJxtPyFMJm.99
Read more at http://blog.therainforestsite.com/dolphin-hook-rescue/#psRuigYJxtPyFMJm.99
***** On Religion.... When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving... Religion is NEVER the Truth, Reality. And... It is virtually impossible for a human to exist without a 'religion' - world view, understanding of how things work, belief system. "Fundamentalism" is the genocidal problem. (click for detail)
(the following is far from neatly written and thought out but it is an explosive advance, for me, this afternoon, in terms of my understanding of these issues)
When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving
Religion is often on my mind because it is central to the single greatest evil on earth today - the slow torture genocide of my Muslim / Christian family in Palestine by Fundamentalist US christians and Israeli jews. This is forcing me into study of Islam, Judaism, fundamentalism (christian and jewish)... that otherwise I would not undertake:
Fundamentalism
is clinical delusion, insanity, mental illness. It is divorce from
reality, truth... that we can never know Reality, Truth.
Fundamentalism of the left, the liberals, academic elites... is destroying all life on earth materially and destroying much human goodness by ignoring the moral limits and boundaries the human needs for Health and Survival.
Fundamentalism on the right, the conservatives... is destroying life regionally - christian Fundamentalists exterminating a million in Iraq, torturing millions in Palestine, literally trying to bring about Armageddon. muslim fundamentalists are killing thousands in Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria.... jewish fundamentalists are driving much of the US christian Fundamentalist insanity and mid-east Islamic Fundamentalist insanity. Fundamentalists on the right are thereby moving us to global annihilation by nuclear war.
When Religion moves from 'as if' it were True, to 'IT IS THE TRUTH' it moves from Life Giving to Death Giving
Religion is often on my mind because it is central to the single greatest evil on earth today - the slow torture genocide of my Muslim / Christian family in Palestine by Fundamentalist US christians and Israeli jews. This is forcing me into study of Islam, Judaism, fundamentalism (christian and jewish)... that otherwise I would not undertake:
Human Religion is NEVER the Truth, Reality because we Humans are in imperfect species.
And... It
is virtually impossible for a human to exist without a 'Religion' -
world view, understanding of how things work, belief system.
And it is Impossible to Thrive Spiritually and Physically without a comprehensive, healthy, Holistic, Truth-Approximating Religion that enables one to keep all aspects of their needs as humans optimally met, and those of the people they influence, most importantly young-ones. (Adamant 'Blindness' to this is maybe the most fatal flaw of the Left.)
And it is Impossible to Thrive Spiritually and Physically without a comprehensive, healthy, Holistic, Truth-Approximating Religion that enables one to keep all aspects of their needs as humans optimally met, and those of the people they influence, most importantly young-ones. (Adamant 'Blindness' to this is maybe the most fatal flaw of the Left.)
One
of the greatest scientific minds, EO Wilson, is in the news recent days
for his stance in an upcoming book that the world is dying from
religion. I often have this thought. But seeing this from him makes me
recall that no one does not have a 'religion,' a 'belief system,' a way
of 'seeing and understanding' the world.
What
may well destroy the world, and what DOES destroy any individual
'spiritually' (the only existence that matters) is not Religion, which is Indispensable and Unavoidable, but Fundamentalism, that
is, when one moves from understanding that their way of seeing the world
is NOT REALITY, NOT TRUE... that the world, the Creator, is REAL, TRUE,
and that our religion at best can only approximate that Truth,
Reality... to the error of 'believing' their Religion to be True, Realty, and therefore 1. The Only True religion (all others being inferior) and 2. Dead, Fixed, no longer moving closer to the Truth, Reality... and probably 'Killing' anyone and anything that IS moving toward them. Making this mistake is the False Idol that Jesus spoke of, and
the 'Tribal' religions that cause so many genocidal wars. Making this
mistake is when 'religion' becomes 'dry as dust,' or, 'a social club with a thin veneer of reality,' whether this fatal mistake is made by a
christian, jew, scientist or atheist, liberal or conservative.
The
US left, Liberals, are mostly Fundamentalists. They believe they know
the Truth - education, science, equality, rationality... whatever.
The
US right conservatives are mostly Fundamentalists - 'christian' (they
couldn't be more anti-Christlike), terrified of change, 'religiously'
selfish in principal... whatever.
The one in a million Great Humans are so exactly because they never make the Deadly Error of becoming Fundamentalist in their Belief.
The one in a million Great Humans are so exactly because they never make the Deadly Error of becoming Fundamentalist in their Belief.
All
Fundamentalist make themselves less than human, sub-human, truly
'Dead,' Dead to moving closer to Reality, Truth... they surrender their
'Image' as children of the Creator by taking on their Fundamentalists
beliefs as Truth, Reality, rather than Facing, Embracing that their
Religion is at best a means of best living even though we can never know
Truth, Reality being the imperfect beings that we are... and that their Religion can, and needs to, constantly improve, move more toward the Truth, Reality.
Fundamentalism of the left, the liberals, academic elites... is destroying all life on earth materially and destroying much human goodness by ignoring the moral limits and boundaries the human needs for Health and Survival.
Fundamentalism on the right, the conservatives... is destroying life regionally - christian Fundamentalists exterminating a million in Iraq, torturing millions in Palestine, literally trying to bring about Armageddon. muslim fundamentalists are killing thousands in Nigeria, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria.... jewish fundamentalists are driving much of the US christian Fundamentalist insanity and mid-east Islamic Fundamentalist insanity. Fundamentalists on the right are thereby moving us to global annihilation by nuclear war.
1.29.2015
vid. John McCain to Code Pink: "Get out of here you low-life scum." ..... Is "Code Pink" low-life scum? I mean, have they paid some price to morally justify their regular public assaults on world figures? Or do they just take cheap, 'low life' shots paying little or no personal price to do so? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/29/mccain-get-out-of-here-you-low-life-scum/
Is "Code Pink" low-life scum? I mean, have they paid some price to morally justify their regular public assaults on world figures? Or do they just take cheap, 'low life' shots paying little or no personal price to do so? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/01/29/mccain-get-out-of-here-you-low-life-scum/
1.28.2015
1.27.2015
Nd. Rabbi Kook, the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism (who is featured in our book), said “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle. ...... Rabbi Kook’s entire teaching was based upon the Lurianic Cabbala, the school of Jewish mysticism that dominated Judaism from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. One of the basic tenants of the Lurianic Cabbala is the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body. According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely for the sake of Jews; the existence of non-Jews was subsidiary. If an influential Christian bishop or Islamic scholar argued that the difference between the superior souls of non-Jews and the inferior souls of Jews was greater than the difference between the human soul and the souls of cattle, he would incur the wrath of and be viewed as an anti-Semite by most Jewish scholars regardless of whatever less meaningful, positive statements he included ” , Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
Rabbi Kook, the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism (who is featured in our book), said “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews – all of them in all different levels – is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle. ...... Rabbi Kook’s entire teaching was based upon the Lurianic Cabbala, the school of Jewish mysticism that dominated Judaism from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. One of the basic tenants of the Lurianic Cabbala is the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body. According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely for the sake of Jews; the existence of non-Jews was subsidiary. If an influential Christian bishop or Islamic scholar argued that the difference between the superior souls of non-Jews and the inferior souls of Jews was greater than the difference between the human soul and the souls of cattle, he would incur the wrath of and be viewed as an anti-Semite by most Jewish scholars regardless of whatever less meaningful, positive statements he included ” , Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
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the Archbishop of Wales has criticized "atheistic fundamentalism" broadly[26][27][28] and said "Any kind of fundamentalism, be it Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous".[29] He also said, "the new fundamentalism of our age ... leads to the language of expulsion and exclusivity, of extremism and polarisation, and the claim that, because God is on our side, he is not on yours."
Nd. , Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
, Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
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Nd. " Virtually identified with Arab terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism is anathema throughout the non-Muslim world. Virtually identified with ignorance, superstition, intolerance and racism, Christian fundamentalism is anathema to the cultural and intellectual elite in the United States. The recent significant increase in its number of adherents, combined with its widening political influence, nevertheless, make Christian fundamentalism a real threat to democracy in the United States. Although possessing nearly all the important social scientific properties of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism is practically unknown outside of Israel and certain sections of a few other places. When its existence is acknowledged, its significance is minimized or limited to arcane religious practices and quaint middle European dress, most often by those same non-Israeli elite commentators who see so uncompromisingly the evils inherent in Jewish fundamentalism’s Islamic and/or Christian cousins" , Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
" Virtually identified with Arab terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism is anathema throughout the non-Muslim world. Virtually identified with ignorance, superstition, intolerance and racism, Christian fundamentalism is anathema to the cultural and intellectual elite in the United States. The recent significant increase in its number of adherents, combined with its widening political influence, nevertheless, make Christian fundamentalism a real threat to democracy in the United States. Although possessing nearly all the important social scientific properties of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism is practically unknown outside of Israel and certain sections of a few other places. When its existence is acknowledged, its significance is minimized or limited to arcane religious practices and quaint middle European dress, most often by those same non-Israeli elite commentators who see so uncompromisingly the evils inherent in Jewish fundamentalism’s Islamic and/or Christian cousins" , Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
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'American Sniper' - Evidence of the Swamp of Moral Depravity in Which America Is Sinking.... "The peddling of such myths is the very currency of Hollywood. Over many decades the US movie industry has proved itself one of the most potent weapons in the armoury of US imperialism, helping to project a myth of an America defined by lofty attributes of courage, freedom, and democracy"
'American Sniper' - Evidence of the Swamp of Moral Depravity in Which America Is Sinking.... "The peddling of such myths is the very currency of Hollywood. Over many decades the US movie industry has proved itself one of the most potent weapons in the armoury of US imperialism, helping to project a myth of an America defined by lofty attributes of courage, freedom, and democracy"
Nd. Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid was probably correct when in a December 19, 2003 statement he described the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza as “barbaric” and accused them of having de facto control in Israel and of wanting to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank and Jordan, Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid was probably correct when in a December 19, 2003 statement he described the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza as “barbaric” and accused them of having de facto control in Israel and of wanting to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank and Jordan, Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel.
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Israel Shahak, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel: Fundamentalist members of the Knesset, for example, concerned about the increase of homosexuality compared homosexuals and lesbians to animals and vowed that “when in power” they would order compulsory psychiatric treatment for homosexuals and lesbians
Fundamentalist members of the Knesset, for example, concerned about the increase of homosexuality compared homosexuals and lesbians to animals and vowed that “when in power” they would order compulsory psychiatric treatment for homosexuals and lesbians
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Nd. "many Israeli Jews are chauvinists who feel pride in the display of Jewish power and considered it to be compensation for centuries of Jewish humiliation." from Jewish fundamentalism by Israel Shahak
"many Israeli Jews are chauvinists who feel pride in the display of Jewish power and considered it to be compensation for centuries of Jewish humiliation." from Jewish fundamentalism by Israel Shahak
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1.26.2015
Having read the first 1/5 of the Qur'an I find it no more primitive, quaint, ignorant, dangerous, ignorant, harmful, 'terrorizing'... (detail)
Having read the first 1/5 of the Qur'an I find it no more primitive, quaint, ignorant, dangerous, ignorant, harmful, 'terrorizing'... than the Old Testament and New Testament... except for the Humane, Advanced, Sane Moral Teachings of Jesus in Mark, Luke and Matthew (not the nonsense in John) which is somewhat carried forward in the Qur'an as well. Both are books by fairly good, well-intended people trying, within the limits of the knowledge and science of their time, to increase the peace and well-being of humankind. Jesus, the man, alone, according to the best scholars I can find, focused on morality, Universal Family, and effectively rejected all the mythology, mysticism, magic of the sort found in the OT and repeated in the Qur'an. I find the Qur'an less deadly in word and historical consequence than the christian bibloe because although like the NT bible Jesus is revered, in the NT it is largely for what was made up about him, 'son of god,' which was NOT carried forward in the Qur'an.
President Obama gave the traditional mainstream media carte blanche for six years. They failed to report truthfully, accurately, and in an unbiased manner. The president decided to remove a level of indirection to get his message out. No longer will the traditional mainstream media get first dibs. These vloggers and bloggers will no longer be solely dependent on the traditional media's colored interpretation.
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