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“Evil destroys even itself.” – Aristotle
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"The human obsession with purpose is merely a distraction from the absurdity of existence." — Nikolai Gogol
John Lennon:
"Working class people across the world have no natural desire to go to war with each other.
"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." --attr. to Voltaire
“Not everything that
is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until
it is faced.” — James Baldwin
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
~Carl Sagan
"... "We were born here, where the masses idolize idiots and turn them into rich heroes."
~ Charles Bukowski
Caitlin Johnstone
caitoz
Of COURSE the Bible commands us to support the modern state of Israel! It's right here in the good book, hang on.
Aha! Exodus 20:13, "You shall not murder."
Wait, hold on, that's not it. Here it is, Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers."
Hang on, shoot, that's not the one. What I meant to say is Lamentations 2:19, "Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street."
Ah, wrong one, lemme thumb through this a bit more. Got it! Proverbs 24:11, "Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter."
Wait, sorry, no, it's Psalm 101:7, "No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes."
Oh no actually it's Proverbs 6:16-19, "There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers."
Oops, no, it's definitely not that one. Actually it's Deuteronomy 27:25, "Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood."
No, dang it, that makes AIPAC recipients sound bad. Gimme a minute. Ah! Mark 12:31, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
No, wait, got it! Here it is, Romans 14:19, "Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification."
Oh no, that isn't the one I was looking for, it was Second Corinthians 13:11, "Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you."
Oh actually that one sounds kind of antisemitic in this context, gimme a sec.
Got it! Ephesians 4:3, "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace."
Hold on, that's not it either. The one I meant to cite was Hebrews 12:14, "Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord."
Oh boy, this really isn't going well. Lemme see... oh! James 3:18, "Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness."
Gosh darn it, I made a mistake. The verse I meant to point to was First Peter 3:11, "They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it."
Wait, no, it was Galatians 5:22, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
Actually it was Luke 6:35-36, "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
Oops, no, nope. Man this is way harder than I thought it was going to be. Oh! Hey! Found it! It was right here in Genesis the whole time, chapter 12, verse 3: "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
There! See? It's right there in black and white. God's saying we are commanded to support a modern state that we created in 1948, no matter what it does. The Bible is entirely clear and unequivocal about this, and says absolutely nothing to the contrary.
@edgarblythe,
According to scripture the land of Israel was promised to the Hebrew people on condition they kept the faith.
They didn't, long before they arrived at the walls of Jericho they had worshipped the golden calf and broken their covenant with God.
On that most theological scholars concur.
The second Surah in the Koran, known as the calf, says that when the covenant was broken the Hebrews stopped being the sole chosen people, and instead anyone who submitted to the will of Allah was chosen.
That would put the Palestinians and Israelis on equal footing.
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.” Martin Luther King Jr
"The time has come... when we must recognize that our mutual devotion to our own land must never blind us to the good of all lands and of all peoples. In the end... we are 'One World' and that which injures any one of us, injures all of us. Only by remembering this will we finally have a chance to build a lasting peace." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so ******* loud you can’t think."
- Charles Bukowski
This is brutal. The final scene of a narcissist is always a descent into madness.
--Heather Cox Richardson
"Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced." — Bertrand Russell
The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty or fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did.
Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There’s deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgement he’ll kill us all. It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? Anything. He could do it. Dump us all.
I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For every Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.
But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn’t a real man in the whole shitload. I always got to work sick but safe. Which demonstrates why Schumann was more relative than Shostakovich…
~ Charles Bukowski
