You did a great job with this one, felt very genuine and cogent, thanks for sharing. I’m def in the camp of wanting to align with all the Jews, African Americans, Mexicans, Chinese and all the rest who agree on the core issues 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
Was already a big fan, but thought this was great. Hit the nail on the head. The bit on Joseph was news to me but shouldn't have been. Dylan, Mamet, Yarvin, flippin heck 90% of the people I've ever thought were interesting or colleagues I got on with best were Jewish. Also, the only guy that’s ever straight up sprung to help me professionally is Jewish. So you have to hold two things in your head at once when you are ticking off the names of people that are actively trying to destroy America and Europe. A dichotomy exemplified by Portnoy going after a Bernstein the other day… Regarding the “letting them back in to the country” give Pawns in the Game a spin on audiobook, it’s pound for pound terrific (5 stars), absolute historical game changer early America, Marie Antoinette, everything while always maintaining that while you can set your watch by it this is a tiny number of people within an ethnic group along with others that are ruining everything for their tribe and everybody else.
I just began listening but have to comment before I lose my thought. I am stunned that you have an issue with speaking off the cuff —if I understand your comments correctly & you meant to say that. I’ve mentioned before that I can listen to you say absolutely anything & keep rapt attention. Maybe it’s just that I like your style, but think others would feel the same.
Also, not knowing what you’re about to say about the history guy on Tucker, I am thrilled you’re discussing this.
Politics and the bad Jew: the High Priest Caiphas.
John 11:45-54
Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done. The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.
There are good Jews, like Jesus of the NT and not so good Jews like bad landlords and some corporate lawyers. Education being their strongest value, unless they degenerated and skipped out, yes those rose high up in non Catholic countries but somewhat in Catholic Austria and Protestant Germany. Jews were persecuted in countries where the Church had become corrupted by being strapped into the state, where the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox were the furthest removed in their doctrines from the Biblical Jesus. Yet ironically the Italian people did not hate the Jews because they did not take their church very seriously. The pomp of The Vatican does not reflect the values of a lot of Italian people. They grew up next door and weren't going to let pompous Rome tell them what to do.
America is not a church state or even Christian. It was the first nation to protect the rights of the people to practice their religion and to not let any one faith dictate what could be taught in schools. So Jews were protected here and rose to power being good with law and finance. So yes we have Jewish intellectuals like my European parents and univ profs and we have bad Jewsish landlords. The U.S. Constitution give the the right to be themselves protected under law and to be shitty people without being persecuted for being Jews.
Being from intellectual people and artists, I am more comfortable with similar people but being Christian I cannot resonate with the absence of Christ with them or within gentiles for that matter.
The 12 disciples minus the betrayer, walked to India and to China. They set up fellowship at Antioch, Jerusalem and Rome. By the time Constantine embraced the faith, the more sincere believers had to go underground. The Roman Church would have popes who committed murder and adultery - no connection on any spiritual level to the One under whose banner they had their positions.
Joseph's family didn't just abandon him. He was his father's favorite son, one of 12 sons and his jealous brothers somehow tricked him, selling him into slavery in Egypt. All the mystical symbols in the O.T. have meanings attributed to them in the N.T., by way of allusion, allegory, symbolism.
This story has what I think are called archetypes for the N.T..
Three of my 4 grandparents were Jews who had to flee Austria during the Nazi years. My parents were about 18 when they got out. The horrors of the Holocaust became no less horrifying to me when I became a Christian, after getting into the 12-Step programs/lifestyle.
Hitler hated communists and Jews. The Bolshevik Rev had taken place. Hitler was a maniac. Look at Weimar, at what the Germans went through, but you also have to look closely at the wars of the 19th c. Yes, God was dead and we killed Him.
I have about 3 living relatives in the U.S. but many relatives I will never meet or get to know are Israelis, born in Israel. The cousin I did find and begin to communicate with after October 7th grew up in a fierce Zionist family but who could blame them after the pogroms of Russia and Poland. But this cousin moved far Left. She says she knew things would "come to this" because of the govt. But can Israel survive with neighbors who have wanted and will always want to annihilate the Jewish state? It is a conundrum of Biblical proportions because not only did the pogroms and virulent Jew hatred and scape goating by Catholic Poles and Orthodox Russians make the Brits look like peace loving hippies in comparison, the tiny modern state is where the ancient Jews lived and have lived since Biblical times. What happened when the British screwed everyone over is the amazing story of the 20th c that we don't hear about in school growing up. It is amazing how in the dark educated people are.
I guess all this is the reason I became a history hound. History explains everything that's not of a metaphysical nature, when it is well researched and well written, by good historians, in my not so humble opinion. It sweeps away the rhetoric and the blame games, the shame games. Truth telling is there if the research stands the test of time and the tests of what historians call the Academy.
Recently I asked an unknown person on Ancestry dot com how he knew my grandmother. He was a stranger who shared a common ancestor with me and who was heavily into the Ancestry tree building. He told me that my tree branches extended back to the 1500's with prestigious rabbinical leadership. That was a mindblow to me as a Christian but made sense as I do happen to love Scripture and have ever since I heard the Our Father in 12 Step rooms in my college years of nervous breakdowns. Apparently the luckily most educated Jews were married to Jews from other educated families in order to breed educated Jews the same way people breed race horses. Presumably my ancestors went back earlier than the 1500's but the records start with the development of the printing press.
I felt a strange sense of pride and identity which I allow myself. . It's okay. It's just sometimes a freakout to realize that Jesus was a real guy and that 2000 years isn't an inconceivable amount of time when one has lived into old age as I have.
As I try to read The Book of Common Prayer readings every morning, which include Psalms and OT readings, as I grow old and rely more on these words than the words of Christian preachers, I am astounded by the beauty and magesty in the Old Testament, with the sense of right and wrong, of a higher love, that Judaism or the Hebrew people brought forth into man's evolution.
I don't know if the autocratic God and the Love Story that is told by Christian doctrine as being the justification or explanation of the cruelty shown by Yahweh toward other peoples can be understood literally as the Church takes it, or, if it was developed by the ancient Hebrews as simply their evolving story of coming to believe in One God, unlike their crazy neighbors. Think of the Haitians who DO strangle and eat cats and dogs and how their country is probably the most pathetic shit hole country of all shit hole countries - the just desserts for their abominable demonic voodoo. For contrast, you know.
I say stick to histories from the Academy, including conflicting histories. The stories always evolve.
There's a great documentary available online about the history of Palestine and Zionism starting in the mid or late 1800's. When I find it again, I'll post it here.
You did a great job with this one, felt very genuine and cogent, thanks for sharing. I’m def in the camp of wanting to align with all the Jews, African Americans, Mexicans, Chinese and all the rest who agree on the core issues 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿
Was already a big fan, but thought this was great. Hit the nail on the head. The bit on Joseph was news to me but shouldn't have been. Dylan, Mamet, Yarvin, flippin heck 90% of the people I've ever thought were interesting or colleagues I got on with best were Jewish. Also, the only guy that’s ever straight up sprung to help me professionally is Jewish. So you have to hold two things in your head at once when you are ticking off the names of people that are actively trying to destroy America and Europe. A dichotomy exemplified by Portnoy going after a Bernstein the other day… Regarding the “letting them back in to the country” give Pawns in the Game a spin on audiobook, it’s pound for pound terrific (5 stars), absolute historical game changer early America, Marie Antoinette, everything while always maintaining that while you can set your watch by it this is a tiny number of people within an ethnic group along with others that are ruining everything for their tribe and everybody else.
I just began listening but have to comment before I lose my thought. I am stunned that you have an issue with speaking off the cuff —if I understand your comments correctly & you meant to say that. I’ve mentioned before that I can listen to you say absolutely anything & keep rapt attention. Maybe it’s just that I like your style, but think others would feel the same.
Also, not knowing what you’re about to say about the history guy on Tucker, I am thrilled you’re discussing this.
Politics and the bad Jew: the High Priest Caiphas.
John 11:45-54
Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done. The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.
There are good Jews, like Jesus of the NT and not so good Jews like bad landlords and some corporate lawyers. Education being their strongest value, unless they degenerated and skipped out, yes those rose high up in non Catholic countries but somewhat in Catholic Austria and Protestant Germany. Jews were persecuted in countries where the Church had become corrupted by being strapped into the state, where the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodox were the furthest removed in their doctrines from the Biblical Jesus. Yet ironically the Italian people did not hate the Jews because they did not take their church very seriously. The pomp of The Vatican does not reflect the values of a lot of Italian people. They grew up next door and weren't going to let pompous Rome tell them what to do.
America is not a church state or even Christian. It was the first nation to protect the rights of the people to practice their religion and to not let any one faith dictate what could be taught in schools. So Jews were protected here and rose to power being good with law and finance. So yes we have Jewish intellectuals like my European parents and univ profs and we have bad Jewsish landlords. The U.S. Constitution give the the right to be themselves protected under law and to be shitty people without being persecuted for being Jews.
Being from intellectual people and artists, I am more comfortable with similar people but being Christian I cannot resonate with the absence of Christ with them or within gentiles for that matter.
The 12 disciples minus the betrayer, walked to India and to China. They set up fellowship at Antioch, Jerusalem and Rome. By the time Constantine embraced the faith, the more sincere believers had to go underground. The Roman Church would have popes who committed murder and adultery - no connection on any spiritual level to the One under whose banner they had their positions.
https://youtu.be/ZXfuqUhzESg?si=xE6xVSXtzVFunAF2
Joseph's family didn't just abandon him. He was his father's favorite son, one of 12 sons and his jealous brothers somehow tricked him, selling him into slavery in Egypt. All the mystical symbols in the O.T. have meanings attributed to them in the N.T., by way of allusion, allegory, symbolism.
This story has what I think are called archetypes for the N.T..
Three of my 4 grandparents were Jews who had to flee Austria during the Nazi years. My parents were about 18 when they got out. The horrors of the Holocaust became no less horrifying to me when I became a Christian, after getting into the 12-Step programs/lifestyle.
Hitler hated communists and Jews. The Bolshevik Rev had taken place. Hitler was a maniac. Look at Weimar, at what the Germans went through, but you also have to look closely at the wars of the 19th c. Yes, God was dead and we killed Him.
I have about 3 living relatives in the U.S. but many relatives I will never meet or get to know are Israelis, born in Israel. The cousin I did find and begin to communicate with after October 7th grew up in a fierce Zionist family but who could blame them after the pogroms of Russia and Poland. But this cousin moved far Left. She says she knew things would "come to this" because of the govt. But can Israel survive with neighbors who have wanted and will always want to annihilate the Jewish state? It is a conundrum of Biblical proportions because not only did the pogroms and virulent Jew hatred and scape goating by Catholic Poles and Orthodox Russians make the Brits look like peace loving hippies in comparison, the tiny modern state is where the ancient Jews lived and have lived since Biblical times. What happened when the British screwed everyone over is the amazing story of the 20th c that we don't hear about in school growing up. It is amazing how in the dark educated people are.
I guess all this is the reason I became a history hound. History explains everything that's not of a metaphysical nature, when it is well researched and well written, by good historians, in my not so humble opinion. It sweeps away the rhetoric and the blame games, the shame games. Truth telling is there if the research stands the test of time and the tests of what historians call the Academy.
Recently I asked an unknown person on Ancestry dot com how he knew my grandmother. He was a stranger who shared a common ancestor with me and who was heavily into the Ancestry tree building. He told me that my tree branches extended back to the 1500's with prestigious rabbinical leadership. That was a mindblow to me as a Christian but made sense as I do happen to love Scripture and have ever since I heard the Our Father in 12 Step rooms in my college years of nervous breakdowns. Apparently the luckily most educated Jews were married to Jews from other educated families in order to breed educated Jews the same way people breed race horses. Presumably my ancestors went back earlier than the 1500's but the records start with the development of the printing press.
I felt a strange sense of pride and identity which I allow myself. . It's okay. It's just sometimes a freakout to realize that Jesus was a real guy and that 2000 years isn't an inconceivable amount of time when one has lived into old age as I have.
As I try to read The Book of Common Prayer readings every morning, which include Psalms and OT readings, as I grow old and rely more on these words than the words of Christian preachers, I am astounded by the beauty and magesty in the Old Testament, with the sense of right and wrong, of a higher love, that Judaism or the Hebrew people brought forth into man's evolution.
I don't know if the autocratic God and the Love Story that is told by Christian doctrine as being the justification or explanation of the cruelty shown by Yahweh toward other peoples can be understood literally as the Church takes it, or, if it was developed by the ancient Hebrews as simply their evolving story of coming to believe in One God, unlike their crazy neighbors. Think of the Haitians who DO strangle and eat cats and dogs and how their country is probably the most pathetic shit hole country of all shit hole countries - the just desserts for their abominable demonic voodoo. For contrast, you know.
I say stick to histories from the Academy, including conflicting histories. The stories always evolve.
There's a great documentary available online about the history of Palestine and Zionism starting in the mid or late 1800's. When I find it again, I'll post it here.