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I think now you are getting bogged down in making a fluid understanding of Torah-law interpretation into something Ideal and archetypical. Don't read ...

Right, and that is my whole point countering the general way you are interpreting Jesus. You are taking traditional (Christian) Gospel portrayals as g...

Exactly

This to me seems a big glaring missing part of any comprehensive metaphysics, eh? But as long as you can shrug it off with no qualms you can move on f...

And also, do you not think this guy: https://www.nam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-02/LawrenceRobes-Wikicommons_full.jpg was trying to import the ide...

No, many do use "justice", "self-determination", "rights". But it imports the Marxist ideas of the "oppressed". So now, if you are the "oppressed", th...

:up: I think this is an interesting quote: I can't seem to get the rest without paying, but I can see where it's going on. Another quote is also revea...

Actually, I tend to think it is the opposite. They look the other way, or downplay the "liberal values" that are not being followed, as long as that n...

From what I understand, Nietzsche's opinion as Jews as "anti-life-affirmation" is actually just the inverse of Schopenhauer's opinion of Judaism as li...

Interesting. How much do you think anti-Western imperialism was fed by socialists (I would say more Communists and Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist theories...

But surely the "illiberal" part is Western too. You doubt the idea of "self-criticism" as Western, but I believe this demonstrates it. It is Western i...

I didn't mean that. Where did you get that from? Rather, Maher's critique was of the "Left" critiquing Western civilization, downplaying the very valu...

Of course. They also gave us the "nation-state". Indeed, I would argue it is how the ideas of "nation-state" collide with ideas of "liberalism" "conse...

You can find literature for any and every position on Jesus. As I said, I'm willing to accept that all of it is myth. But if Jesus not only referenced...

I've learned on these forums that sometimes there is a previous post that makes the best, and it's just best to refer back to that one, as it still an...

First off, I can go either way as to whether terms matter here or just a tool for making red herrings. But let's say "genocide" is a useful word as it...

Reasonable guy that makes good points from someone who was up close with the group. He represents a badly needed moderate position. Some of the member...

You might be interested in this just posted: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14754/western-civilization/p1

You can measure anything as a standard for what makes an enemy- ideology, religion, power. For much of history it was power. In the West, religion and...

Yet they have (large) increase in population, so it’s a highly unnsuccessful one?

Indeed if this is the “objective” version because you quoted the UN, Hamas seems to be doing all of this and seems to as of recently vow to continue d...

Great question. Terms apparently can be changed to whatever helps your cause. I’m sure you’ll get a BS answer where it has something to do with the “e...

Curious, why is Abbas’ four year term 16 years? Don’t get me wrong, consequentially, this is infinitely better, but your answer will reveal the contra...

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:lol: This is very much an anachronism. Like the rest of the ancient world a large percentage of Judean/Galilean Jews were illiterate. And I am willin...

Both sides will cry foul here, but there are "human shield laws" if one cares about international law, which people seem to use pretty heavily against...

No, read the idea and put the connections and implications together. It contradicts your idea full stop.

:lol: now you’re smoking your own shrooms. Arguably, for good or bad, the idea of “the people of Israel” and connection of a particular people with a ...

Not so, but I can see where you think that. I just saw that post about comparing it to Jim Crow, which indeed does make a racial overtone to the subje...

I watched the first link. I am familiar with Ta-Nehisi Coates. He has a certain POV, as does "Democracy Now" which generally also shares this POV. Whe...

I think these professors/commentators/academics are much more BALANCED in their approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0zeDNly1JY

True true. Good points. It all sucks, huh? I was thinking more this: and also: But that is more official government, not daily life and general attitu...

Do you think that there is an anti-Jewish bias in Europe stemming from pre-Holocaust ideas of Jewry that is not present in newer Western nation like t...

But that has already happened, many times over, including very recently, and technically ongoing. I was/am characterizing what I see. It's not just yo...

No offense, but sound bites like these sound like AI generated “paid actors” that are meant to cause disruptions on various social media platforms. Ki...

That’s because you are taking the Gospels as gospel. Not a good move if you are approaching as critical historian. Depending on your interpretation, J...

:up: Eh c'mon you can do it. You had a line of thought.. Follow it.

Sorry did you have a response?

You may not see what I added:

This seems to parallel my points here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/849629 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/8496...

:up: that is what I was asking. Yes terms can be very indicative of how the debate is framed. For example, “anti-Israel” implies that it should never ...

So basically what I said here: Do you think there is still more anti-Israeli bias (and I’m going to say bias because each side thinks it’s objective a...

Just curious, do you think the inverse is true? As you imply the US has a (insert common trope Israeli lobby), European countries might have an Anti-I...

But I can always say THAT is TRULY a MYTH. I "actually owned" the OLIVE GROVES! The Government TOOK my OLIVE GROVES. It's the Great Devastation! I hav...

My much earlier point up on this page somewhere when talking to Javi, was to question all of it as myth. I tied it to the idea that bigger questions l...

Just curious did you see my response to that? My response to that quote was because it basically was "yadadyadaya.. but AMERICA couldn't know". It jus...

Everyone's posting their favorite (anti-) post here. But it was to elucidate a bigger point of where people pick their "indignation". So I did tie it ...

Liberalism used to mean being for a certain way of life (liberal democracy). Presumably, whatever blemishes America has (and there are many.. from how...

Because it's all about how people get to control other people. Procreation is the "original sin" of ethics. As a parent, you get to control the decisi...

If you truly see yourself as against the "Western" narrative, even this idea of "territory" should be questioned. Did you ever consider that even buyi...