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Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism - Gershom Scholem Culture and Value - Wittgenstein Faith in a Hard Ground - Anscombe

Why was there few if any protests over Biden and Obama's deportation numbers (~5 million each) yet mass protests for Trump (~2 million)?

Some news sources say Pretti was already disarmed when he was shot. The DHS version is that Pretti was shot while they were trying to disarm him. Pers...

I get where you're coming from, but even in the face of threats to a nation's sovereignty, it is often easier to bend the knee and secure one's own sa...

I don't think realism is silly. I love Kissinger's work. Yes, self-preservation is key, but what does that even mean anymore? If we took the populatio...

One of the first (and best) books I read on foreign policy was Kissinger's Diplomacy. As a writer and intellectual, I hold Kissinger and his theory of...

Oh please. FDR and Lincoln, two of our greatest Presidents, went far beyond Trump in terms of suspensions of civil liberties and executive overreach. ...

I'm talking about claims to absolute truth in the context of a community and its political processes. Connected with that would be the question of the...

Exactly — politics is about compromise, so claims to absolute truth throw a wrench into it. Yet it is also true that religion is simply an inextinguis...

It's about more than just politicians. Land. Universities. In any case, our original topic was the role of religion in political discourse, or the use...

Too many examples to name. Yes, there is mimicry and the adoption of what is useful. Sometimes this leads to full-scale assimilation where one group l...

What of immigrant groups that claim to possess absolute truth and consider it their prerogative to spread or impose it on the native population?

He has said that Christianity is America's creed. Ad hom.

It's likely to be Vance's Christian nationalism in 2028 if the Republicans win. Conservatives today are deeply concerned with mass migration and polit...

I'm sure they are. Things were dire in Venezuela. We should all be glad Maduro is gone. Now onto the democratic transition of power — Maduro did not r...

Interesting. I'll have to look into those gospels more to investigate that secret knowledge. Even the wisdom of the canonicals, at least from my persp...

This is obviously a large topic, but as a non-Christian I admire how the gospels teach correct socialization. I still remember teachings like "all who...

We should also remember that the pressure to provide plays a role in Walt's decision. He's got Jr.'s college to pay for. And we should not forget that...

He doesn't start off as a drug lord. He starts as a pathetic man who no one respects and has seemingly never stood up for himself, and is now faced wi...

I'm rewatching BB now, and I really don't see it this way. Walter's crime destroys his family and friends. At the end of the show, he is alone and mis...

Dying unnaturally of natural causes. :chin: Medically, "old age" is never the cause. It's e.g., organ failure, heart disease, etc.

As long as man has free will, there will be evil in one way or another. God could remove our free will, then the problem of evil would be solved. In a...

The end is nigh. :fear:

In theory, I'm ok with this. In the absence of Israel's enemies, there's no real justification for the Israeli right. Do you really think this conflic...

Why is it not possible? Also, notice I said "in theory." Are you, in theory, in favor of the destruction of Hamas? Or those who committed the massacre...

So you're good with Israel targeting Hamas and other terrorist groups who attacked on 10/7? You're ok with Israel destroying Hamas if Hamas refuses to...

Depending on the context, aggression can be either beneficial or detrimental. Sometimes aggression saves (or would have saved) many lives. It doesn't ...

This is not a fistfight between two individuals, but a clash of civilizations. My own fight history has no bearing.

What are you proposing Israel do after 10/7? Is Israel allowed to go after the savages who murdered its civilians in cold blood? Does it have your per...

Japan only killed ~2800 of us at Pearl Harbor, why did we need to mobilize and kill hundreds of thousands? We should have stopped once we had 2800 Jap...

You're the genocide apologist and fascist. Weak doesn't mean good. Going from house to house murdering, raping, and torturing certainly doesn't mean g...

Great idea — the Palestinian political leadership has been openly attempting to genocide Israel since its inception: "from the river to the sea."

I totally get the frustration, though. In any case, it helps to know when pieces are under attack.

Such is losing at chess. Looks like @"praxis" is just a chess god. I don't see grounds for cheating accusations.

What do you say we talk about all the Union's war crimes, and when anyone tries to ask about the Confederacy, we continue obsessing over the Union? We...

My earlier post was referencing WWII. Islamic fundamentalism is more than ISIS. Israel currently fights Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. It also pro...

It's not "the Jews." It's Soros and maybe a handful of others. He's like Magneto.

I mean, he was a devout evangelical Christian, and it's not like he was talking about Soros all the time.

There do seem to be some influential Jews who hate Israel and the West more generally. Soros would be among them. As mentioned, there are wonderful an...

Recently, pro-Palestinian sources, including Francesca Albanese, have reported 700k dead Palestinians, including nearly 400k Palestinian babies under ...

Agree. Judge it as it is. I hate the USSR, but in the context of WWII, they are good imho. It's a peculiar phenomenon that I occasionally ponder — how...

Agree; I was working within the framework I was given.

There are no saints in war. All parties are condemnable.

I am, for several reasons. If Israel were committing genocide against the "Palestinians" why wouldn't it root out and presumably execute its own Israe...

I'm not playing this stupid game about condemnable actions when we're talking about the broad categories of collective good and evil. E.g., The US com...

This will likely be my last post on the issue since it's clear we disagree, and I don't feel like arguing forever. If you do a bit of research, you'll...

How can the Civil War be a war to you? The North didn't recognize the South as an independent country. Tell that to the Israeli Arab muslims who serve...

The Russians raped and murdered their way to Berlin, yet they are the good guys. Israel fights Islamic fundamentalism — today's Nazism. While Israel i...

If a German civilian were to "get in the way" of the Allies killing the Nazis, that civilian becomes a legitimate target. He has chosen a side. Anyway...

So the Civil War wasn't a war? Or the Revolutionary War, for that matter. Hamas is a hardline Islamist group that follows hardline Islamist ideology. ...