Not that I am aware of!!I thought Obama had Allah in his corner ?
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Not that I am aware of!!I thought Obama had Allah in his corner ?
I thought Obama had Allah in his corner ?
You forgot "hopeless".
i thought it meant, "he, who struggles with God'', though the meaning somewhat the same as fights with God...
also, i realize that it was a covenent with the Jews, but weren't they chosen to be the keeper of the Word of God, or keepers of the Torah?
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Impressive huh----I'm surprised he got away with arguing with God without being called anti-something.
I wonder if the Canaanites we busy wondering about that jewish "burden" while being massacred for their land...
God would have been disappointed if the human He chose to pick an argument with caved in immediately. If God had wanted an easy target He would have waited a while. Then He could have picked on the nearest Republican
One of the most interesting things that I've noticed is the Jewish cultural imperative towards education and professionalism. I was amazed when I met my two very young Jewish nephews - they wanted to be a lawyer and a doctor. One's now working in finance in Manhatten and the other is graduating John Hopkins very soon (Plastic surgeon).
When I was young I was raised in an (Irish) tradition of hard work and service. I didn't know what a lawyer was, and if there was some incentive to becoming a doctor it was to be a saintly person that cured people, not for the wealth. Wealth doesn't matter to most Irish guys until we're old enough to understand women
Beyond the religious imperative to give to charity, I don't find any tendancy among the Jewish people that I've know to have any sense of service or respect for hard work (craftsmanship or labor). They're attitude towards labor is so arrogant. Though I have to admit, I'd turn to a Jewish professional for any services before I'd patronize anyone else.
Maybe they're so focused on being a great provider for their families that they don't realize that their seeming obsession with wealth, without any other consideration for other values, combined with the idea of them considering themselves to be the "Chosen People", makes a very poor impression on a lot of other people.
The massacre of the Caananites is my least favorite part of the Torah. I hate that we took the land of Israel in such a repulsive way.
You liked it being donated to them by Great Britian/UN better ?
That is a cheap shot! And funny, too.
That decision was predicated on ancestral right facilitated by the genocide of the ancient Caananites. Israel is wonderful. I know because I spent a summer there. But I think it is unconscionable for us to parade like we are some great moral authorities when it is so abhorrent the way we took over Israel in the first place.
To answer your question, yes. I am a Jew, and I want that land. We do have more right to it than the Muslims, and we actually treat the land better than they did. However, our right to the land is tainted.
Don't feel too bad about it, it's how things are. I mean look at Britain (Roman Britain). The Romans marched in there and took over after giving the poor old ancient Britons a right biffing. Then they Romanised it. No, I'm not going to link to Monty Python's "Life of Brian" segment with the, "What have the Romans ever done for us?" because they basically took a small island that was heavily forested and populated by folks who were, shall we say, challenged as far as civilisation goes, and made it civilised. Good roads, nice towns, baths, reticulated hot and cold water, nice warm floors for those nasty British winters and the like. And then when Rome was under threat from the barbarian hordes the Romans shot through and left a "Vacant" sign on the door so that the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes (never forget the Jutes) moved in and basically slummed the neighbourhood.
But that's what human history is about. Takeovers.
Don't feel too bad about it, it's how things are. I mean look at Britain (Roman Britain). The Romans marched in there and took over after giving the poor old ancient Britons a right biffing. Then they Romanised it. No, I'm not going to link to Monty Python's "Life of Brian" segment with the, "What have the Romans ever done for us?" because they basically took a small island that was heavily forested and populated by folks who were, shall we say, challenged as far as civilisation goes, and made it civilised. Good roads, nice towns, baths, reticulated hot and cold water, nice warm floors for those nasty British winters and the like. And then when Rome was under threat from the barbarian hordes the Romans shot through and left a "Vacant" sign on the door so that the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes (never forget the Jutes) moved in and basically slummed the neighbourhood.
But that's what human history is about. Takeovers.
Having once owned a carpet cleaning company in Boston, one which serviced Boston's largest slumlords -- those three guys who owned the largest and most notorious collections of student slums in Boston -- I sort of came to the conclusion that the covenent meant that the Jews must be the keepers of the the real estate located at Mediteranian and Baltic Avenues.
Nice guys, they were, but seriously bad landlords.