Oddbean

And the Bible endorses slavery. What’s your point. All religious texts from thousands of years ago have vile shit. But this is obviously a text that’s historically used to justify anti semitism. And to post such things in a time where anti semetic violence is on a global uptick, is irresponsible and dangerous. Especially when you imply that the “elites” are following the Talmud, ie that their Jews, which is the definition of Nazi shit.

The more people say words are "irresponsible and dangerous," the more I believe those are part of a script. Like telling me something is "safe and effective." These are just things you repeat until they're true, not a reflection of what is actually going on.

It's in one group's best interest for Nazi to be a slur you can throw around with the weight of 6 million deaths behind it. Unfortunately Socialist is a much lesser insult despite having 60 million deaths burdening it. From the 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia: https://image.nostr.build/789e5672b845077d0229845c78615214c0e8dc31c4762c0202a785604013eb8a.jpg

i was referring to you. you’ve accomplished nothing here. you drove @[ARCHIVED] Jay deeper into erroneous beliefs that probably weren’t even solidified yet, and have associated your standpoint with venomous belittling rhetoric. Thus tilting the immature toward Jays direction. Did you come here to disempower irrational antisemitism, or strengthen it? Try this… “ @[ARCHIVED] Jay , are you aware that the majority of Israelis are secular, and non religious? Implying that Israeli leadership, let alone global political leadership (if you can call it that) are engaged in pedophilic behavior because one sect of Judaism has some creepy beliefs rooted in the ancient practices of the creepy nation they we’re held captive by, is a pretty big stretch intellectually. I just read some very creepy accounts of things which happened in the American southwest in the 1200s. Im fairly certain they weren’t reading the Babylonian influenced talmud. The harder thing to face is that humans, every human, is capable of terrible things. And good things. Getting on the “blame a single people group” train is a way to hide from reality.

Ive been studying history fairly intently over the last 5 years (in spurts, because it gets heavy). Starting with Sumer, through Akkadians, the Babylonian empire, which fell to the Persains, which fell to the Greeks, which fell to the Romans, which fell, but then re-emerged in a sort of hidden conglomeration of shifting European powers (where we are now). Add in the Olmec, to Mayan, to Aztec history, and what you start to see is a continual divergence of peaceful people, and an evil that always winds up in the same place… screwing kids, slavery, engaging in forms of human sacrifice, and then collapsing. It transcends all cultures, empires, religious leanings, and “sides”. Its the darkness we want to be free from.

It's really interesting to look at the history of civilizations side-by-side and compare their rises and falls. People in every age are faced with the same nature and the same questions. I'm trying to get through Toynbee's work about that. Coming up with practices that exploit the young, the old, the weak, and the poor is not difficult. But it takes a certain kind of person to push those practices to the extreme and systemitize them, which is what I'm reading about in a book I just discovered called Political Ponerology, which is a psychological study of political evil. There's so much to think about 🤔

Maybe I was aggro because I just got off a long argument with two openly nazis just recently. Responding to a post about elites being pedophiles with quote from the Talmud usually signifies that someone is quite far down the pipeline. 🤷‍♂️ but perhaps I assumed wrong