When it comes to theology-based beliefs, most people don’t think that their joining a cult or have been raised in a cult, they think that they are saving the world. They think that they are doing the right thing, a positive thing, by pushing/placing their ideology upon the world – thinking that they are fixing the world, by doing so. And anyone/everyone who pushes on that belief is wrong! A realized enemy to their offered/established salvation. Is an aggressor and a threat to their (self-oriented/benefitting) salvation complex.
*Every theistic religion* is guilty of this extremism, but its not just theistic religions. Many modern non-theistic religions are just as cultist and just as radical as the theists in this world. Take the philisophical religions of Humanism and Qanon, for instance. Take the economic religions of Capitalism and Marxism, as well. Then there is the conquesting “white is always right” political religions. Where does all this cultism end, and real dialogue between humans begin?!
Both the Left and the Right are too given to silencing *anything* these days deemed not in line with *their* thinking! Too much ideological tribalism, where everyone not identical to “us” is the enemy (and this is, often, undeclared but felt directly socially!). And, where is the love?! Not enough love, compassion, and empathy for others presently in this world!
“Honestly, I think we should probably retire the phrase ‘cancel culture’ at this point, because it’s losing its meaning when people just use it to mean, ‘I resent your drawing attention to my crazy ideas,’ ” – Mona Charen
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Hmmm. George Washington owned brown and black slaves. So did rich white-presenting Southern Jews who owned plantations in the USA. In fact, the Attorney General of the Confedrate States was a slavery-promoting white-presenting Jew. So, …
I guess this article is right that G Washington’s democracy for white citizens only and white-presenting Jews will not be divided. Odd, though, that white-presenting Jews today venerate G Washington as a hero to the Jews and completely white-wash the complicated history of European descended Jews living in the USA. …
White presenting Jews were critical to the success of the United States. White Jews were participants in the colony insurrection against England, in order to form the United States of America on these stolen and colonized indigenous lands. White merchant Jews were the reason the newly formed USA did not go bankrupt.
James Madison, a prolific slaveowner, admitted in writing that “I have for some time … been a pensioner on the favor of Haym Salomon, a Jew broker.” Haym Salomon, was a Jewish broker who financially assisted and fiscally saved the United States in the early 1780’s, and was a slave owner himself.
George Washington owned brown and black slaves prolifically. Jacob Levin, Rabbi of Columbia’s synagogue, was a slave trader in South Carolina. Judah Philip Benjamin, a Jewish lawyer, was the Attorney General for the secessionist Confedrate States of America.
Wonder what the brown and black Carribean and Ethiopian Jews living in the USA think about George Washington? A hero to the “Jewish people”? What are the Mizrahi Jews thinking?
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I no like make wahala for talk akamai kine to kumu yehudi. But got fo teach da trutt bout da Tora, an bout da chacham dat no teach em correctly. So, shma, brah! It stey okay fo read da stori as was meant fo read. No need fo force change da mana’o of da ‘ōlelo talk, jus because da oddah guys goin fo do tings you no like! Brah, no make lidat, eh?!
Try learn, I goin fo teach you wat da Tora say bout da mahu kine. How it no talk pilau bout da mahu, except wen married. An only talk da kine bout da kane, no talk da wahine. Adultery, brah, da only sin fo da mahu, da Tora wen say! So no make like it wen talk different. K? An if you still no undastand, try aks, eh?! I goin fo a’o you!
It is fine if a lot of members in the secular humanistic movements don’t value our Jewish ANE inherited literatures. The preserved writings of multi-generations of ANE Jews and Israelites in a redacted multi-voiced conflicting singular tapestry form is still of value to most religious Jews – whether theistic or non-theistically religious – and to many scholarly-oriented secular Jews.
In Israel, the Torah is consider an intricate part of secular Jewish culture. It is a glimpse into our origins as an ethno-religious culture. It is evidence of our existence within the land.
So, there are Jews who want to hear what I have to say, because they don’t want to step sideways and be a second evolution of the Judaism species. Instead, they want to evolve the present religious Judaism towards a theistic/non-theistic Judaism that is relevant to our enlightened times.
Keep in mind that Rabbinical Judaism is a response and a capitulation to white Christianity upon this planet. So, by teaching what Torah actually says, I am armoring us with knowledge to address the greater society around us.
It’s like with brown and black people, for years the white man has been telling us who we are and what we believe. And, our response generally has been to either accept this with an ethnic spin on it or outright reject it and ignore the greater society.
For those who reject the forced teachings of the greater society, rather stand against it intelligently, you are also ignoring those of our kind who are suffering under those doctrines. We can’t afford to take such a white society approach to things, for we know historically where this repeatedly goes.
And, additionally, to try to prove that Torah texts didn’t approve of slavery is white-washing the text. Slavery was the normal since the agricultural age to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (Only the USA WASPs took slavery to a whole new level of abomination with human chattel slavery stuff.)
In presenting this post, I am making no apologizes for the Torah. I am telling you the Torah never said homosexuality is a sin, a crime, or whatever. CE religions formed off of 2nd Temple Period works decided that homosexuality is a sin, and taught you to misread the text accordingly.
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Namaste Wahala !!! Yes, yes! Hello trouble!!!
As someone who *luvs* shows that feature creole languages – The Expanse, Finding ‘Ohana, and, now, Namaste Wahala – I must encourage others to overcome the fear of personal ignorance, expose yourself to different cultures, and embrace the education!
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12423052/
“Shot in Nigeria, Raj (Ruslaan Mumtaz) and Didi (Ini-Dima Okojie) are jogging along the beach from opposite ends in workout clothes, when they bump into each other. The dramatic pause between them is the typically soapy boy-meets-girl origin story, from which romance quickly brews.
In Namaste Wahala, their budding romance goes for the familiar staple and aesthetics of Raj’s Indian roots, winking at movies from his homeland where men and women court each other by singing and dancing. Didi blends in wearing a sari, Raj leads in a tunic. Didi is Nigerian after all, the sensibility for drama and tomfoolery intact, leading to a successful cross-cultural experiment in their minds.” – DigitalSpy
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