Surrounded By Idiots

I have some friends who I love dearly and who have questionable television viewing preferences. They have over 200 channels plus premium packages. Yet, every time I go there and the kids aren't watching cartoons or other programming geared toward kids, I walk in on them watching Jerry Springer or, worse yet, The 700 Club! These friends, so far, are tolerant with my radical world view. They even often agree with me, if they aren't lying about it. I sometimes agree with them about things. But our differences are often so glaring that I wonder how we are even friends. But that is because I am their kids' foster grandparent. There is a complicated story as to how this came to be. But I often feel that this factor and my seniority in years that causes them to defer to and tolerate me. They are also the kind of "Christians" who wear Christ on their sleeve but absolutely refuse to set foot in a church. They hate America because, well, Obama. I am genuinely saddened to see America's youth squander their energies away with the kind of misinformation and delusions that I see in them. I can only hope that I can casually open their eyes to some of the fallacies they so gleefully embrace.

Anti-Semitic, Anti-Shemitic. No, just anti-stupid.

There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding and controversy over a piece of real estate in the middle east commonly referred to Israel. To be clear, Israel was a man and his descendants a "people". Their "promised land" was inhabited by people before they arrived there several thousand years ago. Namely, the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.

In Genesis 15:18-21 the boundary of the promised land is clarified in terms of the territory of various ancient peoples, as follows:

    On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

Said land has been under various occupation and rule over the many centuries since and said people have been literally exiled and banished multiple times. The ones that remained were indeed a minority. The rest were scattered around the known world, presumably by God (if you believe in divine intervention, which is the basis for their own claim to the land).

Israel as a nation state has only been in existence since 1948 and only recognized as such by anyone else a year later. They, and the allies, violated agreements, treaties, and promises in the process of installing the state and have continued to do so ever since. For 60 years their presence there has been marked by violence and military action. Even though Palestinians are descendants of Abraham, through Esau, and the land was given to ALL of the descendants of Abraham, the Israel has oppressed and slaughtered their cousins ever since.

I have no intention of defending myself from claims that I am anti-Semitic. I am not. Those are just base, slanderous attacks by people with poor debate skills and a poor understanding of history. I am anti-Zionist and anti-war. I'm also a bit "anti-mythology as a doctrine" (well, actually a lot).

I personally believe that everyone should just step back and let the state of Israel do what it is going to do and see for ourselves who in this world is the greatest threat of using nuclear weapons (after the US, of course). We have ALL known that Israel possessed these weapons for decades while the world collectively, officially denied it. However, the Pentagon admitted the fact recently while the media distracted us with other things.

The greatest threat to world security is not a nation but an ideology. Anyone anywhere who believes that "God is on their side" in their quest for world dominance and extraction of material wealth cloaked in the guise of "security" or "self-defense" and are willing to commit genocide or bring about mass extinction is not only delusional, but THEY are the threat. Christian, Jew, Muslim,... I really don't care. If you believe that your imaginary friend makes you special, you are right - but not in the way that you think.

People would do well to read a book and check Google once in a while before they start spouting nationalist, racist, fascist shit. You are turning in to the thing that killed millions of Jews 7-8 decades ago. Hell, Israel is turning into what they hate the most!

And if you shout hateful shit at me or any other minority, I will cut you with my tongue like a knife and I will defend them and myself to the last breath.

And anyone who believes that their god wants them to destroy other people or the planet has a pretty shitty god and needs to be put down for the benefit of the herd, lest they harm others or infect others with their delusions.

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Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country? | OpEdNews

Let me make my case, however minimally, based on five areas in
which at least the faint outlines of that new system seem to be
emerging: political campaigns and elections; the privatization of
Washington through the marriage of the corporation and the state; the
de-legitimization of our traditional system of governance; the
empowerment of the national security state as an untouchable fourth
branch of government; and the demobilization of "we the people."



Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at
least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a
new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security
state. Certainly, something out of the ordinary is underway, and yet its
birth pangs, while widely reported, are generally categorized as
aspects of an exceedingly familiar American system somewhat in disarray.

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