<For people whose parents and grandparents suffered so badly under the Nazis, the Israelis sure do seem to lack empathy and compassion. In fact, they seem to do a pretty good number in stormtrooping themselves. Shows that people are neither innately good nor evil (ridiculous concepts) - they just react to their environments like the high-end lab. rats they are. >
The strength of Christianity is it's universality [more or less - and that ideal is constantly breached]. Even more so with Buddhism.
Jews have this insane "Chosen People" fetish.
chosen-people.com
us-israel.org
If people would think of themselves as high-end lab rats instead of chosen people, we would get much nearer a civilized way of living.
I've wondered when some Jew, confronted with the murderous mayhem of Palestinians and Arabs who are besetting them from all directions, would suggest a final solution. I wonder if it has crossed any minds and the reason they don't do it is that the memory is too fresh of being on the receiving end of such rats.
Unfortunately, Moslems think THEY are the chosen people and Allah [peace be upon him and his interlocutor Mohammed] has specifically given all sorts of holy writ to go forth and decapitate.
With two chosen people and Christians and other crazed superstitious zealots squeaking on the side for THEIR chosen status, the rat cage is very ugly. They can't all be chosen at once.
I suppose this all stems from sibling rivalry, the desire for our father's attention and favour, played out in adult fantasy converted to reality. [Stupid psychoanalysis guesswork is always popular]
Bernard Shaw's comment [in that second link] was a good one: If the Nazis realized how closely their Aryan "master-race" ideas matched Jewish "chosen people" stupidity, they'd reconsider.
Meanwhile, I am NOT happy with GeorgeW's decision to start the disaster of 30% tariff trade wars as a final solution to the steel problem.
I shall go and have a nice cup of tea, read the newspaper, sit in the sun on a beautiful day and plan my course of action. I am the chosen people, [me and my children], and I plan to keep it that way. I do not plan to be cannibalized in a global trade war financial implosion. I suddenly get the feeling the world is looking for a catalyst for collapse and a big steel tariff would be a good one. Uncle Al was dead against it. So am I. This might be worse than Osama's WTC effort!
A 30% tax increase is a big new tax - so much for GeorgeW's desire to cut taxes.
Actually, for a long time, I've thought that taxes would better be collected by way of duties on imports because governments are primarily a mutual self-defence pact to defend a territory and the more sensible way to fund that defence is by way of imposts on the external world than taxing effort inside the country.
But big and sudden changes in a time of global financial wobbliness does not seem judicious - perhaps he considers this is avoiding a big and sudden change by avoiding the sudden shutdown of a whole industry and keeping steel trade at more or less the same levels it is at the moment [or a year or so ago].
This is definitely one of those nice cup of tea times.
Mqurice
PS: Thank you for your contribution to civilization by helping police the crazed barbarian religious crank low-end lab rats in Northern Ireland.
...hmmm, I went and checked prices before going for a nice cup of tea and the first thing I looked at was <LWIN 6.66 +1.77 +36.2%> Now, I am NOT superstitious, but come on, if that's not an omen, what is? The mark of the beast at such a critical juncture in the lab rat cage is scary. |
