On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What 2 masters? I'm an American which is my nationality. I'm a Jew which is > my heritage and religion. > This is actually one of those things used against Jews. "we can't put them > into any position of authority because they're not loyal to us". BS
Wow. I'm waaay out of touch as far as antisemitism (or even semitism) goes, so forgive me for saying things that sound like stereotypical whatnots or whatever. I was honestly wondering about conflicts of interest, or whatever. Jews can come here to NM and get a position of authority, I bet. =] Maybe even Hispanics! If you're a woman tho.... hmmm... j/k. :) > > You don't see a problem with serving two masters? > > > > Or having a "physical place" be the core of your religion? > > Every religion recognizes a land which is holy. Some have more than one. > Some consider one land/country theirs. Others consider the world theres and > it has to be conqured. We weren't promised the world, we were promised a > small patch of holy land. And the land wasn't to be devoid of other people > like others I can mention. All I know about scripture is stuff I've picked up along the way, but I don't know for sure that the cannonites (or whoever they were) were /really/ evil or whatnot. I don't have problems with idols atop mountains or whatever-- I don't take kindly to killing, to get what one wants tho, hands down. The problem is that "we" were promised something that was someone else's-- doesn't that bother you? The stuff in the old testament is pretty harsh, man. Not sure how it all relates with the Semitic beliefs, as I've never really studied, or even had strongly-religious friends. It's all just been for fun, for me... in my spare time. > > Hmmm... I think what is said and what is actioned may be different. > This is not war, this is murder. If someone was launching rockets at you > what would you do? I would presumably want to know why, and then find a way to make it stop. Or maybe find a way to harvest them, and then sell 'em back to the folks who shot them, and thus, make a pretty penny off of their desire to see things flying through the air at me... Killing seldom solves these types of problems, my friend. I've learned that through experience. > > I totally agree with you about things like China and the Saudis. > > > > Israel *is* in a unique position tho-- hard to compare it to China, > > for instance. (besides like, the deal with taiwan maybe? eh.) > > How so? China occupies Tibet. Why is Israel held to a higher standard than > anyone? I thought you just said that the standard was a hoax? That should explain many of the stranger aspects... :) Part of the deal is probably the history of the region... has to do with the Brits and the Turks and a bunch of other crazy stuff. Go Empires! Go Religions! > > > > I don't think it is a simple matter, that is a fact. =] > > > > Land has been battled over for sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo > > loooooooooooooooooooong. > > > But Israel is willing to give up land for peace and still the rockets fall. > Still the human bombs burst. People don't take kindly to getting "some" of their stuff back? (joking, sorta ;) Who does it /really/ belong to? I'm gonna go "Native American" on someone, someday. And then I'll go "local fauna" on the next one. If this land is your land, and this land is my land... imagine all the people... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255692 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
