Unseen,

This requires some elaboration, because if Jews lack free will (unlike antisemites) then they aren’t really responsible for their alleged crimes. I don’t recall Hitler or HAMAS saying anything like that. Quite the opposite, actually.

I doubt that Antisemites really think that they have free will either.

This is reflected in how the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Two, Antisemitism in all of it’s forms, whether Theological, Racist, or Political, is a denial of free will on the part of Jews.

This requires some elaboration, because if Jews lack free will (unlike antisemites) then they aren’t really responsible for their alleged crimes. I don’t recall Hitler or HAMAS saying anything l…[Read more]

Enco, this is kind of long but it is a pretty cool vid in which Yasmine Mohammed interviews a Druze Israeli. If memory serves the Druze lady here dispels a lot of lefty/islamist lies and about the culture and history of Druze.

Hey Enco,

Thanks for your thoughtful response.

To touch on some of your points when i brought up the Christian concept of free will i was coming at it from a different perspective. But clearly you’re correct in the way you’ve approached it. The thing in the garden of eden does not exonerate the architect. I was thinking of a free pass given to…[Read more]

Reg and Jake,

There’s a strip of I-77 heading towards Raleigh that is sponsored by the American Druze Society. It looked like a clean strip of road, but I didn’t see anyone working out there. I chalked it up to them being so discreet. 🤫😁.

Further along, there was another strip sponsored by Jains. I wondered then how that could even be…[Read more]

Reg,

Given the gravament of the scandal, that video is just creepy. I shudder to think of what people can do with images like that!

Chat-GPT, it’s time for more briefing.

Jake,

I’m back, with a few thoughts on free will and how it relates to your postings.

One, the Greek philosophers, in particular Aristotle, Epictetus, and the Stoics, discussed issues of free will vs. Determinism centuries before and separate from Judaism and Christianity, so one can hold to free will independent of Abrahamic religion.

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Yes, had a friend from Atheist Ireland in Dublin who is Syrian and lived among a mostly Druze population, before the Civil War.  She was working towards her Masters on a research team that analyzed the brains of people who died from Alzheimer’s disease. I (stupidly) asked her if she got much push back for being an atheist (having wrongly assumed…[Read more]

Reg,

Druze are overrepresented in IDF. And it would not surprise me if Israel ends up either annexing Suwayda Province in Southern Syria, creating a humanitarian corridor so that Druze have an escape valve or simply making Syrian Druze Israeli citizens. Druze women in Israel take full advantage of the educational opportunities and in general are…[Read more]