Beth

I have never heard anyone else compare English and Sanskrit but from what I know, you are correct. Many UrduGaelicHindi words also have the same Proto-Indo-European roots.

Take the word for the number ‘2’.

In Hindi and Urdu (I speak some Hindi as I have in-laws from India) 2 is spelled as ‘do’ and is pronounced ‘doe’.  (Hindustani)

In Gaelic (…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Is this lack of evidence about danger to Jews in America? You’ll want to tell that to the Jews in Boulder, CO, the Israelis in Washington, D.C, and PA Governor Josh Shapiro.

The most conservative estimate of dead Palestinians is that of the Israeli government: 17.000 (give or take). At the other end, the Gaza Ministry o…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
If Jews are not safe in Ivy League Academia in America, the most educated and intellectual in society, that says something very telling about how much safety there is among the hoi-polloi. That’s no dance.

Any campus is likely to have a lot of politically-energized and -committed individuals whose politics can spill o…[Read more]

@Jakelafort – Is this the video version of the same podcast?

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Can anyone rationally maintain that we’d be in a worse position had meddlesome outsider politicians not decided to redraw the Middle Eastern map? On what basis?

We’d be in a different position, but not better. Christianity and Islam would still be at holy war, even without the presence of Crusaders. Both of the…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Jews aren’t safe anywhere and Jew-haters still regarded them as vermin, but at least with Israel, they are the mouse that roars.

The average American Jew is far safer than the average Israeli Jew. You danced around that fact. And not all that deftly to boot.

Can anyone rationally maintain that we’d be in a worse position had meddlesome outsider politicians not decided to redraw the Middle Eastern map? On what basis?

Late edit: Has Israel even served its purpose? Which Jew is actually safer, one in Israel or one in the United States?

What we need is a state for every disliked or hated minority. Nor just one for Jews, but one each for Roma (gypsies), LGBTQ, liberals, conservatives, females, etc. In other words, a complete partitioning of the world. And who better to take on the assignment than Donald Trump?

Alternatively, we could work harder on getting along with each other.

In a recent book, ‘How States Think’, Mearsheimer says that in an ‘anarchic international system’ (one with no world government – i.e. the real world), each state must ensure its own survival. Great powers seek to maintain or expand their security buffer zones to prevent potential threats from getting too close. Russia’s view of NATO expansion,…[Read more]