IvyMarcum

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  • #59903
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    Yeah, that’s been a nickname since the 2000’s.

    To be honest, I think I detect a bit of  resistance to absolute freethought on your part. In that criticism of Zionism’s dark side may be being met with ad hominem.

     

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    #59894
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    “Revolutionary Change” can have flaws and still offer insights and info found nowhere else. For instance, it has interviewed upwards of 3 survivors of the USS Liberty.
    I suspect Netanyahu allowed Hamas to attack on January 7. Shortly before, he had been involved in the little matter of the Gazan Offshore Gas Field. Now, he probably gains that mid-size gas field AND land in Gaza. I hear Netanyahu is regarded as a liar and a thief by many Israelis, so it is believable.

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    #59888
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    Why dismiss “Revolutionary Change” because it is mostly about Zionism? It doesn’t pretend otherwise. “Breaking Points” is about everything and a different animal.

    I watched my community’s freethought movement for decades. I watched one of its most prominent leaders conceal that he grew up Jewish and proceed to never subject Judaism to the scrutiny he subjected Christianity and Islam to.

    Even in the 1980’s I thought it ODD. Odd that “freethinkers” considered it taboo to speak of 1 of the 3 big religions.

    Young people aren’t buying it.

    Israel is no longer getting a free pass.

    And of course, even light criticism of Israel is likely to be viewed as frothing at the mouth bigotry.

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    #59881
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    Acknowledged.

    As for Epstein’s ties to Mossad and Israel, how can we trust corporate news to do the topic justice? We have Bari Weiss the Zionist in charge of one network, and Larry the billionaire in charge of a portion.

    Anyone listen to “Revolutionary Change” on YouTube? Or, “Breaking Points”?

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    #59874
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    I feel gaslit.

    Maybe to you it’s a matter of degree, and Judaism doesn’t fit the bill.

    Remember,  Israel has a law against mixed marriages. Also, the “right-of-return” requires having 1 Jewish grandparent. Sounds pretty ethnic to me.

    I’m not saying all of the ethnic orientation of Judaism is bad, but it IS something that the big religions have left behind. And in Zionism it has given the world a headache.

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    #59859
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    I’m in my sixties, and long ago I tired of being guilt-tripped by Zionists. How dare anyone of an ethnocentric religion call an American a bigot.

    #59848
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    PS/ To clarify my last post, Sammy remained an atheist to his dying day, but he kept a temperament rather like some evangelicals. He cared a lot about obedience and conforming, while being asococial and not engaging with any effort for the common good.

    Glenn longed for barely regulated capitalism. He loved everything about the Tea Party movement, except its religiosity.

    #59847
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    Glenn seemed to think that a commitment to science and reason made one a freethinker, but I see that as overly simplistic. As Einstein said, “Imagination is everything.” A freethinker needs to be creative and imaginative. Knowing formulas isn’t enough.

    As for Sammy, I still wonder why he was okay with taking no action to oppose the excesses of organized religion. I could have said to him: Okay, religion will always be with us, and it serves some purpose, while it is debatable if the service can’t be gained in another fashion. But why are YOU, Sammy, going to allow the religious right to dominate our society, unopposed?

    Alas, Sammy is no longer with us. Frankly, I heard Vaush say something to the effect that evangelicals don’t do society or perhaps he meant they seldom work for the public good. Sammy lacked a social instinct, so maybe he just didn’t give a fuck. Shameful, in my book.

    Sam Vankin (who isn’t perfect) said that narcissists become characatures of the people they admire. That could explain Glenn thinking that all being a freethinker required was to declare a love of science and lightly unregulated capitalism. And being an atheist.

    Both Glenn and Sammy were mighty dull, cold people. Neither was a freethinker.

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