The Most Dangerous Thing In The World Is The Sin Of Self-reliance And The Stupor Of Worldliness.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

John Piper

How right he is and yet I love vanity. Isn't it cool how much nasism is involved in considering it a privilege to have chosen someone in order to regard them as an object worthy of love on the basis of the principle of domination. To elevate oneself.

I love beauty but all too soon it is gone and then there is the regret of losing what cannot be preserved.

Then, to my amazement, the cycle of managing the shortcomings begins. Here a cut, there a lift and another cut and on and on to the absurd grimace. Just to preserve youth until it hurts, no I don't condemn it, it amuses me what horror you can do to yourself with a large portion of vanity.

Satan more or less

Being ignored by me is a privilege that is very underestimated

Today, my time is the time of vanity and pride.

Even beautiful people embellish themselves beyond recognition in order to conform to a supposed ideal of beauty.

Of course beauty is a horror to you and I approve of that. Because everything that is naturally beautiful is not transient.

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

I born to love.

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Hate is a waste of time.

Conscious of the moral failure and of not acting with the knowledge of the facts, I agree unreservedly.

Satan more or less

However, I think that the song was written out of a different motivation of disappointment. But the title fits the theme as cruelly as one can express it.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Yes, let's let these two quotes stand on their own and let them have an effect on what is happening right now.

One is one thing and the other is another and the two cannot be compared, no matter how much the oh-so-righteous world feels the need to relativise things.

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On a normal October day, innocent people who did not wish their neighbours and other people harm or even death were cruelly massacred, raped and murdered. They were cruelly confronted with the human abyss of hatred by inhuman terrorists on their national territory without any declaration of war and without warning and paid for it with their lives or were abducted under horrific humiliation and torture.

No matter what happened afterwards, this stands for itself and for the inhuman hatred of Hamas, which never had any intention of living in coexistence with Israel. The aim of this terrorist organisation is to wipe out Israel. Full stop!

As part of its reason of state, Israel cannot and could not leave this unanswered. You can't negotiate with terrorists, no matter which state is responsible for such atrocities. With the only logical goal of eliminating the threat to its inhabitants and for reasons of state.

Reason of state

Striving for security and self-assertion of the state by any means

The concept of raison d'état means the pursuit of security and self-assertion of the state by any means. According to Wolfgang Kersting, raison d'état represents a "rule of hierarchy for conflicts of interest and law". This usually refers to Machiavelli's classic trinity of "voluntas, necessitas and utilitas" ("will, necessity, utility") as the legitimising factors of state actions.

In this sense, reason of state is a rational calculation of a government's interests, regardless of the form of government, and is solely committed to maintaining the functioning of the state. A more recent interpretation of reason of state is the requirement that the state must successfully assert itself against crime in order to prevent blackmail and imitation, among other things

Why are you so uncompassionate when it comes to the victims of terrorists and have so much sympathy for the consequences caused by Hamas, which also affect innocent people?

Don't you wonder how a group of terrorists can live in Gaza uninvolved and with enormous money resources and if this hamas really wants the best for the Palestinian people then why is everyone living so precariously. It is not because of the size of the Gaza area even smaller areas where people live in confined spaces are social and economic success. So where does the money go year after year that hamas gets? Probably not in the general welfare of the Palestinian population but in modern war technology which has no benefit for the normal people.

If you look closely, you can see that other interests are being pursued here than peace for the Middle East. But that is not the issue now.

It is cruel and only we come to other things which are not comparable to the terrorism of hamas against innocent civilians.

The Palestinian people do not deserve to suffer the consequences of the reasons of state triggered by the atrocities of hamas. Human rights must be respected within the framework of the laws of war. Civilians are inviolable and this applies to both sides.

And yes, the conflict must be resolved, but I won't be making any friends. It has to hurt a lot before it gets better! In the Thirty Years' War, Catholic and Protestant warring parties killed and humiliated each other until everyone had had enough of the joint slaughter and then found peace together. The Peace of Westphalia, in which all atrocities were mutually forgiven and forgotten. This is the only way to live in peace.

Only those who recognise that it can only work together and do not see what they want, but see how far they can get away from the other so that we can live together successfully, have the solutions in their hands.

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On behalf of all those murdered, I stand here only as the face of a person whose life was far too short. Life is a human right that was denied to me.

In memory of the innocent victims

A brief history of Israel and my take on the conflict.

If you disagree and this post does nothing but make you angry, okay. Feel free to comment below. But if you want to discuss back and forth and want me to respond consistently, please message me b/c that's just easier to keep track of.

But just in case there are people out there who just don't know what they don't know, and their opinions might be changed with some facts, here are a few of those:

Israel is the ancestral land of the Jewish people. No group can trace its history back to Israel further than the Jews can. As far as human history can show us, they are the original indigenous people to the area.

Both the Quran and the Bible call the Jews, the "Children of Israel." There is documentation of a substantial and deep-rooted Jewish presence and nation-state in the Levant from long before there was an Arab state, and nearly two millennia before Islam was ever founded.

The land was occupied by foreign invaders, multiple times. The Jews were expelled and forced to wander in the diaspora, though some remnant always managed to stay behind, which is why there is a continuous Jewish presence in the land for thousands of years. The Romans ruled it as a vassal state which they renamed 'Palestine', meant as an insult to the Jews. Arabs eventually gained control from the Romans and ruled it in various groups and kingdoms.

Whenever Jews would return to the area, they quickly created financial and structural success. Poverty-stricken Arabs began to stream in from the surrounding Arab countries, hoping to join in the prosperity that the settled Jews were attaining. The Jews did not fight this, and instead did the best they could to live and prosper under the Ottoman Empire and then under the British.

But they wanted to be free to live in their land under their own rule. As antisemitism around the globe grew, the idea of a Jewish State in their historical homeland gained traction: Zionism. The Mandate for Palestine specified that the Jews could create a national homeland on both sides of the Jordan.

The Arabs complained. They too, wanted a state of their own within the Mandate. So the British carved away 78% of the Mandate, which they’d promised to the Jews, and gave it to the Arabs for their own national homeland, which was called “Transjordan” and later renamed “Jordan.”

The Arabs were still not satisfied with this plan. They wanted all of the land, even though they were being offered the massive majority of land. They wanted the Jews gone entirely. The UN came up with the Partition Plan. The Jews accepted this compromise. The Arabs did not and once again became violent.

The Jews declared statehood. Seven Arab armies attacked, hoping to annihilate the Jews and believing they could do it quite handedly. Before they attacked, they told the Arabs living in the land to leave for the duration of the war. The idea was that the displaced Arabs could come back once they'd successfully ethnically cleansed the Jews.

While peace was offered by the Jews, it was soundly and violently rejected by the Arabs, and the resultant chaos, displacement, and deaths that this led to is referred to as the 'Nakba'. The Nakba was the end result of the Arabs' continuous and unwavering opposition to any form of peaceful coexistence.

Since that time, the UN has granted refugee status to the Arabs who left Israel, and extended that status to apply to their offspring, although as mentioned above, many of these refugees left of their own free will, at the behest of the surrounding Arab nations. Once the Jews were wiped off the map, they were promised, they could return.

That didn't work out for them. The Jews won the war. Now, what has each side chosen to do with their time and money since then? It's not hard to spot the difference:

Since 1948, the Jews have accepted in the Jewish populations of Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, and more; because those countries don't want or accept Jews in their intolerant societies. Meanwhile, most of those countries have refused to accept in Palestinian refugees themselves.

The Jews have built a society where Arab Israelis are afforded equal rights, vote, serve on the supreme court, are elected into the Knesset, work as doctors, lawyers, etc.; and are allowed to openly practice their Islamic religion. Meanwhile in the surrounding Arab states and in Gaza/the West Bank, there is no such equality, and Jews are persecuted, if they are tolerated at all.

The Israelis have spent their money on improving their society with education, defense, and a vastly developed infrastructure; whilst the Arabs have spent their money on maintaining a rather consistently non-stop terror campaign. The Palestinians receive $1.15 billion of foreign aid a year - more than any other group in the world - but they squander it.

Given these differing choices, it is not hard to see why one group is doing quite well, whilst the other flounders.

Due to the Israelis defending themselves with intelligence, counter offensives, and the iron dome, they've managed to remain on the map.

Despite all of the Arab violence, Israel has tried to negotiate a peace settlement with the Arabs over and over and over again (1948, 1949, 1957, 1978, 1979, 1991, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020). But the Arabs have a firmly proclaimed "3 no's" policy of "no recognition," "no negotiation," and "no peace." They reject every single peace plan and instead constantly engage in terror attacks against the Jews.

At this point, antisemitism is deeply embedded in Arab culture of the Levant. Progressive Western values for things such as gay rights, women's rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and religious freedom are routinely accepted by the Israelis and routinely rejected by the Arabs, who's leaders continue to espouse intolerance, and continue to jail, torture, and execute dissidents - thousands of their own people.

Perhaps most tragically of all, the Arabs are led by Hamas - a terrorist group whom they elected into power and who have little if any interest in doing what's best for the Palestinian people. The priority of Hamas, as is openly stated in their charter, is to eradicate both Israel and all Jews worldwide. They use their own people as human shields, preventing evacuations and operating militarily out of areas such as schools, apartment buildings, and hospitals. The Gaza ministry is currently going on television and telling people of Gaza not to evacuate when they get the warnings. This is unconscionable.

Yet, the Jews are still willing to cede massive swathes of territory, to try to compromise over and over and over again, and to attempt to get along with people who are different from them. Meanwhile those same people refuse to settle for anything less than all the territory, Jew-free. The qualitative difference between these two groups and how they operate is glaring.

I do want to mention that while it is true that many Arabs living in the Levant are deeply and culturally antisemitic at this point, many of them are not! Many of them are just good people who have been unlucky enough to be born into an unfortunate conflagration of geography, religion, and culture, and cannot control that they are stuck living in the side that perpetuates death, terror, destruction, and intolerance.

These Arabs are victims, and they deserve to live prosperous lives free of terror, suffering and death. Unfortunately this will never happen so long as they are held hostage by an evil group like Hamas.

I'm not religious, but if you are, then:

Please pray for a short war and minimum civilian casualties.

Please pray for air strike warning notices to be heeded and evacuations facilitated.

Pray for Arabs to choose to govern themselves democratically and to spend their money constructively.

Pray for the Israeli forces to use good judgement and abide by the international rules of war while this conflict plays out.

Pray for Arabs to escape their Hamas oppressors and find safety and shelter as this war runs its course.

Pray for coexistence, and for religious tolerance.

Pray for the swift and utter destruction of Hamas.

Again, feel free to leave whatever comments you like below. I know a lot of people get furious when faced with opinions and facts refuting their own viewpoints. I welcome any arguments or counter evidence you want to link me to in the comments and promise I will read/watch it.

But if you want to engage in a back and forth discussion with me, messaging is just easier for me to keep track of it.

And please signal boost this post by reblogging! The point is to try and give some fact-based perspective to the pro-Hamas supporters.

I love vanity and self-promotion!

Men are often underestimated here.... what one does with cars and money the other does with his physical strength and demeanour. Wow ..... unflinchingly on his way to being seen at and admired. I'm the last person who doesn't support that.

But people's sense of humour is a real art in counteracting these two favourite sins of mine.

Satan more or less

Just a side note, so far I have hardly met as many men who have the same strength and resilience as women.