Aaron Ben Sirah

🇺🇸🌲🇵🇱✝🇮🇱✡️ Memento mori

[Aaron Ben Sirah @AaronMGDR]

Avoidance and cynicism lead to empty and empty life.

Go all in on a relationship. Know your neighbors. Build common space.

Better to know pain than not be known.

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@bruhgiyy @aziz0nomics you could argue that is has more todo with energy prices but it definitely has to do with government when government regulates AC

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@RichardHanania if you thought trump was wild now wait till he is on Ayahuasca

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Most people have no idea about the real history of Al-Aqsa Mosque, because they’ve only been fed the Islamic Palestinian propaganda version of events.

They believe that Al-Aqsa has always been Islam’s third holiest site, that it has belonged to Muslims since the dawn of time, and that Israel is the oppressor for merely existing near it.

None of that is true.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holiest site in Judaism for over a thousand years before Islam even appeared in history. It housed the First and Second Jewish Temples, the center of Jewish worship and pilgrimage.

When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, they built pagan shrines over it, but its Jewish identity never disappeared.

In the 7th century Islam emerges and expands through conquest, and begins hijacking Jewish and Christian sites, prophets, and narratives.

At first, Jerusalem had no major significance in Islam. Muhammad never set foot there. There was no mosque. There was no pilgrimage. There was no Islamic history tied to the city.

But that changed during the brutal power struggle between Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.

By the late 7th century, Islam was deeply divided. Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr controlled Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad Caliph, controlled the Levant.

But Abd al-Malik had a problem, he didn’t want the people of the Levant traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage, because that would give power to his rival.

Abd al-Malik declared the Temple Mount as Alaqsa mosque that was mentioned in the quran, and he made it an alternative place of pilgrimage.

He ordered the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to divert attention from Mecca.

And just like that, Islam manufactured a holy site for political gain.

The real Masjid Al-Aqsa referred to in the Quran was not in Jerusalem, it was between Mecca and Ta’if. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at the time. There was no Islamic presence there.

Yet, centuries later, after Islam had conquered the city, the Islamic narrative retroactively applied this Quranic verse to Jerusalem, again, for political convenience.

If Israel wanted to act like Islamic conquerors, it could have easily done to Al-Aqsa what Turkey did to the Hagia Sophia.

It could have converted the mosque into the Third Temple, banned Muslim prayer on the site, erased any trace of Islamic history, as Muslims did to Christian and Jewish sites throughout history.

But Israel didn’t do that. Israel allows Muslims to pray there freely. Israel protects Al-Aqsa, even as it is used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda and incite violence.

Yet, despite this, the world condemns Israel for merely existing in its own capital.

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@kennymxu @grok what is going on about?

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@visegrad24 @krzysztofbosak ill leave it to the Poles to decide who goes into which bucket. although lets remember that poland at its greatest power was less ethnically and religuously homogeneous than today.

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@visegrad24 @krzysztofbosak so yes those that Poland does want to grant temporary residency to SHOULD be accepted faster too.

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@Civixplorer these are all objectively worse than the current flag

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@ariel_haivri @_theorycel correct

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@skeptrune for me the problem in austin is even if we can build more housing how do we build more barton springs?

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@nascarmixing @cafreiman Its not about taking away the choice to own. its about asking why do people choose subscription over ownership.

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@nascarmixing @cafreiman yes it is. the video extrapolates on the trend of people freely choosing solutions where you rent a service instead of buying. cd=> spotify, dvd collection => netflix. and asking what would a future where that continues look like?

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old enough to remember when chanting USA just meant you were an American.

[she builds their fires @ErinIshimoticha]

Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒

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@usedgov i have no doubt that if the Biden admin posted this people would lament that its "woke".

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@CherrilynnZ San Jose

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All-In is like junk food i know Im gonna regret watching but I keep coming back

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@CoreyWriting @zagrebbi why do the need to be dropped off?

when i was in school we had a school bus for all grades

older kids could drive

some kids even walk!

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@AmericanMama @OlgaTokarczuk Im not saying its full of foreigners but its not a monolith.

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@AmericanMama @OlgaTokarczuk its like she's never been to Warsaw

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Im confused as to how the flow of using claude cloud environments is supposed to work. it codes inside a vm but then, cant push to gihtub because it needs auth, i cant pull because it isnt exposed to the internet in that way, so i must paste a PAT into chat or ask for the diff?