The Principle of BEST FOR ALL is THE way to Life.
Living It is THE answer.
Ego/Mind is the illusion trapping those who reject THE Principle.
Who are You?
Was Jesus the "messiah" by "divine birth" (meaning, he had no choice in the matter, it was set in stone)
OR
did he CHOOSE to embrace the point of BEING the messiah? And then lived as the Image and Likeness of God - as it is stated to be our true nature?
Which means: we can all choose it, we can all embrace our Image and Likeness of God - and live as such.
After all, don't we have FREE WILL?
Didn't God give us FREE WILL?
That implies: the freedom to willingly forgive all of our sins and live in Perfection as the father that is in heaven = as Jesus himself commanded his followers...
He commanded that because he was living that. But, he was just embracing his divine nature.
The QUESTion is:
Why aren't we embracing and living our divine nature as the Image and Likeness of God -- and instead we are using our Free Will to remain sinners...
1. The Holocaust was evil, as everyone knows
2. The Holocaust was NOT uniquely evil, as some claim
3. Throughout history there have been other comparable genocides, often carried out by Europeans against indigenous people
4. The genocide in Gaza is not the same as the Holocaust, obviously, but it is in the same moral category
5. The Nazis killed babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they were Jews. The Israelis kill babies, children, women and men BECAUSE they are Palestinian
6. Israel and its supporters weaponise and abuse the memory of the Holocaust, sometimes to close down argument and sometimes even to justify the genocide in Gaza
He is absolutely correct -- because, in war, who is the "enemy"? The "other" which you don't PERCEIVE as "your own", as "you", as equal to you in every way --> so, it absolutely is not seeing reality for what it is, and it is done so through the thoughts and ideas and beliefs you form about "yourself" (your "own") and the "other".
The idea/belief of "Separation" is the greatest illusion, and it only exists in the mind.
The cure?
Give as you'd like to receive.
This means = as you give, you receive --> because it is YOU on the receiving end.
That's reality.
@Dazzerdig27@CogitoEdu Sure, that is true - and it is also true that Israel a colonial state, born out of ethnic cleansing and murder of Palestinians, turned into apartheid and now a responsible for genocide.
But hey, at least we have some gay parades, right?
Zionism:
Arthur Ruppin (head of the Palestine Office of the World Zionist Organization, 1907):
"The Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of colonization... To colonize Palestine in such a way that the land becomes the property of the Jewish people."
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Zeev Jabotinsky (founder of Revisionist Zionism, 1923): "Zionist colonization must either stop or proceed regardless of the native population... Zionism is a colonization adventure, and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force."
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Yosef Weitz (Director of the Jewish National Fund, 1940):
"There is no room for both peoples together in this country... There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries... We must not leave a single village, a single tribe."
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David Ben-Gurion (Prime Minister of Israel, 1948):
"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian Arabs] never do return... The old will die and the young will forget."
When Abraham arrived in Canaan from Ur, there were already the in the land the Amorittes, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebuzites, Girgashites, Kadmonites, Kenites, Kenizztes... Then a little later the Philistines.
Then came the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans...
Jews mixed with all of them over more than 1000 years.
(Many then converted to Christianity and later to Islam -- with many of their descendents being today's Palestinians)
Claiming to be a "Jew by ethnicity" is as ridiculous as claiming to be an ethnic Jebuzite, for example...
The irony is hard to miss.
Overall, more than half (55%) of all U.S. Jews state that being Jewish is NOT about practicing Judaism - that it’s primarily about ancestry and culture. Moreover, in Israel, which is home to about half of the world’s Jewish population, approximately 44% of Israeli Jews self-identify as secular (hiloni).
For decades, Zionists have claimed an ancestral THEOLOGICAL right to Palestine, yet most of the loudest advocates of this claim are not even practicing Jews and mostly identify as secular or atheist.
So how does a religious claim become an ethnic one?
Enter the term “ethnoreligion.”
However, what most people don’t know is that the term was totally made up by Lawrence H. Fuchs in 1956 - an American Zionist scholar whose parents were European Jews.
The concept immediately gained traction in the mid-20th century and helped advance the argument that Judaism is not merely a religion, but an ethnicity, thereby, allowing even those with no religious observance to claim a collective theological national right to Palestine.
You have been lied to. Like every other religion in the world, Judaism, too, is a faith, not an ethnicity.
This entire “ethnoreligion” argument deserves far more scrutiny than it receives, particularly given its role in justifying the displacement of Palestinians and the colonisation of their land.
In this podcast episode, I unpack why I believe the “ethnoreligion” framework is intellectually flawed and politically convenient.
I’m currently working on a detailed article tracing the origins and evolution of this concept. More soon.
And that is so for every country/nationality -- and, most importantly, how we accept money as the "God" of this reality = it becomes acceptable that some are "rich" and most are "poor" according to the number "money" they have acquired -- and that that magical thing called "money" can either make your wishes comes true, or or can make you experience hell.
@Dazzerdig27@CogitoEdu It is not "Gaza population" -- it is a worldwide metric -- it doesn't matter if it is Gaza, or Gambia, or Guatemala... 40 to 50 people out of 1000 are gay, lesbian, or bisexual, no matter where
@rustin_peace@CogitoEdu I have 21 reposts about Israel in the last 30 days. Less than 1 per day.
So your description of "you repost every single obsessed crank on this website" is totally inaccurate.
Also, those reposts show how maniac Israel is. Yet, you say that I am "batshit crazy" ..
Fascinating
@hewhoshootspew@CogitoEdu Even Israel admits at least 70k killed in Gaza.
https://t.co/jjSL2E2h0C
That's just the bodies that were recovered...
Thousands more under the rubble.
@rustin_peace@CogitoEdu Straw Man his argument, (1 logical fallacy), Moved the Goal Post (2 logical fallacies), Ad Hominem (3 logical fallacies), Whataboutism (4 logical fallacies).
Learn what they are, don't repeat them, and come up with facts and proper arguments next time.
It is not pedantry -- he made a true statement, you tried to discredit it with something that doesn't disprove his statement.
This doesn't mean what happens in Sudan is irrelevant or that people don't care -- that is a logical fallacy that only idiots fall for.
Also, Israel isn't "combating" in Gaza -- it is called apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
@DBM44_44@CogitoEdu Facts: between 4% and 5% of the population is LGB.
At least 75k people have been murder d by Israel in Gaza (many under the rubble are not accounted for)
So, of the 75k, between 3000 and 3750 people were LGB.
So, his statement is true.