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The ugly genocide scapegoats: The real evil will not transpire
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 29, 2021
The ugly genocide scapegoats: The real evil will not transpire
Ottoman Empire
New nascent German Empire colonial behind most of this century genocide.
Germany planned the Armenian genocide because they constantly supported zrussia expansion into the Ottoam empire and they were supporting the Tsar in this WWI war.
Germany was behind the famine in Mount Lebanon because they turned off the lights along the Emperor trip from Damascus to Beirut because they did Not appreciate Guillaum trampeling on The Virgin shrines in Palestine.
Germany committed extensive genocides in its African colonies, in Angola … and eastern Africa.
They supported the genocide in the Congo by Belgium monarch Leopold.
The other colonial powers, England, France and Italy did Not raise a finger and encourage Nazi Germany to go ahead in WWII…
The Cosmos, Acoustics…: Who is Pythagoras?
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 23, 2021
The Cosmos, Acoustics…: Who is Pythagoras?
Pythagoras used a screen so that his students won’t see him and focus on his words, thus the Greek word acoustic.
”The Cosmos (ˈkɒzmoʊs)
Is the universe regarded as a complex and orderly system; the opposite of chaos.
The philosopher Pythagoras used the term cosmos (Ancient Greek: κόσμος) for the order of the universe.”
Pythagoras is originally from Tyre (current Lebanon) before his family moved to Athens.
has traveled to East and he got his most Study and Knowledge from the East . And we all know that Armenians were the Masters Astrologist .
”( Carahunge ) is the best proof ”
As by Dr. Setyan Vahan the Author of” Language as a FingerPrint ” ”Basques and Armenians ” ” Enigma of the Armenian Alphabet ” ….
Contrary to immediate assumptions of many, the term – COSMOS, is not an immediate reference to the stars or universe but of ORDER OF THINGS.
In Greek ‘Kosmos’ means ‘order’, but it lacks a root etymology or explanation and it is a language much younger than Armenian.
The Greek – OS ending is misleading and hides the root- Kozm or Kazm. We can define Kosmos or Cosmos in Armenian, with the words – (Kazm)el, (Kazm)vatsk, Kazmakerputyun and Kazmakerpum [կազմակերպում], all expressing [order, to contain and organization.]
Thus, Cosmos and Microcosm express order of things, from the very small to the very large. And since, we have a much older language that expresses the idea of ‘order’, we can point to a very old language that has begun to resurface from its dormant and neglected state.
I will speak more about this and psychological barriers that hinder conceptualizations and internalizations of new data in my upcoming Book 2.
During the British mandated power over Palestine (1928-47): British Terror tactics allied and trained the Zionist terrorist organizations
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 20, 2021
British and Zionist terror tactics in Palestine in years in the 1930’s
Posted on November 4, 2011
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In the 1920’s, under British mandated power, the Palestinians delivered countless petition to the British administration to conduct democratic elections for municipal and the Parliament, as did the French mandated power in Syria and Lebanon.
The Zionist Jews, in Palestine and their lobbies in England and the USA, blocked any election process, on the ground that since they are in the minority (one Jew to 10 Palestinians), the election would be at their disadvantage.
As England refused to institute democratic laws and representation in Palestine, the Palestinians realized that the mandated power is intent on establishing a Zionist State in part of Palestine.
In Nov. 1935, sheikh Al Qassam and four of his followers moved to the forest of Jenine and started training and preparing for civil resistance. The British assassinated all of them.
And the “Great Revolt“, as labeled by the British, lasted 3 years.
The British engaged 100,000 troops to quell the civil insurrection by all means of cruelty and brutality.
A British physician on the field, Tom Segev, wrote in his diary: “The brute tactics used by the British forces and the methods of humiliation could be efficiently adopted by Nazi Hitler. Nazi Germany could learn and assimilate the British terror tactics on smooth running of concentration camps...”
The British initiated and trained Jewish colons to participate in the taming of the Palestinian civil disobedience.
David Niv, the official historian of the terrorist Zionist organization, the Irgun, wrote in “The campaign of the National Military Organization 1931-37”:
“The violent attacks of the Irgun are not done in reaction of those who perpetrated acts of violence against Jews, and the random violence were not conducted in localities where violent acts were done.
The principal criteria were:
First, the targets must be accessible, and
Second, the terror attacks must kill the maximum of civilian Palestinians…”
In their National Bulletin, the Irgun displayed their satisfaction of the 3-week-long terror attacks on Palestinians, throwing bombs in crowded markets, Mosques, hand grenades in buses, machine-gunning passing trains…
The 3 weeks spree of random violence killed over 140 Palestinians, a number far greater that the Palestinian resistance movement killed in 18 months…
The leader of the Irgun, the Polish Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, wrote in 1923:
“We must develop the colonies behind a “Wall of Steel”, backed by a protective force that could not be broken. The Palestinians (labelled Arabs) will never accept any Jewish colony as long as they conserve a slight hope of dislodging it. A voluntary agreement is not thinkable. We have to resume the colonization process without taking into consideration the humors of the indigenous population...”
David Ben Gurion, leader of the Zionist Haganah organization, rallied to that strategy, though he publicly condemned Jabotinsky fascist methods (Jabotinsky was a staunch admirer of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini)
The terrorist Zionist Stern organization, lead by Menahem Begin and Yitzak Shamir, (both later to be elected Prime Ministers in the 80’s), merged with the Irgun as Ben Gurion proclaimed unilaterally the establishment of Israel in 1948.
The Stern and Irgun and Haganah conducted terror attacks and genocides in many Palestinian towns and villages, forcing the Palestinians to flee: The Palestinians believed the leave will be of short-term duration, as the UN will negotiate their return…
Actually, the Zionist organizations started collecting intelligence pieces on the villages and towns they planned to transfer by terror tactics since 1939.
They waited for a war to start to give the green light for the execution of detailed plans in 1947, the year England decided to relinquish its mandated power over Palestine.
Note 1 : Article inspired from a chapter in “A history of Lebanon, 1860-2009” by the British journalist David Hirst. Hirst was the correspondent of the British daily The Guardian in the Middle-East for 43 years. He was kidnapped twice during Lebanon civil war.
Note 2: The British secret services trained French assassins since 1942 during WW2
Note 3: You may read this link on doctoring reports of random violence by Israel establishment http://www.stoptorture.org.il/files/Doctoring%20the%20Evidence%20Ab
The father was a ruthless terrorist: Should the son Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel bear this heavy weight?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 15, 2021
The Ex-Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel case: Father Specialized in Bus Bombings of civilians in Palestine
Posted on January 7, 2016
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Wayne Madsen Special to Salem-News.com
Wikipedia deleted the page about Rahm Emanuel’s father in 2008. Makes you wonder.
 Irgun, the army of Rahm Emanuel’s father, is short for Irgun Zvai Leumi– “National Military Organization” in Hebrew, was a terrorist Zionist group that operated in Palestine, killing innocent Palestinians and British soldiers; blowing up buildings. |
(WASHINGTON D.C.) – Note from Publisher: In an effort to assist our government in keeping information “transparent”, we are publishing this important article by Wayne Madsen, on the father of Rahm Emanuel.
You won’t find his bio on wikipedia, or any where else easily accessed. It has been deleted.
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel held a top position in our country’s leadership and his example of ethics and integrity is of the highest importance.
This is not diminished regardless of his aspirations to leave the national spotlight and become the mayor of Chicago.
But, it seems, some secrets must just be harder to share. This revealing article will leave you with a better understanding of why no one wants to talk about Benjamin Emanuel. And why they should.
– Bonnie King
A
well-placed British source informed WMR that Rahm Emanuel’s father, Benjamin Emanuel, specialized in the terrorist bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine.
British MI-6 files contain information on the elder Emanuel’s participation in the terrorist activities of Irgun Zvai Leumi, a Jewish terrorist organization that targeted British forces, UN officials, and Palestinian Arabs in the lead up to Israeli independence in 1948.
 Emanuel’s father Benjamin was part of the Israeli assassin team that murdered Sweden’s Count [Folke] Bernadotte in ’48. Bernadotte was the UN envoy in Palestine who sought to find a solution to the UN Partition Plan that gave Palestinian land to Jews from “beyond the pale.” |
Benjamin Emanuel, a Jew from Russia whose real name was Ezekiel Auerbach, was arrested by British police for terrorist activities in the months prior to Israeli independence.
Many of the British policemen killed by Emanuel and his Irgun colleagues between 1947 and 1948 had been transferred to Palestine upon Indian and Pakistani independence in 1947. Irgun saw the increase of British policemen from the Indian subcontinent as a major threat.
The Jewish terrorist murders of British troops and policemen resulted in massive anti-Jewish riots in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, and Cardiff in 1947.
In 1946, Emanuel’s Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people, including 28 British soldiers and policemen.
British intelligence also believed that Benjamin Emanuel may have been related to Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Russian Jew from Odessa who founded Irgun.
Jabotinksy, who was an admirer of Benito Mussolini and who secretly negotiated for the expatriation of Jews to Palestine with the Nazi government in Germany and Admiral Miklos Horthy’s pro-Nazi regime in Hungary, died of a heart attack in New York in 1940.
Wikipedia deleted Benjamin Emanuel’s entry in 2008*, shortly after Rahm Emanuel was designated as President Obama’s chief of staff.
Wikipedia is a favorite device for the perception management goals of Dr. Cass Sunstein, Obama’s director of the White House Office of Regulatory Affairs.
With a record of terrorist acts contained in his MI-6 files, Benjamin Emanuel was permitted by U.S. authorities to emigrate to Chicago from Israel in the 1950s, becoming a citizen. Rahm Emanuel was born in 1959.
*See the original (now deleted) Wikipedia page on Benjamin Emanuel, CLICK HERE.
(Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report. May 13, 2010)
Another round (the fourth) of total destruction of Gaza infrastructure: Hospital, social institutions…
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 14, 2021
Most powerful USA/Israel bombs raining on Gaza
| Fadi Quran – Avaaz |
I am writing to you from Palestine with a broken heart. Children are being killed.
I just watched one of them being brought to the hospital. His name is Hamza Nassar. He was just 11 years old.
This vicious spiral of oppression and violence must end.
Our strategy must be to make the economic cost of this conflict too high to bear. It worked to end apartheid in South Africa, and it can end Israeli apartheid in Palestine. Join the call for sanctions on Israel — stand up for freedom and justice.
| For many of us reading, Hamza will become a statistic. A number that passes in the news cycle. (No coverage of colonial powers media on the murder and suffering of the “Palestinian” kids in Gaza and the West Bank) But Hamza is not a number, he is someone’s son. A brother. A grandchild. A classmate. He was a beautiful dream of a brighter future. And now he is gone, forever. This spiral of oppression and violence must end. The only way to stop Israel forcing Palestinians from their lands, the collective punishment of innocent families, Israel bombing Gaza is to make the economic cost of this conflict too high to bear. This strategy was key to ending Apartheid in South Africa, and it will be key to finally achieving peace in the Middle East. But it won’t succeed unless there’s a massive global movement behind it — and that’s where every one of our voices counts. When this is huge, we’ll take it directly to members of the UN Security Council demanding sanctions on Israel until it puts an end to the military occupation. Add your name now, and let’s make sure Hamza’s death is not in vain and no more dreams are vanished. |
| End the spiral of violence: Sanction Israel Now. Currently, the Israeli government and extremist settlers make BILLIONS of dollars from the oppression of Palestinians. The settlers stealing the homes of Palestinians are often funded and supported by the Israeli government and USA taxpayers, which allows them to live a subsidized life on land they steal. The Israeli government steals water and other natural resources from the Palestinian territories it occupies, while many Palestinians are forced to become cheap labour. Before selling weapons and surveillance technologies to violent regimes, such as the military in Myanmar and dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, Israel often experiments with them on Palestinian communities. To make freedom and peace viable, we need to shift this broken system that makes crimes against humanity a for-profit endeavor. Israel currently occupies, colonises, bombs, raids, and controls the water, trade and the borders of Palestine — a legally free nation that has been recognised by the United Nations. In Gaza, Israel has created the largest open-air prison in the world, and then blockaded it. Now as bombs fall, the families have no way to escape. These are war crimes and we wouldn’t accept them anywhere else. The Israeli government, occupying settlers AND extremists and corrupt leaders benefit from the status quo, and for too long the international community has ignored Palestinian suffering. To bring peace to the Middle East, that must change. And now is the moment to change it. This must end. Israel’s power and wealth dwarfs that of Palestine, and if it refuses to end its illegal occupation, the world must act to make the cost unbearable. Calling for sanctions on Israel is the most potent non-violent strategy to ensure sustainable peace for Israelis and achieve Palestinian freedom and justice. With hope and determination, Fadi, Marie, Christoph, Mo, Nax, John, Risalat, and the entire Avaaz team. For more information: . Human Rights Watch Report: Israel committing crime of apartheid Israel’s actions in East Jerusalem are a human rights test for Biden (Vox) Israeli police storm al-Aqsa mosque ahead of Jerusalem Day march (The Guardian) What is happening in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah? (Al Jazeera English) Hamas fires rockets into Israel after clash at Al-Aqsa Mosque; 20 reported dead in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes (Associated Press) |
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Lebanon and Palestine: Same and Different(Part 1)
Posted on April 29, 2009
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Brief ancient history:
Lebanon is a recognized State by the UN in 1943. The Lebanese State got its fictitious “independence” from France who withdrew its troops in 1946 (2 years before the State of Israel was recognized by the UN).
Palestine was partitioned in 1947 between Palestinians and the minority Jews (barely 40% but allocated 55% of the land of Palestine).
Currently, all of Palestine is under occupation by this Zionist State called Israel.
Lebanon and Palestine were throughout antiquity under the domination of neighboring Empires such as in Egypt, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq (Mesopotamia).
The people in the two tiny stretches of coastal lands on the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea were mainly mariners, traders, middlemen among Empires, and skilled artisans. (They were united under the Seleucid dynasty, an officer of Alexander army)
Under the nominal or explicit domination of Empires, Lebanon and Palestine had autonomous administration of their society as City-States that were highly democratic within the city limits as Athens emulated in the 7th century BC.
The famous City-States from north to south are Ugarite, Tripoli, Jubail (Byblos), Saida, Sour (Tyr), Akka (Acre and Haifa), and Askelan.
The City-State of Jubail (inventors of the alphabet) built Saida; Saida built Sour and dominated the sea routes; and Sour built Akka and relayed Saida in sea domination and expanding the trading posts to Spain.
These City-States were the masters of the sea and traded with all Empires, and build trading towns: they have resisted many overwhelming sieges, sometimes for years, and occasionally managed Not to be entered and devastated.
Every empire that conquered Syria resumed its drive by dominating Lebanon and Palestine.
In general, when more than one empire co-existed at the same period and when the empire in Egypt was powerful enough then it governed the southern half of Palestine while the other empire governed the upper half, including Lebanon.
The strip of Gaza to Yafa was mostly under Egyptian cultural influence.
The coastal strip from north actual Syria to the Sinai was called Canaan. Then, the upper stretch to Akka was called Phoenicia or even Saida (in reference for the main City-State).
The Sea People, called Philistines and probably coming from the Adriatic Sea, destroyed Greece fleet, devastated many coastal cities, and conquered Egypt before they were driven out and settle in Gaza and the southern part of Canaan, called Palestine ever since.
Moses (this mythical story) arrived with an amalgam of nomadic tribes and his successors attempted to occupy part of south Palestine. These tribes worshiped Yahweh/Yahwa, thus, yahoud and Jews for the Latin people.
These tribes under Moses reverted to worshiping the all encompassing God of the Land called El., except a few tribes such as Judea and Benjamin. During the Roman Empire, and most of the empires that dominated Syria, the district of Tyr administered the upper half of Palestine, including Galilee.
Modern History:
In the beginning of the 20th century, the military in Turkey deposed the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and started policies focused on Turk Nationhood. Many in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine immigrated to Egypt.
During the First World War famine fell on Lebanon along with a devastating wave of locust; they immigrated to the USA, Brazil, Latin America, and many were dropped in Africa by unethical ship captains who claimed that they reached the Americas.
After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, Britain had mandate over Palestine and Iraq; France had mandate over Lebanon and Syria.
Consequently, the bilingual Palestinians spoke English, and their counterpart in Lebanon spoke French.
In 1930, Haifa grabbed the center of trades and many Lebanese flocked to Haifa and Palestine. The reverse wave occurred when the State of Israel was recognized by a majority of one vote at the UN in 1948. Lebanon received Palestinian refugees who were installed in camps on the ground that their stay is temporary! and will return under the UN resolution 194
In one chapter of “World Adrift” Amine Maaluf said “The western powers are now paying the price for failing to apply their values in the colonies”
The European colonial powers of Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands had no intentions of spreading their moral values to those they considered Not worthy of their pearls and gems.
The indigents were to be enslaved, exploited, and humiliated;
The indigents who adopted the western values of equality, liberty, and democracy were persecuted and harassed and imprisoned;
The colonial administrators negotiated with the conservative conformists who were ready to strike deals and cohabit with lesser human rights.
Dictators in Europe maybe abhorred after their defeat, but the colonial powers readily accept dictators in underdeveloped States to facilitate the embezzling businesses.
Human values had different quality and flavors according to the whims and interest of the exploiting colonial powers.
Britain used astute diplomatic policies to subjugate their colonies more frequently than France did; but France of the French Revolution had No patience negotiating and communicating with their colonial people and never skipped an occasion to stat its true purpose for domination.and exhibiting arrogant military posturing.
The colonial powers installed infrastructures that were appropriate for exploitation of the colonies; they established the required administrations for smooth and efficient exploitation.
The other administrative offices for legislation and justices were carbon copies of the ones in their homeland, but these codes could be disposed off and trampled at the first occasion that short sighted interest called for swift and immediate actions.
Contemporary history:
Current Lebanon was created by France during its mandate period and cut out from Syria; it is now a recognized State by the UN since 1943. Palestine was divided but the Zionist movement conquered the allocated portion for the Palestinians by the UN in 1948. through a detailed pre-planned attack drawn in 1935.
The Palestinians are now located in the West Bank of the Jordan River and in Gaza where Israel has built 150 Jewish-only colonies and increasing every year.
The Palestinians who fled their towns and villages in the State of Israel are refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. And they spread throughout the 5 continents. The UN resolution 193 demands the repatriation of these Palestinians to their hometowns but Israel has been rebuffing that resolution since 1948.
Lebanon suffered many civil wars and calamities for Not being capable or unwilling of absorbing the Palestinian refugees.
Israel has waged four devastating wars against the State of Lebanon on flimsy pretexts based on the Palestinian resistance trying to regain their rights for a homeland.
And three more pre-emptive wars against after the withdrawal of the PLO in 1982.
Note: More detailed facts of the daily business trades between Lebanon and Palestine in Part 2. The implantation of Israel was mainly meant to break down daily trades, and One market, and prevent daily communication among the One people in One Nation: Syria.
A Way out of History for immigrants? What about the geography and customs?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 12, 2021
Are you an immigrant? Do I want to forget my “history”?
Posted on July 3, 2010 (Written in May 7, 2009)
The citizens of the developed Nations (mostly the colonial powers), within their own boundaries, feel that they have no longer any need to learn history, especially their own history. (But the atrocities levied on the people of the “colonized” will keep reminding them that their history was effectively Evil)
History to the citizens of the developed nations is a drag, a waste of time, of no use, totally irrelevant. They are mostly correct in their feeling and appreciation of the uselessness of history relevant to their nation.
Why is this feeling?
First, they have reached a level of social cohesion, awareness, appreciation of human dignity and human rights that reduce historical accounts of injustices (and exploitation of the “citizens” in mines for many generations) as redundant stories.
Second, they are more concerned about their present state of affairs such as maintaining their current level of comfort, consumerism choices, creating diverse opportunities, future availabilities for their desires and wishes.
These modern citizens have institutions to continue the good work; institutions to analyze whatever history is appropriate for the nation, institutions for research, for legitimacy, for governance, for economy, for finance, for strategic studies, for learning, for art, for marketing, and for studying the underdeveloped States and minorities.
History for the citizens of the developed nation is plainly relegated to the under-developed States.
The Third World and Fourth World “citizens”, (we should create another term for citizenship for the underdeveloped world because it is frankly too pompous and inappropriate any which way you define a citizen), have nothing left but “history” for amusement and to give them reference to an illusory identity.
History for the “history citizens” has been written by the vanquisher and then translated and interpreted by the colonial powers.
The archeological sites in the land of the “amused archaic citizens” were dug out and investigated by the colonial powers and the artifacts were dusted off, cleaned, and conserved in secured museums that the traveling tourists and immigrants never visit.
The chasm between the developed and the “non-developed” States is huge and growing larger by the day.
History is still being taught in the developed nations simply because more immigrants are flocking in and some sort of integration is commendable.
More likely, a citizen would visit an immigrant friend to fill him in on current news, and occasionally, getting a good laugh on stories of their respective ancestors.
Yes, the immigrant might know more details on the developed citizen’s ancestors and the history of this citizen’s country.
In fact, hard copy dailies are published to satisfy the voracious curiosities of the immigrants. Storytelling is a cultural trademark among immigrants: Usually, getting together is worthless and devoid of any interest if No bickering accompanies the assembly of immigrants.
If there are rival “civilizations” it must be in the mind of the immigrants: They are attuned to any gesture, tone of voice, slang, or posturing that remind them of their “indignity”, their frequent humiliations, their total dependence on the host nation for understanding, leniency, forgiveness, compassion, and equal treatments under the laws.
The immigrants are overachiever, hard-working, on constant alert of changes in behavior and special laws, on foreign policies regarding their “homeland”, on unequal measures doled in foreign policies and moral values.
“Civilization clash” is in the mind of the immigrant: the “developed” citizen doesn’t care about the agony and tribulation of his immigrant friend.
The immigrant is a sponge for all kinds of curiosities in art, theater, intellectual life, and any association that invites him to participate.
The immigrant is most likely polyglot and can converse in many languages and he has to suffer being mocked for his accent in the local slang; he has to be corrected frequently because accent is the main avenue for integration and acceptance as a civilized individual.
Discrimination is in the mind of the immigrant: A citizen would immediately recognize an immigrant for miles if he cared to focus a second on the individual.
The citizen in an administrative position has to call upon the cleric, the community leader, or the father of the immigrant before taking any decision for any kinds of permit application.
The immigrant is supposed to be looked after as an immature kid no matter how old he is. Equal treatments are the domain of the citizens and interpretations of the law and customs are appropriate when dealing with an immigrant.
The whole gamut of the UN laws for human rights were targeted for the under-developed States that are shaming human kinds in their state of affairs.
Yet, many “non-citizens” would like to experience a new era when embargoes on military hardware, military trainers, and military experts are imposed on dictators, juntas, and oligarchies who are flaunting the UN human rights declarations in their underdeveloped States.
Learning seriously the language of your immigrant friend is the first sign of real friendship.
Blatantly observing the differences in culture and customs is an excellent sign of friendship. Vigorously and unabashedly critiquing divergence in opinions is sign of friendship.
Make no mistake: Any behavior that smack of covert apartheid is quickly sensed by your immigrant “friend”.
Make no mistake: the next generation of your immigrant friend will be exactly you, when you were younger. If you are serious for integration of your immigrant friend , then behave as if you are dealing with the next generation, on a par.
An Eco-philosophy? Dawn of Philo-Ethics
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 10, 2021
Dawn of Philo-Ethics, and eco-philosophy
Posted on January 29, 2010
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In the previous post “Twilight for love of knowledge or philosophy”, I explored the theme that philosophy is reaching an end.
Before the 16th century, sciences in Europe were towed by philosophy until Galileo enforced the notion of empirical experimentation and measuring what was Not previously measured.
By the time of Descartes, philosophy started to limp and relied on religion as crutch to survive.
Sciences have taken over: they can extend answers to what can be answered.
Sciences are far more efficient than philosophy: faulty answers go unnoticed very effectively.
There are very few practiced scientists, and every man is a philosopher: man can feel what’s wrong with a philosophical system but he does refrains to claim knowledge in sciences.
Knowledge is acquired by reasoning on the alternative options formed by perception of man and universe. When we investigate our opinions and feelings, we ultimately want to open up alternatives for the mind to discovering the immutable elements in the relationships.
The brain is the field where perceived senses and reasoning procedures or processes interacts: without these interactions there are no perceptions, no actions, and no survival of any species.
It is not necessary to be a practicing scientist to have a scientific critical mind. Otherwise, not many people would feel comfortable believing that they are endowed with sensible rational and empirical thinking.
When I claim that we need to think philosophically, I mean that we need to combine the ethical component to whatever scientific thinking we undertake. The ethical mind should be the guiding rod to solutions or resolutions of any question.
For example, (it might sound a simple interrogation, but it might carry complex implicit ramifications), suppose that I stirred my Nescafe cup with a spoon. My Nescafe includes No sugar or milk; just plain hot filtered water added to Nescafe. I got into wondering: should I rinse the spoon in tank supplied water (many germs) or just let the spoon dry when removed from the cup?
The idiosyncratic reaction is to rinse the spoon no matter what, isn’t it?
If I discover that the accumulated potent germs on a dried spoon are far less than the rinsed one then what would be your behavior?
The whole exercise is that we generally extend ready behaviors to our answers; we do not take a deep breath to wonder whether there are implicit reasons in the questions.
Philo-ethics (a new term that I invented) is to work on a set of stringent ethical reasoning that you feel are right.
The purpose is that you feel you have the right to state your ethics because you applied them.
The other advantage is that you won’t feel obligated to impose your ethics on people you like their company: you are in a position to be lenient and to compromise because relationships are more important than strict rules and regulations.
What can be the immutable norms that distinguish right from wrong?
What kinds of realities are eternal?
Cannibalism is not an immutable norm since many tribes still eat man in this century.
Anyway, mankind is a carnivore and has been eating his own kind with various aspects of ceremonies such as eating the flesh, heart, liver, and brain boiled, raw, or roasted.
Thus, we need to be more attuned to ethnological studies and observations of the remaining tribes living separate from urban centers.
We need to comprehend the behavior, customs, and traditions of primitive tribes since they resembled ours before we opted for urban life style, within mostly a fast developing virtual civilization.
Arne Naess disseminated the eco-philosophy which stated that western paradigm line of thinking is taking the wrong direction for a sustainable earth: Man is not in the upper chain of evolution and he has no right to destroy the other living creatures for his perceived universe.
We are in a period of technological development that feed on itself and proliferates pretty much independently of any other sciences; technology feels confident that it does not need validation or control by third parties.
Fact is we need to have better understanding of the effects of our behaviors: mankind is on the same boat and everyone is asked to think that he is the captain of the boat.
Things are changing.
The world can be felt as reduced to a Town Square: instant audio-visual communications around the world is discouraging people to move out and investigate “his universe”. Mind you that the Renaissance man had to travel on horses for long distances to educate his curiosity and talents.
The new wave of occultism, New Age, alternative lifestyle, mysticism, spiritualism, healing, astrology, clairvoyance, and telepathy are consequences of collecting mass “coincidental” happenings among the billions of people and which are relayed instantly on the Internet.
These coincidences can be explained rationally, especially if we believe in the power of the subconscious for erratic behaviors.
The worst part is that millions are still brandishing old Books/Bibles …claiming every word for “truth”; as if we are in the Dark Ages.
Sciences and technologies have done serious empirical attempts to answer most of the dialectical problems in philosophy, such as how the universe was started, how knowledge developed and progressed.
What is outside the realm of sciences is in the domain of faith, which should not be confounded with religious philosophical belief systems.
A few facts can now be settled that set the stage for the dawn of philo-ethics or for questions related to the dignity of man for freedom, liberty, free opinion, shelter, clean water, health, safety, food, clean air, voting rights, anti-discrimination attitudes relative to color, religion, gender, and country of origin.
The hardship that you subjected yourself to is to keep sensible relationship working: a climate of genuine compassion to human frailty gives incentives to overcome shortcomings that may be surmounted.
Set of illusions and myths that aid us to avert the imminence of folly?
Posted by: adonis49 on: May 10, 2021
Folly of follies: Worshipping illusions
Posted on November 19, 2016
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Mankind began to worship killing other humans when he realized that it generated quick money at the expense of the majority of people who were denied equal start in life, in societies that created classes and categories of “what to work” and what restraining rights they should enjoy…
In no period of history worship was Not associated with killing one another, creating the notion of the sacrificial lamb, the collateral damages of the destitute, the downtrodden, the ignored, the unknown.
Worshipping is the pure definition of believing in a set of illusions and myths.
We believe in a God, a cultist system, the Nation, the Money, the Army, the Banks, monarchies, faked democracies, artificial wealth not backed by readily exchangeable goods and services…
Mankind will keep worshipping any one of these fiction realities, even if half of mankind is slaughtered or trampled.
Only taking care of our daily tasks keeps us sane for the duration.
The folly of follies is when we indulge in maniacal routine daily tasks to avert the imminence of folly.
Task like constant dusting, frequent re-arranging furniture, cataloguing and ordering what we possess…
I conjecture that mankind learned to fear and abhor death when he invented the notion of liquid currencies/cash money.
How Monetary Currency instituted mendicancy?
Posted on November 9, 2010
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Since mankind shifted from a barter economy to dealing with currencies, societies turned steadily and consistently away from production to a specie of mendicants.
In the barter trade, every individual in the tribe, clan, women, men, and children had a special task to support the survival of the tribe.
Once a member is entirely incapacitated to be a productive entity in the order of the small community, or unable to get moving at a regular pace with the tribe to better seasonal greener pastures then, the member was relocated to a shady place near a source of water to tend to his peaceful death a “paradise for the old spirits“.
Most probably, a core of compassionate individuals delegated their services to aiding these old spirits as best they could. They extracted from these elders oral stories of myths and traditional laws of conduct.
Transmitters of oral teaching and education are called “marabout” or “grios” in Africa: They have been transmitting the oral spiritual traditions of communities around bonfires.
A few of them decided to institute religions, based on the captured myths told about the creation of the universe and what happen to the souls after death; until the written languages codified the sacred religious knowledge within the sacerdotal classes.
Currently, old people are still Not that scared of death: Just fearing a state of lack of liquid currency, lest they are forced to beg to staying alive.
They are Not afraid of dying of hunger: Just apprehensive that no aides will come, unless they have to beg.
After years of toils and unconditional disposition to raise a family, sending them to universities, marrying their offspring, and distributing properties to their married children, old parents are dragging their arthritic feet as best they can and feeling ashamed to ask for small money.
I am witnessing a grandmother, wrecked with arthritis, barely able to shift its body during sleep, and having to do dishes, sweep, do laundry, preparing jams for the winter season, and even cook for her married daughter with six children, many of these children are way over 25 years of age.
I am witnessing a grandfather, having difficulty getting in a car and thus, deciding to stay home, dragging his feet three flats up in order to replenish water in the water tanks on the roof: He had plenty of reasons not to trust automatic systems and the damage they did when they failed.
Old people are worried that their children will not make it in this new harsh world: They were not adequately trained to fending for their survival.
Old people without any social covering are waiting to die in pain and hopelessness.
Old people of the middle and upper classes, with health coverage, are willing to undergo heart surgery at the age of 80, only to survive three lousy months in pain and suffering.
I am pretty sure they were warned by surgeons of the humiliating conditions they will suffer, but sacrifice is forgotten at a senile age.
We beg for food and pocket-money, though we are entitled to vote, to drive expensive cars, to join armies, and to kill for “motherland”.
We beg for better grades; we beg for jobs; we beg for a raise; we lick asses to keep our jobs; we forget morality and ethical conducts and obey the boss; we claim that we are skilled survivors.
There was a time, still as valid now as ever, when materially fallen noblemen, had priority over the most disinherited people for the money collected in churches.
Poor Noblemen had to be secured first, lest the social structure disintegrates and chaos reign supreme.
Multinational financial institutions have to get first help: They worked so hard to bilk people out of their earned money.
Multinational do Not beg: They demand their rights as knights and barons of the establishment.
The verb to “beg” was created for the poor people and it does not apply to the rich barons of industries who demand their rights to financial aids: They invented the social and economic structure for the begging citizens.
We are effective beggars: we keep the mask of revolting against mendicant behaviors.
Wild animals and pets search for a shady and isolated place to die when the time approach: They refuse further unnecessary suffering and pain.
They leave the company of the tribe: They cannot expect the community to feed them; this is contrary to the nature of the specie. Mankind is willing to beg mercilessly and assiduously to the last moment.
Millions of kids faking work, selling chewing gum on streets for a loaf of bread.
Millions playing the meditative game, so that their collective spirits in prayers will bring about world peace, in exchange of one daily meal.
Billion of people are producing nothing.
They are the ones who cannot teach art but expose the results of art.
They cannot teach how to make shoes, but display instead varieties of shoes for you to select from.
The shopkeepers, working a lifetime in a box, collaborating with wholesalers, quickly turning over products in warehouses.
Engineers, supposedly trained to design products and services and ending up working salesperson.
Engineers are hired to selling products and services, thinking that they can extend the illusion to consumers that they know something about the product or engineering practices.
It never crosses the mind of this engineer to make the effort of “re-designing” the product/system he is selling.
Sales people selling whatever there is to sell, uttering big technical terminologies: they have no ideas what these words mean.
Lawyers, shuffling papers and documents, bilking people, communicating with the lawyer of the other party, hammering out settlements, because they were Not trained or lack the talent to defend clients in courts.
Teams upon teams of “hygiene engineers” cleaning offices, gathering trash, vacuuming, and then collecting garbage.
The lower middle class, learning technical skills, working around conveyor belts, assembling consumer products and canned food.
Now and then, facilitating modern lifestyle by updating plumbing and electrical systems: running water, ready electrical power, and automatic appliances that were meant to liberating essential time for a real productive life, but falling short on target.
Who are the producers?
They are the peasants in remote areas, no one paying them a visit, except wholesalers at harvest time.
Millions working in sweat shop factories: the modern sacrificial lambs targeted to die at young age for disastrous workplace conditions.
Millions working in underground tunnels, extracting raw materials, trapped in worse conditions than taupe.
Millions working in open grounds, extracting raw materials, dying young, in polluted environment, for their daily meals.
If those are the people producing something then, how come so many trillions of dollar-kind money have been accumulated?
Trillions being talk about like we are meaning billions of dollars.
The world is currently posting $60 trillion GNP per year; $15 trillion are saved by the “poorer” developing States so that multinational financial institutions move the surplus to the “powerful” States to maintain their higher standards of living.
The financial institutions cut out their commissions for facilitating the transfer of money from the poor people to the “richer” people maintaining high State indebtedness.
Last century, people were producing.
In this century, worthless paper money are being printed, shifted, transacted, and transferred around as valuable earning: Fictitious wealth backed by the power of aircraft carriers and lethal killing equipment.
Millions of “men of war” in 200 official armies, begging for their daily meals in exchange for killing their own kinds, fighting for the “fatherland”.
Millions of men of war enlisted in militia organizations fighting for the honor of the tribe, the trampled dignity of a local leader, a religious cleric.
There was a long period in mankind history, tribes going on razzias expeditions against richer tribes and rounding up livestock. Tribes expected razzias: They were meant for survival purposes under harsh conditions.
In the last three centuries, razzias on grand scale, are directed for pure greed.
Mankind: a specie of mendicants, with no dignity and no shame.
A specie that convinced itself that life is precious, even if they are totally worthless to producing anything spiritual.
Compassion is meant to help the abler body.
A specie toiling a lifetime not producing a dime’s worth; unable to write an article, even an illegible one.
A specie no longer worth surviving.
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