Many would say not to talk about this issue because it's kind of like beating a dead horse. I'd either be "preaching to the choir" or else talking to people who are never going to listen. I think this talk can be productive. First of all the term is a misnomer because the Arab peoples are also of the Semitic race, too. They are children of Abraham's wife, Ketura, who had lots of children. It's an odd fact that Black people seem to be anti semitic. This is unfortunate because it's the Arabs and the Moslems that are responsible for the slave trade in Africa, and not the Jews. Blacks seem to ignore this. It's said that Jews were Blacks' best ally during the days of the Civil Rights movement. It's been said that Jews are loan sharks and "hard business men". My guess is if you get a loan from a Jew he will be a heck of a lot fairer than, shall we say, the Mafia. The reason why Jews are businessmen I suspect is because they are more intelligent than the "median" of the human race. In the Middle Ages they kept their head while everybody else was losing theirs. They, (along with the Arabs) were people who kept the light of civilization going when Europe and the Church was leading us backwards into some dark feudal era. Of course Jews were a main object of the Spanish Inquisition and other persecutions led by the church. People wonder why Jews don't want to pray Christian prayers. Well, Jesus Christ at times seems not to have had a Jewish bone in his body. People ask if we will fight Al Quaida in Iraq now. But if our own nation were under attack everyone agrees they would fight to defend it. In Jesus day the nation was not only attack, it was occupied. Every time the gospells have an oppertunity to take a stance of pro or anti Jewishness- they always side against the Jews. This whole lying down and turning the other cheek doesn't work. That's not how you deal with bullies. You all know this. One time a bully was picking on me in Jr. High and my Dad just said, "Why don't you say something like "you know, I feel sorry for you"". My Dad is of the oppinion that we should feel "sorry" for criminals and bullies. I got in four fights in Jr. High and this guy was not one of them. All the Jews want to do now is live peacably in Isrial under the United Nations mandate of 1948 or whatever. People want to "witness Jesus" to the Jews, but the Jews already have a "witness" of Jesus. They can read the Gospells. They can also read history. People wonder whether we should have the draft now. Let me tell you Jesus was the ultimate draft dodger. People who are "above it all" during a major conflict bother me. They don't have their head on straight or their feet on the ground. People "cant be bothered" and regard War is something someone morally inferior to themselves do. But Jesus was worse than neutral on the subject of Roman occupation in his day. He was actively pro Roman. All of the "good" people in the gospels were Romans. If I had a beef with a church now, my prayer would not be for the Chi Coms to come over here and nuke them. Certain words have taken on ugly conotations such as "Zionism". If you use thie word you're probably a racist. Some Christians claim to "have a special love" for Isrial. If they loved them they'd find out why they can't stand the idea of Jesus as Messiah. They say a prophet is never accepted in his home town. You never know what sort of things, however, that you might learn from interviewing- - well, for instance, people who knew the Reverand Jim Jones before he got famous. You know people talk about "Jewish humor" but it's partially because Jews have to deal with so many assholes that they have to develop a thick skin. Humor helps people deal with things they can't deal with directly, kind of like the humor in M A S H. Personally I think some of the parody stuff on the Simpsons takes on anti-semetic conotations like the way Krusty the Clown is portrayed.
I guess the question is have we lost our audience? Much of our sense of Justice and morality comes either from the Greeks, the Romans, or the Jews. You can bet it doesn't come from the Christians because all you need to is look at the "Justice" the Church has adminestered on its enemies over the years. One thing about world dictator wanna-bees like Chuck Smith- - and that is you should thank God they have no political influence because if they ever got any power they'd be dangerous. I think part of our fear of Moslem terrorists is that it's a case of "Ths chickens coming home to roost". We Christians have spiewed out violence and hatred into the air for so long talking about the Rapture and Armageddon, that the Universe is paying us back. In deed the saying is true, "What goes around, comes around". I think we all need to look at Moslem terrorists and at least have a passing thought, "Where is this Hatred coming from?"
And now we're going to have a little fun with Elvis and then I'll be back. There's one word that was wrong and I intend to correct it to a correct word when I download this.
ELVIS PRESLEY
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PREY RIP LEE LESLIE SIEVE ELY EYES
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I suppose people like to talk about their near death experiances. I think I had one in mid November of 1989. I was walking to Cypress college where I was using the lab to perfect my word perfect skills. I was walking- - I had taken a Contac and I guess I was a little over-medicated. I was walking accross the street when all of a sudden I hear this squeeling sound- - and before I know it there was this white car speeding down the lane right to my left. The only thing is that I looked at that moment and I was standing inside the skid marks. That got me to wondering. The guy had made a risky and probably illegal left turn. He didn't stop or even slow down but just went barreling ahead through and accross the intersection. I guess the only question was why he didn't hit me. The "evidence' would suggest he should have.
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