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Saturday, August 22. 2020

Saturday morning links



Do Jews Believe in Heaven? An overview of fundamental Jewish beliefs concerning reward and the afterlife


MC: The Battle Lines Are Drawn On Public Education


I know a recent college grad who tutors a "pod" of 5 5th graders for $100/hr. No teaching credentials, but the parents are extremely satisfied. 6 hrs/day. but lunch break is calisthenics and runs in the park.


 Craziness in California Week in Higher Education


Knights & their ladies fair - On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.


The Enduring Relevance of The Plague. Albert Camus’s postwar novel captures the existential dread of contagion.


 Fox News Has A Fever And The Only Prescription Is … Joe Biden?


MSNBC Blames Racism for Voters Preferring Trump on Economy


Kamala’s America? If Joe Biden’s running mate ever becomes president, she would nationalize California’s increasingly feudal political and economic order.


 Van Jones Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Biden Speech


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The Biden video isn't steady I noticed. I detect what looks like minute splices and skips. It is highly likely that Biden's turn at the podium was crafted CGI style in the weeks leading up to this presentation. Because every participant delivered their words via remote Biden wasn't required to be anywhere physical at all. The Biden moment wasn't in real time. It is unbelievable that this stumbling oaf could deliver a 25 minute speech without one stutter or hesitation. I admit I couldn't watch the whole thing. I can't count anyone as a friend who would actually watch it in its entirety. Whatever it was it wasn't for real... in real time. It remains to be seen if a "real" debate will ever occur. Because a live presentation... even with Biden wearing a mask and standing 50 feet away from Trump... still is going to be a total disaster. This man is broken. His acceptance speech was faked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSpHLq2STvY
#1 Tom Hyland (Link) on 2020-08-22 12:56 (Reply)
Yeah, the background is CGI, you can see by the way it moves slightly but Biden himself does not move. Prerecorded and likely heavily edited by Da Vinci Resolve. You can see it sometimes when he gets the blank look in his eyes, and then suddenly starts talking again. The sudden cutaway at the very end of the speech to another shot of him and his wife waving at the monitors is a giveaway. The MSM have now all deleted that because it makes it too obvious what is going on.
#1.1 Jim on 2020-08-22 22:06 (Reply)
The afterlife is temporizing the essence. What something is is expressed by where it originated or where it ends. It's a narrative device, which is what religions are. Poeticizing ethics.
#2 rhhardin on 2020-08-22 12:56 (Reply)
The god of the Old Testament is the demiurge which created an imperfect world which it has no intention of saving. This explains why prayers are unanswered regardless of how much you believe in yahweh, he is indifferent to the suffering he has created. The jews are bound to this creator and are forever fearful of his wrath. Don't conflate the old testament with the new, they refer to different realities.
#2.1 Alex on 2020-08-22 16:48 (Reply)
Ahh, Gnosticism lives!

For many Orthodox Jews the Talmud supersedes Tanakh, so the question is whether the Tanakh supports a belief in the afterlife.

Personally, although I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Boston, and I worked with many Jews as an adult, I never met one who was interested in any sort of Heaven.

In traditional Christianity, the Resurrection of the corporeal body occurs on a physical, reconstituted Eden, Earth reformed, and includes all the plants and animals of the first Eden.
#2.1.1 bob sykes (Link) on 2020-08-23 08:45 (Reply)
Gone with the Wind: Every book about the Civil War is propaganda, whether The Cause or Saving the Union.
#3 SgtBob (Link) on 2020-08-22 13:24 (Reply)
No, GWTW was not propaganda so much as a lamentation for a passing culture and deep memories of the pains of a new one being reborn.

I was raised and educated in the Deep South although born in German-American Indiana. So I had something of an immersive outsider's view of the culture.

GWTW rang true to the echos of the Deep South. During the Civil Rights struggle and since, I've been able to understand a little of the segregationist's point of view too.

Still a fine book if not a great one. Not nearly as much "chick lit" as the movie was a "chick flick."
#3.1 Whitehall on 2020-08-24 13:43 (Reply)
For those of you who have never experienced the "ol south", please take these days to travel down to Mississippi and visit the many old mansions, buildings, etc. that exist to remind us of what the south really was and consequently what the north really wanted as an outcome of the civil war. You can see for yourselves it was not about slavery in total, but was motivated mostly by Wall Street and their fear of the cotton trade. Their fear of the Mississippi/Atlantic Ocean ports, etc. Google something like "Old Mississippi homes+historic. There are many things to see in Mississippi that will help you to understand .
#4 faculty wife on 2020-08-22 14:00 (Reply)
2000 Al Gore won the popular vote he should be president.
2016 Hillary won the popular vote she should be president.
2019 Bernie won the popular vote he should be the nominee.
SHUT UP !, Why? Cause we said so....
#5 Joe Maples on 2020-08-22 21:01 (Reply)
[b[Do Jews believe in Heaven?[/b]

This article is one of the most amusing fluff pieces that I've read in a long time. The purpose of the article is to make people think that Jews follow some kind of moral code. But they don't. Jewish kids aren't taught the first thing about morals, or ethics. If you mentioned anything in this article like "Tanach" or "Shechinah" to a young Jewish person in America, he wouldn't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about. This article is a description of how Jews wish to be viewed: As pious honest people. But in reality, they are secretly dedicated to making both Israel and America communist countries. They don't give Jewish children any religious instruction, because the entire class of the proletariat is supposed to believe only in Marxism and Materialism. For Jews, God is dead.

Don't be fooled by the sanctimonious nonsense in this article. It's a work of pure fiction, designed to assign moral authority to a group of people who don't deserve any. That's why there are Lesbian and Homosexual Rabbi's all over the country, teaching immoral conduct. Their goal? To destroy society, and then remake it in God's image. God is a communist.
#6 Ron Liebermann on 2020-08-23 09:22 (Reply)
Uhhhh.... The linked article is on an Orthodox Jewish website.

You are quite.right that most Americans of Jewish descent are ignorant and belong to false modern movements - like the Reform movement that ordains lesbians as you describe.

That's not who is writing this article - which is amply confirmed.by the many (respectful!) citations of traditional sources.

Most.of the regulars here can distinguish between the two streams in Judaism, just as they can distinguish between churches preaching authentic Christian doctrine and "Liberation Theology" Episcopalian communes.

Thankfully the internet and conservative media are exposing more gentiles to authentic Orthodox Judaism - like this blog, and this link.
#6.1 Ben david on 2020-08-23 16:42 (Reply)

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