I really enjoyed this, shaqer. Fascinating that Goethe adopted Islam. Thanks for sending me here and I'll look for a place to use this in mine because I think it's important.
Thank you Tereza. That sentence and the couple that follow were the only additions I made to the essay after watching your piece (other than moving sentences around and formatting). The rest was written before I watched it. I found it happily interesting that you talked about agreement of reality when I was writing about agreements about concepts of weight, color, etcetera. (and also I learned from your observation that it really can't be a shared delusion (at least that as one thing I took from your speech).
I know as best as I know anything that you are my well-wisher Tereza, and I'm happy to call you friend. I'm fairly conservative in the sense that I'm not used to calling older persons (than I, I am 46) friend, but this works!
If you are ever in the northern virginia area, it would be great to have a chat or coffee, or attend something. Human beings are meant to interact face-to-face (I think you agree) but we do what we must.
Oh I'm glad you reminded me about your article, which I wanted to include in What is Reality? I just posted the YT but haven't done the Substack yet, so there's still time.
In mid-February, I'll be in Western MD for a couple of weeks, in my hometown of Cumberland. That's not exactly close but also not terrifically far, depending on the weather. Let's stay in touch. And I'm glad you feel I'm your well-wisher ;-) I certainly feel that way too.
I haven't watched all of your Nuland video as it (I'm am kind of...averse due to the subject matter...but shall). But this:
رضدن Re-SH-Dth-Nuon. The letters spelling the word “Rashidun” in contemporary Arabic script. The word “rasheed” is typically translated as “just” or “rightly guided” when applied to creatures. “Rashidun” is the plural of rasheed. Muslims [sic] refer to God as ar-Rasheed (The Just), but in the singular, and never refer to God in plural.
"Zion" as pronounced by the rabbinical approved contemporary constructed Hebrew (ritual hebrew) is something like "tzun".
It is laughable (and I never have used that phrase before I think even in speaking). But the popular tv and written narrative is that after great research and mediation, wise rabbis concluded the pronounciation of YHWH - is exactly the phonetic pronunciation of the Arabic letters eya-hei-wao-hei. What research did they do???
Geographer Master's me: A rose by any other name. The word "Semite" is used for a lot, but refers in geography/history to Arabian migrants who migrated north int Syria and Mesopotamia starting around the time of Sumer (possibly driven by climate change related push factors). A relatively small stream, but continuous over 1500 years. So in this sense - why do geographer and historians refer to "semites" at all? Are indo-europeans called "kurgans"????
Other things being the same, a culture group/language group which is more isolated to external exchanges will be more consistent in its cultural reproduction. Meaning, medieval Arabic would be consistent with Arabian language. Human beings had a looong time to adapt a consistently slowly degrading physical environment for ages and ages cf. from post-glacial maximum - as the resources got slimmer no one outside would migrate into arabia, and the folks who remained there relied on a common lifestyle and culture and communication which only very slowly evolved...and in isolation.
Unlike say central Europe and northern Europe, which post-glaciation had many migrants moving in from so many directions, all with different lifestyles and backgrounds. Post glaciation from the honest folk who study it starts about 12k years ago, 10 000 BCE.
Does "Rashidun" sound like "Zion" as languages develop and change? Factor in the lack of diacritics in Hebrew, and the stultifying effect of rabbinical institution
I'm wary to look into this standard academically since the discipline is replete with bad actors and vested interests, and middle east theory and world theory and so forth is nicely the province of such cohorts and their maintainers. For example, some argue 10% of Rome's population was Jewish. That number sounds fantastic to me, but I don't know everything.
Yes, human sacrifice, horror. And I do think it is consciously acknowledged by the some of the wicked.
*aside, you have got me thinking - just sharing not asking for a response or clarification since I know you are busy - could it be that Roman state sponsorship of the Christian cult [sic] was a way of undermining Jewish militancy and that for external and other random factors "it got out of hand"? I'm thinking that must be part of your thesis.
Anyway, thank you for being around Tereza. I am SURE that very many are grateful for your agency - very many alive, and very many near. :)
ed.: "other things being the same" ceteris paribus. Of course, no object or phenomena is ever the same as another ;) but my vibe is very much along the lines of what I shared with you cf. "zion". I though of all this only recently.
Have you had the chance to look at Upton's "System of the Antichrist" yet? He is brooding and pessimistic, but very learned. And maybe not actually pessimistic. 'course it's easy for us with food and shelter to not be pessimistic :|
Thanks for the information and gratitude, shaqer. I just posted an episode and I'm going to look at the Torah again in my next one, so it might touch on some of the things you're talking about, not sure. But on your last point, Roman state sponsorship of the Jesus cult (more accurately than Christian, since they conflated the two) didn't really happen until Constantine. At the time the gospels were written--70-80 CE--the zealot revolt was completely destroyed.
The word Jew doesn't get used until 1100 CE or so. I think what gets translated as Jew really means rebels. Even Judean wouldn't be a Hebrew word or Jerusalem. I think all the J words are tells that it's something else, something Greek or Roman.
I really enjoyed this, shaqer. Fascinating that Goethe adopted Islam. Thanks for sending me here and I'll look for a place to use this in mine because I think it's important.
Also, the only typo I found was in a/ my friend. If I am such, saying the physical world is possibly illusion, I'm honored ;-)
Thank you Tereza. That sentence and the couple that follow were the only additions I made to the essay after watching your piece (other than moving sentences around and formatting). The rest was written before I watched it. I found it happily interesting that you talked about agreement of reality when I was writing about agreements about concepts of weight, color, etcetera. (and also I learned from your observation that it really can't be a shared delusion (at least that as one thing I took from your speech).
I know as best as I know anything that you are my well-wisher Tereza, and I'm happy to call you friend. I'm fairly conservative in the sense that I'm not used to calling older persons (than I, I am 46) friend, but this works!
If you are ever in the northern virginia area, it would be great to have a chat or coffee, or attend something. Human beings are meant to interact face-to-face (I think you agree) but we do what we must.
Shaqer
Oh I'm glad you reminded me about your article, which I wanted to include in What is Reality? I just posted the YT but haven't done the Substack yet, so there's still time.
In mid-February, I'll be in Western MD for a couple of weeks, in my hometown of Cumberland. That's not exactly close but also not terrifically far, depending on the weather. Let's stay in touch. And I'm glad you feel I'm your well-wisher ;-) I certainly feel that way too.
Tereza Tereza
I haven't watched all of your Nuland video as it (I'm am kind of...averse due to the subject matter...but shall). But this:
رضدن Re-SH-Dth-Nuon. The letters spelling the word “Rashidun” in contemporary Arabic script. The word “rasheed” is typically translated as “just” or “rightly guided” when applied to creatures. “Rashidun” is the plural of rasheed. Muslims [sic] refer to God as ar-Rasheed (The Just), but in the singular, and never refer to God in plural.
"Zion" as pronounced by the rabbinical approved contemporary constructed Hebrew (ritual hebrew) is something like "tzun".
It is laughable (and I never have used that phrase before I think even in speaking). But the popular tv and written narrative is that after great research and mediation, wise rabbis concluded the pronounciation of YHWH - is exactly the phonetic pronunciation of the Arabic letters eya-hei-wao-hei. What research did they do???
Geographer Master's me: A rose by any other name. The word "Semite" is used for a lot, but refers in geography/history to Arabian migrants who migrated north int Syria and Mesopotamia starting around the time of Sumer (possibly driven by climate change related push factors). A relatively small stream, but continuous over 1500 years. So in this sense - why do geographer and historians refer to "semites" at all? Are indo-europeans called "kurgans"????
Other things being the same, a culture group/language group which is more isolated to external exchanges will be more consistent in its cultural reproduction. Meaning, medieval Arabic would be consistent with Arabian language. Human beings had a looong time to adapt a consistently slowly degrading physical environment for ages and ages cf. from post-glacial maximum - as the resources got slimmer no one outside would migrate into arabia, and the folks who remained there relied on a common lifestyle and culture and communication which only very slowly evolved...and in isolation.
Unlike say central Europe and northern Europe, which post-glaciation had many migrants moving in from so many directions, all with different lifestyles and backgrounds. Post glaciation from the honest folk who study it starts about 12k years ago, 10 000 BCE.
Does "Rashidun" sound like "Zion" as languages develop and change? Factor in the lack of diacritics in Hebrew, and the stultifying effect of rabbinical institution
I'm wary to look into this standard academically since the discipline is replete with bad actors and vested interests, and middle east theory and world theory and so forth is nicely the province of such cohorts and their maintainers. For example, some argue 10% of Rome's population was Jewish. That number sounds fantastic to me, but I don't know everything.
Yes, human sacrifice, horror. And I do think it is consciously acknowledged by the some of the wicked.
*aside, you have got me thinking - just sharing not asking for a response or clarification since I know you are busy - could it be that Roman state sponsorship of the Christian cult [sic] was a way of undermining Jewish militancy and that for external and other random factors "it got out of hand"? I'm thinking that must be part of your thesis.
Anyway, thank you for being around Tereza. I am SURE that very many are grateful for your agency - very many alive, and very many near. :)
رشدن correction. letters are reei-sheen-dal-noon.
ed.: "other things being the same" ceteris paribus. Of course, no object or phenomena is ever the same as another ;) but my vibe is very much along the lines of what I shared with you cf. "zion". I though of all this only recently.
Have you had the chance to look at Upton's "System of the Antichrist" yet? He is brooding and pessimistic, but very learned. And maybe not actually pessimistic. 'course it's easy for us with food and shelter to not be pessimistic :|
Thanks for the information and gratitude, shaqer. I just posted an episode and I'm going to look at the Torah again in my next one, so it might touch on some of the things you're talking about, not sure. But on your last point, Roman state sponsorship of the Jesus cult (more accurately than Christian, since they conflated the two) didn't really happen until Constantine. At the time the gospels were written--70-80 CE--the zealot revolt was completely destroyed.
The word Jew doesn't get used until 1100 CE or so. I think what gets translated as Jew really means rebels. Even Judean wouldn't be a Hebrew word or Jerusalem. I think all the J words are tells that it's something else, something Greek or Roman.
Thank you for reading and for your kind words.