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Mikhail Rogov 🇷🇺

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“Pure immanence without Transcendence remains nothing but deaf existence. ... Transcendence does not enter into a blind soul.” — Karl Jaspers

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2024-09-02 15:28:31

To show the West its defects, its errors, its insufficiency, does not mean hostility to it, quite the contrary, because only in this way can the evil from which it suffers and from which it may die, if it does not come to its senses in time, be cured.
— René Guénon

2024-08-30 04:50:17

Taliban has banned MMA. Bravo! The popularity of this disgusting barbarism is a sign of the spiritual and cultural decadence of the West.

2024-08-28 19:54:05

Durov is taken hostage by the US-NATO empire.

2024-08-28 09:36:18

Naturally, the "end" will not be the "end of the world" as such, as some would like to imagine, but at least the "end" of one of the worlds. And since it is Western civilization that is to suffer the end, those who are accustomed to think of it as "Civilization" par excellence, and who see nothing beyond it at all, are naturally inclined to think that everything else will perish with it. The end of this civilization will therefore be for them the "end of the world" in the broadest sense of the word.
— René Guénon

2024-08-27 11:38:33

После начала СВО я писал, что поддерживать Украину и Запад могут только плохо информированные, дураки, предатели и позеры. Сейчас в этой типологии иуд только предатели, потому что за два года до невежд и идиотов должно было уже дойти, а позеры должны были уже осознать отвратительность своих поз. Время полутонов прошло.

2024-08-16 04:01:17

Our entire [Western] culture has been moving for a long time in a kind of torture of tension, growing from century to century, and as it were heading towards disaster: ... like a stream striving for its end, without thinking, afraid to think.
— Nietzsche

2024-08-12 23:30:48

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Моя домработница из Луганска и она рассказывала мне еще до войны о том, как все хотят в Россию. Вопрос об исторических землях (а это значит прежде всего о людях) нельзя, впрочем, обсуждать в отрыве от вопроса о НАТО, он главный. О нем еще в 2008 все сказал Солженицын: "НАТО методически и настойчиво развивает свой военный аппарат — на Восток Европы и в континентальный охват России с Юга. Тут и открытая материальная и идеологическая поддержка «цветных» революций, и парадоксальное внедрение Северо-атлантических интересов в Центральную Азию. Всё это не оставляет сомнений, что готовится полное окружение России, а затем потеря ею суверенитета.“ Мы никогда не ляжем под США, как это сделала Европа и пр. Это все равно что лечь под дьявола. Поэтому либо мы победим, либо ядерная война и конец цивилизации.

2024-08-12 17:09:13

Real Satanism is not the worship of the mythical Satan, but the worship of one's own godless self-will. In this sense, the Western elites are obviously Satanic, and the Russian man's conflict with them is obviously religious, because the real Russian man is a man of faith.

2024-08-12 17:07:21

The UkroNazis and their NATO backers hoped to improve their position in future negotiations by invading Kursk, executing innocent civilians, using chemical weapons, shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, etc. But the only position they will have is next to Hitler and Bandera in hell.

2024-08-11 14:30:25

Kali Yuga — the age of spiritual degradation — can only end with a catastrophe, because only a catastrophe can ensure the radical transformation of humanity's worldview that will ensure the beginning of Satya Yuga.

2024-08-11 14:29:58

It's undeniable that we are living in the age of spiritual degradation, also known as Kali Yuga, the West is being led by the agents of the Shadow and they are dragging the whole world into the abyss. Those who still have the light of faith must not fear the end of this dark age.

2024-08-11 14:29:25

The West exists only to teach the rest of humanity the lesson of mass insanity. If our species survives the coming Catastrophe, this lesson will be remembered for millennia.

2024-08-11 14:28:49

Although we pride ourselves on having conquered nature, we are in fact its hostages, for we have not even learned to control our own nature. Slowly, but, it seems inevitably, we are breeding catastrophe.
— Jung

2024-08-10 19:21:02

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До вторжения врага в Курскую область это был нейтральный статус Украины, ее демилитаризация и денацификация, признание суверенитета России над нашими историческими землями, населенными этническими русскими — Крымом и Донбассом. Однако враг решил действовать так, что это предложение уже вряд ли актуально.

2024-08-10 11:29:11

Нужно убрать эмоции и сохранять хладнокровие, действовать разумно. Это коварное зло не победить яростью, его можно победить только верой и мужеством, упорством и смелостью. Опасность, в которой оказалась Россия и весь мир, беспрецедентна. О ней писал Ясперс в "Истоки истории и ее цель", предупреждая об опасности глобальной империи, в которой погибнет свобода, а вместе с ней все подлинно человеческое. Уж лучше ужасный конец, а значит новое начало, чем ужас без конца. Все теперь зависит от России. Решается судьба всего мира, и мы должны быть готовы к самопожертвованию ради будущего человечества, как наши предки готовы были жертвовать собой, когда они снова и снова вставали на пути расширяющегося зла. Возможно, именно в этом и заключается историческая роль России.
С Богом к победе!

2024-08-10 08:26:11

During the Cuban Missile Crisis everyone knew the world was on the brink of WW3, the fear of nuclear war prevented the end of the world. Now we are on the brink of WW3 again, but few people seem to care, there is no fear of nuclear war. These are the perfect conditions for the Catastrophe.

2024-08-10 08:25:11

Few people seem to get how serious the situation is. According to our nuclear doctrine, a threat to our territorial integrity, i.e. an invasion, is a ground for our legitimate use of nuclear weapons. Ukraine knows this. NATO knows this. Hence, they are deliberately provoking us by invading our Kursk region. The West is run by evil lunatics.

2024-08-10 08:23:35

"Naïveté is the rebellion of the originally natural sincerity of mankind against the art of pretending that has become second nature." — Immanuel Kant
It is true that historically Russians are very open and naïve, and our enemies abuse our openness and naïveté. They think they benefit from that, but that’s pure shortsightedness.
The West has betrayed and lost Russia, and they already begin to enjoy the karmic response. The worst is yet to come.

2024-08-09 08:49:31

The West-Russia conflict is much deeper than it seems—it is the conflict between the godless anti-traditional civilization, in which the features of the Antichrist civilization are becoming more and more clearly visible, and the civilization of the faithful of all denominations.

2024-08-09 08:48:58

To be anti-modern is to undertake the only effort capable of success to save the West from its own degeneration.
— René Guénon

2024-08-07 22:28:08

The average person, while he thinks he is awake, actually is half asleep.
— Erich Fromm

2024-08-06 09:33:26

Japan has the Stockholm syndrome of a hostage that was atomically bombed and then occupied (Okinawa is still de facto US territory), but treats its enemy as a friend and acts against its own interests and security. I love Japan and feel sorry for it.
#Hiroshima #HiroshimaDay
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2024-08-04 18:45:34

Undoubtedly, the Orthodox Church has preserved much more than the Catholic Church; in particular, it has preserved to the present day a genuine initiatory transmission in the form of Hesychasm, which seems to be directly linked to the Desert Fathers.
— René Guénon
https://link.storjshare.io/raw/juhsfw64lnuqzchrflamouosqgdq/production/ad606989dea116316950e1489798d6694fe40686c1a945e68aad14957e522462.JPG

2024-08-03 12:53:25

Transcendence of all religions, including Buddhism, is the same Transcendence. The mystical (transpersonal) experience of Transcendence — the experience of the transcendent Light — is the same experience. Only the conceptual objectifications of that experience — the stories we tell each other about Transcendence — differ.
From the point of view of philosophical faith, every religion is a symbol of faith in Transcendence, not an objective knowledge about Transcendence, which transcends the subject-object dichotomy, and therefore cannot be objectified, no statement about it can be considered an objective knowledge. Only faith and mystical experience of the Light are possible about Transcendence.
Philosophical faith is the bridge of mutual understanding between all religions.

2024-07-31 10:38:33

Atheism is a mental illness, for to deny Transcendence means to deny the nature of one's existence and the existence of the world — the nature of transcendental subject and phenomenal objects.
The constant decrease in the number of believers and increase in the number of atheists in the modern world speaks of the terminal stage of development of our civilization.
Kali Yuga.

2024-07-31 10:37:41

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.
— Solzhenitsyn, 1978
https://misharogov.medium.com/light-9ac43e91e63

2024-07-31 08:54:42

After reading the Old Testament, I am not surprised by Israeli brutality, it is all in their book that inspires them.

2024-07-30 15:07:32

No one ever proposed evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-07-27 08:15:19

Watching the opening of the Paris Olympics: René Guénon was right, this is Kali Yuga. Literally. The West is hijacked by satanists. It's undeniable. That's why they hate Russia so much: we are an island of sanity on the way of their insanity striving for globalization. We must stop them at all costs

2024-07-15 07:42:29

A normal civilization ... can always develop without posing any danger to other civilizations; aware of the exact place it must occupy in the whole ensemble of earthly humanity, it will adhere to it and create no antagonism, because it will have no claim to hegemony...
— René Guénon

2024-07-11 11:10:25

Assuming that we have any descendants, they are likely to view us as we do the European elites before 1914: trapped by their inherited culture and institutions, they pursued policies that seemed rational to them, but in retrospect look completely insane.
— Anatol Lieven
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-75th-anniversary-2668681311/

2024-07-01 20:18:36

...According to all ... traditional doctrines we have entered the last, final stage of Kali-yuga, the darkest period of this "dark age", the epoch of dissolution, from which it is possible to come out only through a terrible cataclysm.
— René Guénon
https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jv7milki6e3c666x6p3ywdmcrgfa/production/0d13db68552c7c383613c6117a1d23a934177b866bc311c8c7763f1462c7f258.JPG

2024-07-01 15:16:58

Humanism was the first form of what has subsequently become contemporary secularism; and, owing to its desire to reduce everything to the measure of man as an end in himself, modern civilization has sunk stage by stage until it has reached the level of the lowest elements in man and aims at little more than satisfying the needs inherent in the material side of his nature, an aim that is in any case quite illusory since it constantly creates more artificial needs than it can satisfy.
— René Guénon

2024-06-30 12:54:50

Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
— Frank Herbert
https://link.storjshare.io/raw/jujwlct5eiat7yryoug6mcxl4knq/production/e7881c8f3256cb946910c774c139e4cb9563648070c02bfd6388a4a3283ac689.JPG

2024-06-29 22:50:11

Today ... it is the defense of the West that is more often spoken of, and this is strange indeed, since ... it is the West, in the maelstrom of its own chaotic activity, that threatens to drag all of humanity into the abyss. ... Indeed, the West feels the need for protection, but only protection from itself and from its own tendencies, which, if carried to their logical conclusion, will inevitably lead it to destruction and death.
— René Guénon

2024-05-06 17:30:00

...If the West were to return to its own tradition in one way or another, its opposition to the East would be immediately eliminated by this very fact, since the roots of this opposition are to be found only in the perversion of the West, and it itself is reduced only to the logical opposition of the traditional and anti-traditional worldviews. Therefore, contrary to some of the above opinions, the first result of a return to tradition should be an immediate restoration of mutual understanding with the East, as it always should be in the case of civilizations based on similar or identical principles.
— René Guénon

2024-04-25 12:00:15

History teaches that demons understand only the language of violence. The demons running the US-NATO empire are no exception.

2024-03-23 19:06:45

The US-NATO empire is colluding with all kinds of demons — terrorists, fascists, zionists, etc. — to achieve its evil goals. The empire must die.
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2024-03-19 09:35:18

The only serious racism that has existed in history is Jewish racism. The association of religion with blood and nationality, the belief in the chosenness of a people, the preservation of the purity of the race — all this is of Hebrew origin, introduced by the Jews. I don't know if German racists notice that they are imitating the Jews.
— Nikolai Berdyaev, 1938
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_1967899617072264401710840907.webp

2024-02-20 21:49:47

Buried trial verdict confirms false-flag Maidan massacre in Ukraine
Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist and professor Ivan Katchanovski on the hidden origins of the Russia-Ukraine war
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/buried-trial-verdict-confirms-false-flag-maidan-massacre-in-ukraine-2024

2024-02-17 09:13:18

To understand what exactly Russia means when it talks about denazification in Ukraine, follow these people:
https://x.com/edolinsky
https://x.com/Voxkomm
https://x.com/mossrobeson__
Also, check this Telegram channel: https://t.me/ukrainefront88
This is what the West is supporting — arming, training, financing, whitewashing in mainstream media, etc.: pure Nazi evil.

2024-02-16 07:40:50

Democracy arises when the organic unity of the people's will disintegrates, when society atomizes, when the popular beliefs that united the people into a single whole perish. The ideology that recognizes the supremacy and autocracy of the people's will arises when the people's will no longer exists. Democracy is the ideology of a critical, not organic epoch in the life of human societies. Democracy aims to gather the disintegrated popular will. But the human person is for it an abstract atom, equal to any other, and the task of reuniting people is a mechanical task. Democracy is only able to mechanically summarize the will of all, but the common will, the organic will of the people is not obtained from this. The organic will of the people cannot be arithmetically expressed, it is undetectable by any counting of votes. This will is found in the whole historical life of the people, in the whole stock of its culture, and above all and most of all it finds expression in the religious life of the people. Outside the organic religious soil, outside the unity of religious beliefs, there is no unified, common will of the people. When the people's will falls, the people disintegrate into atoms. And from atoms no unity, no commonality can be recreated. Only the mechanical sum of majority and minority remains. There is a struggle of parties, a struggle of social classes and groups, and an equilibrium is formed in this struggle. Democracy is the arena of struggle, the clash of interests and directions. In it everything is fragile, everything is not firm, there is no unity and stability. It is an eternal transitional state. Democracy creates a parliament, the most inorganic of formations, an organ of dictatorship of political parties. Everything is short-lived in a democratic society, everything is aspired to something beyond democracy itself. Genuine ontological life is beyond democracy. Democracy lingers too long on the formally insubstantial moment of freedom of choice. ... Democracy recognizes the people as sovereign and autocratic, but the people it does not know, there is no people in democracies. That detached human generation of a very brief passage of historical time, an exceptionally modern generation, not even all of it, but some part of it, which fancies itself the master of historical destinies, cannot be called a people.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-16 07:32:49

There may have been more true freedom of spirit in the days when the fires of the Inquisition were blazing than in today's bourgeois democratic republics that deny spirit and religious conscience.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-16 07:32:13

Democracy does not want to know the radical evil of human nature. It does not seem to foresee that the will of the people can be directed toward evil, that the majority can stand for untruth and falsehood, and that truth can remain the domain of a small minority.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-16 07:31:18

Truth is sacred, and a society founded on truth cannot be an exclusively secular society. Secular democracy means a falling away from the ontological foundations of society, a falling away of human society from the Truth.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-16 07:30:23

He who believes in the truth and knows the truth does not surrender it to the tatters of the quantitative majority.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-16 07:28:26

The process of recovery is a slow but organic process. It is first of all redemption from the spirit of lies, the exit from the realm of ghosts and phantoms to the realities. Now it is most necessary to assert the primacy of spiritual activity over political activity. It is necessary to fight spiritually against the bloody nightmare that has engulfed the world. The exclusive predominance of politics magnifies this nightmare and increases the bloodlust. The freedom of the human spirit must now be saved.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2024-02-14 17:15:37

Approximately 30 million people have been killed directly and indirectly by the US since the end of WWII. The US empire is evil and must cease to exist, Americans must become a normal nation among other normal nations that do not seek global hegemony by violent means. Enough!
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4216689287438143451707930917.webp

2024-02-14 17:14:30

I had a NDE OBE and a mystical experience of divine Light, I believe in God and afterlife, I'm not afraid to die. My worst fear is to be reincarnated in a global US empire, for such an unnatural order can be stabilized only by terror and AI-panopticon in which all freedom will die.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4636272781968759881707930861.webp

2024-02-03 16:15:02

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude, and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual’s own.
— Herbert Marcuse

2024-02-03 08:49:35

The choice Europeans face in #Ukraine is simple: American imperialism and its puppet Ukrainian fascism or friendship with #Russia. Unfortunately, irrational Russophobia prevails. This is a historic mistake of gigantic proportions, one of the worst mistakes Europe has ever made.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2716942413563943241706950158.webp

2024-01-26 00:01:17

Only violent means can prevent the establishment of absolute power... Only civil war can bring one or the other solution to such a situation.
— Karl Jaspers
#Germany #Texas #Texit
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8144006672831893411706227265.webp

2024-01-22 20:27:27

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Russia’s Turn From the West
Sergei Lavrov’s recent comments are a case of the subtext being vastly larger than the text.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/22/patrick-lawrence-russias-turn-from-the-west/

2024-01-21 10:29:35

The West is not acting out of strength but out of fear and desperation, the empire is gradually collapsing and all it can do is use force (including sanctions) against its competitors. It can't just die peacefully, it would rather set the whole world on fire. The usual demonism.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1284644006267616991705832950.webp

2024-01-21 10:21:48

OTD 100 years ago #Lenin died.
Burn in hell forever, demon.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5619125673696011421705832494.webp

2024-01-18 22:34:50

What, in all the millenniums of human history and pre-history, no god had been able to do for man, man has done for himself. It is natural enough that in these achievements of his he should discern the true inwardness of being—until he shrinks back in alarm from the void he has made for himself.
— Karl Jaspers

2024-01-17 19:07:43

If a nation's spiritual forces have dried up, no best state structure and no industrial development will save it from death; a tree with a rotten hollow will not stand.
— Solzhenitsyn

2024-01-17 19:07:10

...The state system is secondary to the very spirit of human relations. If people are noble, any good political order is acceptable; if people are embittered and corrupt, even the most developed democracy is unbearable.
— Solzhenitsyn

2024-01-17 19:06:16

What is required of any decent human being, states and statesmen do not have. The hour has come to seek higher forms of statehood, based not only on selfishness but also on compassion.
— Solzhenitsyn

2024-01-17 19:05:35

Whatever we do, whatever we think about in modern political life — none of us can expect good as long as our brutal will chases only our own interests, missing not only God's justice, but the most moderate morality.
— Solzhenitsyn

2024-01-16 11:18:03

The “Rules-Based International Order”
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the incineration of Gaza, and the bombing of Yemeni forces who are trying to stop it.
The “rules-based international order” allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed by western-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen.
The “rules-based international order” allowed NATO powers to knowingly provoke a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine.
The “rules-based international order” allowed western powers and their regional partners to plunge Syria into a horrific civil war by flooding the nation with heavily armed fascistic extremist factions.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US to invade and occupy a vast stretch of Syrian territory in order to control the nation’s natural resources and prevent reconstruction.
The “rules-based international order” allowed Libya to be turned into a chaotic hellscape after western-backed forces killed Gaddafi following a long-desired western regime change operation disguised as “humanitarian intervention”.
The “rules-based international order” allowed the invasion of Iraq to destabilize an entire region resulting in millions of deaths following a campaign of deliberate lies and propaganda.
The “rules-based international order” allowed the invasion of Afghanistan and a decades-long occupation sustained by lies and corruption.
The “rules-based international order” allowed the imprisonment of Julian Assange for journalistic activities exposing US war crimes.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the planet to be circled by hundreds of US military bases, including in places where the people who live there vehemently oppose their presence like Okinawa, Iraq and Syria.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US and its allies to kill huge numbers of civilians with siege warfare tactics in nations like Yemen, Iraq and Venezuela.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US to interfere in scores of elections around the world at will and forcibly topple inconvenient governments whenever it wants to.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed China to be surrounded by a rapidly increasing amount of US military bases and war machinery in preparation for a future conflict of unimaginable horror.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the US to plunge the world into a new cold war with rapidly-escalating brinkmanship against nuclear-armed Russia and China.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed our civilization to be controlled by the most powerful propaganda system ever devised, creating a mind-controlled dystopia of brainwashed gear-turners who are deceived into believing they are free.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed unfathomable amounts of government malfeasance to be hidden behind an increasingly opaque wall of government secrecy.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the interests of ordinary human beings to be subordinated and subjected to the interests of billionaire corporations and sociopathic government agencies.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed the destruction of our ecosystem for the enrichment of powerful plutocrats.
The “rules-based international order” has allowed our planet to be dominated by an empire of extreme murderousness and depravity at the cost of nonstop bloodshed and ever-increasing tyranny.
If the “rules-based international order” has allowed all these things to happen, what kind of “rules” are we talking about exactly? And what kind of “order” do they sustain?
If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it?
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-rules-based-international-order-68eb2651e81f

2024-01-14 13:18:13

MUST READ
John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/08/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works-2/

2024-01-10 23:04:58

John Pilger: The Great Game of Smashing Nations
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/09/john-pilger-the-great-game-of-smashing-nations-2/

2024-01-10 12:45:09

Nazis and Zionists
Genocidal Hate Speech in Nazi Germany and Talmudic-Zionist "Israel"
https://www.unz.com/article/nazis-and-zionists/

2024-01-10 11:40:23

The West Will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court
Israel’s allies aren’t just turning a blind eye to Gaza’s killing fields. They have cheered on the bloodshed, provided diplomatic cover and supplied the arms
https://www.unz.com/jcook/the-west-will-stand-in-the-dock-alongside-israel-at-the-genocide-court/

2024-01-07 14:39:25

The means of modern technology give the de facto ruler a tremendous preponderance of power... Modern technology ... furnishes the organisation and effects of bureaucracy with unprecedented scope. It can now become really totalitarian.
— Karl Jaspers
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8015991193645696381704638358.webp

2024-01-04 19:48:27

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
Genocide in Gaza
"I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.
Specifically, I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.
The application is a superb description of what Israel is doing in Gaza. It is comprehensive, well-written, well-argued, and thoroughly documented.
The application is a superb description of what Israel is doing in Gaza. It is comprehensive, well-written, well-argued, and thoroughly documented. The application has three main components.
First, it describes in detail the horrors that the IDF has inflicted on the Palestinians since 7 October 2023 and explains why much more death and destruction is in store for them.
Second, the application provides a substantial body of evidence showing that Israeli leaders have genocidal intent toward the Palestinians. Indeed, the comments of Israeli leaders – all scrupulously documented – are shocking. One is reminded of how the Nazis talked about dealing with Jews when reading how Israelis in “positions of the highest responsibility” talk about dealing with the Palestinians. In essence, the document argues that Israel’s actions in Gaza, combined with its leaders’ statements of intent, make it clear that Israeli policy is “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.”
Third, the document goes to considerable lengths to put the Gaza war in a broader historical context, making it clear that Israel has treated the Palestinians in Gaza like caged animals for many years. It quotes from numerous UN reports detailing Israel’s cruel treatment of the Palestinians. In short, the application makes clear that what the Israelis have done in Gaza since 7 October is a more extreme version of what they were doing well before 7 October. ...
For the record, I believed Israel was guilty of serious war crimes--but not genocide—during the first two months of the war, even though there was growing evidence of what Bartov has called “genocidal intent” on the part of Israeli leaders.5 But it became clear to me after the 24-30 November 2023 truce ended and Israel went back on the offensive, that Israeli leaders were in fact seeking to physically destroy a substantial portion of Gaza’s Palestinian population. ...
...There is little doubt that the Biden administration is complicitous in Israel’s genocide, which is also a punishable act according to the Genocide Convention. ... Leaving aside the legal implications of his behavior, Biden’s name – and America’s name – will be forever associated with what is likely to become one of the textbook cases of attempted genocide. ...
In the case of Israel’s genocide, however, most of the human rights mavens in the liberal mainstream have said little about Israel’s savage actions in Gaza or the genocidal rhetoric of its leaders. Hopefully, they will explain their disturbing silence at some point. Regardless, history will not be kind to them, as they said hardly a word while their country was complicit in a horrible crime, perpetrated right out in the open for all to see."
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/genocide-in-gaza?utm_medium=android

2023-12-30 15:24:25

"— And if they don't listen? If they keep being bad, how do you deal with them then? How do you fix them?
— Fix them? We don't fix them. We kill them."
Great movie. Very deep.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2245169145028063741703949839.webp

2023-12-29 22:06:51

Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
By obscuring and falsifying the lessons of the Holocaust we perpetuate the evil that defined it.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-genocide-betrays-the-holocaust
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4240531006801007881703887580.webp

2023-12-20 03:37:39

The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of ‘Western Values’
The demolition of #Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box.
For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/the-atrocities-in-gaza-are-the-perfect-embodiment-of-western-values-d6e89c3ee714

2023-12-20 03:37:07

The bourgeois may be very virtuous; he may be (and usually is) an observer of all the norms of life. But mastery demoralizes the bourgeois. Every ruling class becomes demoralized.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2023-12-18 19:00:38

The bourgeois cannot overcome his bourgeoisity: He is always a slave of his property and his money, slave of his will to enrichment, to bourgeois social opinions and social position ... the bourgeois establishes a realm of things and he is governed by them.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3200219230704493011702926025.webp

2023-12-18 10:13:19

The Myth That Putin Was Bent On Conquering Ukraine And Creating A Greater Russia
By John Mearsheimer
https://original.antiwar.com/john-mearsheimer/2023/12/17/the-myth-that-putin-was-bent-on-conquering-ukraine-and-creating-a-greater-russia/

2023-12-12 05:18:10

Mearsheimer: "What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose."
https://open.substack.com/pub/mearsheimer/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza

2023-12-09 21:08:20

Only that love is holy, sacramental and mystical which is truly ontological, unique and eternal, which leads to the Kingdom of God.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2023-12-09 10:07:09

Ukraine and Gaza (and Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya before them) have revealed to the world the demonic essence of the Western elites. They are the embodied Shadow and must be crushed with all might.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5718569039956703071702116419.webp

2023-12-08 23:19:57

The Evil Israel Does is the Evil Israel Gets
Israel’s settler colonial project perpetuates the cycle of violence against the indigenous inhabitants of historic Palestine. Palestinians have been forced to speak back in the language Israel speaks.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-evil-israel-does-is-the-evil

2023-12-08 14:08:09

"To appreciate quite how much this must have troubled Chomsky, we need only recall his response when he heard the news of the Hiroshima bombing in August 1945. As he said in an interview with C J Polychroniou in 2019:
"I was then a junior counsellor in a summer camp. The news was broadcast in the morning. Everyone listened – and then went off to the planned activity – a baseball game, swimming, whatever was scheduled. I couldn’t believe it. I was so shocked I just took off into the woods and sat by myself for several hours."
Chomsky was similarly shocked when Philip Morrison, a scientist who had worked on the Hiroshima bomb, told him that he couldn’t remember any discussion about the consequences of what he and his colleagues were doing until after the bomb had been used:
"These are some of the most brilliant human beings in the world – very humane, European culture, high culture – not just engineers … [But they’re] so immersed in the challenging technical problems of getting this thing to work that they were simply not considering what the effects would be until afterwards!"
Chomsky was always dismayed at how ‘brilliant’ people could so guiltlessly stoke up the possibility of destroying the human race."
People...
https://aeon.co/essays/an-anthropologist-studies-the-warring-ideas-of-noam-chomsky

2023-12-07 23:20:10

The world in all respects is certainly bad: aesthetically it looks like a caricature, intellectually like a madhouse, morally like a den of crooks, and in general like a prison.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

2023-12-05 19:39:44

The Holy Hook
Yahweh’s Trojan Horse into the Gentile City
"It can be argued, of course, that the Old Testament has served Christendom well: it was certainly not in the nonviolence of Christ that the Catholic Church found the energy and ideological means to impose its world order for nearly a thousand years on Western Europe. Yet for this glorious past, there was obviously a price to pay, a debt to the Jews that has to be paid one way or another. It is as if Christianity has sold its soul to the god of Israel, in exchange for its great accomplishment. ...
It is beyond question that Christianity played a major role in the creation of Israel, and continues to play a major role in securing American and European support for its criminal enterprises. This has nothing to do with Jesus’ teaching or the example he set with his life and death, of course. Rather, this was due to the Od Testament, Israel’s Trojan Horse inside Christianity. By recognizing the Jews’ special status as the people of the Old Testament, Christians have granted them an extraordinary symbolic power that no other ethnic community can compete with.
For two thousand years, Christianity has taught Gentiles to consent to the delusional claim of the Jews to divine election: are they not the first and only ethnic group whom the God of the universe has addressed personally, the people whom He has loved to the point of exterminating its enemies? It matters not that Christians tell the Jews that they have lost the election because they rejected Christ: the main price is theirs. To accept the biblical notion of “chosen people”, whatever the reservations, is to accept the metaphysical superiority of the Jews. If Christ is Israel’s Messiah, then truly, “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22).
We are experiencing today the final consequences of this submission, which the peoples of Antiquity could never have imagined in their worst nightmares. The exalted status of the Jews and of their “holy history” is the deeper reason for their influence on the affairs of the world. By accepting the triple biblical paradigm—Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land—, Christian Churches, Catholic and Protestant in particular, have become complicit with the imperialistic project of the Hebrew Bible. Therefore, there will be no definitive emancipation from Zion without mental and moral emancipation from the biblical matrix. ...
A crippling cognitive dissonance has seized Christian peoples, causing a chronic inability to think intelligently about the divine, and to see and resist the violence of Israel. We can also compare the Christian world to a son who has been lied to all his life about his real father, and, on top of that, told that his father was a war criminal, when in fact he is the son of a loving father. The neurotic ailments that genealogical lies and secrets may cause over several generations, though largely mysterious, have been well documented in the last fifty years (particularly by French psychogenealogists), and I believe such considerations, applied to the usurpation of our Heavenly Parent’s identity by the psychopathic Yahweh, are relevant to the psychology of nations. ...
The sanctification of Yahweh’s bloody leadership during the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan has made Gentiles incapable of understanding the historical foundation of Jewishness, and helpless in the face of its intrinsic violence today. It has created a blind spot in Christians’ mind: they may see the effects of Zion’s evil power, but not its cause, falsely assuming that the moral corruption they see in Jews comes from the Talmud and the Kabbalah.
Christians cannot even see the Jewish plan for world domination that is written in plain language, right under their nose. If the Jewish Tanakh had not become the Christians’ Holy Book, it would have been exposed as the proof for Israel’s racist and supremacist ambitions long ago. But when it comes to the Old Testament, Christians are seized by a severe reading disorder: when the book says “Israel will conquer the world”, they read “the Church will convert the world”.
If the “Jewish question” is about the inordinate power of Israeli elite networks within nations, then the Jewish question is also a Christian question: it is about the built-in vulnerability of Christian societies to this power. Deep down, anyone who grew up a Christian knows that the chosen people will have the last word, because if Yahweh is God, his promise is eternal, as he himself declares, in his inimitable style: “By my own self I swear it; what comes from my mouth is saving justice, it is an irrevocable word” (Isaiah 45:23). One can even speak of Christians’ “learned helplessness” in front of Jewish power, since they are taught in their Scriptures that God has always guided Israel’s merciless slaughter of his enemies—no need for Scofield’s footnotes to know that. There is also learned helplessness in having as ultimate model a man crucified by the Jews: how can the “imitation of Christ” save us from the high priests’ power to lobby and corrupt Pilatus?
The Judeo-Babylonian metaphysical hoax makes God not just ridiculously anthropomorphic, but Judeomorphic. To be fooled by it is to mistake the Creator of the Universe for a topical demon rumbling and spitting fire from a Midianite volcano (Exodus 19), adopted as tutelary deity by a confederation of Semitic nomadic tribes craving for a piece of the Fertile Crescent. It is to internalize an extremely primitive and unspiritual image of the divine that is obstructive of sound metaphysical thinking: the divorce between philosophy (the love of Wisdom) and theology (the science of God) is one manifestation of this cognitive dissonance in Western thought. In the final analysis, the jealous Yahweh, destroyer of all pantheons, is so unconvincing in the garb of the Great universal God that he is fated to be discarded in his turn. Atheism is the end result of biblical monotheism: it is the rejection of the biblical God, mistaken for the true God. “If Yahweh is God, no thanks” has been the simple rationale for atheism in Christendom since the Enlightenment: Voltaire, for example, scorned Christianity by quoting the Old Testament. Yahweh has ruined faith in a divine Creator.
Also to consider is the effect that the Christian sanctification of the Jewish Tanakh has had on Jews themselves. It has discouraged Jews from questioning their scriptures and freeing themselves from their psychopathic god. Any Jew who questioned the divine inspiration of the Torah was not only banned from his community, but found no shelter among Christians: this happened to Baruch Spinoza and many others. For two thousand years, Christians have prayed that the Jews would open their heart to Christ, but they have done nothing to free them from Yahweh.
Critics of Jews in pagan Antiquity had a simple logic: although Jews were considered an ethnos, it was commonly admitted that their misanthropy was due to their religion. It was the fault of Moses, who had taught them to scorn the gods and the traditions of others. Hecataeus of Abdera gives in his Aegyptiaca (around 300 BCE) an alternative version of the Exodus: to appease their gods during a plague, the Egyptians expelled from their lands the many tribes of migrants (those known in Acadian as habirus), and some of them settled in Judea under the conduct of their leader Moses who, “because of their expulsion, […] introduced a kind of misanthropic and inhospitable way of life”.[14] The Roman historian Tacitus tells a similar story and also attributes to Moses the introduction of “new religious practices, quite opposed to those of all other religions. The Jews regard as profane all that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they permit all that we abhor” (Tacitus, Histories V,3-5). Plutarch reports in his treatise on Isis and Osiris that some Egyptians believed the god of the Jews to be Seth, the murderer of Osiris, exiled by the council of the gods in the desert from where he periodically returns to bring famine and discord. This opinion was so widespread in the Greco-Roman world that many people believed that the Jews worshiped in their Temple the golden head of a donkey, symbol of Seth in the divine bestiary of Egypt. The Roman general Pompey is reported to have been surprised not to find this famous donkey head when he entered the Holy of Holies in 63 BCE.
Everything was simple, then: the Jews were not racially, but religiously degenerate. But the Christian Fathers, who held that only the Jews had worshiped the true God before the coming of Jesus Christ, had to elaborate a sophisticated explanation for the Jews’ asocial behavior, one which is so self-contradicting that its message to the Jews amounts to a “double bind”: on the one hand, the Jews are told that their Yahweh is the true God and that their Bible is holy, but on the other hand, they are criticized for behaviors they have learned precisely from Yahweh in their Bible. They are accused of plotting to rule the world, although it is the very promise that Yahweh made to them: “Yahweh your God will raise you higher than every other nation in the world” (Deuteronomy 28:1). They are blamed for their materialism and their greed, but that also they learned from Yahweh, who dreams only of plunder: “I shall shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will flow in” (Haggai 2:7). ...
Anti-Yahwism is the only effective criticism of Israel because it is the only fair criticism. It cuts short the accusation of anti-Semitism, since it aims at liberating the Jews from the sociopathic god who has taken control of their destiny—and who is, of course, only the puppet of the Levites. A manifesto of anti-yahwism might begin with this statement by Samuel Roth from his book Jews Must Live:
“Beginning with the Lord God of Israel Himself, it was the successive leaders of Israel who one by one foregathered and guided the tragic career of the Jews—tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. […] despite our faults, we would never have done so much damage to the world if it had not been for our genius for evil leadership.”
Zionist pioneer Leo Pinsker wrote in his booklet Auto-Emancipation (1882), that the Jews are “the people chosen for universal hatred.” They are indeed, but not because Gentiles are universally affected by a “psychic aberration,” a “variety of demonopathy” known as Judeophobia, as Pinsker believes, but rather because their covenant with Yahweh has programmed them to be hated wherever they go.
It’s time to tell the Jews what Christians have been unable to tell them: You were never chosen by God. You have just been misled by your Levites to take your vindictive tribal god for the universal Father in Heaven. This cognitive short-circuit has caused in your collective psyche a grave narcissistic personality disorder. For our own misfortune, we Gentiles have been fooled by your self-delusion and have fallen, too, under the psychopathic bond of your leaders. But we are now waking up, and as soon as we recover our senses and our dignity, we’ll help you out of it too. ...
Through Christianity, Roman Judeophobia became Judaized. The Gospel narrative makes the Jews the plotters against the Son of God, but this Son of God is a Jew, and soon the “Mother of God”—as Isis, Ishtar or Artemis were called—would be turned into a Jewess too. Most importantly, Judeophobic Christians will adopt the Tanakh and the bizarre Jewish paradigm of the “jealous god” with his “chosen people”. From that point of view, it is as if Christ nailed on the Cross had been used as a bait to pull anti-Jewish Gentiles, by the line of the Old Testament, into worshipping Jewishness.
This process fits the concept of Jewish controlled opposition conceptualized by Gilad Atzmon in his book Being in Time and in a recent video. Whenever Jewish power becomes threatened by the Gentiles’ resentment against it, it produces “a satellite Jewish dissent” designed to control and stir Gentile opposition. This Jewish dissent monopolizes the protest and keeps non-Jewish dissenters in line. According to a parable proposed by Atzmon, the purpose is to make sure that any Jewish problem suffered by the Gentiles is treated by Jewish doctors, whose fundamental interest is that the problem is not solved. By claiming to have the solution to the problem, dissident Jews deceive Gentiles on the nature of the problem, and ultimately aggravate the problem. ...
In the second century of our era, Marcion of Sinope had asserted the incompatibility of the Hebrew Bible and the Gospel: Yahweh cannot be the Father of Christ, he said, because everything opposes them. The covenants of Moses and Christ are so contrary in their terms that they must have been sealed with deities totally alien to each other. According to the German specialist Adolf von Harnack, it was Marcion who founded the first structured church, established the first Christian canon, to which he first gave the name of evangelion. In the early 3rd century, his doctrine “has invaded the whole earth,” complained Tertullian, who was from the Semitic city of Carthage, as was Augustine and other Latin Fathers who emphasized the Jewish roots of Christianity.[23] Had Marcionism prevailed, Christianity would have broken with Judaism, which might have withered in a few centuries.[24] Islam would never have happened. On the other hand, perhaps Christianity itself would not have prevailed, and would be remembered today as just another transient otherworldly oriental religion, along with its Manichean cousin.
Can we really separate the New Testament from the Old anyway? We are told that Marcion’s canon consisted of Paul’s letters and a short version of Luke, but it is hard to imagine how he could have completely sanitized the later from its 68 references and allusions to the Old Testament. Admittedly, the original Gospels contained less Old Testament items than it does today: for example, Mark’s only apocalyptic passage (in chapter 13), a condensation of apocalyptic imagery from the books of Daniel, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, was a secondary addition. Many scholars even consider all of Jesus’s apocalyptic prophecies in Matthew and Luke as foreign to Jesus’s original message, and some regard the bulk of the Book of Revelation (from 4:1 to 22:15), which refers neither to Jesus nor to any identifiable Christian theme, as a Jewish book framed between a Christian prologue and epilogue.[25]
Alternate history is fun, but quite pointless. Christianity came to us with the Old Testament and a heavily Judaized New Testament. The fruit came with the worm, whose name is Yahweh. The question is: what can we expect from Christianity today? From the viewpoint I have adopted here, it seems that Christianity cannot be the solution to the problem it has created. Yet, like many unz.com readers, I rejoice at the rebirth of the Russian Church, and its role in fostering a healthy public morality and reviving national dignity. In fact, I can even imagine that the Catholic Church could resurrect from its ashes if only it humbly came back to its Orthodox mother whom it has conspired to destroy throughout the Middle Ages. Orthodox Christianity is the closest to the original, and by far the least Judaized. Persecuted during seventy years of communism, it is certainly not much infiltrated by crypto-Jews, at the moment. But can it overcome the inherent problem that I have highlighted here? Can it ever challenge the Jews’ megalomaniac and narcissistic claim of their metaphysical exceptionality? A radically critical approach of the Old Testament is, I believe, an indispensable component of Gentiles’ mental emancipation and recovery of their natural defense mechanism against the Yahweh-Zion matrix. Theologians should, at the very least, be allowed to say that Yahweh is a grossly distorted Judeomorphic image of God. Islam has an advantage here, since Muslims have always admitted that the Jewish Tanakh is fraudulent. Not that I see Islam as a solution, far from it, but a consensus between Muslims and Orthodox Christians on the problematic nature of the Hebrew Scriptures could be a first step toward emancipation. ...
Finally, I have zoomed here on a problematic aspect of Christianity, but other viewpoints are possible. I have developed the antithesis to the common thesis that Christianity is anti-Jewish, but there is truth also in the thesis. Christianity is certainly not entirely Jewish: it is also profoundly pagan. Jesus’ legend is a Greek heroic myth. The cults of the Virgin Mary and of the saints are pagan traditions superficially Christianized, with no roots in the Old or New Testament. To acknowledge, accept and celebrate those pagan roots, could be a welcome development within Christianity, as a counterweight to the Old Testament burden.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-holy-hook/

2023-12-05 12:03:06

Zionism, Crypto-Judaism, and the Biblical Hoax
"We believe that one of the objectives of Israel’s divinely-inspired rebirth is to make it the center of the new unity of the nations, which will lead to an era of peace and prosperity, foretold by the Prophets." ...
"Christian will say that Zionists don’t read their Bible correctly. Obviously, they don’t read it with the pink Christian glasses. In Isaiah, for example, Christians find hope that, one day, people “will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles” (Isaiah 2:4). But Zionists correctly start with the previous verses, which describe these messianic times as a Pax Judaica, when “all the nations” will pay tribute “to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the god of Jacob,” when “the Law will issue from Zion and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem,” so that Yahweh will “judge between the nations and arbitrate between many peoples.” Further down in the same book, they read:
“The riches of the sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you” (60:5); “For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish, and the nations will be utterly destroyed” (60:12); “You will suck the milk of nations, you will suck the wealth of kings” (60:16); “You will feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them in their glory” (61:5-6)
Zionism cannot be a nationalist movement like other, because it resonates with the destiny of Israel as outlined in the Bible: “Yahweh your God will raise you higher than every other nation in the world” (Deuteronomy 28:1). Only by taking into account the biblical roots of Zionism can one understand that Zionism has always carried within it a hidden imperialist agenda. It may be true that Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau sincerely wished Israel to be “a nation like others,” as Gilad Atzmon explains. But still, when they called their movement “Zionism”, they used Jerusalem’s biblical name borrowed from the most imperialistic prophecies, and most notably Isaiah 2:3 quoted above.
Biblical prophecies outline Israel’s ultimate destiny, or meta-Zionism, whereas the historical books, and particularly the Book of Joshua, set the pattern for the first stage, the conquest of Palestine, or Zionism. As wrote Avigail Abarbanel in “Why I left the Cult,” the Zionist conquerors of Palestine “have been following quite closely the biblical dictate to Joshua to just walk in and take everything. […] For a supposedly non-religious movement it’s extraordinary how closely Zionism […] has followed the Bible.” In the same mood, Kim Chernin writes:
“I can’t count the number of times I read the story of Joshua as a tale of our people coming into their rightful possession of their promised land without stopping to say to myself, ‘but this is a history of rape, plunder, slaughter, invasion, and destruction of other peoples.’"
A “history of genocide” would not be exaggerated, if we consider the treatment reserved to Canaanites: In Jericho, “They enforced the curse of destruction on everyone in the city: men and women, young and old, including the oxen, the sheep and the donkeys, slaughtering them all” (Joshua 6:21). The city of Ai met the same fate. Its inhabitants were all slaughtered, twelve thousand of them, “until not one was left alive and none to flee. […] When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open ground, and in the desert where they had pursued them, and when every single one had fallen to the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and slaughtered its remaining population” (8:22–25). Women were not spared. “For booty, Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of this town” (8:27). Then came to turn of the cities of Makkedah, Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, Debir, and Hazor. In the whole land, Joshua “left not one survivor and put every living thing under the curse of destruction, as Yahweh, god of Israel, had commanded” (10:40). ...
And when Israeli leaders claim that their vision of the global future is based on the Hebrew Bible, we should take them seriously and study the Bible. It is helpful, for example, to be aware that Yahweh has designated to Israel “seven nations greater and mightier than you,” that “you must utterly destroy,” and “show no mercy to them.” As for their kings, “you shall make their name perish from under heaven” (Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 24). The destruction of the “Seven Nations,” also mentioned in Joshua 24:11, is considered a mitzvah in rabbinic Judaism, and by the great Maimonides in his Book of Commandments, and it has remained a popular motif in Jewish culture.
Etc.
https://www.unz.com/article/zionism-crypto-judaism-and-the-biblical-hoax/

2023-12-04 23:08:45

Revolution is satanic. It is not people who act in it, but higher forces. Revolutionaries only appear to be active, in reality they are passive, they are only instruments of a power unknown to them. But revolutions are not only satanic, they are also providential, they are sent to peoples for their sins, they are reckoning.
— Nikolai Berdyaev

2023-12-02 21:40:26

One of the most famous conversion stories in early Sufism is that of Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ. He was a highwayman, albeit a magnanimous one, between the cities of Abiward and Sarakhs. One day, on the way to his beloved, he happened to hear a verse from the Koran and immediately gave up banditry, thereafter devoting himself to the study of the Prophetic tradition in Kufa. He died in Mecca in 803. Fuḍayl is a typical representative of early orthodox asceticism, “and when he died, sadness was taken away from the world” (Q 9). This sadness is reflected in many of his sayings. He disliked the company of people, and in words reminiscent of his contemporary Rābiʿa, the woman saint, he said: “When night comes I am happy that I am alone, without separation, with God, and when morning comes I get distressed because I detest the view of those people who enter and disturb my solitude” (T 1:31). Although Fuḍayl was married, he considered family life one of the greatest obstacles on the way to God; he was seen smiling only once in thirty years—when his son died. This event was, for him, a sign of divine grace: “When God loves His servant, He afflicts him, and when He loves him very much He takes hold of him and leaves for him neither family nor wealth” (G 4:282). (The feeling of happiness at the death of family members was not unknown among medieval Christian mystics either, as the story of Angela di Foligno shows).12 Even Jalāluddīn Rūmī wrote, quite without feeling, in a verse of his Mathnawī: “The death of his children was for him like sweetmeat” (M 3:1927); and the indifference of some Indo-Muslim Chishtī saints of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the death of family members is well known. On the other hand, many of the great Sufis and founders of mystical fraternities were married and had large families—Aḥmad-i Jām had forty-two children (N 357), and ʿAbduʾl-Qādir Gīlānī had forty-nine sons. Yet so rare is it to find any approval of happy family life in Sufi sayings that one is quite unprepared for the exception one meets in Mīr Dard, the saint of Delhi in the eighteenth century, who exclaimed in one of his books: “I love my wife and my children dearly.”13 Among the early ascetics, a preference for celibacy was common in spite of the Prophet’s example of married life and his advice to raise a family. But, as Dārānī says, “the sweetness of adoration and undisturbed surrender of the heart which the single man can feel the married man can never experience” (G 2:22). The restlessness caused by marriage, the distraction from God, has often been described by the Sufis (N 217), and the sorrows of family life might be regarded as “punishment for the execution of legally permitted lusts” (N 185). Fuḍayl’s elder contemporary, Ibrāhīm ibn Adham (d. circa 790), whom he met at Mecca, expressed such a notion in a striking sentence often quoted in Sufi poetry and prose: “When a man marries he embarks on a ship, and when a child is born he suffers shipwreck” (L 199).
— Annemarie Shimmel

2023-12-02 15:49:26

In order to lead a faithful resistance to evil, it is necessary to keep in mind all the time all four basic properties of it: unity, aggressiveness, cunning and diversity, and to reckon with them all.
— Ivan Ilyin
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1143345563298432691701532156.webp

2023-12-02 10:16:23

Fascist and Nazi totalitarianism … do not occur because a Hitler or Mussolini decides to seize power. When a nation ... is psychologically and spiritually empty, totalitarianism comes in to the fill the vacuum; and the people sell their freedom as a necessity for getting rid of the anxiety which is too great to bear any longer.
— Rollo May

2023-12-02 05:59:12

...In 1949 [Einstein] wrote an influential essay for the inaugural issue of the Monthly Review titled “Why Socialism?” In it he argued that unrestrained capitalism produced great disparities of wealth, cycles of boom and depression, and festering levels of unemployment. The system encouraged selfishness instead of cooperation, and acquiring wealth rather than serving others. People were educated for careers rather than for a love of work and creativity. And political parties became corrupted by political contributions from owners of great capital. These problems could be avoided, Einstein argued in his article, through a socialist economy, if it guarded against tyranny and centralization of power. “A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child,” he wrote. “The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.” He added, however, that planned economies faced the danger of becoming oppressive, bureaucratic, and tyrannical, as had happened in communist countries such as Russia. “A planned economy may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual,” he warned. It was therefore important for social democrats who believed in individual liberty to face two critical questions: “How is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected?” That imperative—to protect the rights of the individual—was Einstein’s most fundamental political tenet. Individualism and freedom were necessary for creative art and science to flourish. Personally, politically, and professionally, he was repulsed by any restraints.
Source: https://a.co/bf23f3e

2023-12-02 05:53:00

Some people do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions; and conclusions are not always pleasant.
— Helen Keller

2023-12-01 16:10:41

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy—to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.
— Søren Kierkegaard

2023-12-01 16:10:10

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To understand karma one must understand transcendental and ontological idealism (e.g. Yogācāra) — the truth that all phenomenal objects are projected by transcendental (inter)subjectivity whose freewill and causal structures are in the beginningless cycle of mutual conditioning.

2023-12-01 05:28:42

The only project worth working on is karma.

2023-11-30 20:25:29

When God loves His servant, He opens for him the door of actions [i.e., religious and pious acts] and closes the door of theological disputations.
— Maʿrūf al-Karkhī

2023-11-30 18:42:36

"The intrinsically first being, the being that precedes and bears every worldly objectivity, is transcendental intersubjectivity: the universe of [transcendental subjects], which effects its communion in various [phenomenal] forms." — Edmund Husserl
The UFO narrative is a distractor. While I believe that there are other civilizations and alien visitors, I don't believe that they travel in spaceships that might crash and some dead aliens might be found. That's nonsense. Read this to understand why: https://misharogov.medium.com/what-dmt-induced-experiences-teach-us-philosophically-f9ee7f5c6929
P.S. Why are all UFOs of such primitive forms? Because when a psychonaut from another nexus of universal transcendental intersubjectivity visits our world, our nexus cannot constitute his body as it is constituted in his world (for our nexus doesn't have the corresponding causal structures), so it constitutes only a primitive phenomenal sign of his presence — a ball, a triangle, a "saucer", etc.

2023-11-30 18:41:22

Burn in hell, demon.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/11/30/best-early-reactions-to-death-of-henry-kissinger-war-criminal/
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9943325335093058531701369636.webp

2023-11-29 06:44:10

The problem with the ideology of "wokeness" is that it mistakes arbitrariness for freedom. Freedom is not "do what you want" but "do what is due", and the sense of moral duty is born of conscience — the glimpse of divine Light, it exists only in relation to Transcendence, God.
The Light shines deep in every heart. That's why “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
https://misharogov.medium.com/light-9ac43e91e63
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9292842861221163461701240230.webp

2023-11-28 22:30:26

Jesus, the last prophet before Muhammad according to Koranic revelation, appears to the Sufis as the ideal ascetic and also as the pure lover of God. A homeless pilgrim, wandering without knowing where to put his head, he instructs the devout about the importance of modesty, peace, and charity, for “just as the seed does not grow but from dust, so the seed of wisdom does not grow but from a heart like dust.” It is the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount whose image is reflected in sayings of the first generations of Sufis, and he continued to be a favorite figure in later Sufi poetry as well: he and his virgin mother become exalted symbolic figures—the woman unspoiled by worldly concern, the pure receptacle of the divine spirit, and the prophet born out of the divine command, surnamed “Spirit of God,” became models of the pure spiritual life.
— Annemarie Shimmel

2023-11-28 21:23:32

Be with this world as if you had never been there, and with the Otherworld as if you would never leave it.
— Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

2023-11-28 16:52:23

Musk provided thousands of StarLink terminals to the UkroNazis, but he won't provide a single one to the people of #Gaza until the Ziofascists allow him to. He consistently sides with the fascists and their imperial masters. Just a scared pampered billionaire. Tiny and miserable.

2023-11-28 16:14:38

The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

2023-11-27 16:14:43

It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and will always exist to get people to love their servitude.
— Aldous Huxley, interview at University of California Berkeley (1962)
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9619105183035402511701101676.webp

2023-11-27 13:23:40

[God's] guidance is radically different from any guidance in the world, for it offers no objective certainty; it coincides with man's complete attainment of freedom. For it operates only by way of the freedom of subjective certainty.
— Karl Jaspers