Ernest Hemingway, the war correspondent during Spain’s civil war, had a message for today’s politicians: ‘No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting, or exempt from fighting, should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war.’
In agreement, George Orwell: ‘One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war propaganda, all the screaming, the lies and the hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.’
One of the oddities of life is that men throughout the centuries regardless of nationality made points difficult to argue with. A favorite is that of Woody Guthrie: ‘As through the world I have wandered I have seen lots of funny men. Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.’
For those lacking get up and go, a little advice from one of the world’s great storytellers, Mark Twain: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.’
Like you, I am an ‘old’ sentimentalist and appreciate lines like: ‘Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.’
Anyone who has ever lost someone dear to them may seek comfort from the thoughts of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 – 1869): ‘Sometimes, only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated.’
Another of some comfort: ‘Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.’
Books could be written on dodgy tradesmen. Henry Ford said it in a line: ‘If you think a professional is expensive wait till you try an amateur.’
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ~ US General Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964.
Across the centuries we hold contempt for those who represent us. ‘People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election,’ so surmised Otto von Bismarck.
Another thought-provoking comment from England’s Alexander Pope (1688- 1744): ‘A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.’
Don’t be too quick to condemn the disapproving Victorian Age. It is interesting that many quotations, from very eminent people, like Abraham Lincoln, could not be published today as they are considered politically incorrect.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. ~ American Political Scientist Samuel P. Huntington 1927-2007.
In a more liberal future, it will be considered remarkable that at the turn of the 21st Century, great writers, statesmen, poets and thinkers; men and women of literature, could not have their thoughts printed in today’s newspapers.
These I keep to myself as there are not enough smelling salts to go around. As Mark Twain observed: ‘Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.’
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL ex-Liverpool seaman Michael Walsh. Bestseller: 70 stories and over 100 pictures. A first-hand account of the British ships, seafarers, adventures and misadventures (1955 – 1975). A tribute to the ships and seamen of the then-largest merchant marine in history. BOOK LINK https://tinyurl.com/3kuja2s5
BRITANNIC WAIVES THE RULES The Last White Star Liner (1845-1960) by Michael Walsh. In 68 lavishly illustrated stories the company’s last deckboy vividly recalls shipboard life. The liner’s colourful characters and jaw-dropping incidents both on board and in New York’s notorious Hell’s Kitchen. A unique collector’s item. LINK TO BOOK https://tinyurl.com/42zns8n2
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The Jews are of Esau from Idumea, and therefore not of Israel or Judah; Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925, vol. 5, page 41.
Esdras 6:9 …”For Esau(Edom) is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows
Luke 1:33 “and He (Jesus) will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”
Arutz Sheva Tamuz 9, 5777, 7/3/2017
Report: Netanyahu Promises Talmud Will Be Israeli Law
Netanyahu tells Likud hareidi leader Hebrew calendar will be official calendar of state in new Basic Law, Jewish law basis of legal system.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly revealed at a Likud conference on Wednesday some remarkable facets of the Basic Lawhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180147 he submitted last Thursday, which would enshrine Israel’s status as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Netanyahu told the head of Likud’s hareidi division Yaakov Viderhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169344 at the conference that he intends to make the Hebrew calendar, which is based on Jewish law, the official calendar of Israel, reports Kikar Hashabat.
The new law also would establish the Talmud, the core work of Jewish law, as an official basis for Israeli state law.
“I’m going to personally be involved in the law defining the state of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” Netanyahu reportedly told Vider. “It’s a very important law that will influence how Israel will look in the future.”
“I want to anchor in this law, that it will be a Basic Law that the state of Israel arose and exists on the basis of the Torah and the Jewish tradition,” Netanyahu explained, promising to define the Hebrew calendar as the official state calendar.
Netanyahu also promised that “we will define in the law the Gemara as a basis for the Israeli legal system,” referencing the Jewish legal text analyzing the Mishnah, a legal work of the Jewish sages, which together form the Talmud.
Discussing the new Basic Law on Sunday in a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu stated “the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state does not actualize itselfhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180225 enough in our Basic Laws, which is what the proposed law aims to fix.”
Netanyahu stressed the law would not restrict the rights of non-Jewish citizens of Israel. He further dismissed opposition to the law by leftist MKs, foremost among them Justice Minister Tzipi Livni who pledged to block the lawhttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180151.
“They want a Palestinian national state to be built beside us, and to turn the State of Israel, meanwhile, into a bi-national state, Jewish-Arab, within our restricted borders,” Netanyahu argued, saying the new Basic Law would prevent such a situation.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180440#.VWs7qEZ3GWA
The Talmud teaches the opposite laws and principles from that of the Bible, Even where a sound and well recognized moral law of God is concerned, the Talmud in every instance tries to find some exception to it. The exception, deviation or modification is then justified by the words and teaching of some ancient Rabbi or the “Sages” as they are called in the Talmud. The Talmud is not a book of Godly morals or virtuous ethics but is replete with perversion and teachings of sexual debauchery
Click to access Esau-Edom.pdf
Tamuz 9, 5777, 7/3/2017 . Tamuz is just another name for the founder of Babylon, Nimrod the son of Cush.
The letter X in Greek represents the first letter of Christ in Greek. Where the Bibles translation in the New Testament says “Cross” the Greek actually says stake or pole – stauros. I is the first letter of Jesus in Greek.
According to historian Alexander Hislop, Tammuz was intimately associated with the Babylonian mystery religions begun by the worship of Nimrod, Semiramis and her illegitimate son, Horus (the god of money). The original form of the Babylonian letter T was †, identical to the crosses used today in this world’s Christianity. This was the initial of Tammuz.
http://sacred-texts.com/chr/bct/bct09.htm
The Cross.—The instrument of crucifixion, called the Cross, was variously formed. Lipsius and Gretser have employed a twofold classification: the crux simplex, and the crux composita or compacta. A single upright stake was distinguished as a crux simplex. The crux composita, the compound or actual cross, was subject to the following modifications of form: Crux immissa, formed as in the Figure ✝; crux commissa thus formed Ｔ; and the crux decussata, the cruciform figure, set diagonally after the manner of the Roman letter X. ( X is also the first letter of Christs name in the New Testaments original Greek.) It is generally thought that Jesus was crucified upon the crux immissa, the “Latin cross.”
“……..And when the sentence of death had been passed on our Lord by Pilate, they (the Jews) made haste and went into the sanctuary [Fol. 46b, col. 1] and brought out from thence the carrying poles of the Ark of the Covenant, and out of them they made the Cross of Christ. Verily it was meet that these pieces of wood which used to carry the Covenant should also carry the Lord of the Covenant. The Cross of Christ was formed of two pieces of wood which were of the same height, and depth, and length, p. 229 and breadth. (The Book of Adam and Eve – S.C. Malan PDF gives details re the carrying poles of Adams remains to Christs crucifixion point.)
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