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Khomeini On Islam as Read by Film Producer Bahman Nassiri
27 Monday Jul 2015
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Link – Diane Weber Bederman: “We Must Not Become the Barbarian”
24 Sunday Aug 2014
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And I knew. We are falling, falling, falling into the trap, into the abyss of hatred. And that will be the end of the Jewish people for this is not our way. We came out of the desert 3500 years ago with an ethic that Irish author Thomas Cahill calls “The Gift of the Jews.” It was given in the desert, in the wilderness, publicly and openly, in a place to which no one had any claim. “Everyone who desires to accept let him come and accept.” (Mekhilta, Bahodesh 1) It is the revolutionary ethic that separates the civilized from the barbarian. The ethic that made it possible for some tribal societies to transform themselves over the millennia into democratic nation states that welcome people of all races, colours creeds religions and sexual orientation to live in one country without fear.
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-must-not-become-the-barbarian/ – 8/24/2014.
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Four Posts – Compassion, Humility, Inclusion, Integrity
08 Thursday Aug 2013
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Compassion because concern with the well being of another creates always a more pleasing environment between the two.
Humility because while hurtling through space on our “pale blue dot”, we may not know everything, and God forbid we ever do.
Inclusion because the more taken in with compassion, humility, and integrity, the stronger and more surviving the entire species that is Homo sapiens sapiens.
Integrity because when the lying stops, many conflicts will also, and some will be able to do more for many than is possible in decaying societies dependent on “pandering and slandering” for their existence.
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FTAC – Another Dollop of The Wisdom . . . .
04 Monday Mar 2013
Responding to an assertion having to do with the civilizing effects of one of the monotheistic religions on a remote indigenous people:
They were always human and will be always regardless of what they believe.
Monotheism has helped a large portion of the world simplify the relationship between the existence of the ego and of the cosmic and has freed energy to attend to better and other than mere survival.
Like the search for gold.
And slaves.
Forgive me for having been arch.
The post-Soviet Left goes perhaps too far with ditching religious mysticism, which includes the concept of a God.
Or gods.
We should not mind the imagination so much but rather the want of the destruction of it in myriad others.
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