Wow! How do you have time to read everything and compile the highlights into these digests?! Great stuff, and God bless you for this act of beneficence to the reading public!
About that syrian moslem rapeugee who stabbed french children:
He holds swedish citizenship. He's tallied in our census as a resident of a small deindustrialised town on the West side of Sweden, and is convicted of multiple cases of welfare-fraud.
He is - this will stick in the craw of americans of all nationalities - typical of moslems from the Middle East. A thief, a fraudster, violent, moslem, no respect or consideration for occidentals (or crusaders, infidels and jew-slaves which are very common nicknames of theirs for us european natives), no empathy as we define the term, and absolute sadism towards anyone and anything perceived weak and defenceless.
It doesn't matter that Hassim at work or Mohammed who runs the falafel-kiosk near the school may be nice guys, or that Fatima in your knitting circle always brings baklava: they are not typical. They are not representative.
The violent, criminal, syrian moslem (in this case) is.
I know americans won't believe that. More fool you, then. Look at Sweden, Germany, France, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece. Look at us 1970, and now. That's all you need to do.
Or just ask an actual american - a "redskin" - how that whole mass-migration thing worked out.
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Our traditional analog passports of freedom are being replaced with the new traditional shiny object decoy of slavery called the prison cell phone. Don't stare too long into the abyss, or you'll find those pickpockets staring right back. You're a beast of a writer John! Hope you didn't stay up too late drinking coffee? If you did, I hope you at least had some cigarettes too.
I must know. How many people do have reading and summarizing for you? Seriously! This is an incredibly huge piece of work to be done by one person weekly. Weekly!!
hey John (and Daniel, i second that question, and btw you're both rather brilliant if i may point that out) what i most appreciate is the novel and supremely expressive language. From the first paragraph onward (although my reticular system may have missed some of the floods of words...) i found myself laughing, grunting, and trying to pronounce our new vocab. THIS therefore feels like the simmering birth of re-new-ed consciousness through loudly imaginal language. Whew! This will require a re-visit
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In terms of "American religion", one thing I always think about is the extreme fascination among certain circles of "Judeo-Christian" boomers and Gen Xers with the ancient Hebrew language and script (as seen here: https://ancient-hebrew.org/ and https://www.abarim-publications.com/), and the proper name of the Hebrew God, YHWH (Yahweh/Yehowah/etc). These "independent Hebraists", as I would call them, pore over ancient Hebrew in the same way that a white nationalist neo-pagan pores over ancient Germanic runes, except fundamentally more serious.
Their almost mystical veneration of ancient Hebrew and its script, and their clear emphasis on using the proper name of the "Judeo-Christian" God, interests me due to the fact that they're doing so not out of some glib sense of that ancient Hebrew is "exotic", or that the name "Yahweh" sounds cool, but out of clear, genuine faith in that language's power, and often out of a sense that the institutional religious authorities are failing in some foundational manner, such as "hiding" the all-important name of God for some nefarious reason.
I believe that this kind of organic development of these "Hebraist" sub-traditions within the larger American religious milieu is indicative of just how intellectually sterile and spiritually/culturally impotent institutional religion (particularly Christianity) has become in America, to the point where certain people are taking it upon themselves to revive some kind of "authentic" faith by promoting the proper name of God and venerating the original language of the first half of the Bible.
All this is to say that independent religious scholarship and metaphysical philosophy is definitely going to have some sort of effect on whatever religious revival happens in America, said revival is definitely going to be very sympathetic to the Old Testament and the harshness Yahweh often has in it (backlash to LGBTQ+ nonsense, and all that), and you shouldn't be surprised if Hebrew starts becoming just as much a part of the "cultured American multilingual" starter pack as Spanish, Japanese, Hindi (growth of India blah blah), and possibly even Kievan-Lvovian Ruthenian (sometimes known as "Ukrainian").
Wow! How do you have time to read everything and compile the highlights into these digests?! Great stuff, and God bless you for this act of beneficence to the reading public!
About that syrian moslem rapeugee who stabbed french children:
He holds swedish citizenship. He's tallied in our census as a resident of a small deindustrialised town on the West side of Sweden, and is convicted of multiple cases of welfare-fraud.
He is - this will stick in the craw of americans of all nationalities - typical of moslems from the Middle East. A thief, a fraudster, violent, moslem, no respect or consideration for occidentals (or crusaders, infidels and jew-slaves which are very common nicknames of theirs for us european natives), no empathy as we define the term, and absolute sadism towards anyone and anything perceived weak and defenceless.
It doesn't matter that Hassim at work or Mohammed who runs the falafel-kiosk near the school may be nice guys, or that Fatima in your knitting circle always brings baklava: they are not typical. They are not representative.
The violent, criminal, syrian moslem (in this case) is.
I know americans won't believe that. More fool you, then. Look at Sweden, Germany, France, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece. Look at us 1970, and now. That's all you need to do.
Or just ask an actual american - a "redskin" - how that whole mass-migration thing worked out.
Our traditional analog passports of freedom are being replaced with the new traditional shiny object decoy of slavery called the prison cell phone. Don't stare too long into the abyss, or you'll find those pickpockets staring right back. You're a beast of a writer John! Hope you didn't stay up too late drinking coffee? If you did, I hope you at least had some cigarettes too.
I must know. How many people do have reading and summarizing for you? Seriously! This is an incredibly huge piece of work to be done by one person weekly. Weekly!!
Many thanks for the shout out! It's nice to be mentioned among so many thinkers I admire.
Wow! What an incredible round up for the week!! It would take me the good part of the month to get though all that content!
Fantastic that you have the time to point us to all these brilliant writers/articles.
Thanks for the shout out! Feeling rather under-qualified among such a company of greats.
hey John (and Daniel, i second that question, and btw you're both rather brilliant if i may point that out) what i most appreciate is the novel and supremely expressive language. From the first paragraph onward (although my reticular system may have missed some of the floods of words...) i found myself laughing, grunting, and trying to pronounce our new vocab. THIS therefore feels like the simmering birth of re-new-ed consciousness through loudly imaginal language. Whew! This will require a re-visit
There was a site called social matter that used to do something like this and I've missed it since they stopped doing it.
Great stuff as usual, John!
Insane stamina to consume this much output from our sphere every week. Much respect John.
Great as always. I especially appreciate the dive into Lee Kuan Yew’s bio.
In terms of "American religion", one thing I always think about is the extreme fascination among certain circles of "Judeo-Christian" boomers and Gen Xers with the ancient Hebrew language and script (as seen here: https://ancient-hebrew.org/ and https://www.abarim-publications.com/), and the proper name of the Hebrew God, YHWH (Yahweh/Yehowah/etc). These "independent Hebraists", as I would call them, pore over ancient Hebrew in the same way that a white nationalist neo-pagan pores over ancient Germanic runes, except fundamentally more serious.
Their almost mystical veneration of ancient Hebrew and its script, and their clear emphasis on using the proper name of the "Judeo-Christian" God, interests me due to the fact that they're doing so not out of some glib sense of that ancient Hebrew is "exotic", or that the name "Yahweh" sounds cool, but out of clear, genuine faith in that language's power, and often out of a sense that the institutional religious authorities are failing in some foundational manner, such as "hiding" the all-important name of God for some nefarious reason.
I believe that this kind of organic development of these "Hebraist" sub-traditions within the larger American religious milieu is indicative of just how intellectually sterile and spiritually/culturally impotent institutional religion (particularly Christianity) has become in America, to the point where certain people are taking it upon themselves to revive some kind of "authentic" faith by promoting the proper name of God and venerating the original language of the first half of the Bible.
All this is to say that independent religious scholarship and metaphysical philosophy is definitely going to have some sort of effect on whatever religious revival happens in America, said revival is definitely going to be very sympathetic to the Old Testament and the harshness Yahweh often has in it (backlash to LGBTQ+ nonsense, and all that), and you shouldn't be surprised if Hebrew starts becoming just as much a part of the "cultured American multilingual" starter pack as Spanish, Japanese, Hindi (growth of India blah blah), and possibly even Kievan-Lvovian Ruthenian (sometimes known as "Ukrainian").
Another challenge...and quit calling me "sanpaku."
mild-mannered-polite-and-patient? maybe it's true: if you wanna look thin, hang around with people that are fat..
"..40,000 Canadian troops were deployed in Afghanistan over 13 years..": https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/13/canada-to-send-special-forces-to-afghanistan-to-close-kabul-embassy.html
"..reputation as a good guy on the world stage ..forced indigenous children into residential schools where up to 75 per cent were abused..": https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/canada’s-stolen-generations/6598518
"..representation of Canada as a progressive antipode to the rapacious dollar republic to the south ..important part of the ideological arsenal of the ruling class..": http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/07/01/150-years-of-canadian-confederation-myth-and-reality/
💯🤍 Love your posts!!!