Another Side Of Islam

The tea party IS a religion.  This makes religion relevent when it otherwise would not be.   In my arm chair psychologist role, I would say "People are instinctively good and moral people, therefore when they are tempted to engage in shall we say "unedifying behavior" they need some outside excuse to do it, so they say "My God told me to do it".   What about statements like Anne Coulter made last week about US interest in soccer and the World Cup.  (this week they're down to the Final Four of Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and the Netherlands, I believe)  She said "Soccer is not an American game because it isn't violent enough and liberal soccer Moms like it for their kids, and nobody whose great grandfather was born here likes soccer".   This is not only a broad swipe at immigrants but may be an allusion to the "grandfather clause' employed in denying Blacks the vote in the South.   We have a lot of "Anal-ists' on FOX news like Sean Hannity.   So is Dick Chaney just nothing but a talking anal syst?   According to Sean Hannity- - nobody needs a doctor's prescription to buy birth control.   And according to Sean- therefore - - poor women would not benefit from birth control.  We also learn from these people apparently- - it isn't paid for by the Affordable Care act- - but it's though a member of Hobby Lobby wrote you out a personal check out of his own pocket for the birth control pills.  And we learn that "liberals don't understand anything about investments - so have no right to criticize Hobby Lobby for investing in abortion companies".   Out of their own mouths.  And we learn that the Tea Party gets very cantankerous in protesting their Church's disinvestment in companies that supported Atartite.   So now "abortion companies' are just business- - but withdrawing from bigoted companies- - - this is some kind of "socialist political act" or some other attrocity comitted by the bishop of their Church, or whatever.   These people are a regular bubbling caldrin of hate.  We also learn that they Imported- - those protesters to Marietta hot springs last week.  It wasn't just locals.  So when they say "Go back where you came from" - - maybe they first better look in the mirror.
   
Today July 7, 2014 is the first day of the running of the bulls in Spain.   A lifeguard named Ben (?) is the first Newport Beach ever to drown and he lost his life because the surf in Newport Beach had been running unusually high with undertows and such, and he made it out to rescue a guy but then they were both hit by a ten foot wave.  The victim survived and made it to shore just fine, but the lifeguard died.  My psychic antenna suggests this guy was demonically targeted.  Of course Mark Bove always talked about the god Baal as the “beach god” of sun, surf, and sex.  Actually Baal is the weather god, and one of the stars of the Pliades, the sailors sign of storms.  Baal is the weather god, and can be useful if you’re praying for rain.  The Arabs had a belief that God himself was so remote he couldn’t be approached, but deligated his duties to lesser deities.  There was a 7.1 earthquake in southern Mexico, but those people are used to those.  I got up at six o clock and had a crazy dream I’ll get to in a minute last night.  Last evening has a misbegotten feel to it.  I made an accommodation to the flesh by even using the debit card yesterday- - and I never saw the receipt.  The bill should have been six dollars even, but - - I was overcharged by the same guy a dollar a few weeks ago- - and hypothetically he could have charged me anything.  Janet says the French toast here doesn’t agree with her.   There was a Reprisal bombing against Hammas in the Gaza area.  I’ve thought about it and the way Dr Levy portrays Hammas to me just doesn’t make sense, not to mention going against Federation teaching.   Dr Levy would have us to believe that Hammas was given peace in the Gaza region in 2005 but as I hear it- the Gaza region after this “peace agreement” was harassed with planes overhead- - and bombed so intensively by Israel it’s amazing there is anybody left in Gaza.  Dr Levy of course says “Well Israel should probably bomb Gaza back to the stone age, but their too Christian to do that”.   Of course seven Hammas were killed in response to the deaths of those three Isriali teenagers who were killed inHammas was blamed, though I don’t recall Hammas ever taking credit for it.   Now they are talking about “tiny bright spots” and James had a movie of some UFO’s he showed he he says was taken here and “That night there were all the lights in the sky” and there was this rather strange sound I can’t place – in this movie- - and I asked James about it and he said “I guess I never noticed it before” or something.   I just remember during that period several months back- - there would be a light off to the west that kept moving around and I’d say “That can’t be Venus because Venus is already below the horizon this time of year”.   So you got me.

I watched that Book TV thing on Islam and left the computer on over dinner for the very purpose of listening to more of it after dinner.  He talked about how it was the Islamic people who invented the term “People of the Book” and also had to invent a word for “church” because- - tribe and monarch wouldn’t fit.  He spoke of heterodox Christians fleeing Constanople to the Mideast after the Council of Nicia.   But also “people of the book” or monotheists include Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians.  He even mentioned the Bhagdevadgita.   The criteria was monotheism.   Is it OK if Krishna is a god?  We learned from a film in Dr Levy's class a couple of years ago (which Dr Levy seemed completely bored with) that in the centuries following the rise of Islam, that there was a lot of cross polinization between Islam and Hinduism.  Also the writer pointed out that Islam was a movement in favor of the economically dispossed and against the rich.  People forget this.  Also more people according to the writer Wanted to join Islam, that were discouraged, because they'd have to give up their privelege.  The writer says it is a wastern myth that Islam wants to either kill everybody in the world or convert them.  On the contrary, he lays such ideas at the feet of Constantine saying 'Hetrodox Christians had three choices - either convert to Orthodoxy- - or be killed- - or flee to a far country, and a lot of them did indeed flee to far away places.   Keep in mind there were many prophets recognized by Islam.  Noah was a prophet,  Abraham was a prophet, and Jesus was a prophet.  A prophet is seen as a religion reformer and not a religious founder.  Also Christians like their prophets to fail just because Jesus failed in his earthly mission.  We want a martyr- not a winner.  We want a refurbished relic- - not a present leader.  It’s strange.   Because of this naturally the Koran does a tip of the hat to Judaism and Christianity in its scripture.

This writer went on to discuss how he finds ‘Jesus of Nazareth” a much more worthy figure to follow as an example than the Jesus Christ of Faith.  This guy came from war torn Iran in 1979 and wanted to “blend in’ when he came to this country.   He reminded us that in ancient times Jehovah was a god among gods.  So when they fought the Canaanites it was Jehovah in battle with Baal.  The god of crops, the weather god.  And with Babylon it was Jehovah in battle with Merdoch.   The Bull god.  (Taurus, the bull)  And every military battle was seen as a proxy battle between the gods in heaven.   This of course is a grandiose viewpoint and makes you wonder “Well, why don’t the gods just fight it out among themselves and leave us humans out of it?”  Nobody asks logical questions like this.  And it’s a myth of westerners that Islam is anti democratic.  Indonesia is the largest Islamic country in the world and it is democratic.  Even Pakistan is democratic, as strange as that seems.  Turkey is a democracy.   Malaysia is a democracy, according to this writer.  I sure didn’t know that.  Egypt of course is questionable.  But Judy always talks about how the Bible calls Ismael a “wild ass-man”, when the Arabs are not even descended from Ismael but Dedan, and Sheba- - is not Ethiopia but Yemen.   I mention this because Ezekiel in chapter 39 expressly states that Sheba and Dedan were "among the good guys" who would be invaded by "Rosh"  (Russie?) prince of Misheck (Moscow) and there is even an allusion to nuclear weapons being employed.  The text states that "An idea will come into ]Putin's] head - - .  To me it's just silly to come against an entire religion such as Islam that spreads from Moracco to Indonesia.  Even President Bush said "You are never going to win - IT".   The writer echoed my thoughts of last week saying "When you come down to it- this seems to be kind of an eternal conflict- - with no side having a monopoly on pure "goodness".  And certainly people of the Islamic faith living in America are not "into" terrorism.  But Judy has to believe what she believes because- - “That hate feels just so good” or something.  Judy is a person who seems to have a deep seated need to scape goat and to hate- - and of course we also know she’s a control freak.   She IS what she most claims to hate.  So we need to really educate ourselves about Islam and stop wallowing in the darkness of ignorance.

Meet the Press talked a lot about immigration and this border crisis with the refugee mothers and young children.  This Idaho conservative said- almost by indictment “This administration guy wants to do right by these children” as if THAT would be a horrible sin.  Actually I’ve heard the Obama administration say a number of times they want to “speed up the turn around process” by which the kids are processed and turned back.  But the Republicans say ‘Anything that takes longer than three days is too long”.   The administration guy never said what the goal was for the administration- - -finding families for these children- - or just sending back to the terrors in Central America they fled at great risk to themselves.  You know, I thought this was America, the statue of Liberty in all of that, "Give me your poor, your tired, huddled masses yearning to be free".   Putin was reported as remarking to someone of "President Obama SAYS he'll do all sorts of stuff but we know there is a vast different between what he Says and what he Does.  So Obama may Say that "I want to liberalize immigration regulations- ease up a little.  But his record is as such a hard ass that he has lost a lot of former support from the Latino community on this issue, who say now that the President can't be counted upon.  But the Republican said “It’s a myth that there is any problem at all in Honduras” but he also said by way of contradicting that “Of course it’s projected that the number may grow to 150,000 and it’s all the administration’s fault for encouraging them.   These FOX people just pull figures like that out of their ass, when they and I know that the figure has probably already peaked and will begin dropping.   But once again the administration is just acting on a 2008 law signed by George Bush that said that children who fled terror in their homeland, are entitles to special hearings.

It was Ringo’s birthday- - or rather tomorrow is.  It’s also Nick’s birthday tomorrow.  Ringo will be in concert in a couple of weeks.  “When the Beatles hit America” was the next to the last song.  (This track has a similar "geshtaldt" to "Exestential Blues", - - and “La-dee-dah” was the final song.  But they didn’t play that many Ringo songs, actually.  They played ‘You’re Sixteen” and “The No No Song” and “Honey Don’t” and “I’m the Greatest” and that’s about it.  They played a number of Americana songs- - which cosmically are dominated by “Sirius 0’s”.   Paul played “Twenty Flight Rock” by Eddie Cochrin, and related the story about how Ivan Vaughn introduced him to John.    They played a remake of “In Spite of all the Heartache”.    They played other cosmic Sirius 0 artists such as Eddie Cochrin, Johnny Burnette, Chuck Berry, the Coasters, Carl Purkins, and Gene Vincent.   And "All Shook Up" was the first Elvis Presley number one song in England in June of 1957 a few months after it peaked here.  But you people don’t know what I am talking about.   I went out to the courtyard but missed the coffee.  Joe’s radio was playing “Back Of, Boogaloo”  We had pizza for lunch with tomato soup, and a green salad.  We had mixed melon for desert.