DSeid: Congratulations on your inability to see past your own nose. While spouting off about my “ignorance” you merely rephrased what I said. So good for you in understanding what I was trying to say, but not for not understanding that I was saying it.
Yes I was saying that this whole “anti-semitic” argument gets blown out of proportion on both sides. That it does fit the definition of conspiracy, that there is a macrocosmic organization known as “jews” and it’s not unfair to discuss this entity, in fact you generally only get in trouble for labelling someone within this macrocosm if you say something that the person doesn’t want to hear. Like when I said that there are causes that the jews played a part in that brought about the effects that we see as their “persecution” to claim that jews never play politics is just lying, they always have played politics and always will, therefore they have been on the short end of the stick in those political dealings, but to claim that they had nothing to do with the situation, is to belittle their existance by saying that their actions have no results, and it’s dishonest because the implication is that the jews are above reproach, which I do not believe they are. I think the cry of anti-semitism is lifting up standard political violence to some mystical level of people resenting God’s chosen people (not god’s chosen people get over it). So many jews won’t acknowledge the fact that the Palestinians might stop blowing up busses if the Israelis stopped bulldozing homes as though they are this hatemongering race of people that wants to kill without provocation. I read about the formation of Israel, and it wasn’t the innocent jews being persecuted by the Palestinians and toyed with by the British, as much as some would like to spin it that way. There were very well organized Jewish terrorists/freedomfighters/military carrying out political bombing campaigns.
The truth is you reap what you sow.
I don’t buy that the Kabbalistic mysticism doesn’t have a HUGE impact on the culture as a whole. But this is another debate entirely. And while I may not have an incredible background in Kabbalah I have read some of it, I have found it quite useful in my own life, and much of it jives with my own perception of the universe based upon my experience with computers. I am currently reading the Sefer Yetzirah.
Erek
