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Everything posted by gambler
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Not true again. Your takes are way too simplistic. Muslims DO give a shit about what happened in Syria. After a while, it runs its course. There's no more emotions or actions that you can take. What are you going to do when Assad gains control, protest to whom? To the States or the West who no longer can do anything? Protest to Assad who doesn't give a shit about what you think? There's no more international entity to go to to enforce anything anymore. It's over and now you need closure and to move on, but doesn't mean you don't harbor feelings and emotions and have completely moved on from it either. Meanwhile the burning of the Qu'ran, you HAVE a group to go to. You are seemingly not allowed in Canada (i think its a hate crime, I'm not sure, someone can fact check this) to burn the LGBT flag. So if you have an opportunity to get the ear of some entity to either a) cultural move the people towards an understanding that this is a hate crime and at best inappropriate in terms of critiquing religion or b) have them legally see this as a hate crime, you HAVE something you can DO about it. And in the west, these two options are ALWAYS on the table.
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I myself have donated to the Yemeni people during the war after being bombarded with ads by Muslim-run charities all on YouTube. The idea that Muslims don't care about you, only white man does, is a perniciously racist notion.
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This isn't true. You need to calm down with your self-righteous rhetoric. We get it, you're above everyone. Now to address this, Muslims aren't different than any other group of people. Those who will have the means and also get over the questioning of whether this charity will actually use my money, just like any other group of people, will donate.
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gambler replied to TheWind's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I have a question. When we say everyone is imagined, is it that you're an illusion and don't exist, or is that you exist as an illusion like myself but you're me and i'm you, so we are actually just this one entity existing and have separated our own consciousness somehow. Like I can't access your consciousness even though you're me and you can't access mine even though i'm you, but as one consciousness separated, does the separation end at some point? And when does that happen? Does it ever happen? Or are we always separated like how Jesus and the Father are always separate despite being one consciousness? Do I have any of this right? -
this guy was self-snitching on the internet for the past four years. he thought he had some sort of immunity from a proffer agreement but that wasn't the case
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It's behind a paywall. Edit: oh, that link was deleted.
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Yea, so now you have a license to kill those savages. Go nuts.
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It's impossible to see the israeli perspective when you think a border with the west bank will wipe out Israel. I think it's you that lives in fantasy land.
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Yea I consider all of this to be dogma. Quite frankly the international community needs to give the two state solution a shot and have Israel comply with it. Israelis signed up for this when they came to a foreign land. Unfortunately this is the price they have to pay, just like Palestinians had to pay a hefty price. Its on the international community to enforce this.
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You do realize, once again, that the West Bank does not have anywhere near the amount of intelligence, technology, innovation, weaponry to seriously challenge their entire existence. You keep talking about last time but let's talk about the status quo for a change. The status quo is the continued subjugation and dehumanization of a people that will eventually lead to their ethnic removal from that region. It will be continued conflicts and lopsided slaughter of a people. What's happening now has been the status quo in Israel since the creation of that state. If the same thing happens after granting them a state, then that is no different than the status quo all along. And Israel can just take it back and call it a day.
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You can be totally right or fear mongering to prevent a better solution that might work and would work.
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I mean you keep saying this. But Egypt made a peace treaty. Jordan made a peace treaty. Saudi Arabia wants a peace treaty. Syria has not invaded Israel since the 40s. This idea that we can't consider this option after trying the same things over and over again and we get no new results is suspicious. Why would you not consider this when the only other option is the continued dehumanization, subjugation, and lopsided slaughter of a people. If what you say will happen in the future in fact does happen, well Israel will just take back the west bank and call it a day. There's nothing more to lose in terms of considering this option since what you speak of possibly happening in the future is the status quo already. But there is something to be gained.
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I agree, genes for right to live in a land is nonsense. But I think it's only relevant to bring up because the obsession with the west bank is an obsession about ancestral rights. Like it is dependent on genetic ancestry.
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There is no delusional pipe dream of leaving. And I didn't mean it as you don't need a country. I meant why do they need a state that also includes the occupied west bank.
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Exactly this. All Southern Levantine groups (Pali/Jordanaian Christians/Muslims) derive an extremely significant amount of ancestry that ultimately traces right back to the southern levant. I would actually say why is Israel so obsessed with an Israel that includes the occupied West Bank? They are not their ancestors. As a matter of fact they derive nearly half to slightly more of their ancestry to Europeans (you can fact check this by looking through population genetics papers). So they shouldn't feel the need to be so attached to it. Should people with 50% or lower Native American ancestry be trying to take back land in today's world through inhumane means? Most Israelis are not even religious, but secular. If we can say arabs can go to other arab countries, and muslims can leave this place for this other muslim land, then why can't secular Jews be content with living in their current secular countries? Why does their need to be a state for the Jewish people that includes the west bank, if they as a secular people have many secular states to call home on top of the land they have now? That's (secular people) their tribe. The idea that the Jews in the future will be holocausted again in Europe/North/South America is extremely out there given that minorities who people want to see exterminated from their western nations are Muslims.
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Because no one wants to start with the very basics. Like giving Palestinians indigenous rights and the right to return just like Jews, equalizing them in the eyes of a potential one-state solution.