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Israel to deport dozens of African Hebrews
Must not be Ashkenaryan enough... :eek:

Seriously, there is an obvious racial element to this, not just a religious one. This sect seems to try and follow Torah only. From the brief reading I've done, they seem more Hebrew than the Jews - in that they are seeking to live in the Kingdom of God following the Torah as written. They reject both Judaism and Christianity as added traditions of man - in doing this they reject Jesus too, so are not saved. But they are no different from Jews in this regard. They sound more genuinely Hebrew than the average secular Jew - who claims the genetic lineage but rejects the religion.

They seem to be rejected mainly because they're unwilling to follow the Rabbinic traditions of man and convert to Judaism. But most Jews in Israel don't follow those traditions either, and are secular, hence why Tel Aviv is the gay capital of the middle east. So there is no reason to reject them for their lack of alignment to the Jewish religion - that isn't expected of those with Ashkenazi ancestry, they can be as secular as they like. And this sect is clearly not secular at all, they are obviously trying to follow God (wrong about the details as they may be).

So you can't get away from the racist implications of it really. They're being rejected because they're not the same race as those who make the decisions about which race is genuinely Hebrew, and think their own is the only one that is genuine.

That's what happens when you form a country along racial lines.
 
It appears that the ones that are being required to leave are the ones that aren’t there legally. That have come as tourists, students, whatever, and overstayed their visas. Now they expect to be allowed to stay. Just like in the US, happens all the time.
So it may be that Israel simply sees this as attempts at illegal immigration and that it is getting out of control. Otherwise, everybody that wanted to could do it.
This group may be a magnet for more people to join them without going through the proper process.

It is entirely possible that their skin color has absolutely nothing to do with it.
 
I hate Instagram. I hate it with a passion. It's not normal. The photos people post are not normal. Even the people that say they're showing the 'real' stuff, the good and the bad. They're not. It's weird, like this little world of its own. I'm concerned that young people are looking at this and thinking it's normal.
I only joined up for my business, and as a business I will tell you that it is incredibly difficult to work with. I can only use the app to do anything, and the app is clunky and annoying. Also, it wants a tonne of privileges on my phone, but I won't let it have them lol. I basically have it on the bare minimum to work.
I don't get reels. They're just videos. Really weird, perfect and narcissistic videos.
All the 'influencers' are the same, all post the same things that are so so fake.
It's so weird.
I hate it.
Come out of the matrix, sister. Just kidding... but seriously... do it...

I dumped all my social media except for this site, a couple of years ago, and became human again.

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randomly today

i took myself bowling today
hit the gutter first three times, fourth time X
*insert sunglass emoji here* :P
final score 121, i asked the lady at the desk what my handicap would be if that was my average, she said 63. it's the first time i've bowled in years.
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One of my obsessions is for events and music that change everything that comes after them. What often amazes me is how people can look at things that were transformative and then take them for granted as if they'd always existed.

I also obsess about thresholds. Like how much weight can a bridge hold before it collapses? Or how much stress can a person handle before they break? And with the noisy room thing; how many people have to be in a particular size room before they go from almost whispering to almost shouting?
 
Speaking of thresholds in the political realm . . .


How the Left Undervalues America
By Vince Coyner
The American Thinker

July 24, 2021

In 1776 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence and thus began a war with Britain. When the war was concluded in 1783, American casualties numbered 25,000 dead and 25,000 wounded. Those 50,000 casualties paid the price so that a new nation, founded on the ideas of freedom and liberty, could take its place among the nations of the world.

Eighty-five years later the United States was at war with itself and eventually 360,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to extend that promise of freedom and end slavery. Seventy-five years later 405,000 Americans would die in an effort to save freedom from tyranny on two continents.

Over the course of almost 250 years, approximately 1 million American men gave their lives in defense of freedom, the vast majority of whom were volunteers. While their individual reasons for enlisting were likely as varied as their life stories, all made the decision that the nation was worth fighting for and indeed dying for if necessary.

Over the lifespan of our nation those million men sacrificed their lives and tens of millions of others put theirs on the line to defend the ideals set out in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the Constitution. And despite the current crop of leftist brass leading the Pentagon, most servicemen and veterans are and have been extraordinary patriots. But here’s the thing: America has been so incredibly successful in fostering peace around the world, been so extraordinarily successful in crafting the prosperity at home that relatively few modern-day Americans ever have to bother putting on the uniform in the first place, never mind actually fighting in a war in which they are asked to risk their lives.

Most of those on the left who tell us that America is a fundamentally racist nation have never had to serve in a military environment, one of the most colorblind elements of American society. No, most of them are pampered college educated agitators with very little skin in the game in terms of doing anything productive at all, not protecting the nation, not building the nation, not improving the nation. Others are minorities who have listened for years to grifters selling the fiction of serial victimization. They attack the United States for not being the nirvana that Marx wrote about or the racial paradise Nikole Hannah-Jones pretends Cuba is. (Ironically, Marx, a chronically unemployed writer who was perpetually supported by Engels, scion of a wealthy family with textile interests, spent his time theorizing and critiquing capitalists… including textile manufacturers… Similarly absurd, the nirvana we are told is Cuba is today wracked with civil unrest as the poverty stricken population revolts against 60 years of communist oppression.)

Few on the left have life experiences that would enable them to understand the United States for what it really is… an imperfect nation with extraordinary goals where citizens have enjoyed unprecedented freedoms and achieved unparalleled prosperity. Most of them have been indoctrinated into the mindset that defines the United States by its worst failures, never to be mitigated by its overwhelmingly more common successes. Slavery and Jim Crow were indeed dark marks on America’s history, but a civil war to end the former and more than half a century of laws, programs, and expenditures to overcome the latter count for nothing to redeem the nation.

That is a hallmark of the left, like Marx… little experience but lots of ideas. How many modern leftists risked their lives for their country? Probably not a lot. How many of them risked every penny they had (or more) to start a business and find themselves forced to walk on the tightrope between paying the landlord, suppliers, and making payroll, all while trying to market their product, fight off competition, and jump through a labyrinth of regulatory hurdles? Again, woefully few. How many of them worked on a factory floor or an oil rig or were plumbers or welders or janitors, as they sacrificed much to try and give their kids opportunities they didn’t have? Certainly not many. As America has become more white-collar, more information centric and more focused on cheap imports over the last quarter century or so, many parents pampered and spoiled their children, creating an army of adult adolescents with few real responsibilities, rarely risking much of anything and even more rarely encountering opposition of any sort.

Which brings us to Donald Trump. One of the reasons Donald Trump was such a great president was that he was an actual businessman -- granted, one who inherited much from his father. But despite his father’s success, Trump was a successful businessman operating a real estate business in shark-infested New York City, one of the most difficult cities in the country to navigate. He dealt with New York’s kleptocratic regulatory boards, corrupt unions, and predatory banks all while focusing on making payroll, hitting deadlines, and producing what consumers would exchange their hard-earned money for. Donald Trump is not some Wall Street genius making billions by selling obscure financial products to giant retirement funds, nor is he a Silicon Valley prodigy who sold some selfie app to Facebook or Google. He’s a businessman who builds actual things.

Trump may have the planes and the mansions and the security, but his words are his own and he is very much a man of the people. In what was possibly the single most accurate tweet of all time, Trump said: “In reality they’re not after me. They’re after you, I’m just in the way.” And that’s the key to all of what’s going on in America today. The digital revolution, social media and government handouts have fundamentally transformed America from a hardscrabble place where people rolled up their sleeves and built tangible things, grew or extracted an income from the ground, and signed up to defend their nation to one with overindulged snowflakes where virtually everything is digital, business is little more than delivering things built somewhere else by someone else, and government largesse makes actual work seem like a sucker’s game.

America today is allowing itself to be destroyed by groups of people who neither share its values nor its understanding of what’s necessary to build or defend a successful nation in the real world. They, much like their gods -- Marx, Sanders and Hannah-Jones -- live in ivory tower worlds where virtually everything is theoretical because none of their ideas actually work in practice. They never concern themselves with building anything, improving anything or designing anything that actually survives an encounter with the real world. When you operate in the universe of ideas, everything is perfect because it’s never subjected to reality. Much as the French learned at the end of the end of the 18th century, such theoretical perfection rarely survives exposure to the kilns of actual life and giving the reins of society to simpletons who invoke such perfection is the fastest road to abject failure.
 
30 COVID shot questions that might get you banned from social media:

If it’s so effective, why are we being bribed with food and drinks that make us more unhealthy?

If it’s so dangerous, why hasn’t the homeless population been completely eradicated by it?

If people are so scared about coming down with it, why aren’t they just staying home and leaving the rest of us alone?

How will the plastic dividers in the grocery store protect you when the cashiers touch everything you have and take it home for yourself?

If we still have to cover our faces after getting it, how effective is it in the first place?

How many times does the CDC have to change their guidance before you realize they have no idea what they’re talking about?

If public health is worth giving away medicine for free, why aren’t medicines given away for other illnesses?

Why do professional athletes not wear masks while playing breathing and sweating all over each other, but you have to cover your face if you want to watch them play in person?

Why did the richest people on Earth get 1.2 trillion richer in the last year, while those in the working class were furloughed or laid off altogether?

Why is it important that we cover our faces while we walk into a restaurant, but not important that we keep them covered when we get to our table?

What was the reason for one way lines in grocery stores when we were all breathing the same air anyway?

Who exactly are you protecting by covering your face while driving alone in your car?

If you’re so worried about cross contamination, why aren’t gas pump handles wiped down like door handles are?

Why were small businesses forced to close while big box retailers raked in business this whole time?

If the very air we breath is so contagious, why aren’t we forced to put face coverings in bio-hazards after use?

What purpose do keypad protectors serve when everyone touches them time after time anyway?

Why aren’t students allowed to share anything in the classroom, but are allowed to play with the same ball during recess?

At the Doctor’s office, why are we forced to sign in with a touchpad, but handed a pen by a bare-handed receptionist to fill out paperwork?

Explain why fast food workers at a drive through hand you your food on a tray, but have no problem touching our cards or money with their bare hands.

How are you protecting yourself wearing gloves everywhere when you touch your phone and your face with those gloves as well?

Why does no one mention that face coverings are only intended for single use?

If health is really the goal, why aren’t people encouraged to exercise with the same regularity to do what the CDC recommends?

How important is covering your face and social distancing when you’re the first ones to get in our face and scream at us when we refuse to comply with your draconian mandates?

Why do airlines repeat the lie that covering your face is a federal law, when the law itself is unconstitutional to the core?

If you have to social distance while boarding the plane, but have to sit next to someone else, what’s the point of social distancing in the first place?

If face coverings are such a big deal, why isn’t there one single universal face covering required by all establishments?

Which do you really fear more? The virus, or independent thought and freedom altogether?

Why do you trust the TV more than your own eyes?

When will you value your freedoms more than you value absolute compliance?

What more will it take for you to stop following orders and start questioning the narrative?
 
30 COVID shot questions that might get you banned from social media:

If it’s so effective, why are we being bribed with food and drinks that make us more unhealthy?

If it’s so dangerous, why hasn’t the homeless population been completely eradicated by it?

If people are so scared about coming down with it, why aren’t they just staying home and leaving the rest of us alone?

How will the plastic dividers in the grocery store protect you when the cashiers touch everything you have and take it home for yourself?

If we still have to cover our faces after getting it, how effective is it in the first place?

How many times does the CDC have to change their guidance before you realize they have no idea what they’re talking about?

If public health is worth giving away medicine for free, why aren’t medicines given away for other illnesses?

Why do professional athletes not wear masks while playing breathing and sweating all over each other, but you have to cover your face if you want to watch them play in person?

Why did the richest people on Earth get 1.2 trillion richer in the last year, while those in the working class were furloughed or laid off altogether?

Why is it important that we cover our faces while we walk into a restaurant, but not important that we keep them covered when we get to our table?

What was the reason for one way lines in grocery stores when we were all breathing the same air anyway?

Who exactly are you protecting by covering your face while driving alone in your car?

If you’re so worried about cross contamination, why aren’t gas pump handles wiped down like door handles are?

Why were small businesses forced to close while big box retailers raked in business this whole time?

If the very air we breath is so contagious, why aren’t we forced to put face coverings in bio-hazards after use?

What purpose do keypad protectors serve when everyone touches them time after time anyway?

Why aren’t students allowed to share anything in the classroom, but are allowed to play with the same ball during recess?

At the Doctor’s office, why are we forced to sign in with a touchpad, but handed a pen by a bare-handed receptionist to fill out paperwork?

Explain why fast food workers at a drive through hand you your food on a tray, but have no problem touching our cards or money with their bare hands.

How are you protecting yourself wearing gloves everywhere when you touch your phone and your face with those gloves as well?

Why does no one mention that face coverings are only intended for single use?

If health is really the goal, why aren’t people encouraged to exercise with the same regularity to do what the CDC recommends?

How important is covering your face and social distancing when you’re the first ones to get in our face and scream at us when we refuse to comply with your draconian mandates?

Why do airlines repeat the lie that covering your face is a federal law, when the law itself is unconstitutional to the core?

If you have to social distance while boarding the plane, but have to sit next to someone else, what’s the point of social distancing in the first place?

If face coverings are such a big deal, why isn’t there one single universal face covering required by all establishments?

Which do you really fear more? The virus, or independent thought and freedom altogether?

Why do you trust the TV more than your own eyes?

When will you value your freedoms more than you value absolute compliance?

What more will it take for you to stop following orders and start questioning the narrative?


I need to put this into a video someday.
 
*Emily's random comment time*

I want to meet a Japanese Christian someday! I looked up some pictures of Japanese Bibles and they look pretty cool! I find Japanese letters interesting.
 
i'm back over here in random ... retreating to safety?
when i get angry, i often regret speaking

we are to love God above all others, isn't this about doing His WILL?
how do we ACT on love for God?
if we put our children or a spouse above His will, are we loving Him at all?
i shall live to regret my mouth once again but here goes: what woman would or SHOULD want a man that pussy foots around when God tells him something? i've seen over and over husbands that are living in fear of their wives, in fear of what will happen with the children they share with this wife, IF he does Gods will, IF he "moves too fast"
point me to scripture that shows men in the bible coddling possessive wives
 
i'm back over here in random ... retreating to safety?
when i get angry, i often regret speaking

we are to love God above all others, isn't this about doing His WILL?
how do we ACT on love for God?
if we put our children or a spouse above His will, are we loving Him at all?
i shall live to regret my mouth once again but here goes: what woman would or SHOULD want a man that pussy foots around when God tells him something? i've seen over and over husbands that are living in fear of their wives, in fear of what will happen with the children they share with this wife, IF he does Gods will, IF he "moves too fast"
point me to scripture that shows men in the bible coddling possessive wives
You are definitely speaking into my current listening, @ginger2! Stay tuned!
 
*Emily's random comment time*

I want to meet a Japanese Christian someday! I looked up some pictures of Japanese Bibles and they look pretty cool! I find Japanese letters interesting.
When briefly studying Japanese in school, I found the Japanese phonetic alphabet (hirigana) makes more sense than the English one. Spelling is easy in that as it's entirely phonetic. If they only used that, their writing would be really simple.

But since they use three alphabets interchangeably while writing, and one of those is traditional Chinese characters while two are phonetic, it's actually an extraordinarily complicated language to read because you need to know three alphabets including thousands of traditional Chinese characters.
 
But since they use three alphabets interchangeably while writing, and one of those is traditional Chinese characters while two are phonetic, it's actually an extraordinarily complicated language to read because you need to know three alphabets including thousands of traditional Chinese characters.

Yeah, even though it's my favorite language, I think my brain would get too overwhelmed trying to learn it.

Instead, I speak or sing Japanese-gibberish whenever I pretending to be my anime characters. It's basically gibberish that sounds Japanese. Note: if a Japanese person is reading this, I'm not trying to make fun of your language,
 
I like @ginger2. To make that sound random and not related to her random vent (which it is) I can add that I just bought and enjoyed a cup of yerba mate tea with ginger, cardamom, black pepper and stevia in the blend. :)
 
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