critiques of Judaism and Christianity

5.6: relig/bible/unifying
the jewish and christian messages:
. judaism pointed out we get punished for
not following god's law;
christianity points out:
we will never be able to follow the law,
so there can be no salvation in actions;
and that's why god's love said
we'd be saved simply by believing that
the work of Jesus Christ could save us .
. actually, god's love comes in 2 forms:
there are the warnings about how to avoid harm,
and then there is the spirit-guided urge to
ignore the warnings;
this indirectly leads to love; because,

duelling romney - obama funnies

5.3: sci.pol/obama/
romney can win because he's sarcasm:
. romney can win because he's sarcasm:
"( proud capitalism is canibalizing your job ),
and people will then feel silly being jealous of 1% image .

5.4: pos.pol/obama/
romney has a chance with delegates voting:
. now I'm sure romney is electable because
the group he's making his case to is not us
but the delegates .

5.7: co.apt/obama/controling us with czars!:
. obama is controling us with czars!
that's what dem's always do, they invented the first czar,
for the drug war;
but also the alcohol prohibition, ... who did that?
the women, when they got to vote,
** it got right there in the constitution **
-- talk about a super czar .

5.8:  co.apt/pol/obama/from the socialists, with love:
. recall someone recently saying
that usa youth on the euro tourist circuit
were feeling a lot more loved at europe's hostels
after it was seen that usa had voted for Obama .
. but love can be tough:
the amsterdam coffee shops
no longer cater to foreign tourists,
they're only to keep local youth off the street .
6.23: web:
(23% of tourists visited those coffeeshops).

5.9: web.pol/obama/obama's real father:

. real father rumors are hitting the fan;
is this why he's out for gay marriage now?
. the story I got from the radio was that
obama's real father, Frank,
and a friend, the kenyan, agreed to agree
for some reason,
that the kenyan would say he was the father,
perhaps so he could have access to
usa as married to citizen ?
he never said, or I was radio surfing elsewhere .
...
frank was married with many children
and was struggling to maintain that marriage,
so perhaps this move was part of that struggle .

Birtherism 2.0: Obama’s ‘Real’ Father
April 30, 2012 at 11:04 am Ed Brayton

. taking birtherism to a new level,
in “Dreams from My Real Father:
A Story of Reds and Deception ”
(see trailer, and intro)
Joel Gilbert is arguing that
not only wasn’t Obama born in the USA
but that Barack Obama Sr.
isn’t even his real father.
And who is his real father? A communist!
Gilbert rejects the official story
that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama
was the president’s father.
Instead, he argues, Frank Marshall Davis,
the radical poet and journalist
who was a card-carrying member
of the Communist Party USA,
was the real, biological -- and ideological --
father of Barack Obama.

the real father is Frank Marshall Davis?

Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation
claims that Davis was a political influence on Obama .
A rebuttal released by Obama's presidential campaign,
titled Unfit for Publication,
confirmed that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis,
but disputes claims about the nature of their relationship.

5.11: co.apt/pol/obama/romney is funny:
. funny story to find romney forcing a haircut;
you'd think they'd use an eagle scout ...
as if my audience:

. phil, that is an eagle scout:
you find a long-hair, you cut his hair off!

as self:

. just saying, you'd think they'd find a match who
wouldn't squawk underneath the presidential lights !

5.22: co.apt/pol/obama/
it worked for colin powell:
. Colin Powell's new book is
"(it worked for me);
suppose that was about
him looking like Obama?
. Powell was the one
who was asked to say:
"( there's weapons of mass destruction
-- just kidding! ).
. Obama was told to say these kiddings:
"( g'tmo is closing down,
israel will be told no more wars for
defending arrogant settlers ).

fig-leafing our responsibility to children

1.13: relig/bible/genesis/privatization of parenting:
[1.21: . capitalists and communists are still arguing about
whether privatization of production is an evil,
yet they are both still making a mess,
and they both agree on the worst evil,
privatized reproduction(parenting):
it is the primary source of drug abuse, drug wars,
schizophrenia(mass rejection), and mass murder .]
. that realization
gave me this spin of the genesis story:
. god insists nothing should be private:
(genitals should remain in public view)
but after Adam's snake gave Eve
that first taste of fruiting
-- a harsh labor, and countless childhood emergencies --
they both decided it would be best if they
put all their troublesome differences out of sight .
. that, of course,
was the end of the first perfect garden .
. slavery is also a constant theme in the bible:
we have to put fig leaves between
the poor and the rich,
the mgt and labor,
your parenting style vs mine .
. the genesis author's god was right:
things should be specialized,
and things should not be private .
. secrets are not sure security,
but they are a sure source of power abuse .
. we should be able to inspect and have a say in
all things that can have an influence on us .
. I'm not saying that's an enforceable rule,
but it's where perfected technology is heading,
simply because that technology by definition
will make such per-module omniscience possible;
that is, it can enforce separate environments
and enable awareness of everything in
one's own environment .

prodigal son

9.27: relig/bible/prodigal son/the best inheritance is education:

[9.29:

. this story is typically seen as a reminder to children

that while a parent's love may be unconditional

(or even sarcastically over-the-top),

others will surely make you regret

flowing with the foolish impulses of

inexperience and youthful hormones .

]

. another interpretation is that the fool

could have avoided angry brothers

while still getting his inheritance early

if our culture would encourage fathers to routinely

use their wealth to educate their children

-- give them all their inheritance now!

11.25: the prodigal son

. if you're not familiar with that bible story,

it's about this young guy who has an itch

to be a traveling party lover,

and asks his rich father for all his inheritance money right now!

. he wants it now instead of waiting until father's death

-- huh? (dis-honoring your parents goes against a 10-commandments) .

. he spends all the money on partying,

and when the money runs out

things get worse because the land he is in

is having a recession!

. the only job a party boy can find

is serving pigs who eat better than he does!

. so then he finds himself lamenting:

. oh, my father's cows eat better than I do,

if only I could go back and ask my father

would he take me back even just as a servant ?!

. the father is so overjoyed apon seeing that the spirit of

partying -- and recessions! -- has not killed his son

that he orders a major feast (killing an entire cow) .

. but his brothers are not happy:

he dragged the family name through the mud,

and now we are going to feast about it ?!

. his brothers feel ashamed

about letting their father be dishonored .