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daverkb's avatar

My question is why 'hate' always seemingly one sided? Or why has 'hate' been weaponized so as to sew mouths shut? Why and who gets to define hate and to what purpose? And do we hate through 'legislated' anti-hate? And what about hating what God hates, which seems to have been totally discarded in America of the day?

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Christy's avatar

I love America and am so tired of the wars. If ALL the media is now Gaga over Israel and everyone here has been skeptical, I don’t like the division in these comments now. Believe your truth, but most people honestly have no idea what the truth is. Truth is written by victors. I’m on americas side and what’s happening to America!

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daverkb's avatar

This is interesting.

Some people say that history is written by the victors. When they are saying this, they mean that a version of 'what happened' is written which reports in a self-serving way what the rulers of a country want the people of that country and/or the rest of the world to believe. Such histories may, and usually are right on the main things which happened but leave out elements key to knowing what really went on. This, for example, would be the difference between the government's version in the 911 NIST Report or the Warren Report and what actually went on, and things like forensic evidence 'conveniently' omitted in the official reports. We with passage of time and citizen scrutiny now know all the details left out of these reports (if we care to search them out) and these details completely change how we are able to think about what actually happened.

It commonly heard today that we should respect 'his or her truth'. Or words or shadings to this effect. This is also wrong. People don't 'have a truth.' There is either truth, or else there are lies. And lies embedded, and seeded into truth is also not the truth which is why the oath taken before a witness testifies contains the words 'the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help me God.' (Swearing on God used to be taken seriously!)

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Christy's avatar

Exactly. Call it being a devils advocate, I just don’t like seeing my skeptical friends here post pro Israel or pro hamas because whatever news source is telling them to. If you’re pro Israel bc of the Bible, that’s NOT what I’m talking about. In a nut shell I’m just saying be Skeptical!!!! All countries have their skeletons.

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daverkb's avatar

Thanks for writing back. You are appreciated, very much so.

The Side Choosers have been falling all over themselves this past week, and they have all the reasons in the world why their choice is the right choice. But if you will notice, there seems to be only two main choice, 1) Sympathy for Hamas, Gaza, etc., or 2) righteous indignation and unquestioning support for the greatest ally in the Middle East. This TWO Choice Model employed by the Apex Elites (either a predominant faction and/or the Money Power behind the curtain) is how The Rulers game to people into doing their bidding. The Two Choice Model, either this or that, is a Trick. The heart of the Trick is to get people to do and/or support what they would not support or do otherwise given the real facts and an accurate historical frame of reference.

I always look for other choices. The third choice is actually what should be the first choice. This would be choose God first (a moral universe by law ... God's law), then family and what is good for the family, and then what is good for the larger family which is the good of the country. Notice that most of the choosing this week was a choosing of tangental externals over the internal good of our own country (such as securing the border and end the warefare being waged internally. Getting Congress and financial affairs under control. And so on.

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