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Howdy and thank you!
They can book Michael Jackson and Elvis as entertainers.In other news I hear the Titanic could sail again if only it had the right leadership!
You have 29 people! If I let you come I’d have to feed you all of my new chickens!LOL chickens are okay but the people can go somewhere else!!!
The first concerts I had a hand in booking were for Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.E. Taylor, so I'll see if they can perform as well.They can book Michael Jackson and Elvis as entertainers.
I know... I was raised on Elvis so the songs and movies... IMBEDDED in my brain. Blame my Mom.
Oh, and I forgot!: I met Elvis when I was a kid, and I think he'll remember me when I approach him for a booking!
I think there is no way to overestimate Elvis's talent. Too bad about how his life ended; I blame the Colonel (met him, too), as well as holding Elvis personally responsible for his own demise.
I’m of two minds on that, it is embarrassing how religion has taken advantage of the laws.
Sad but true. When you see how blended mega churches look like corporate buildings and the people that own them find every way to add wealth while teaching charity...
What I have witnessed first-hand is how both churches and colleges bankrupt small towns by systematically buying up property every time a downturn occurs, a process that spirals the towns into poverty. This is also by design. Every major progressive long-term plan includes shifting the population from small towns to big cities, where people are easier to control.
The other problem is that this scenario in which churches and colleges take properties off the tax rolls while actually consuming more than their share of local services is also taking place in the cities, suburbs and exurbs; it's just not as noticeable.
I think it's way past time that we recognize that, no matter how laudable any particular association group is, there is no reason why such groups deserve to expect provision of services without paying into the kitty. Big Church is Big Business -- and, imho, no more righteous just because their social clubs are ostensibly centered around worship of God. The tax exemption also has everything to do with why mainstream/corporate denominations have drifted so far into wokeness.
Speaking of religion (as opposed to faith in God) . . .
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-bill-gates-carefully-curated-tech-savior-image-unraveled
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-bill-gates-carefully-curated-tech-savior-image-unraveled
Zero Hedge is on fire today . . . although this is more of a deep chill: erasing the distinctions between us and China: https://www.zerohedge.com/political...rgeted-under-governments-new-precrime-program
Perhaps related to the above are my thoughts after Kristin and I went to see the new documentary Final Account. One has to laud the effort to capture on film interviews with about a dozen of the final surviving members of the Nazi Party's SS and other Nazi functionaries. Per the documentarian's intention, what is immediately obvious is how little shame those people display 60 years later (the interviews took place over 10 years ago, and I assume the film was delayed to wait for them to all have passed away), almost to a one consistently speaking in the passive voice and blaming their participation on social and political pressure. A couple, though, clearly remain convinced that everything would have turned out better had Germany won the war, and one man was rather adamant that Hitler's ideas were spot on about ridding Europe of Jews but just had poor execution.
That's all chilling -- but not really newsworthy. What I found more remarkable (while wondering if anyone will notice any of what I noticed) was (a) what wasn't addressed by the filmmaker, (b) the repetition of standard-fare propaganda, and (c) the subtle encouragement to associate the lessons about German herd mentality with right-wing ideology [emphasis on words like 'rallies' being an example, and as if Nazism, better known as National Socialism, wasn't an entirely left-wing movement] and the anything-but-subtle promotion of victimhood philosophies, both on the part of the Jews and on the part of the interviewed Nazis who, you know, just couldn't help themselves.
Left out?: (a1) any mention of the fact that homosexuals were also just as systematically rounded up and vilified as the Jews [Gypsies get one mention], and the degree to which anti-polygamy sentiment played a part in not only German willingness to look the other way about what was happening to the Jews, whether it was 500,000 murdered, a million murdered or the stock figure used of 1 million. This dynamic is easy enough to uncover when one researches early 20th-century Europe, but it is always studiously ignored by films focusing on The Holocaust. And it wasn't as if it was any kind of closely-held secret. Polls were taken in Europe on a regular basis once awareness of what Hitler was up to became widespread. During the war, polls consistently showed that negative reactions to the perception that the Jews practiced polygamy ranked second only behind disapproval of their merchant-middle-man practices related to profit-making and usury as justifying anti-Jewish sentiment across the continent. One major poll taken later, during the effort to establish the post-war Jewish nation-state of Israel, revealed that opposition in Europe to the creation of such a State in the Middle East was fueled more than anything else by disapproval of polygamy. As others here note occasionally, various previous official writs of disapproval had occurred within the Jewish diaspora, a couple of the major ones being dated to the 3rd and 11th centuries, and those likely tamped it down considerably, so it isn't as if polygamy was itself in any way widespread among European Jews, but this is just another example of how Christian prudishness violently reacts against polygamy. The most recent -- and probably the most effective based on observable evidence -- formal prohibition against polygamy occurred in 1948 in a written pronouncement from one of the world's then most authoritative rabbis declaring a formal and definitive end to the acceptability of polygamy for Jews, which took place as part of the negotiations among the post-war super powers related to the formation of the State of Israel.
Even aside from not being part of the we're-the-biggest-victims-ever narrative of such films, Jewish polygamy remains at the top of the list of shames from the past that shall not even be mentioned.
That's all chilling -- but not really newsworthy. What I found more remarkable (while wondering if anyone will notice any of what I noticed) was (a) what wasn't addressed by the filmmaker, (b) the repetition of standard-fare propaganda, and (c) the subtle encouragement to associate the lessons about German herd mentality with right-wing ideology [emphasis on words like 'rallies' being an example, and as if Nazism, better known as National Socialism, wasn't an entirely left-wing movement] and the anything-but-subtle promotion of victimhood philosophies, both on the part of the Jews and on the part of the interviewed Nazis who, you know, just couldn't help themselves.
Left out?: (a1) any mention of the fact that homosexuals were also just as systematically rounded up and vilified as the Jews [Gypsies get one mention], and the degree to which anti-polygamy sentiment played a part in not only German willingness to look the other way about what was happening to the Jews, whether it was 500,000 murdered, a million murdered or the stock figure used of 1 million. This dynamic is easy enough to uncover when one researches early 20th-century Europe, but it is always studiously ignored by films focusing on The Holocaust. And it wasn't as if it was any kind of closely-held secret. Polls were taken in Europe on a regular basis once awareness of what Hitler was up to became widespread. During the war, polls consistently showed that negative reactions to the perception that the Jews practiced polygamy ranked second only behind disapproval of their merchant-middle-man practices related to profit-making and usury as justifying anti-Jewish sentiment across the continent. One major poll taken later, during the effort to establish the post-war Jewish nation-state of Israel, revealed that opposition in Europe to the creation of such a State in the Middle East was fueled more than anything else by disapproval of polygamy. As others here note occasionally, various previous official writs of disapproval had occurred within the Jewish diaspora, a couple of the major ones being dated to the 3rd and 11th centuries, and those likely tamped it down considerably, so it isn't as if polygamy was itself in any way widespread among European Jews, but this is just another example of how Christian prudishness violently reacts against polygamy. The most recent -- and probably the most effective based on observable evidence -- formal prohibition against polygamy occurred in 1948 in a written pronouncement from one of the world's then most authoritative rabbis declaring a formal and definitive end to the acceptability of polygamy for Jews, which took place as part of the negotiations among the post-war super powers related to the formation of the State of Israel.
Even aside from not being part of the we're-the-biggest-victims-ever narrative of such films, Jewish polygamy remains at the top of the list of shames from the past that shall not even be mentioned.
Yeah, things are fine until there is a valid argument that goes against it and then people seem to distance themselves yet as I've seen as I've been on my search, what looks good for the world, to look modernized, versus what people do, the practice is alive and well.
Woke Warning: I am a white male, but I am also descended from Jewish Gypsies, like Likud.
I had these two thoughts as I continued to contemplate what I watched last night:
I had these two thoughts as I continued to contemplate what I watched last night:
- That there is a parallel between African-Americans and (especially American) Jews, in that they have each taken one (and in each case, admittedly-horrible) coordinated sin against them and turned it into a near Industry with hustlers who reward people in their ranks for believing that (a) the whole world has been persecuting them without one ounce of justification, which has created (b) a cultural environment in which they have phrases of automatic deflection which allow them to entirely refrain if they wish from cultural self-reflection. And, thus, the very behaviors that inspired the stereotypes that those within those cultures decry as unfair demonization continue on to a sufficient enough degree within each culture to further perpetuate the stereotypes that shall not be mentioned.
- It may be worth introducing a piggy-back tangent to the Never-Forget-the-Shoah message that purposefully insists on throwing up the polygamy banner each and every time someone plays the Shoah violin. I can provide numerous instances in which this strategy has worked for various groups to embolden its previously-downtrodden members, shock the opposition into disarray-and-fractured-impotence, and force should-be allies into being supportive instead of remaining in their deny-three-times-before-the-cock-crows cowardice (the homosexual movement deciding to embrace the 'queer' pejorative is an excellent example of this). In our case, why should we let the Jewish lobby get away with amassing sympathy and philanthropic contributions by limiting their defense of themselves to owning and promoting the legitimacy of their history of being merchant middlemen, while acting all ashamed of their former embrace of polygamy (and don't give me any of that YHWH only tolerated it and didn't encourage it nonsense)? Instead of hiding in our online cubby holes, worried that someone among us will be somewhat embarrassing by not being a 100% Pious Puritan other than Practicing Polygamy, why aren't we shouting, "Hey, you forgot about polygamy, dudes! You used to practice polygamy, and you let those same people who rounded you up and treated you like scum get away with shaming you into setting aside something blessed in Torah by YHWH Himself. You went right back to selling diamonds, making movies and loaning money, willing to defend all of that, so why did you cave in when it comes to one of the God-sanctioned forms of family bonding and intimacy that has so much potential to take better care of widows and orphans, not to mention lessen the instance of prostitution?" It probably wouldn't take too many instances of that kind of assertiveness to get some really serious attention.
P.S. Immediately after writing the above, I went to a new thread from @PeteR, in which he shared a link to an Eric Conn article about polarization. I highly recommend it, and I won't deny that it eliminated the thin veneer of hesitancy I had been experiencing about having posted the above message.
Go see the thread here: https://biblicalfamilies.org/forum/threads/be-polarizing-in-a-good-way.15786/
Go see the thread here: https://biblicalfamilies.org/forum/threads/be-polarizing-in-a-good-way.15786/