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Real Jews
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Religion on 05/23/2010
The Catholic Church has long used the term “Orthodox” as the title of the Eastern Church. At the same time it insisted that only Rome was Orthodox. The Catholic Church uses the term the Episcopal Church to describe the established faith in England.
But the term “Episcopal” has only one meaning: a church ruled by bishops. Rome does not recognize Anglican bishops as bishops: “all the surplices on earth cannot make an Episcopal minister into a priest.”
Rome refers to Jews as Jews. Yet they also declare that they, not the Jews, are the real inheritors of the Old Testament. One of the two horns on every bishop’s hat represents the Old Testament, that HE is true inheritor of Moses.
It seems obvious that the six million people in the Roman Empire who called themselves “Jews” were overwhelmingly Hellenic Jews. Before Jesus, a group of seventy-something scholars wrote THEIR Old Testament, but it was NOT a translation. It was declared THE CANON.
The Hellenic Jewish historian Josephus of whom a lot of us have heard would have gone ballistic if he heard Luther declare that only writings in Hebrew were the real Old Testament. That would be like telling a religious Catholic that only the Episcopal Church has real bishops.
As Christianity grew, the Hellenic Jews disappeared from history. There are two possible explanations of this. Either the giant Hellenic Jewish community accepted Christ, the Greek word for Messiah, as THEIR Messiah, or the Roman Empire killed six million Jews.
Either the Hellenic Jews became Christian or, for once, the Holocaust Deniers were successful.
That latter is worth thinking about. Looking at the tens of billions of dollars the last Holocaust brought in, this newly discovered Roman one could be a bonanza.
But, like Orthodox and Episcopalian, “Jews” is just a convenient title. The Jews are no more THE Jews than the Pope using the term Orthodox makes HIS orthodoxy invalid.
This is no quibble. Remember that the State of Israel and all the tens of billions of dollars and American blood shed for it rests on the undisputed claim that Israel belongs to JEWS, and that what we call Jews are actually the only Chosen People.
No, this is definitely NOT a quibble.
This “quibble” would have been of terrific importance to Luther and Calvin. In their time the people who called themselves “Jews” were the ones historically used Hebrew. In fact, the Early Church would have specifically denied that the group which did NOT accept Jesus — the GREEK version of Joshua — as their Messiah, were still Jews at all.
There were a number of attempts to remove the entire Old Testament from Holy Scriptures in the new church. But the new church hung solidly to its claim to be the ONLY inheritors of what was once called Judaism.
By the time of Luther “Jews” were called Jews. So Luther removed the entire middle of Bible from his canon because of this mistake in terminology. The Fundamentalist branch of Christianity insists that America fight and die for Israel because they do not know about this “quibble.”
Because of their ovine ignorance of history, our so-called “Christians” do not know that, in the eyes of early Christians, Judaism was a religion waiting for the coming of the Messiah. In the eyes of the early church, Jews CEASED to EXIST — Paul says that specifically.
If this is a quibble Krakatoa was a light tremor.
Sleep Soundly, Homeland Security is Watching Over You
One writer in my New Right Papers anthology talked about an experience he had in the USSR when it was still ruled by Social Progress. Apparently to show the flaws in capitalist production, he was shown the hula hoops. There was a giant warehouse containing millions of hula hoops the USSR had produced at the time of that craze in the 50s.
They still had them. It is an example of what I said before, that Communists have no way to figure out what consumer goods to produce, so they produce whatever the market economy produces. But to them, what they were showing him was how his wonderful market economy produced things nobody wanted.
But the hula hoop was not a planned event. They just grew and manufacturers produced them. Then the craze died and they stopped producing them. That’s what you get when Mommy Professor doesn’t do your planning for you.
To my writer, that was an example of how stupid the planned economy was. But to them, the fact that they couldn’t give the damned things away to their citizens demonstrated how ridiculous this capitalist product was.
My point is that the Soviets had no more idea what was going on than the CIA did. They had more agents there than we did by a LONG shot, “the KGB is everywhere.” The CIA budget is a secret, and I can tell you as a staffer for the ranking member of the Internal Security Committee, formerly House Un-American Activities Committee, that if you saw their expenditures you would be as lost as you are now.
But between the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA and the others, we spent billions on knowing what went on inside the USSR, from qualified experts.
Lots of information was produced, tens of millions of words poured out, but nobody saw the USSR coming down, here or there. This never seemed to bother anybody, and certainly nobody in the Intelligence Community was ever criticized for it or lost a night’s sleep over it.
So back to one of our basic questions: Why was this information PRODUCED? Why were all those people paid so much and no one ever asked why they didn’t see the whole thing coming down? If Pepsi-Cola went out of business, went out of business next week, and no one in the Coca-Cola Company had any idea it was happening or why it happened, I guarantee you there would be a LOT of empty seats to be filled in the Executive Suites in Atlanta.
We know all those executives and experts WERE hired, and we know they had not the slightest hint the USSR was going to disappear overnight. We also know that those who haven’t retired are now promoted and well-paid in the Department of Homeland Security.
In fact it was exactly those same executives and experts and the people they hired and trained who were in charge on September 11, 2001. By now almost all of those who missed on the Soviet Incident AND on 9/11 have gotten fat pensions and/or big-pay jobs as Advisors in the private sector. But their spirit, and their level of competence, lives on in those they made experts to succeed them.
And no one notices.
The Communism No One Noticed
Anyone who actually knows anything about the Communist economies, euphemistically referred to by the UN Statistics books as “Centrally Planned Economies,” has got a good laugh at what Lenin and his fellow Intellectuals and Idealists ran into when they started to plan production.
For instance, they had to have quotas for glass production. They tried stating it in pounds of glass, but what came out from the terrified managers was glass slabs weighing hundreds of pounds and useless for anything.
And yes, Virginia, they actually TRIED the alternative: stating the quotas in square inches. You have probably guessed, but they didn’t, that glass came pouring out a fiftieth of an inch think and very little of it was ever anything but shards when it was actually delivered.
The problem with Communism was never the long debate about Moral Relativism argued by William F. Buckley in his long Latinate words that impressed conservatives so much. The problem was that Communism is SILLY.
If you listen to my latest interview with Truck Roy, you will hear his question tome about Communism. My reply was, “What will you PRODUCE?” It’s too basic not to be shocking.
Truck Roy, like anybody else, said, ”Food, consumer goods.” I don’t know ANYBODY who was EVER ready for that question.
The answer is that Lenin and Company knew what “goods” were. They knew what “goods” were because they were what people wanted. But are you going to produce the same goods FOREVER? A Communist planner always assumes there will be market economies out there showing him what production to plan.
Hell, even when they had lots of markets to imitate, they couldn’t find the right WORDS to put the quotas in. Factories in the USSR always stacked up huge piles of parts they couldn’t use. The Russian economy was a total shambles under the USSR, always. The people always lived like third-worlders while their reports to the UN showed them catching up with the USA in per capita income.
It is amazing. The entire economy of the Soviet Union, more than three hundred million white people, never produced ONE SINGLE consumer good anybody outside the USSR could put on the market!
Nobody notices. The CIA reported the growth statistics put out by terrified Soviet managers as the truth. Some of us spent some time inside those countries, and we couldn’t believe anyone could say that. But the Ivy Leaguers didn’t go to the USSR in anything but first-class seats, and they sure as hell didn’t go into the department stores I went into.
The CIA’s Ivy League view was exactly like the John Birch Society’s view. The USSR was a Giant Conspiracy run by Evil Geniuses who were using slave labor to catch up with the United States. The concept that the USSR was SILLY was as alien to them as it was to the Intelligence Community.
No one SAW the Soviet Absurdity. No one noticed as it toppled over.
And nobody considers that odd.
Repetitious Repeating and Saying It Over and Over and Over Redundantly
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 05/19/2010
This is something you will have to deal with, so let me talk about it. Since you deal in the Mantra, unapologetic repetition is something you get used to.
I looked at the reviews in of my last book on Amazon. The only person who gave it low marks was the one who said he hadn’t read it. But almost everybody who reviewed it favorably complained that it was very repetitious.
It was repetitious as hell.
Look, gang, when you are writing a book to point out what a blind man should be able to see, how do you avoid repeating the exact same thing over and over? To me, someone like O’Reilly who just can’t understand why professors, who consider themselves Intellectuals and Idealists are leftists is an idiot.
I use the time advisedly, because idiot is technical term, legal, not medical. A moron is one who tests 50 to 70 on IQ tests. An imbecile is, legally, one who scores 30 to 50. An idiot is below 30.
Here we have a grown man who is being listened to respectfully by millions who cannot understand why a clique which defines ITSELF as Idealists and Intellectuals goes all out insisting that Idealists and Intellectuals, instead of businessmen or working people, should take over the world.
How can anybody but an idiot not SEE that? But when I pointed it out for decades, all I got was the cowlike look from whoever I was talking to, and then a comment on recent comments on recent events. Then they would completely miss the basic point.
So the book sounds a lot like the way I felt when I wrote it, like a person shoving a puppy’s nose in its poo, trying to say, “This is what it is.” You have to do over and over and over and some puppies NEVER get it.
The puppy wants to make up for it by showing you how much he loves you or how cute he is.
And all puppies, by definition, are idiots.
Now that BUGs is giving me some MINDS to talk to, I would do the book better.
I am always concerned about being repetitious here. If I knew that everyone here had been reading this blog for years it would move much faster. But we are in the opposite position. Not only am I dealing with new readers, my regular readers are themselves involved in missionary work.
And the repetition keeps ME on track. Writing is, when you come right down to it, talking to yourself. One of the sure marks of a beginning writer is that he misses steps. He goes right on and you wonder what the hell he is talking about. He is writing about something that seems obvious to him, but took him YEARS to figure out, and he expects the reader to follow right along.
Our work is a bit like math. You have to go all the way to the basic assumption and go through the basic stuff each time. But God knows I don’t want to make my stuff as boring as math classes!
We don’t have compulsory attendance laws to allow us to make our teaching a torture they have to sit through by law. Math could be made interesting, but, as with all monopolies, the product just gets worse and worse. We don’t have that luxury.
I think the reason you don’t complain about my going right back to repeating the assumptions and the instances is because you have to do it yourself. A good writer, like a good preacher, will tell you that the audience had better know at least 95% of what he is telling them. The reader or listener should go back through the basic stuff effortlessly, and be willing to do it because he want to know where you are going THIS TIME.
New preachers have a way of telling their congregation the stuff they learned in theology school. As one old guy complained, “All I heard was a lot about the Nebadrezzers and the Whoopdedooinites and I didn’t understand a word of it.” It takes YEARS for a young preacher to learn to talk to PEOPLE, and most of them never do.
You go into a big church packed with people and the young seminarians will think the preacher is an old ignorant buffoon, “THIS guy has a DOCTORATE in Theology?” But they couldn’t get twenty of the thousand people sitting in that church to come back voluntarily after their first sermon.
The old preacher spends almost all of his time reminding people of what they are familiar with. As CS Lewis said, “Prophets do not come into the world to tell us new truths, but to remind us of the old ones.” That couldn’t describe BUGSers better.
We are here reminding people of what simple loyalty is, how stupid a person looks when he is repeating nonsense and thinking he is being smart.
Successful preachers, like prophets, go back over what the listener is familiar, but they also know he is GOING SOMEWHERE with it. He is tying the old strings into a new knot. Prophets tell people the old truths, but they remind them of how those old instances apply to the new situation.
Does This Sound Familiar? Part II
Early one morning, for some reason I forget, I got off at the Metro at Union Station and came up to Capitol Hill. This meant I had to walk up to the Hill, go in on the Senate side, and take the underground trolley to the House side where my office was.
When I walked in on the Senate side, the “black” senator from Massachusetts, the blue-eyed one, had come in just ahead of me. The policeman had to search my briefcase unless I was with a member of congress. I showed him my staff ID and he asked, “Are you with Senator Brooke?”
Brooke was well on his way and I could have nodded and gone on in. I said, almost, “NO!”
Most of us men have special fear of being called queer or child molesters and so forth. We always fear that SOMEONE will believe it.
In politics I have always had the same sort of queasy feeling about being considered one of THEM:
Little White Bobby trailing after his liberal Republican Black Idol.
ICK!
My actual views would strike the average yuppie or Mommy Professor as a lot more perverted than homosexuality or even NAMBLA membership, but that doesn’t bother me. My feeling of creepiness has to do with being mistaken for something Bob Whitaker considers perverted and sick.
I would be shamed to be considered Senator Brooke’s Little White Worshipper because that is a sick idea TO ME. However untrue it is, if the guard believed it, I would be shamed in MY OWN eyes.
It is what I call intellectual shame. It is not logical. I could respect another senior staffer if he was hired by Brooke for his merits, and if he really was a liberal Republican. Hell, I ain’t prejudiced. Some of my best friends were members of the Ripon Society.
But the idea of someone thinking I was one of them gives me the same chill a guy gets from being thought a homo. As they kept repeating on Seinfeld, “I am NOT gay.”
“Though there’s nothing WRONG with it.”
This is not a creepy feeling that only belongs to old right-wingers.
I think most people normally get this feeling when someone tries to classify what they think of as their own ideas. I have had liberals scream at me when I repeated that what they had said was a standard liberal position. What can you say when someone has five times in a row quoted standard political positions.
I am SHAMING them by saying they sound like a tape recorder, though they do. But I find that the ones with a sense of that shame are now the exceptions.
What gets to me about yuppies and other Mommy Professor Products is their total lack of simple intellectual SHAME. How can they be such walking, talking mental clones and it doesn’t even bother them?
As Anne Rice said, these are the sort of people who ask each other, “Are WE still boycotting grapes?” Four of them on a single block will have the same bumper sticker.
Most of us really dislike it when it turned out that the person we are talking to has heard the JOKE we are telling before. These people tell you that the highlight of their life was when they were heroically out marching with a thousand other students shouting for something very single professor had advocated in class.
They called it a Campus Protest.
Protest against WHAT?
This is straight out of 1984 or Red China. How can you be brave independent members of a Campus Protest against Racism when anyone who says anything non-PC on race will be lucky just to be lynched
By minority students while white students cheer them on?
“We CARED in those days. We marched on campus.”
In 1984 every time the government announced another Five-Year Plan had been a success “spontaneous demonstrations” would break out, the signs already prepared. Orwell was not exactly prescient about this. The same thing happened all the time inn Stalin’s Russia.
But how can you BRAG about marching for a Politically Correct cause on a Politically Correct campus?
Stalin’s slaves did it, but I never heard one of them later claim he was BRAVE to do it.
Once again, I ask you, “Does this sound familiar?”
Have you many times wondered how someone could have such a lack of intellectual SHAME that he claims he was brave to go out and agree with everybody else?
Sound Familiar?
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 05/17/2010
My political specialty, which no one else seem to be able to do, was getting into grassroots movements of working people, the ones later called Reagan Democrats.
Truck Roy is too young to know about my work with the Independent Truckers, when we shut the whole Washington, DC area down. He is an actual, honest-to-Betsy Trucker, so he knows ABOUT that. I personally got it going, but, as Ben Franklin advised, I let others have the “credit.”
It was easy to do. I did the press releases. But by then I was already famous among grass-roots protestors.
I was happy to note that a Stormfronter who is a member of the Electrical Workers International HAD heard of my work with them in Louisville, where he resides.
Pretty good for something I did almost three decades ago.
Conservatives were always talking about REACHING The Working People. They would ask me what The Secret was. I told them, “We found out what they needed and provided it.”
They KEPT asking me what the Secret was. Then they would meet with each other and talk about Reaching the Working People.
Then they would once again ask me what the Secret was.
The Communist Daily World, organ of the CPUSA, denounced my Populist Forum as a huge, heavily financed organization. Part of the huge right-wing conspiracy, you know. There were three of us, and we had no budget. The CPUSA always claimed it Spoke For the Working Class, but they didn’t know any more actual working stiffs than conservatives did.
Our Secret was safe from THEM.
The conservatives would ask me once again what the Secret was. Then they would go back and meet on the question of How to Reach the Working Class.
Does this begin to sound familiar? Does it make it clear to you why I am not exactly stupefied by the fact that I keep winning battles in front of them and people see me do it and then never follow my example?
Well, I had learned the why of this before I started getting into the grassroots revolts of working folk.
My formula was, “Find out what they need and provide it.”
Provide what?
Well, the problem was that the people who wrote and spoke for a living couldn’t reach the grassroots protests of working people against things like offensive textbooks and busing.
What WAS this unbridgeable gap? It was the fact that they didn’t know any working people and the working people didn’t know any people who were on their side and who could write and speak professionally.
So our press man would call up grassroot groups and ask if they could use us three people who spoke and wrote for a living. Once they found out we really would, we got more calls than we could handle. In other words, if the gap is between people who can do public relations and working people, you can bridge it by offering your work TO the working people because it is just what they need.
Find out what they need and provide it.
I got some writing money from National Review and a couple of other conservative publications, but we never charged a nickel and we never had a budget.
Conservative money was going into financing huge conventions dedicated to discussing How to Reach the Working People. At one I happened to attend, a woman I met had just attended a large seminar discussing — guess what? — my own first book.
I didn’t know about that seminar or the many others like it, though there were a lot of them at those Seminars about Reaching the Working Class Protests.
It never occurred to me that the convention-holders, who knew I was there, would even consider having ME address the group at all. Have you ever heard of a group that had seminars on a book in a place where they knew the author was and didn’t ask him to sit in?
The point I am making is that I not only didn’t resent it, I would have be flabbergasted if they had asked me to be there. They were raising money on DISCUSSIONS on how to Reach the Working People, not on someone who was DOING it.
Does any of this begin to sound familiar, Mantra-Folk?
From BGlass
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses, General on 05/16/2010
People are suggestible, but because they want to learn; that’s the shame of it, how the best instincts and life-drive get used against their interests. Breaking the Biblical commandment to honor ones’ parents, and by extension all of real history, is a truly important building block for those who want to destroy people generationally. But honor doesn’t mean love or like or follow. It just means what it says: HONOR. And by extension, one learns to honor the past, generally.
Once, to decide just how culpable I really was in regards to the slaves, I read the censuses numbers (to see what they really ate and such, to see if they were starved), and also Slave Narratives, the ones collected through the Federal Writer’s Project in the 30s, where laid off writers were paid by the government to interview and record what REAL slaves had to say.
In the first one I picked up, the REAL slave said something like, “Well, what you have to understand, is times then were just exactly like now. People never change. There were good people to work for and bad people. And some were abusive and nasty, and some were real nice and you had a decent situation…” And so on.
It’s hard to believe that wasn’t deep-sixed because the first paragraph spoken turned everything upside down that we were taught in school. You got a sense that she’d just been going to a JOB with bosses. And a plantation sounded more like a city, not just a TV image of someone with the cotton bag. They had livestock workers, accountants, carriage maintainers, people to buy food for all the people at once, and so on.
Also, you could realize a shift in the “left,” from the elevation of the “worker” (and even white ones–like the image of Woody Guthrie and his guitar they always show) in the 30s, to the more Trotskyite model of today. Out with labor’s personal voices and class, in with dictatorial ethnic-conflict and race-gender controls. But people are the same. There are still good and bad ones, and awake and asleep ones.
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BBG Calls it “The Multicult”
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 05/20/2010
They call them Adult Movies and Adult Books. But they contain the words the Bad Boys wrote on the bathroom wall when I was in grammar school.
Before multiculturalism a person would be embarrassed if he couldn’t find more than one adjective for a ten-minute tirade.
I wonder how many DIFFERENT adjectives one can find in a ten-minute rap “song?”
And it is just a little bit late to start protecting young people from “bad language.” Especially if you want integration and multi-culturalism. It is not entirely accidental that our obscenity standards collapsed at the same time segregation did.
Ignoring your own cultural rules. That is what multiculturalism IS!
But the Christians say, “Let’s us play like it didn’t happen. And I’m all FOR integration.”
One Christian group considered my last book and was shocked because the word “Bullshit!” was in it. That was what they SAID. The fact is that what they consider Society would have condemned them for it.
That’s the society they are supposed to be defying. The point of the book would be to fortify their delicate little babies for the barrage they will get in college.
They told me they want to send their kids to college but they don’t want them to hear a word like bullshit.
Yea, right.
It HAPPENED, dumbass. Now get with the program. You can’t insist that your children learn Black Culture and come back unfamiliar with a harmless term like bullshit.
After, what IS multiculturalism? A culture involves DISAPPROVAL of some things. The Multicult calls that bigotry.
For example, some years ago a “totally radical” convention was sponsored by Gays and Lesbians. They invited everybody who had been shunned by the Dominant Culture. Apparently they invited people on the basis of their being denounced for sex practices, and I don’t need to remind a group on the Internet how far out THAT goes.
But the whole thing was almost ruined when they found out that NAMBLA had been invited to send a delegation. They withdrew THAT invitation.
Why?
Well, because the North American Man-Boy Love Association was outside the limits.
WHAT limits?
Well, men should not be molesting boys. But what if the boys consent? Well, a child can’t give valid consent. That excuse works fine for someone INSIDE the society which passed those laws, but isn’t the whole point of your gathering a DEFIANCE of all those cultural norms?
Sure, kids in general are different from adults in general, but a lot of kids are smarter than many adults will ever be. We have racism, sexism, speciesism — how can a dog give informed consent to the delegation that was there promoting bestiality?
So isn’t tossing all those under the age of informed consent blatant ageism?
No one in the media asked them that, of course.
You know why the media didn’t bring it up. In a society where the Multicult is Holy Writ to our established PC religion, no one wants to talk about the obvious fact that to accept all cultures involves getting rid of the strictures of your own culture.
That’s what multiculturalism IS.
A bishop recently denounced the Internet because “too free a flow of information leads to cultural relativism.” But that same bishop would insist he is all for multiculturalism.
Maybe PETA and the Society for the promotion of Sex With Animals could get together and tell us how animals consent. It wouldn’t be any more screwed up than what that bishop would have to explain
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