••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Monday, August 15, 2005

all talk


when it comes to talkin' the talk but not walkin' the walk, gops have no peer.

take the bible.

as christians they talk a great game, but when chips are down they ignore key teachings.

ex.1. news report a while back—2003 i guess: american unit destroyed iraqi orchard after the farmer didn't fully cooperate against the enemy.

i have no idea what military doctrine says on the subject or if the action was repeated, but an administration that professes the righteous zeal of this one ought to know cutting down fruit trees in war is specifically forbidden in deuteronomy 20.

a few months ago israeli soldiers did the same thing when snipers regularly fired on a jewish settlement from a palestinian orchard.

would the american officer have given that order if the trees and the insurgency had been in the US? would the israelis have cut down a jewish-owned orchard to take away sniper cover?

such acts carry an enormous load of negative karma.

ex.2. remember pharoah's dreams in genesis 41? 7 scrawny cows sneak up behind 7 healthy ones and devour them? 7 withered ears of corn eat up 7 good ears?

joseph tells the king famine will follow years of plenty, so he should store surplus food while he can and hold it in reserve till needed.

i'm sure i needn't spell out the implications, whether for the federal budget or for the social security trust funds.

why revere an ancient text if you don't apply its wisdom today?

what good is faith if you don't use your god-given reason?

2 comments:

  1. But if we listened to everything the Bible said we'd be murdering homosexuals.

    If I'm reading that Dueteronomy right: Once you capture a city, you should murder every man inside it. "Thou shalt not kill", anyone?
    Evidence of Biblical hypocrisy, and evidence that the Bible knows sod all about military tactics. For spirituality, read religious texts, for military tactics, read "The Art Of War".

    And they weren't besieging a city when they cut the trees down, they were already inside the city.


    P.S. Is this Doug Terranova, with whom I had an e-mail conversation with earlier this year and who tried to convert me to Christianity?

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  2. no. first name dave. no desire 2 cnvert nebody. not religious.

    glad 2 get message fro smbdy who's read sunzi. small quibble: not tactics but strategy.

    hey, don't take that part bout besieging a city so literally. it's about proper wartime conduct: don't cut down fruit trees.

    as 4 killing all men in city, looks like god's a moral relativist, no? n if u'r not prepared 2 kill every enemy, don't go 2 war.

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