dimreepr

MEH, what can you do, politics is designed to inspire fear, why else was satan invented...

I allways imagined they just understood what the Torah was trying to teach, hence Jesus, for want of a better name, said they don't need to abandon it; I can't remember the quote which has been used to discredit both, by taking it out of context. Essentially the message resonates through history, because we all need to stop seeing a future, that we've been primed to fear. https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/jesus-references-to-old-testament-scriptures/

I often wondered who the teacher was, John the Baptist seems more likely, but Jesus was more skilful in the art of PR...

That seems to be a constant in, most, religious text's/stories, when a great person explains why we don't need to be distressed. Edit/ and leads the way to a less stressful life. Nice post BTW +1

But that's the whole point, the system determines what a crime is. In victorian Britain many of the crimes the system chose, was biased against the poor; and before you jump on this J.C. America had a different system to perpetuate.

TBH I think the oral tradition might be slightly more reliable than text based. Text is so much harder to convey complex meaning and context is often lost so much more quickly (that's why teacher's are often needed to fill in the blanks). In terms of this thread, syntax and semantics, both reduce the reliability of text in just a few year's, culture moves so fast that my grandad would struggle to understand my son, without me to explain and vice verca (or viky verty as my son says).

Stu the cockatoo is new at the zoo...

Book's.

Soon after it was written down...

Just wondering...

Should I report him, Phi?

Don't you get it? I'm essentially espousing all live's matter, just first things first... 🙄

Indeed, and if those people are subject to systemic racism, the best chance is 6 of one and half a dozen of the other... 😉

Both you and Migl, seem to have missed the post where I suggested that all crimes, be tried with an even hand. That would seem to be a solution. We could try the old fashioned approach, as it pertains to cops and stack the deck, to ensure we get the bastards; but that would just lead to the police, revolting (police lives matter). No the best bet is we try the really old fashioned approach, write large by the founding father's, a fair trial for ALL.

So, what you're saying is "All lives matter"; haven't we got past that, yet?

Deepends on when they said cut!!! And when they stopped tolerating 'excessive force'...

I'm not so sure, many animals face the fear that their hard work will be undermined, by those nasty thieving fish/birds/squirrel's etc... If we see them doing it we can exact our revenge (chase them off, and hopefully bite the buggers), otherwise our choices are, keep working and hope for the best, or stop working and stand guard over an inadequate supply.

That's basically what happens now, with regards to police brutality against certain people; mostly because there is absolute tollerance of police brutality. Maybe we try a new approach, put them before the beak and twelve (not angry) people and judge their actions against mitigating factors. What if he lied on his screen-test?

God really buggers up the metaphors, and confuses the parables, when the context is (2,000/4,000 year's) out of date. “God so loved the world that He sent His only son to die for our sins.” Think about it in terms of a metaphor/analogy, Imagine if Jesus' message is that we're all the son of god and we all sin. And that, maybe, his death was a catalyst for change; instead of seeking revenge for every slight, however egregious, we forgive everyone (even ourselves) and try being nice to everyone (even ourselves); we don't need god for that...

Nope, he blamed it's size on a cold receptionist... 😉

Hooverville, Hitler, Black lives matter, etc. demonstrates just how much suffering we're willing to accept, when it's not us suffering it...

Unfortunately, the answer from Trump would ever be so, I just hope he catches the virus he's trying to spread.

LOL, that's gold...

It doesn't matter how stupid they are, if what they've been taught is to be kind and considerate to everyone. In which case, the only thing to fear is passive aggression.