Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i love the atlantic but sometimes it deliberately pubilshes titles that irritate. this is one of them. g

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Triphid you're entitled to your opinion. since i almost always enjoy reading the atlantic and am not going to judge it by a bad article or two, which this may or may not be, i do not share your opinion. g

I Bet Hillary Is Still Wondering Why She Lost The African American Vote

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

clinton got 89 percent of the black vote (and won the popular vote overall by almost three million). this video is bullshit. hillary won the black vote by miles. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/groups-voted-2016/ oh and someone doesn't know an ironic JOKE when...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@twshield you're entitled to your opinion. i am entitled to think it's ridiculous. i do. g

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i love the atlantic but sometimes it deliberately pubilshes titles that irritate. this is one of them. g

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Triphid i have not read that one, as i have said. i have only commented upon the title, and of the title i can say i agree with you. i can't say yet whether i agree about the actual article. g

I Bet Hillary Is Still Wondering Why She Lost The African American Vote

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

clinton got 89 percent of the black vote (and won the popular vote overall by almost three million). this video is bullshit. hillary won the black vote by miles. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/groups-voted-2016/ oh and someone doesn't know an ironic JOKE when...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@twshield hillary lost because the electoral college is skewed. she won the damned popular vote. she was right about the deplorables and that was an awfully mild word considering how they turned out to be. i think people who think hillary lost because she was a terrible politician should not make stupid comments. the original post's headline is a stupid and untrue comment. g

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i love the atlantic but sometimes it deliberately pubilshes titles that irritate. this is one of them. g

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Triphid the atlantic is generally wonderful. it's not all written by one person (of course) and one can get the occasional stinker. g

I bought a laptop recently online from a company with which i have dealt before (buying a desktop) ...

mattersauce comments on Nov 2, 2018:

One interaction won't properly gauge the services of the company however 100% failure is hard to debate. Honestly it sounds like the agents are probably pressed for time and are moving far too quickly through emails and sending hasty responses. If I were you I'd call and talk to someone directly ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

we got it sorted. i just get frustrated when it gets that silly, but he kind of straightened out after i pointed out that both of his questions had answered already in (and at the head of) the original email. g

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242Foxtrot comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Most big companies have sent call centers and customer support off shore. Manila, Malaysia and India mostly. Culturally, these employees cannot go off script without getting lost. It's aggravating, for sure. The other thing that drives me crazy is calling a bank or credit card company. The ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

not a big company. local nonprofit providing cheap refurbished stuff for the needy, into which category i fall. they don't have a call center. no script. the guy said it was my lack of caps and formatting, such as paragraphs, that threw him (my email was about half the length of my original post here and was divided into two paragraphs). i think he was just tired. g

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Secretguy comments on Nov 2, 2018:

What company? I'd like to avoid them.

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Paracosm @Secretguy @RIverRick it's local and it's a nonprofit. they're going to pay to have me return it and they'll take care of fixing or replacing it. it's just the one guy. it's not a big corporation and you're not likely to have heard of it, encountered it or been inconvenienced by it. i didn't name it in the original post on purpose. pardon me for not doing it now either. they were very good the last time. g

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i love the atlantic but sometimes it deliberately pubilshes titles that irritate. this is one of them. g

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay lol i have made dinner and put it in the freezer and made tomorrow's dinner and it's cooling so i can put it in the freezer too, and made and eaten lunch, and now i am exhausted! i make the food in advance because i know by evening i will finally have crashed and not wake up in time to go starting stuff from scratch. tonight: juicy lucies. tomorrow: meat loaf. eyes and body need rest now. g

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i love the atlantic but sometimes it deliberately pubilshes titles that irritate. this is one of them. g

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay i may check it out later. i am struggling to get some sleep. four weeks is too long to be sick. sleeplessness is not helping. but i also have a backlog! g

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Wurlitzer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Im just here to say I proudly havent seen any antisemetism about (within this site); probably because I got all of the most extreme conservatives to block me post haste :) If I see some Ill make sure to troll them just the same.

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Wurlitzer i think you tagged me in something i can't see because i blocked the ass. i trust it was pithy lol you, i like! g

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jacpod comments on Nov 1, 2018:

as far as I remember from history lessons - Jews were given a portion of palestinian land by the three major powers - and the point is that they want to expand so are basically at war with Palestine an unfair fight because they have all the weapons and have pulled down the palestinians ancient ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@jacpod why can't you understand that it is the israeli government, headed by the evil bibi, that is doing this, NOT the jewish people? i'm part of the jewish people. israeli citizens are sick of bibi. they're not doing it. some are... well gosh, if some people do it, and they're jews, obviously it's the fault of THE JEWS. this is EXACTLY the kind of idiocy i was posting about! call things what they are. the israeli government is doing something. "the jews" are worldwide doing whatever, mostly having nothing to do with shooting children. many are protesting israel's policies. but it's THE JEWS. right? right. WRONG. g

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jacpod comments on Nov 2, 2018:

the news broadcasts I get ,do rather support the fact that Jews are constantly encroaching on Palestinian territory - wasit not last justa few weeks ago palestinian children were shot at? It might be a good idea to look up Noam Chomsky for his take on it as he is always fair and accurate, We also ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

jews are? oh you mean me, or the jews of new york, or...? ISRAEL is. i am not always talking about the land issue. i am sometimes talking about antisemitism and inevitably someone brings up israel, as if the situation there justifies hating jews. yes, i am aware of mr chomsky; i do not have to look him up. g

I Bet Hillary Is Still Wondering Why She Lost The African American Vote

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

clinton got 89 percent of the black vote (and won the popular vote overall by almost three million). this video is bullshit. hillary won the black vote by miles. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-groups-voted/groups-voted-2016/ oh and someone doesn't know an ironic JOKE when...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@twshield the video is real in and of itself. it doesn't portray what it purports to portray. the black vote's being down in NO WAY equates with hillary's having lost the african american vote. she simply didn't. not at all. the number i quoted quashes that concept. obviously most people knew it was a joke, and it wasn't a racist joke either; it was an ironic joke. she was being sarcastic, not stupid. g

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jerry99 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Netanyahu is like Trump with brains.

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

ha yes he is, rather. icky at any rate. just a reminder that my point is that whenever i bring up antisemitism, or anyone brings up antisemitism, someone always brings up israel in such a way as to imply that the situation in the middle east justifies antisemitism. i don't know -- maybe i should start mentioning that i am not related to bibi? g

As a greeter this is my first response from a new member.

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i am not a member of this group so i hope it's okay that i respond. a month or so back i got a weird response too, to my standard greeting. the person didn't ask me to correspond via email but did ask me to tell him all about myself and he would not relent even when i reminded him that i have a ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@VAL3941 :-)) g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 pardon us, sleepless -- we can't message so we're taking advantage of your post, which i will answer in a moment! g (my initial too obviously), i checked your page again and there is no message link there either! g

Fake rabbi? Is that like fake psychic?

genessa comments on Oct 31, 2018:

no. in judaism, if you're an atheist, you can still be a jew. if you don't keep kosher you're still a jew. if you take on another god, you're an apostate and no longer a jew. if you never were a jew and you are a messianist and call yourself a rabbi, good luck to you, but you are not a ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Bobby9 idiots do, on occasion. i was not rude to you, but since you ask, sometimes idiots make me rude. then they make me block them. ah, relief! g

Fake rabbi? Is that like fake psychic?

genessa comments on Oct 31, 2018:

no. in judaism, if you're an atheist, you can still be a jew. if you don't keep kosher you're still a jew. if you take on another god, you're an apostate and no longer a jew. if you never were a jew and you are a messianist and call yourself a rabbi, good luck to you, but you are not a ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Bobby9 rofl then why are you in the discussion? i don't care whether you care! i didn't force you to say anything! g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 lol i am all over the place. well almost all! but you know i have not changed my settings and that guy who bothered me was "open to meeting women" -- and he certainly messaged me. oh maybe it was because i'm a greeter. maybe responding to a greeting bypasses that setting. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 oh i think i see what happened. i have community only set on messages. i got a very weird communication, you see. and i really am only here for the community. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 yep! plus midnight... geez i was tired! g

As a greeter this is my first response from a new member.

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i am not a member of this group so i hope it's okay that i respond. a month or so back i got a weird response too, to my standard greeting. the person didn't ask me to correspond via email but did ask me to tell him all about myself and he would not relent even when i reminded him that i have a ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Lavergne yeah sometimes they make it so obvious! g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 your mom sounds cool :-)) i went to a christmas mass with friends, once, to hear the music. mass was... long. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 i don't know. i have received messages. some people were complaining about messaging difficulties earlier; maybe you're being affected as well? i have not disabled them or anything. g

As a greeter this is my first response from a new member.

genessa comments on Nov 2, 2018:

i am not a member of this group so i hope it's okay that i respond. a month or so back i got a weird response too, to my standard greeting. the person didn't ask me to correspond via email but did ask me to tell him all about myself and he would not relent even when i reminded him that i have a ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@VAL3941 oh i hope i didn't make it sound as if this was the same guy! you and i were contacted by different fellows :-)) g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 well, they're dead now, but to tell you the truth, i was raised secularly and they never discussed religion. there was culture of course. we went to bar mitzvahs and weddings and funerals. we didn't go to shul. i think when i was 14 and decided to find out what it was all about and began to go to shul, they were slightly amused, but they never tried to stop (or encourage) me. a year later i was an atheist and i haven't looked back, but i was not rebelling against religion. i still find judaism interesting and some bits of it even cool. not the god bit of course lol. anyway, when i grew up and left home and was three thousand miles from my parents, someone asked me if my folks believed in god. i couldn't answer. i had no idea! so i called long distance and asked. the conversation went something like this: mom: hello? me: hi mom. do you believe in god? mom: you called long distance to ask me THAT? me: yep. do you? mom: i don't know. let me think. hmm. i think i do. me: okay. put dad on. dad: hello? me: hi dad. do you believe in god? dad: you called long distance to ask me THAT? me: yep. do you? dad: i... i think i don't. me: okay. thanks dad, dad: is everything okay? me: yep talk to you later! love you! dad: love you. bye. that's how important religion was in my family! and when i became an atheist, it never even occurred to me to mention it to them. i didn't think they'd be interested. i mean i just didn't give it any thought at all. if they'd asked, which they never did, i'd have told them. i doubt they'd have been upset. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 oh i meant to mention too that had i been a boy i'd have been named gary, or so i was frequently assured. i don't know what they would have done about my obviously female hebrew name. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 thanks! genessa is my hebrew first name. i had it before i was given my english first name, gail (also hard g) and gail is not a translation of genessa; i think mom and dad just wanted a "g" name, as one of my great-grandmothers was named genessa. genessa probably derives from genesis. gail just means joy or happiness. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 that's what i SAID rofl! gee yer mo! by the way, genessa also starts with a hard gee. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 no, sorry, i have not. so i still don't know. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Ggall002 but how do YOU say it? g

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Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2018:

All lands are stolen, usually several times over, if you accept the idea of "race" and that a race can own land. Yet the idea of race is technically disproved by science, we are all one family more closely related and with less genetic diversity that the average family of chimps. And the Jewish ...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Fernapple no, i did not misread your post. g

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Ggall002 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Tornado - tar nay do, tur nah do How my name is pronounced sometimes: Guillermo - Guer mo, grill mo, jer mo, goo ler mo!!! But I love my name!

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

not gee yer mo? g

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Wurlitzer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Im just here to say I proudly havent seen any antisemetism about (within this site); probably because I got all of the most extreme conservatives to block me post haste :) If I see some Ill make sure to troll them just the same.

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@sadistic well here's a suggestion for you: stop being patronizing and making false assumptions about what people know. your history is incorrect and your assumption about me about holocaust survivors, with some of whom i am personally acquainted, is incorrect. but get, reality is harder to deal with than your own idiocy, isn't it? ass. i don't need to hear from YOU anymore. g

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Wurlitzer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Im just here to say I proudly havent seen any antisemetism about (within this site); probably because I got all of the most extreme conservatives to block me post haste :) If I see some Ill make sure to troll them just the same.

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@Wurlitzer yes, use old betsy against the black helicopters rofl g

I want to quit smoking cigarettes!

genessa comments on Oct 30, 2018:

i helped my students to quit. this is what i told them to do (and they told me it worked): 1. count how many cigs you smoke in a day. divide that by 24. 2. whatever your result was in #1, smoke that many cigs per hour. i don't care if you're sleeping, in class, with a client, making love,...

genessa replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@JenBeberstein i am glad it worked! g

[yahoo.

Paracosm comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Isn't Disney working on buying a large portion of Fox? I doubt they're going to pull their ads and possibly screw that up.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@PalacinkyPDX ach. well, we can all vote blue (i did, weeks ago!) and try to make fox irrelevant. and un-elephant lol. g

[yahoo.

Paracosm comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Isn't Disney working on buying a large portion of Fox? I doubt they're going to pull their ads and possibly screw that up.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Paracosm that much is so, though i think they already own bits of it. it's quite complex. i've looked it up in the past to counter claims some people have made regarding who owns and doesn't own fox news. you'd think it'd be easy but if you look up everything written about it, you will come to the conclusion that fox and disney and some other folks all own each other, and who's on first and what's on second and i don't know's on third! g

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Paracosm comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Isn't Disney working on buying a large portion of Fox? I doubt they're going to pull their ads and possibly screw that up.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

if this is true, then the big question would be are they going to keep the same policies. but i don't think it's true. there are parts of it owned by different entities and disney is one of them, so it is unlikely on that basis that disney stops advertising on fox, but fox isn't going to go under the disney umbrella. g

Inquiring minds want to know: Can you ever go back to McTenders after having tasted the dark side ...

genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

back? as if i eat junk food? when i visit the u.k. i may indulge in a kabob on the street. i haven't been to the u.k. for ages. meanwhile, i do not eat at mcdonald's. ever. ever. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Qualia it's odd that the two real foods i don't like seem related, similar flavors (to me) and similar names. i will actually eat them but i won't enjoy them. g

Inquiring minds want to know: Can you ever go back to McTenders after having tasted the dark side ...

genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

back? as if i eat junk food? when i visit the u.k. i may indulge in a kabob on the street. i haven't been to the u.k. for ages. meanwhile, i do not eat at mcdonald's. ever. ever. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Qualia because i do not like the flavor or texture. i have nothing against it otherwise. g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

back? as if i eat junk food? when i visit the u.k. i may indulge in a kabob on the street. i haven't been to the u.k. for ages. meanwhile, i do not eat at mcdonald's. ever. ever. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Qualia i am an omnivore but i have a couple policies regarding food. i only eat real food. i do not eat things that are not real food, or celery, or cilantro, or anything with which an animal thinks or makes love. everything else is fair game. g

I am sitting here in the middle of the night eating little dabs of straight wasabi.

JenBeberstein comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I hope you're feeling better!

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

thanks. i wish i was! i probably am, objectively, better than, say the second of 25th days, and yes it has been four weeks now as of today, because while my throat is still sore, it is LESS sore. however, my asthma is still kicking me in the lung. g

All Men are Voyeurs and All Women are Exhibitionists. Where does the line begin?

genessa comments on Oct 31, 2018:

ridiculous generalization, not even necessarily MOSTLY true. not even amusing, for that matter. it's like that men are from jupiter and women are from the sewer crap. i don't buy it. we're individuals. we're influenced by our environment but all men are this and all women are that, total bunk....

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Nevermind345 so what? what has that got to do with what all men or all women are? one idiot and his wife behave one way and that speaks for all of humanity? get real! g

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DoctorJohn comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"israel is treating the palestinians badly" WTF? That has got to be the understatement of the year. What the israelis are doing to the Palestinians is on a par with what the Nazis did to the Jews.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@David_Cooper using that comparison in order to dismiss antisemitism is inappropriate. every damned time someone says "there is antisemitism" (referring NOT to israel but to something like pittsburgh, or the outcry against george soros, or anything steve bannon or stephen miller ever said) and someone ELSE says "what about israel" it's inappropriate, because it's changing the damned subject and making false conflations. i mentioned israel because of this, NOT because of anything to do with israel itself, or that situation. i wasn't defending israel's policies, which are awful, although i did go so far as to defend israel's right to exist. g

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Amisja comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I support Palestine, I am not American but spent 22 years of my life married to a Jewish American man. Everyone needs a home and because it is special to all three Abrahamic religions, they all want to live there. The solution is enlightenment but we won't see that in my life time but it will ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Betty i'm human. i am not immune to human emotions. unlike nazis and kkkers and others of their ilk, i do not project my hatred beyond its correct target and i also do not act on it, at least not with hatred. i do vote :-)) g

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evidentialist comments on Nov 1, 2018:

@genessa -- You make the common mistake of assuming anyone who is not a Jew can understand antisemitism. There are some who can grasp it to a degree, but even indigenous peoples who have been sytematically murdered, driven off their lands, tortured, marginalized, dehumanized/demonized, and suffered...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

hmm, it is an interesting take on it and i can't agree or disagree right off the bat, without giving it some thought. i tend to disagree because the idea that jews should be extinguished predates wagner, but that only means i tend to disagree with just that one bit. let me mull it over. g

Notes on Antisemitism

mordant comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The author's point that Christianity has tended to hold Jewry *collectively* responsible as "Christ killers" is interesting because the concept of corporate guilt and punishment is a strong thread running through Christianity, and ironically, appropriated from the Jewish Torah. The deity would, if a...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@mordant did you ever read and/or see the film version of the fixer? it is based on the true story of mendel beilis (renamed yakov bok for the novel and film), a ukrainian jew who dared to work in kiev (it was forbidden for jews to live or work there) and somehow got himself accused of killing (and drinking the blood of) a christian child. he was incarcerated for three years without being indicted. his case drew international attention and he was given a trial and found not guilty. anyway, in the novel and film, the guards give him a christian bible to read and he discovers that jesus was a jew and informs the guards that in hating jews, they hate jesus. this does freak them out of course. g

Fake rabbi? Is that like fake psychic?

genessa comments on Oct 31, 2018:

no. in judaism, if you're an atheist, you can still be a jew. if you don't keep kosher you're still a jew. if you take on another god, you're an apostate and no longer a jew. if you never were a jew and you are a messianist and call yourself a rabbi, good luck to you, but you are not a ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Bobby9 yep. i am not counting his context. his context is that jews for jesus was invented by a baptist minister for the sole stated purpose of converting jews to christianity without telling them they were converted. i think he was baptist; i know he was christian. i am too busy to look it up right now. pretty sure baptist. anyway, i am not unsure about his stated purpose. so that is a context that discredits any claim messianists have to being jews. g

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mordant comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Our little terrier is doing the same thing around going to bed in her crate at night for like 3 months now. We think something fell from a high shelf during the night and ever since we've actually had to sedate her to get her to go to sleep. We tried everything else, including relocating her crate, ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

next time i get a ride anywhere i intend to see if i can find a different bowl. it IS weird. it is as if the bowl barked at her, both times. i don't think she was actually touching it when she yelped. funny babies! i did have a cat once, now gone 18 years, who got so upset when she saw me packing a suitcase she would have seizures. she had to be put on kitty valium! g

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Sticks48 comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I can't say I don't hate, that would be a lie, but to hate a person or people based on race or nationality is ridiculous. At the same time, I am so tired of the middle east, if the whole area blew up tomorrow, I would not shed a tear. The I.Q. of the planet would jump up several points, and the ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

i have very mixed feelings about the middle east and i don't often discuss them, but the only thing i want to say in THIS thread about the middle east is that what is happening there is not an excuse for antisemitism. it just isn't. oh and the planet's iq cannot jump up until the white house stops being the orange house. g

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glennlab comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I would say we don't know enough about you, to venture any opinion. Fill out a little bio, answer the profile questions, then dive in, this is a fun and accepting community. However since you are a practicing Christian, you should be very aware this is a site for Agnostics, Atheists, and other ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@glennlab couldn't hurt! g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

i just brought one of the bowls (not the one that made her yelp) into the bedroom. she is eating. she is taking ONE kernel, running away from the bowl, eating it across the room, then going back for another kernel. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Mike1947 i am awfully sorry. yep the heart, figuratively speaking, has control of our dreams. g

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graceylou comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Could she have been bitten by an insect close to the bowl at that particular time? And she might associate it with the bowl or the kitchen? It's a pretty puzzling case but with animals you just never know what they are thinking.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@graceylou haha i am embarrassed to say i have not washed that dish in forever. she really licks it clean! not this week, obviously. so it's not that, unless my guy spilled something in it. but since she is eating okay in the bedroom, i won't worry unless she decides she's afraid of that dish too :-)) oh and the two dishes are identical! how about that? :-)) g

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Deiter comments on Nov 1, 2018:

If only it were so easy: But they weren't *real* Jews: **Israel doesn't recognize the Conservative and Reform movements** of which The Tree of Life congregation is a part. The Jewish people and its religion are no monolith. Also, you're rather dismissive of the Palestinian "problem." There's no ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

i am not dismissive of it... except as an excuse for people to hate jews altogether, which is my POINT. this isn't a post about israel. i only mentioned it because of the way people are using it as an excuse to be antisemitic. g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

i just brought one of the bowls (not the one that made her yelp) into the bedroom. she is eating. she is taking ONE kernel, running away from the bowl, eating it across the room, then going back for another kernel. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Mike1947 that is spooky i do admit. g

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graceylou comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Could she have been bitten by an insect close to the bowl at that particular time? And she might associate it with the bowl or the kitchen? It's a pretty puzzling case but with animals you just never know what they are thinking.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@graceylou oh that is funny! i think it's a heavy plastic that looks like stone, or else it really is stonewear. it's nonreflective anyway. maybe she imagined something. funny, same bowl both times. last night she was barking in her sleep. she sounds like she's blowing bubbles or having little hiccups. then she growled. then she yelped and woke up. she is a funny girl. g

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graceylou comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Could she have been bitten by an insect close to the bowl at that particular time? And she might associate it with the bowl or the kitchen? It's a pretty puzzling case but with animals you just never know what they are thinking.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

it's not impossible. i have not seen any bites on her nor had her flinch at any touch, but she obviously has something against that bowl! g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

i just brought one of the bowls (not the one that made her yelp) into the bedroom. she is eating. she is taking ONE kernel, running away from the bowl, eating it across the room, then going back for another kernel. g

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Mike1947 well, i am an all-the-way atheist. i don't believe in gods OR ghosts/spirits/paranormal/other planes of existence. i don't know if my dog is an atheist, but i would find it hard to believe that my dog can see something i am sure doesn't exist. g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

i am seeing some answers to this post that are as bad as what my post is talking about. so let me make it really simple. i'm an atheist. i am also a jew. i do not follow judaism; i have told you already, i am an atheist. yet ethnically i am a jew. it's part of my cultural identity. i am ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay i didn't state that i don't have a jewish background. i said something LIKE that but that means something different: i said (by comparison) that i am not a person with a jewish background but (rather) a jew. there's a missing "only" in there (sort of like "black lives matter" includes a "too" at the end that shouldn't be necessary). i also said i don't have much religion in my background. i still always knew i was jewish. it's not about rituals and practices. it's about cultural identity. i really don't know how else to explain it! other people have tried and failed; i was hoping to have succeeded lol g

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Mike1947 comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Check for broken or sharp edges,something is scaring your Dog,tried a different bowl, or new location? Nothing in the food? Inspect her mouth, a broken tooth with an exposed nerve can do this.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

i checked the food and there is nothing in it, and no scratch on the bowl. she is eating from the bowl i brought into the bedroom; it's not the bowl that scared her but she wouldn't eat from it in the kitchen. i will have to keep this bowl in the bedroom until i figure it out. at least she ate! g

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glennlab comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I would say we don't know enough about you, to venture any opinion. Fill out a little bio, answer the profile questions, then dive in, this is a fun and accepting community. However since you are a practicing Christian, you should be very aware this is a site for Agnostics, Atheists, and other ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

oh i thought "here" meant in this group. on the site? we can't determine that. g

Notes on Antisemitism

mordant comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The author's point that Christianity has tended to hold Jewry *collectively* responsible as "Christ killers" is interesting because the concept of corporate guilt and punishment is a strong thread running through Christianity, and ironically, appropriated from the Jewish Torah. The deity would, if a...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

yes because modern jews stone people to death if they wear mixed fabrics and... oh poo, that's so ridiculous. you read torah and think you know what a jew is and what a jew believes and what a jew does. i have news for you: i didn't write the damned bible. there are people who want to kill me without knowing i individually exist ANYWAY. and you say "what goes around comes around." feh. g

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Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2018:

All lands are stolen, usually several times over, if you accept the idea of "race" and that a race can own land. Yet the idea of race is technically disproved by science, we are all one family more closely related and with less genetic diversity that the average family of chimps. And the Jewish ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Gareth i have not defined the jews as a race. i define jewishness as an ethnicity (actually more than one, but we usually mean the ashkenazic cultues). there is no such physical thing as race. g

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DoctorJohn comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"israel is treating the palestinians badly" WTF? That has got to be the understatement of the year. What the israelis are doing to the Palestinians is on a par with what the Nazis did to the Jews.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@PalacinkyPDX amen! g

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jacpod comments on Nov 1, 2018:

as far as I remember from history lessons - Jews were given a portion of palestinian land by the three major powers - and the point is that they want to expand so are basically at war with Palestine an unfair fight because they have all the weapons and have pulled down the palestinians ancient ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Gareth semantics, since my history, far from shaky, is correct in that the jews didn't steal the land from the palestinians. but my whole POINT is that REGARDLESS of that, using israel as an excuse to hate jews is pathetic, among other adjectives i could use. g

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genessa comments on Nov 1, 2018:

i am seeing some answers to this post that are as bad as what my post is talking about. so let me make it really simple. i'm an atheist. i am also a jew. i do not follow judaism; i have told you already, i am an atheist. yet ethnically i am a jew. it's part of my cultural identity. i am ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay no. i am an atheist and a jew. i am ethnically a jew. i am not a person with a jewish background. i'm a jew. catholicism is a religion. islam is a religion. judaism is a religion. jewishness is an ethnicity. if you're stuck on judaism and don't recognize jewishness, than i understand your confusion and your comparison to other religions. but i do not follow the religion of judaism, though sometimes i participate in bits of it, because i like it (no, i don't think there is a god who wants me to light candles; i LIKE lighting candles!) i am a godless person, an atheist, and i am jewish. g p.s. i was raised quite secularly (i just reread your post and realized i had not addressed the "religion in your past" part. i really don't have a whole lot of religion in my past.

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sadistic comments on Nov 1, 2018:

*Calls all stupid, homophobic, racist bigots because of their religion* - lauded by atheists everywhere *Suggests that Israel miiiiiiiiight have some involvement in the murdering of women and children and the perpetual war in the middle east due to their religion* - lambasted by atheists ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

yeah i see YOU didn't understand my post. i did not say, imply or otherwise intimate that disapproving of israel's actions is antisemitic. what i said was that people who say "what about israel?" to justify their irrational hatred of jews (not judaism,not israel, not politics, JEWS, actual people, some of whom, like me, are atheists) are morons and bad actors. try to get it. it's really easy. g

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mattersauce comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I honestly don't understand how anybody still hates anyone else for their borders, or religion, or sex, or skin color, or nation's history. I thought that was something children grow out of. The actions in the Middle East are constantly justified by people citing some piece of history by the ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

exactly! if someone is going to hate me, let them hate me because of ME! g

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Amisja comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I support Palestine, I am not American but spent 22 years of my life married to a Jewish American man. Everyone needs a home and because it is special to all three Abrahamic religions, they all want to live there. The solution is enlightenment but we won't see that in my life time but it will ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Amisja lol no, you were fine :-)) g

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Amisja comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I support Palestine, I am not American but spent 22 years of my life married to a Jewish American man. Everyone needs a home and because it is special to all three Abrahamic religions, they all want to live there. The solution is enlightenment but we won't see that in my life time but it will ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Betty i was about to say this is true but i have to confess to a hatred. i feel hatred for nazis. g

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Wurlitzer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Im just here to say I proudly havent seen any antisemetism about (within this site); probably because I got all of the most extreme conservatives to block me post haste :) If I see some Ill make sure to troll them just the same.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Wurlitzer you are a gun owner who understands that common sense gun legislation is not the same as confiscating everyone's guns (ar-15s notwithstanding) and that the words "well regulated" are actually IN the second amendment. no wonder they block you! you can't go around being reasonable and knowing facts and stuff and expect people to like you rofl g

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Amisja comments on Nov 1, 2018:

I support Palestine, I am not American but spent 22 years of my life married to a Jewish American man. Everyone needs a home and because it is special to all three Abrahamic religions, they all want to live there. The solution is enlightenment but we won't see that in my life time but it will ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

this is all true. i will just iterate that one of my points above is that people use the israeli-palestinian situation to justify antisemitism and i think there is no justification for antisemitism, which in the end really has nothing to do with israel at all. but everything you said is true. g

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Wurlitzer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Im just here to say I proudly havent seen any antisemetism about (within this site); probably because I got all of the most extreme conservatives to block me post haste :) If I see some Ill make sure to troll them just the same.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

lolol that is a good way! i have been blocking people left and right myself. um, not left and right. just right rofl! i think only one got a chance to block me first (i do try to give them a chance but many of them just like to fight, and their modus operandi is usually of a gaslighting nature, which does then impel me to block them). g

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ghettophilosopher comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Anti-Semitism is so thoroughly embedded into the Zeitgeist, that it's become not only acceptable, but barely even noticable for a majority. I personally stand in stark opposition to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and am a proponent of a two-state, shared Jerusalem (either split it ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

wisdom i see in your words! i share your hope for a two-state solution (wiping out israel would be as horrible as wiping out the united states because europeans stole the land from indigenous peoples) and i share the views you have just expressed. i HOPE you are right that more people will stand for what's right than not. it's one thing when people are just haters; they must be in the minority. it's another when people really are misinformed and think that if you're jewish you must be a horrible person, whether it's because they think the jews are a race of evildoers (they've been taught this) or because they think every jew in the world stands behind bibi and wants to eliminate palestinians from the face of the earth, or because they think jews own everything in the world, or... well i've heard some wild ones, too, and yes, some of the folks who believe all that are haters, but some are believing what their parents and communities have told them. and there are an awful LOT of them. g

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sassygirl3869 comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Being Jewish has nothing to do with Israel. I abhor the criminal Israeli government for building settlements on Arab land and killing people from Gaza. I am a cultural Jew and I run the Jewish by Culture Group here. Non-Jews have this problem of immediately connecting all Jews to Israel. They are ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

indeed. they also make the mistake of connecting bibi and his horrible government (don't we have one too, by the way? should all american die? rofl!) with the history of israel. the general consensus seems to be that the palestinians were living happily in palestine, right smack where israel is now, when the nasty bad jews came and killed them and chased the survivors away and stole the land. that is historically fallacious, and i am NOT talking about biblical history. but the only reason i even MENTION israel in my post is that people are using this as an excuse to hate jews! as you have pointed out, that's a problem! g

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wordywalt comments on Nov 1, 2018:

All antisemitism is abhorrent. But, you are making a huge mistake in equating disapproval of Israeli government and policy with antisemitism. Netanyahu is a thuggish ideologue with aggressive nationalistic and even imperialistic motivations. His actions against Palestineans treats them as third...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

i would be making a mistake equating them. however, i am not equating them. please read my post again. as for moral blinders, you have SOME kind of blinders on, because you 1. apparently think i like bibi and i hate him, and have SAID so (elsewhere including in comments here). even if i didn't say "i hate bibi" above i did not indicate in any way, shape or form my approval of him or his policies, and i did indicate without naming him that i do NOT approve. 2. apparently think i am equating not liking bibi and being antisemitic. i don't even know where you get this. what i am saying is antisemitic is "bibi is bad and israel is misbehaving and therefore jews are evil and i hate jews." THAT is antisemitism, it's not the only example, but it's one i've been seeing. i can't help wondering if you really read what i said. your response indicates that you think i said the OPPOSITE of what i said. g

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Ron_R comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Well put, thanks.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

thank you kindly! g

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GreatNani comments on Nov 1, 2018:

This was terrorism, has nothing to do with Bibi (whom I can't stand), what is happening to the Palestinians ( which is awful) this is domestic terrorism and has nothing to do with Israel. And it is horrifying that anyone brings any other issue into it! This was a horrifying attack on a group of ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@GreatNani peace back atcha, my friend! g

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GreatNani comments on Nov 1, 2018:

This was terrorism, has nothing to do with Bibi (whom I can't stand), what is happening to the Palestinians ( which is awful) this is domestic terrorism and has nothing to do with Israel. And it is horrifying that anyone brings any other issue into it! This was a horrifying attack on a group of ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

omg nani, you said it. you got it, you likely got it before my post anyway, and you said it. i wish more people got it (and said it)! thank you! g

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Stig comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Religion is a bad story - and countries based on religion are really bad too....

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Stig i shall do so and thank you :-)) g

Even stranger than having an imaginary friend is having an imaginary enemy.

Bierbasstard comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The only reason "satan/lucifer" is seen as an enemy is because he rebelled against "god". Personally, I would see that as a friend. Lol!

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Bierbasstard lol if you consider a devil an advantage... which it is, actually, if you see my other comment rofl rofl g

Even stranger than having an imaginary friend is having an imaginary enemy.

Bierbasstard comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The only reason "satan/lucifer" is seen as an enemy is because he rebelled against "god". Personally, I would see that as a friend. Lol!

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

there isn't even any satan in judaism! ha-satan is just a title, like "prosecutor." how the christians warped him into a devil i do not know. of course it is all imaginary anyway but i thought i'd mention it :-)) g

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Stig comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Religion is a bad story - and countries based on religion are really bad too....

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Stig i can dig that. no wine here, but it's morning, not a time of day i like much, and today makes four weeks i've been fairly ill, so i won't take it personally :-)) g

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cava comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"Zionism is the assertion of the primacy of the Jewish claim to Palestine over the expressed will of the 70% Arab majority before 1948, and at its continued expense since. Israel, as a Jewish majority state, could not have been established other than on the debris of Arab Palestine, the destruction...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@cava well there ya go! i can't think why that seems like such a difficult concept for so many people! g

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cava comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"Zionism is the assertion of the primacy of the Jewish claim to Palestine over the expressed will of the 70% Arab majority before 1948, and at its continued expense since. Israel, as a Jewish majority state, could not have been established other than on the debris of Arab Palestine, the destruction...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@cava no, and i'll tell you why: because it's irrelevant to my point, which is that antisemitism is bad and cannot be justified. you cannot come up with a good reason to hate jews. you can't. israel may be a horrible country (at the moment it is). it's a DIFFERENT PROBLEM. i made a post about people trying to justify antisemitism and i am saying it's wrong. the end. it is not my job to teach history, though more and more i am being obligated to do so. g

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Stig comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Religion is a bad story - and countries based on religion are really bad too....

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Stig and what has that got to do with hating jews, even jews who do not follow a religion? and don't say you love me. that's really... ugh, don't say that. you don't even KNOW me. g

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cava comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"Zionism is the assertion of the primacy of the Jewish claim to Palestine over the expressed will of the 70% Arab majority before 1948, and at its continued expense since. Israel, as a Jewish majority state, could not have been established other than on the debris of Arab Palestine, the destruction...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

expressed to whom? the land was held by the british and two parcels were set aside, a huge one for arabs and a tiny one for jews. the tiny one, at the behest of the arabs, was cut up a little more to make the larger parcel for the arabs even larger. zionism means belief that israel should continue to exist. that is ALL it means. the guardian may say something else. it's wrong. it distorts history and even if it was right in its history, which it is not, being anti-zionist means saying israel should cease to exist. there is every bit as much reason why only native americans should exist in north america as their is that israel should not longer exist. solutions are found by looking forward. be that as it MAY, whatever israel is or isn't, and whatever it is or isn't doing, has NOTHING to do with american antisemitism, except to the extent that it is being used as an excuse to hate jews. g

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KissedbySun comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The politics of Israel aside, what happened in Pittsburg was an act of terrorism meant not only to kill those particular people but to scare/warn/torment anyone who identifies with that group, or might mistakenly be identified by an outsider, with that group. If we tolerate this kind of ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

amen, and i will add that the people in the temple were not israeli, and the terrorism in pittsburgh had nothing to do with israel -- even in the warped mind of the shooter. g

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SleeplessInTexas comments on Nov 1, 2018:

There are far right/ left Atheists on this site. They are no different than the Christians or other religions they criticise.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@DenoPenno yeah that's the one! i knew it was someone :-)) g

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lerlo comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Sure you get to vent...but you expect a coherent, rational answer from an incoherent, irrational person?

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

to whom do you refer? i wasn't expecting anything from anyone, just presenting my experience and observation here. yes, of course i expected responses. i was hoping i wasn't going to get quite so many that seem to be justifying antisemitism on the very bases i was decrying, but i'm not horribly surprised. g

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Cutiebeauty comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Please don't believe all Americans think this way... Those things that believe this horrible stuff are probably living a shitty life and want to spread shit around to others... It's ridiculous.... Personally, I love most people...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

well, i AM an american. so.... g

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Stig comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Religion is a bad story - and countries based on religion are really bad too....

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

so? did you actually understand the point of my post? or are you attempting to justify antisemitism by saying religion is bad? g

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Fernapple comments on Nov 1, 2018:

All lands are stolen, usually several times over, if you accept the idea of "race" and that a race can own land. Yet the idea of race is technically disproved by science, we are all one family more closely related and with less genetic diversity that the average family of chimps. And the Jewish ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

there is a jewish ethnicity. race doesn't exist; ethnicity is a thing. my point is not that jews are or are not a race. my point is that there is antisemitism here and elsewhere, and it's being expressed here in pretty dreadful terms, and various excuses are being made for it, and the excuses are bogus. g

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DoctorJohn comments on Nov 1, 2018:

"israel is treating the palestinians badly" WTF? That has got to be the understatement of the year. What the israelis are doing to the Palestinians is on a par with what the Nazis did to the Jews.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

oh okay, i am sorry i didn't go on about that for a couple paragraphs. it wasn't the point of my post. but it's not a pain contest, you know. g

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jacpod comments on Nov 1, 2018:

as far as I remember from history lessons - Jews were given a portion of palestinian land by the three major powers - and the point is that they want to expand so are basically at war with Palestine an unfair fight because they have all the weapons and have pulled down the palestinians ancient ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

actually that history lessons is only partly correct. the land was not held by the palestinians; it was held by the british. its residents already included arabs and jews. it was a very large parcel of land. the british divided it up into two bits, one huge bit, most of which was then called transjorda, and set it aside for arabs, and one tiny bit, and set it aside for jews. the arabs complained so the brits took a ltitle more away from the tiny bit and added it to the large bit. when the state of israel was formed, the jews told the arabs living there they could stay and be part of the new land and have full civil rights, but the surrounding arab nations told the israeli arabs that they were about to be murdered by the jews, that they should flee immediately. many did, and they fled into the larger bit of land set aside for them, now called jordan. the jordanians REJECTED the fleeing arabs, who now found themselves homeless. meanwhile, the ones who stayed behind became israeli citizens. some even serve in the knesset. what the current israeli administration is doing is awful. it does not in any way justify the concept that israel should cease to exist and the jews therein be driven into the sea. g

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SleeplessInTexas comments on Nov 1, 2018:

There are far right/ left Atheists on this site. They are no different than the Christians or other religions they criticise.

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@DenoPenno i can't stand bibi. at BEST he is trump in the middle east. saying israel shouldn't exist as a nation because it has a bad leader right now... oh, hmm, lemme think who else has a bad leader right now, right? g

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DenoPenno comments on Nov 1, 2018:

The Pittsburgh attack was domestic terrorism plain and simple. Trump is reluctant to declare it as such because he might offend some of his support base. This is a hidden encouragement for others to do bad things and it is also why we must clip Trump's wings and balance power. Let's get some sanity ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

amen! (we need a nice secular version of that lol!) g

Fake rabbi? Is that like fake psychic?

genessa comments on Oct 31, 2018:

no. in judaism, if you're an atheist, you can still be a jew. if you don't keep kosher you're still a jew. if you take on another god, you're an apostate and no longer a jew. if you never were a jew and you are a messianist and call yourself a rabbi, good luck to you, but you are not a ...

genessa replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Bobby9 yes i know about the trinity. since in judaism there is no trinity, that explanation doesn't fly in that context. no matter how christians may justify having more than one god as having only one god with three aspects, from the jewish point of view, that's taking on another god. since jews get to define who's a jew, that makes someone who take son jesus NOT a jew. it's quite simple. we're not talking about what anyone thinks about anything except who is or isn't a jew. g