@EvilBunny

Supreme Court rules Federal Law now Federal Suggestion.

All evil needs to prevail is for good men (and women) to do nothing.

@misslovelymess

And that is the condensed version of how Judaism became the 2nd Monotheistic religion and how Eve sort of became the scapegoat representing polytheism and the fall of the kingdom of Israel.

@misslovelymess Note, when I said "Syria", I meant Persia. King Cyrus had given many fleeing Israelites refuge in Persia. Cyrus is mentioned in the Old Testament as a "messiah" even though Cyrus was a Zoroastrian.

@misslovelymess

And so the scribes settled on what you might call an edit of the story of creation in Genesis which included a female, Eve, who tempted Adam leading to the Fall from Grace. This lesson explained the voiding of the covenant, and lead to the prohibition against worshiping any other gods, especially Asherah.

@misslovelymess

The hebrew scribes settled on the idea the Israelites had been insufficiently devoted to Yahweh (they were polytheists).

Among other revered gods was Asherah, consort to Yaweh. The first Temple even had Asherah poles representing the goddess within it.

And so the scribes saw the worship of Asherah as the key issue leading to the end of the covenant.

(end part 2)

@misslovelymess

In reality, before the Babylonian captivity, the anciant Israelites had within their cannon the idea of the Covenant: Their tribal god, Yahweh, had promised them the lands of Israel forever.

When the kingdom of Israel allied with Egypt against Babylon in a war Egypt lost, the Israelites escaped to Syria or became slaves in Babylon.

They no longer had the lands. This was a problem for their religion. How to explain it?

(end part 1)

@tgraph52 @Bix Tucker kinds seems gay and repressed to me.

I could be wrong.

You see what we're dealing with?

On one side there is an honest but imperfect attempt to get as close to the truth as possible.

On the other side there is an avalanche of misinformation and conspiracy theories that doesn't require as much resources as getting closer to the truth does.

"I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz."--Arnold Schwarzenegger

@CanisVeritum yeah, saw that - in violation of federal law and without explanation.

Story on one of Elon's Kremlin pals:

https://kyivindependent.com/who-is-sergei-kiriyenko-the-liberal-turned-russian-hawk-reportedly-in-touch-with-elon-musk/

I am way too worried going into election week.

This worry cannot be healthy.

@EvilBunny The polls don't say that, though.

@Tacitus_Kilgore That's part of national defense.

From day 1, defending the nation has had to be a priority. It always will be because there are others--some of them meddling in our elections now--who will seek to undermine our Republic.

you never get to stop defending it, or you lose it.

@Tacitus_Kilgore

None of that happens without National Defense.

This election is gonna make me sick with worry.

Bob Woodward: I was there. He [Trump] received a call when there was one case of coronavirus in the US, and I asked him what he was going to do, and he said, "Don't worry; it's going to go away". He was trying to cover it up.

In July, 140,000 people had died, and I asked him again, "What are you going to do? What is the plan?:, and he said, "Don't worry. I have a plan, we're working on it, and I will reveal it in 109 days". I asked myself, 109 days? What's in 109 days? The election!

The overflow

Never trust anybody who says they have to tear almost everything down, and it will be painful, but that's how we get to their utopia.

That is the same kind of thing dictators and authoritarians say before everything goes to shit for generations.

@JV3MJD

We're gonna do some wildly radical shit, and things will go to hell, but trust us, things will get better.