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Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom, Ralbag, 1288-1344) also explains the tenth commandment as active planning (Exod 20:14):
וענין החמדה הוא שישתדל שיהיו לו, כאילו תאמר שיתן ממון לרעהו, שיגרש אשתו כדי שישאנה, או שימכור לו עבדו ואמתו ושורו וחמורו או אחד משאר קניניו, כי זאת היא תכונה רעה מאד להשתדל שיֵצאו קניני רעהו מתחת ידו אם לא יתרצה מעצמו למוכרם ולהוציאם מתחת ידו.
The meaning of “covet” is to attempt to attain something from one’s neighbor, for example, to offer him money to divorce his wife so that he can marry her, or to sell him his slave or his ox or his donkey or any other piece of his property. This is a very evil characteristic, to attempt to take away one’s neighbor’s possessions when he himself does not wish to sell them and part with them.
וכבר למדנו שהחמדה אינה בלב לבד, אבל יש עמה מעשה, ממה שאמרה התורה: ׳לא תחמֹד כסף וזהב עליהם ולקחת לך׳. ואמר עוד: ׳ולא יחמֹד איש את ארצך בעלֹתך לראות׳ — רוצה לומר שלא ישתדל איש לקחת אותה בעלותך לרגל; וכן אמר: ׳וחמדו שדות וגזלו׳.
We already know that coveting is not just in one’s heart, but that it entails some action from what is said in the Torah “you shall not covet the silver and gold on them and keep it for yourselves” (Deut 7:25). Similarly, [the Torah] says: “no one will covet your land when you go up to appear” (Exod 34:24), meaning to say, that no man will try to take it when you go up for pilgrimage. And [the Bible] says: “They covet fields, and seize them” (Micah 2:2).
ולזה לא יהיה עובר על לאו זה אם לא עשה מעשה באופן שיהיה לו הדבר שיחמוד.
Hence, we infer that one does not violate the prohibition if one does not actually do something in order to obtain the coveted object.
Thus, for Gersonides, the Rabbinic interpretation is the simple meaning of the text. In the Bible, coveting refers to the first step in the process of taking something from one’s fellow that is his/hers and not yours. Thus, it is not the flickering thought of coveting that is forbidden here, but rather when one seriously begins to plan how to actualize the sinful thought. [LINK]
And another interesting interpretation of "covet" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaFca9vZvn8
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One personal conclusion I have made is that Atheists have far too much Faith for me, to be able to declare that there is no Creator, while breathing.
The Christians are the original Atheists.
In primal cultures, competing tribes would always argue, "our gods are more powerful than your gods".
The Christians changed this to, "your gods don't even exist", "you're all just superstitious idiots".
Atheists believe exactly what the Christians believe regarding the existence of gods, they just happen to believe in one less.
I'm not sure I'd call that "faith".
I mean, how much "faith" does it take to NOT-believe in Santa Claus?
How much "faith" does it take to NOT-believe in Nanabozho?
The (self-described) Atheists that I've spoken to often complain that their position is often misunderstood.
Calling someone by what they're NOT is a rather peculiar phenomenon.
It would be like everyone calling you a "non-astronaut" or a "non-stamp-collector".
MOST (but not all) people who call themselves "Atheist" try to make it clear that they are NOT saying there is NO POSSIBLE GOD(S). Instead, they're simply asserting that there is no compelling evidence of any SPECIFIC GOD(S).
In the same way it takes no "faith" to disbelieve in Russell's Teapot.
And often, the word "GOD" is an implicit reference to the "YHWH", and that one is particularly incoherent.
That isn't to say that Atheists are free of superstition.
A frightening number of Atheists still believe in the ridiculous concept of "freewill".
And they don't even have the good sense to call that "faith", they just call it "common sense".
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Judge Nukes Ill. Lockdown: Pritzker 'Had No Authority' to Restrict Movement and Close Businesses
Illinois Circuit Court Judge Mike McHaney ruled on Thursday that Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois had no lawful authority to declare endless disasters past the initial thirty days. Ruling on a lawsuit filed by State House Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Ill.), Judge McHaney wrote, “The court declares that Defendant had no constitutional authority as Governor to restrict a citizen’s movement or activities and/or forcibly close business premises in EO 32.” [LINK](https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2020/07/02/judge-nukes-ill-lockdown-pritzker-had-no-authority-to-restrict-movement-and-close-businesses-n600395)
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Even if you're not a christian, you should give this video a look.
Near the end of May, the governor of Illinois declared that he was going to charge business owners that opened before he says they can open with misdemeanors, he was going to actually make them into criminals. The next day, one lone county, called Madison county, way out in western Illinois, assembled their county board together, and put out a proclamation declaring that they would NOT obey the governor, and then they would protect the businessmen within their county, that they can open and they'll use all the power at their hands to protect them from the governor and the state. One lone county. The very next day, the Illinois state police put out a press release saying they would NOT arrest anyone who opens their business and charge them as the governor has ordered. And the very next day after that, the governor rescinded his order. Amen. Our founding fathers wanted it, so if one branch of government began to play the tyrant, the other branches of government would resist that branch. It's called "checks and balances".
For example, the governor here in Wisconsin was checked, by our supreme court, and all his tyranny was ended mid May. Even the lame GOP legislature, that brought the court action was chagrined by the court, as the court ended IT ALL. While the GOP legislature, in good GOP fashion, just wanted to be able to regulate the evil [tyranny]. Our state supreme court ENDED IT ALL. So governor Evers [democrat] now has the counties and municipalities doing his dirty work, this is seen and reported in the Wisconsin counties association. A website you should all be familiar with, all these counties coming up with the same idea, very draconian measures regarding the strength they want to give to their "health officials". Including POLICING POWERS. Yeah, they all just came up with that on their own? No, they all work together and you know what, most of these people that are in county government, they're like most Americans. They're only in there for their own self-aggrandizement.
DHS 145 is the applicable statute, 145.06 paragraph 2 states, "The state has to declare the individual contagious by a medical authority", then 145.06 paragraph 4 gives 7 options for the state to pursue if someone is contagious, NONE of them includes forcing them to wear a mask.
AND EVEN OUR CHRISTIAN FRIENDS ARE STARTING TO BECOME CONCERNED.
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The "reality" of the situation is much more fundamental.
A FEUDAL HIERARCHY will always use FEAR to tighten its collective stranglehold on citizens.
A FEUDAL HIERARCHY will always use FEAR in order to con citizens into "voluntarily" giving up their constitutional rights.
The lockdown may or may not be based on "nothing".
But that's actually purely incidental (moot, red-herring).
Even (IFF) the "deadly" SARS-2 is "really real" (THEN) the government STILL has ZERO authority to force people to stay in their homes and or deny them the right to free assembly and or force them to wear protective clothing and or wash their hands.
There is ZERO authority for any of these "emergency" "measures".
This would be TRUE even if we were in the middle of a full blown ZOMBIE OUTBREAK.
THE PLAN, in 20 minutes,
Bill Gates, the World Health Organization and the World Bank are working with AADHAAR to create a worldwide unique digital ID for every human on the planet. **This is not a "conspiracy theory".** This is already happening. This unique digital ID will allow any "criminals" (dissidents, protesters) to be automatically frozen out of the CASHLESS global banking system. If you get BLACKLISTED you will lose access to your purely digital money in your purely digital bank. You will also be frozen out of the internet, so you will not be able to even look for a job. And even if you manage to find a job locally, nobody will hire you without scanning your digital ID for a "non-criminal" (non-dissident, non-protester) status.
THE EVENT, in 15 minutes,
From 2018 (this is not new):
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making the guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers - if that technology could be developed in time.
"TWO PARTY" = ONE PARTY
SOCIALISM = CAPITALISM
BLACK = WHITE
We really need to stop bickering about "liberals" and "conservatives" and "SJWs" and "BLM" and "MAGA".
The REAL OWNERS are just pitting us against each other, distracting us with "scary criminals" and idiotic "elections" which they're fully in control of regardless of who you vote for.
We are already living in a POLICE STATE.
WE MUST DEMAND RCV.
Here's the problem,
We currently live in a society where a co-worker can drop their bank debit card in your car, and then call the police and report their card stolen, and describe your vehicle.
Then you can be pulled over and searched and when the lost card is discovered, you will be taken by police and your automobile impounded. And they take your cell phone, so if you don't have any phone numbers memorized, or if the person you call doesn't happen to answer the phone, you're SOL.
You can be held "pending trial" for months and so they tell you, if you sign some papers they'll let you go home, I'm sure this is all a big misunderstanding.
But those papers happen to be a confession, and that allows a judge to make a summary judgement because you "confessed" there is NO TRIAL.
Then you spend 3 years under guard.
Now you can't even get a decent job because almost nobody will even consider hiring a convicted felon.
The current federal asset forfeiture laws were championed by JOE BIDEN.
Your PROPERTY can be confiscated by the state WITHOUT TRIAL.
THIS IS THE REAL PROBLEM.
THE POOR HAVE NO CIVIL RIGHTS.
AND THE POOR AND MIDDLECLASS ARE PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER.
YOU ARE **GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.**
I CAN SEND A DEATH SQUAD TO YOUR HOUSE TONIGHT BY SIMPLY TELLING THE SWAT TEAM THAT I THINK YOU'RE A DRUG KINGPIN.
SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG.
THE ENTIRE WAR ON DRUGS IS A SCAM CREATED BY THE STATE IN ORDER TO SUPPRESS THE HIPPIES AND BLACK-PANTHERS.
THE ENTIRE WAR ON DRUGS IS A SCAM CREATED TO SUPPRESS ANTI-WAR AND ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTERS.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A SCAM.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON CIVIL RIGHTS.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PERSONAL PRIVACY.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
DEMAND HOLOCRACY + RCV.
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The analysis is much more rigorous than I expected, and I agree with most (but not all) of the initial presentation.
However, one glaring omission the speaker makes is a condition called ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY.
ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY is when a person has XY chromosomes (apparently the "gold standard" for "sexgender" which happens to be quite a strange "bald assertion" ontologically, specifically because chromosomes weren't even discovered until the mid 1880s, WTF).
ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY is when a person has XY chromosomes (this speaker might call them "male") and yet, even though they have XY chromosomes, their cells are ANDROGEN INSENSITIVE and therefore are unaffected by that specific hormone and are therefore fully female in physical appearance, bone structure, girly parts and everything else.
In case you missed that.
There are people alive today with XY chromosomes who are physically indistinguishable from female.
They were literally born this way.
Now, you might say "this is extremely rare and therefore can be dismissed out-of-hand as a statistical fluke".
However, because we do not TEST FOR THIS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW "RARE" IT MIGHT BE.
It is important to maintain a constant awareness of and vigilant respect of our epistemological limits.
And, to be generous, EVEN IFF it was found to be "extremely rare", it still proves that "sexgender" is not 100% dictated by your magical biblical chromosomes.
AND there is absolutely no way for anyone to KNOW this without violating personal privacy.
There are also cases where a person has what might at first glance appear to be an XY, but the **Y itself** can have a 4th stub (leg) of various lengths (imagine an X with a short leg), the shorter the stub, the more "male" they appear, and the longer the stub, the more "female" they appear.
THE KEY TAKEAWAY FROM ALL OF THIS IS THAT IT IS A VIOLATION OF PRIVACY TO DEMAND THAT ANYONE "PROVE" THEIR GENDER.
IT IS A MATTER OF **FUNDAMENTAL** PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
The classical Problem of Identity is and has been and always will be a PRIVATE PERSONAL JOURNEY.
SOCIAL NORMS ARE FLUID.
THERE IS NO REASON TO CODIFY SOCIAL NORMS.
WHAT WE SHOULD CODIFY IS PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
WHAT WE SHOULD CODIFY IS PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
This kind of RED-HERRING petty divisive bickering ("moral outrage") is EXACTLY what our OWNERS need in order to keep the working class and poor people pitted **against** each other.
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Yes, and this is the type of thing i mean when I say we should not let up on the narrative. There is no need to dilute the simple truth that he catered (and probably backmailed) many in positions of power.
I applaud the efforts of people who are trying to "bring this to light" (like @ura-soul and yourself). [***]
However, the main "problem" with this approach is that it focuses too much on "bad actors" and by doing this you divert attention and potentially exculpate "THE SYSTEM" (namely, FEUDAL HIERARCHY).
And without systemic reform (HOLACRACY), we'll just end up with new and "improved" "HEROES" (CON-ARTIST MOBSTERS).
And we don't want to fall into the HERO trap.
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We must insist on a system that mitigates all forms of DEMONIZATION. [***]
We must insist on a system that protects truly INALIENABLE RIGHTS (rights that nobody can "voluntarily" sign away).
We must insist on a ("legal") system that holds the PRIMARY AXIOMS.
We must insist on a policy of +proHUMAN.
We must insist on a policy of +proFAMILY.
We must insist on a policy of +proSOVEREIGNTY.
We must insist on a SYSTEM that can be effectively operated by SELF-INTERESTED BABIES (not "heroes").
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When women hate men, it's because they believe (falsely) that men have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
When "non-whites" hate "whites", it's because they believe (falsely) that "whites" have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
When "liberals" hate "conservatives", it's because they believe (falsely) that "conservatives" have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
And when "whites" hate "non-whites", it's because they believe (falsely) that "non-whites" have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
And when men hate "feminists", it's because they believe (falsely) that "feminists" have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
And when "conservatives" hate "liberals", it's because they believe (falsely) that "liberals" have the "best deal" and the gain of one is at the expense of the other.
ALL OF THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR CORPORATE OWNERS NEED.
THE POOR FIGHTING EACH OTHER FOR A SLIGHTLY LARGER CUT OF THE TOXIC GARBAGE HEAP.
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I'm suggesting that if you believe in fundamental, inalienable human rights (THEN) you must also believe in some reliable and durable enforcement mechanism that protects those rights.
Otherwise, you're "rights" are going to be stripped from you.
What you're saying is not true. If I steal your thing, it does not become not your thing because you did not enforce the possession of that thing. Something can be wrong, even if it happens. There are consequences for actions as seen in natural law. Some call it karma. You do good and good happens to you, generally speaking. Rights do not come from people and are not enforced or protected by people.
"inherent" "objective" "morality" is a pervasive myth (brainwashing) that turns our natural instincts (core family dynamic) against our fellow man and twists them in favor of those who hold the levers of power.
It's a con-game that saves them enormous amounts of time and money enforcing their will.
When our owners violate "inherent" "objective" "morality" and we are outraged, but powerless, and our screams of protest are silenced by a boot on our neck (the boot of a fellow peasant) we comfort ourselves with this idiotic myth, "THEY WILL SUFFER IN HELL", and our owners laugh all the way to the bank.
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