by israelirealities » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:18 am
OK, then let's divert..:-)<br>I don't know Al Cuppert,can look him up, but I would say in general, that in my opinion, the entire Judeo Christian mythology and cosmogeny is leading and geared towards some sort of confrontation, and it has to do with jerusalem and blah blah. There are similarities between the Jewish apocalypse and the Christian ones, naturally these books coming from the same dysfunctional region/tribe. I see events leading and pulling towards this blood bath either way. But, MY position is that we can, as humans, skip it, or transcend it by depatterning this entire "thing" namely, stop relating to our Jewishness or Christianess as a form of "script" we don't control. Its all in our hands, the story writing, our identities and what "narratives" and movies we run...<br>So, regarding the Jews in America, Israel and all that, the way I see it is that any such collective decision making, and forcing people to accept a predetermined story and identity is problematic. Once you say "Jews should make Aliya", you have to start picking and looking and saying actually "what and who IS a Jew" and naturally you start coercion...you start suffering. more suffering.<br>Now, if the Christian movie goes on, of course Israel serves as a large ghetto where its just easier to run the "armageddon, Jesus comes from the sky" scene. Now think how all this is ridiculous. Its a story, and its relevant for a part of the world, not most of it, not I think even half of it. Its just the Judeo Christian story, which is very bloody either way you look at it. It was good for a time when we didn't know there are two billion people in the far East who don't even know or care what and where is Jerusalem. And possibly almost a billion or so Moslem who don't care if Jesus was right or wrong against the Jews, and if they or someone else turned him in. I think it can be resolved, theologically. (I am naive, sorry about it. But making this fantastic suggestion is less crazy, in my mind, then following a destructive story and really believing there is an essential difference between a "jew" and a "protestant" and a "moslem"...And if there is a different why should it manifest only as WAR and annihilation ? quite suspicious...)<br>Practically speaking, for NOW, Jews are not safe here in Israel, not so much because of war and terror from Arab neighbouring countries but because our own government went berserk if they were ever sane. This is also a result of ZIonism, which actually said that Jews are safer here and should do aliya. Perhaps, this is the last test for the world, whether we as humans are willing to continue these ridiculous distinctions to the point of harming, killing, displacing people only because there are theoretical differences in their "story" or values. I think we are failing it. So in that case, yeah, why not, let them make aliya, forced by antisemites and ZIonists alike, and let the games begin. Quite sad.<br>This makes me really sad, but also to see the spins around it that lead to a lot of unnessecary suffering. <br>I still prefer the visions of Isaiah (maybe him or one of those) who saw Jerusalem as this huge cool Ashram for all nations, religions etc. I think we as humans have a choice to create our vision of "Jerusalem"...look at this mad city now and you'll see the failure. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>