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The only intelligible doctrine of causation is founded on the doctrine of immanence. Each occasion presupposes the antecedent world as active in its own nature. This is the reason why events have a determinate status relatively to each other. ( Read more... )

-- AF Whitehead, Modes of Thought, Lecture 8.
https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Whitehead/Whitehead_1938/1938_08.html

Johnson’s private remarks to a small group of Republican lawmakers at Miami’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel over the weekend alarmed both people, who addressed the speech on condition of anonymity. Rather than outlining a specific plan to hold and grow the majority, these people said, Johnson effectively delivered a sermon.

The Louisiana Republican showed slides to the members of his Elected Leadership Committee (ELC) team in a bid to tout the party’s prospects of hanging onto its two-seat majority in November. Johnson, a devout Christian, attempted to rally the group by discussing moral decline in America — focusing on declining church membership and the nation’s shrinking religious identity, according to both people in the room.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/21/congress/johnsons-sermon-to-gop-retreagt-00142436

Just like the Alabama Supreme Court, Johnson is having a hard time serving the productive majority of the people in this country who are areligious and don't share his Christian identity concerns.

If they tell in mosques in Washington DC that claims about hamas atrocities are lies, I can imagine that what they say about hamas in mosques around the world.

https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1718584462525550645

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.

--- Arthur Schopenhauer.

Over millennia, the unique ability of women to conceive and bear children got interpreted as their only ability.

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During this siege he had a dream in which he saw Heracles stretching out his hand to him from the wall and calling him. And many of the Tyrians dreamed that Apollo told them he was going away to Alexander, since he was displeased at what was going on in the city. Whereupon, as if the god had been a common deserter caught in the act of going over to the enemy, they encircled his colossal figure with cords and nailed it down to its pedestal, calling him an Alexandrist.

--- Plutarch: Life of Alexander

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/4.html

I fail to imagine how people at the time thought about their gods who revealed their intentions through human dreams and were embodied to act through their statues.

Maybe this is something like that, "The statue of the Commander enters, proclaiming: "The wages of sin is death". " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Juan#Act_V

Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt was pressured by Russian authorities to publicly support the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine but refused to do so.
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"flew to Hungary two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They are now in exile from the community they loved, built & raised their children in, over 33 years."
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Many rabbis and Jewish officials have been involved in attempts to have the community vote for another rabbi instead of Goldschmidt but pressure from senior Israeli rabbis, including the two chief rabbis, had succeeded - and he now has seven more years as chief rabbi.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-708829

Jewish religious leaders know who the real fascists are in this war.

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https://truett.edu/news/archive/7-ways-to-pray-for-ukraine-amid-the-russian-invasion/

https://thejewishnews.com/2022/04/12/a-prayer-for-ukraine/

https://ritualwell.org/ritual/prayer-ukraine

One of the suggested prayers is Psalms 3:2-5

2 LORD, how many are mine adversaries become! Many are they that rise up against me.
3 Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah
4 But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
5 With my voice I call unto the LORD, and He answereth me out of His holy mountain. Selah

https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2603.htm

Then ruled the Kazi* of Battle, in whose ordinance is no wrong, for a seal is on his lips and he speaketh not; and the blood railed in rills and purfled earth with curious embroidery; heads grew gray and hotter waxed battle and fiercer. Feet slipped and stood firm the valiant and pushed forwards, whilst turned the faint-heart and fled, nor did they leave fighting till the day darkened and the night starkened.

--- The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT, Vol 7, the 638th night.
https://gutenberg.org/files/3441/3441-h/3441-h.htm

* Kazi - судья.

“God does not want to do everything.” -- Machiavelli.

Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man;
Who devise evil things in their heart; every day do they stir up wars.

--- Psalms 140: 2-3.

https://mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et26e0.htm

Today, I was able to understand myself and explain it to my colleague how Putin is committing a mortal sin when he orders his army to invade Ukraine. The most common accusation is that he's violating "Thou shall not murder" commandment (Exodus 20:12). But an apologist may reasonably deny the sin because a) he doesn't commit the murder himself [ his soldiers do]; and b) it's a war and not every war killing is a murder.

But it's undeniable that as a professional KGB officer under the Soviet regime he was trained to "bear false witness against thy neighbour" (Exodus 20:12). He did it against dissidents back then and he continued doing it in Russia when he took over FSB in 1999 and then became the country's president later.

Today, he commits the same sin with regard to Ukraine when he demands "denazification." That is, he bears a false witness against the people of Ukraine and their elected government, by accusing them of genocide. It's not just an exaggeration on his part; you know, the kind of exaggeration sales people engage in when selling you their stinking product. Rather, it's a deliberate KGB-style lie and a libel. He had repeatedly committed this sin before and he's committing it now. If hell exists, he goes directly there after his death. The sooner, the better.

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Also, he committed the same sin when he implied that the Ukrainian Army was involved in shooting down MH17.

Most, if not all, major religions wisely provide a process for the absolution of past sins. Generally, believers regularly get a chance to ask for and receive forgiveness, which encourages social renewal. Also, a sinner could move from one community to another and, for better or worse, try to rebuild their reputation. [Niche construction]. By contrast, the modern American culture doesn't offer forgiveness for old transgressions. Moreover, it barely offers forgiveness for past actions that might have turned into sin only recently, after the emergence of new moral standards. In a way, the new moral law seems to be applied randomly, retroactively and without much mercy. This is not a good recipe for building public trust in difficult times.

"Ресурсы иммунной системы ограниченные, и пока она нацелилась на ковид, другие вирусы шустро вылазят и радуются жизни. Другие осложнения тоже. Это как одеяло перетягивать."

https://vak.dreamwidth.org/773796.html#comments

Удивительно, как люди переносят древние идеи 精 на работу иммунной системы. Даже трудно себе представить, о чем тут можно вести содержательный спор.

https://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/concepts/key-concepts/varnashrama-dharma/

Key Points
- Varnashrama-dharma – duties performed according to the system of four varnas (social divisions) and four ashrams (stages in life).
- Focus is on responsibilities (which naturally fulfil the rights of others).
- Four varnas – brahmanas (priests, teachers, and intellectuals), kshatriyas (police, army, and administration), vaishyas (farmers, merchants, and business people), shudras (artisans and workers).
- Four ashrams – student life, household life, retirement, and renunciation.

Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

--- Exodus 20:12.

The LORD told Jack and Mark to ban Trump from social media because he violated the LORD's commandments.

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They put their hopes in time especially, and in the vicissitudes of fortune, since they knew not how to save themselves by their own efforts, but turmoil, terror, and rumours of evil possessed the city [of Rome]. At last something happened that was like what Homer often mentions, although people generally do not wholly believe it...

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people despise Homer and say that with his impossible exploits and incredible tales he makes it impossible to believe in every man's power to determine his own choice of action. 5 This, however, is not what Homer does, but those acts which are natural, customary, and the result of reasoning, he attributes to our own volition ...

...while in exploits of a strange and extraordinary nature, requiring some rush of inspiration, and desperate courage, he does not represent the god as taking away, but as prompting, a man's choice of action; nor yet as creating impulses in a man, but rather conceptions which lead to impulses, and by these his action is not made involuntary, but his will is set in motion, while courage and hope are added to sustain him. 7 For either the influence of the gods must be wholly excluded from all initiating power over our actions, or in what other way can they assist and co-operate with men? They certainly do not mould our bodies by their direct agency, nor give the requisite change to the action of our hands and feet, but rather, by certain motives, conceptions, and purposes, they rouse the active and elective powers of our spirits, or, on the other hand, divert and check them.

--- Plutarch, Lives (Coriolanus 32).
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Coriolanus*.html

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Again: is it possible for us to doubt the prophetic value of lightning? Have we not many instances of its marvels?

--- Cicero, On Divination. Book 1:10.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/de_Divinatione/1*.html

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