Defining "faith"

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We have touched upon several moral and religious topics here and the use of the word "faith" has come up more than once.I have always been a student of the question "why do people believe what the believe".What does FAITH mean to you??How do you aquire FAITH in something.. religious or otherwise.Buckle your seat belts.I am sure this one will have many opposing views.
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There's not just "what faith means to you", dummy. There is what the word "faith" is used in common discourse to communicate, which each 'you' participates in, but certainly have little to do with defining, except subjectively.

Common use distinguishs two broad contexts: secular and religious. The generic notion is a mental attitude that affirms something without proof or, perhaps, evidence, to the point of acting on it. Most things done in life are predicated on assumptions taken on faith. Ex.: secular: faith in the Stock Market; Ex.: religious, faith in God (or synonyms for the Completing Totality) The separation of church and state is designerd to keep the two uses officially distinct. G.W. Bush hath sinned mightily in introducing the phrase "faith based initiative" and, in general, inflicting his personal maleficent religious will on America.



In religious uses of "faith", there is a psychic polarity between cognitive (thought) and connative (feeling) affirmation. This corresponds roughly to the distinction between belief, completed by propositions (doctrine); and trust, completed by total commitment. Catholicism mainly follows propositional faith (cf, Aquinas), Protestants speak more of conversion, commitment, and re-birth (John 3.16).



Two major classic sources defining Christian faith are Galatians 2.16, and Hebrews 11:1-3: The Faith by grace is spoken of as something palbasble, a 'substance' of what is Hoped For; constituting an 'e'vidence' for what is unseen. It, this palbable substance of the Unseen Hoped for, is the power by which the heroes of the Old Testament gave good testimony, and of what was to come. This power was born as the fruit of Mary's womb, culminating and completing the priestly line of Judaic law. Hebrews 7-8 emphatically links the paternal origin of the power that became Christ to the God of the Sumerian (not: semitic) Melchisidek priests of most, most ancient (Jeru-)Salem. (YHWH El OHIM - God most High)



The central tenant of Christian faith is that Jesus Christ fulfilled and completed what the Old Testament was about. Whatever else may be disagreed about, this is its Rock of Gibralter. If you have faith in what the Old Testament brought on earth, you have faith in Christ as its fulfillment and completion. Faith in observance of law, and sacrifice, is done away with.

Any who deny this is the Christian essence, or, like this Roman Catholic Pope, do not consistently carry through with its implications that the law (Torah) has been terminated as a path of salvation, are not children of the Christian faith

momma's men

MYSTERIUM CONJUNCTIONIS
If it's not just me,
What can it be?
(It's never been like this before)
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Signs On Land, Sea and Air

Philosophical Movie Review Review
Momma's Man
(Man/Boy reversal; narrative of male maturity, from mother-dominance to full-blown passive aggressive).
The reviews and comments systematically avoid mentioning that this is a particular Jewish narrative set in New York City (even though its visual content is specifically about that).

Here is how the New York Times reviewer handles it. " a touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood. ...In American movies, growing up tends to be a job for either Aryan Youth types or the oddballs and outsiders ...a staple of both sitcoms and the Sundance Film Festival. ."

"Aryan", of course, is code for Nazi-leaning white males; a way of referring to Jews as persecuted holocaust victims. The hyper-radioactive J- word itself is not printed. Not for us to consciously use 'Jewish' to think of it. But there sure are a lot of "Jacobs' in the piece, to go with the films content.

*****

This movie is clearly (without seeing it) one of the closest-to-the-bone Overcoming Portnoy artefacts to date. Just right for the times, after the deluge of Fay floods in Florida; 2Face joker pellets in the Unc., and the .

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/movies/22momm.html?8dpc

Shapeshifting Robots

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/21/idf_shapeshifting_robots/

The deep unconscious wish getting acted out by the Jacob's family is to shape-shift from Old Adam soul manhood (dominance of thought by snake brain content) to New Adam soul manhood (see Hebrews Chap. 11:1-3; Chap.8 - "A High Priest Of the Order of Mekchizedek"). It is a Biblical/psychohistorical denoument, on the order of Norman Mailers "Soldiers of the Night" (--Jew using the 'Jesus trip' idea to 'Imanentize the Eschaton" -- he ran for NYC mayor) to redeem the post 60's world. Sons graduating to manhood by re-enobling their parents Way -- in this instance, Jewish boys growing up in New York City, now saddled by Israel, Bush-McCain dependency, Schneman and massacre of Georgians -- fat, loathsome, regressed to playing with toys in the attic and not looking at mothers and wives or women in general, with heroes with names lije "a-Rod", "Jeter", "Lieberman", Bloomberg, Giuliani, Perle and "neocon" -- pre-mammalian shape shifting mench munchers.

("Like any artist, Mr. Jacobs has shaken down life for what it can give him. That life includes his parents, who belong to a generation of Manhattan artists who have become as exotic as the last of the Mohicans. These are people who helped create not just a child but also a world. In "Momma's Man," Mr. Jacobs honors both ...").

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Some, like Andy Chertow, an undergraduate at Harpur College when Ken Jacobs was there -- and Abbey Hoffman -- took moral/patriotic opposition to pro-War (false) Americanism to the limits, alongside 'Daddy's man' males like me. Yes, they were Jews. But taking what Jewishness stands for beyond the Freudian/parent hang-up ever was, for men who make the mommie issue irrelevant. The ones who didn't are left with G.W. Bush, Israel, and the Ken Jacob's tribe of mommas' men.

-Liberal Jews wooed by Obama, wanna do the Sephardic wich' youse.

-Tough Jews love McCain. If you're an Ashkenazi Daddy's Men (or Croat), he's your pick.

Another Overcoming Portnoy bid to define America's post-60's lost humanity <=> their role in landing America on skid row.

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McCain is the perfect white daddy manbot for them (next to Jesus, of course), even if they hate him (them). He endured all, would have died for the Old Man. Heheh

They want to shift shape -- or bring others to shape shift -- into non-Jewish manboy culture.

Punishment for S* crimes

PUNISHMENT

I. New Principles of Justice Required

New Criminality:

-manipulating the process mediated by events-news-dynamic of reactions governed by control of communications to support Israeli-centric political agendae.

New Justice Paradigm

The new kind of criminality calls for rethinking the concept of justice applied to it, and a new order of punishment. For instance, since the comission of a crime need not be proven for individuals, since the criminality is in what is clear and dictinctly evident, there is no such thing as "innocent until proven guilty", only questions of degree of complicity in the perpetration.

No "investigation" or "conspiracy trial" is in order. Judgment of criminality is based on responsibility for what is openly witnessed, on record, proceeding without challenge, at points where, by review, if not in real-time, some deliberate manipulation can be seen to occur that should have been stopped (Ex.: Bush's "Jesus is my favorite philosopher"; "faith based initiative"; "Russian aggression in Georgia")

These instances (imagine a omni-present TVo edit) are docketed as criminality is sign-use: the same meaning, or sense, is simultaneously given and erased; meanwhile, predicating on "it" as if true or false statements could be made and sanctioned. In effect, not just interrogating whether a guy about whether he had quit beating his wife, but letting him know denying the question wasn't an option. "Are you a Jew?" comes close. The result of such a practice becoming systemic is violation of personal space (private tokenspace) by demanding compliance-on-the-spot with assumptions built into the situation so that saying anything at all, in agreement or disagreement, places oneself between the polarity of psychological opposites which were drawn by someone else; then, threatened with harm if compliance is refused. The pattern could be called "Nazi Interrogation ." Either non-cooperation or disapprobative alignment disadvantages the responder.

It is this form of criminality in sign-use that 'the Jews' endured in Hitler's Germany, whenever they were required to respond to 'Judenhass' wrangling. "Never again" was headed up by the drive to prohibit terms of collective abuse from becoming institutionalized in America. Big Entertainers Mel Gibson, Don Imus and Michael Richards have felt the sting of the wrath of the PC police. And, as survivors of the holocaust and sympathizers must surely attest, a civil society must remain free of self-serving hate-tinged designators for common collective use.

However, when Political Correctness as a justified enforceable constraint is A. mixed with religious terminology, bringing the (dis-)approbative sanctions under somebody's God's thumb; and B. the electorate is addressed under the going assumptions of "identity politics" -- bloc votes by non-AmericaFirst self-referencers -- ...then the constraint of Political Correctness becomes a barrier to correcting the total situation it is part of. Under these conditions,
the PC that was supposed to function as a safeguard against becomes a meta-level reinforcement of the Nazi Interrogation discourse regime, this time substituting whoever is called President for Die Fuhrer, Republicrats for Nazi's, and Homeland Security + Defense Tzar Negroponte for the SS, and the 52 Presidents of the Major Jewish organizations, the Libby Lobby and neocons in general doing the work of Goebbels. Those who respond to polls flashed on the TV screen on a daily basis, accept classifications and categories framed in the psychological opposites these substitutions posit. This acceptance expresses tacit consent to be conscripted into the military framed under the substitute terms. To speak as common American citizens as "we" with them, as part of the ongoing democratic political process, is to tacitly consent to sanctions for refusing to be conscripted into an army pledged to someone else's God. This cannot be willed as a rational principle. (following Kant: "Let me be tricked by sign-use into dying for someone else's God" cannot be consistently willed as a maxim; its denial, :"Let me not tricked/be tricked ...etc." holds categorically for the rational (moral) will. This is the moral basis for the new justice paradigm. It is faced with the task of framing punishment for aggravated, sustained, impervious-to-criticism substitution of signs used in common discourse that have led to systemic violation of the categorical imperative in the name of 'doing good'. Americans have been so tricked by the mass mediated discourse sold as "we", "unity", "our" ('war on terror' etc.) that even to raise the question of its morality elicits the charge of "immorality".

That is the group process situation America has arrived at. The moral split is ultimate. Tricked conscription into the army of someone else's God is backed up with reversal of the rational moral condemnation of the trickery. (Various strategies are used: it is "extemist", 'mad', "dangerous", "unpatriotic", up to and including "unG-dly".)

The form of this criticism of the ongoing process will be applied to several instances to the same effect. Use of a sign whose import was originally positive, used for that reason, is pushed over the line into negating that possibility. And systemic challenge to that use is sanctioned with penalties.

This is the form of the criminality in sign-use illustrated by the instances below.

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-The criminality is in the manipulation of a common process in violation of the unstated but undeniable recognized conditions of public trust in providing news services.

The text of 'good' words is so misused that the tokens are driven into the ground and are used to reproduce the opposite of that which they originally communicated. (cf. The boy who cried "wolf" until it didn't mean anything anymore: that is the situation of "democracy" "al Queda threat")


II. Illustrations

A. "Democracy" - Now used in the '08 election campaign to continue a process that blocks what it originally communicated: a regime in which the common voice and will of the people on major issues is effectively expressed without prejudice.

This has been violated at the interface of the public and official government discourse where the media of mass communication has installed gatekeepers of PC, and other rules of programming, that block challenges to fundamental assumptions the official discourse makes.

Ex.: Ex.: linkage of U.S. - Israel foreign policy interests. A fundamental challenge to the assumption that these are closely aligned, if not identical, is never presented as a sustained position. Elected representatives never address it, but are invariably seen "wooing the Jewish vote", publicly kow towing to Jewish individuals (e.g., Schumer, Lieberman), talking of "bipartisanship", "faith", Western values, religion perhaps even "God" ("G-d" for the rigorously observant); "monotheism", if pressed. And "democracy". "America's only democratic ally in the region," the PR went. (Although Georgia counts.)

tbc.

NYTimes editorial response

Are you really going to print this? In the same edition as Andrew E. Kramer's article ("Peace Plan Offers Russia a Rationale to Advance" online '8.14.'08)?

Maybe you were too hysterical to notice, but Kramer contradicts the claim that U.S. military planes flying into Georgia are "delivering humanitarian supplies." He writes "In response, the United States began sending troops to Georgia to oversee aid to the capital..."

2. The information in his account, readily available elsewhere without the pandering, is that Russia responded to Saakashvili's wanton slaughter of S. Ossetians, as it should have. You tacitly tacitly admit this: "American officials insist that they warned the Gorgian leader.." Adding the absurd comment they should have tried harder ".. not to fall into Moscow's trap." You are no doubt congenitally unable to see how psychotic that is, but it is worth posting, as I shall surely do whereever I can.

3. Moreover, depiction of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev as breaking promises, which Kaplan shows he didn't; or "isn't in charge"; or is "lying" is beyond egregious. There is something positively Jew (Zionist) about it.

Putin got your lulz, eds. Try to deal with it better.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/opinion/14thu1.html?hp

Editorial
Russia Takes Gori

President Dmitri Medvedev promised European negotiators early Wednesday morning that Russia would halt its attacks on Georgia and begin withdrawing its troops. A few hours later, Russian tanks rolled into the strategic crossroads town of Gori — just 40 miles from Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi.

We’re not sure if that means Mr. Medvedev isn’t in charge or that he was lying to buy more time to push for the overthrow of Georgia’s democratically elected government. Either explanation is chilling.

Europe and the United States must make clear to Mr. Medvedev — and the real power player, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — that more aggression and lies will not be tolerated. They must make clear that Russia will pay a price, in diplomatic standing and economic relations, if it does not immediately withdraw its troops, agree to international mediation and permit the deployment of truly neutral international peacekeepers to Georgia’s breakaway regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Mr. Bush has finally decided to send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Tbilisi. In addition to conveying support for Georgia’s democracy, she must leave no doubt that there can be no military solution to the dispute with Russia — and that American military planes and ships now heading for Georgia are to deliver humanitarian supplies.

The United States and Europe ignored this brewing crisis for too long. President Bush wanted to play all sides — flattering Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, as Mr. Saakashvili baited Moscow and looking the other way as Mr. Putin bullied his neighbors. (American officials insist that they warned the Georgian leader not to fall into Moscow’s trap by sending troops into South Ossetia — but they clearly weren’t persuasive enough.)

Even after Russian bombers began pounding Georgia last week, President Bush seemed to hope that his old pal Mr. Putin was just blowing off steam. The Europeans, who are far too reliant on Russian energy supplies, were even more in denial. On Wednesday, some European leaders, including Germany’s foreign minister, were still reluctant to blame Russia.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, deserves credit for going to Moscow and Tbilisi to try to negotiate a cease-fire. Now he and Mr. Bush must insist that both Russia and Georgia abide by their commitments (the announcement of American aid deliveries had Mr. Saakashvili blustering again) and begin to negotiate the terms of a durable peace.

Georgia’s sovereignty must be guaranteed. It will almost certainly have to give up its hopes of asserting control over the two breakaway regions — but Moscow must not be allowed to annex them by force. European Union foreign ministers who agreed to send in 200 to 300 monitors must quickly deploy them. And Washington and Europe must press the United Nations Security Council to quickly authorize even more peacekeepers.

Ms. Rice should also go to Moscow and deliver the message that this war is seriously straining relations.

The Pentagon was right to cancel two planned exercises with the Russians. Democratic Congressional leaders were right to put a civilian nuclear deal, that could be worth billions to Moscow, on hold.

The United States and its allies must also warn that Moscow’s application to join the World Trade Organization will go nowhere so long as it is brutalizing its neighbor. The European Union should tell Russia that it will not pursue a political and economic cooperation deal until Moscow is willing to behave like a responsible partner.

This invasion should never have begun. The United States and Europe must insist that it end now.
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LOL

The case against the FBI's case against Ivins

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/open_letter_mueller.html

THE CASE AGAINST THE FBI'S CASE AGAINST IVINS


1. The manufacture and handling of the 'weaponized' anthrax required not just access to spores and technology, but: great expertise in highly controlled setting, to avoid accidental contamination and avoid drawing attention for suspicious activity. This does not seem compatible with Ivin's record of day-job lab worker, which ought to be readily available.

2. The time frame of 9.18, the postmark date of the first letter, and 911, the day of the terrorist attacks, does not give whoever did it time to concoct the scheme, assemble all the elements required to carry it out precisely and efficiently, and get the letters actually mailed. It had to have been conceived beforehand, to coordinate with '911'. It is not generally known that a scenario of mailed anthrax was in fact in circulation around 2000, written by an official at Battelle Memorial Laboratories (West Jefferson, Ohio), William C. Patrick III, as reported by virus-vaccine specialist D. Horowitz.. The dissonance of time available and actions described is also evident in the Virginia Tech shooting, requiring Cho to be several places on campus he could not have been.

3. The coordination of A. timing, linked explicitly to the day of the airplane attacks; and B. content (roughly: "This is anthrax...You will die ...Death to America and Israel ...Glory to Allah") convey a clear intent for the results of the complicated scheme to be taken as part of the terrorist attack on America STAGED BY ISLAMIC RADICALS. That is how it had to be taken by the public, establishing an evidence link to Saddam Hussein to justify war, later on. That is how it was in fact used by ABC and Fox News outlets, even after it was discovered the substance was made in USA labs. Any purported account of what happened to American as a result of the anthrax poisoning that does not take this coordination of timing and content into consideration as motive of the act, can only be regarded as a continuation of the mentality, if not complicity with, the perpetrators.
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/anthrax/open_letter_mueller.html

4. It is disingenuous, to the point of perversity, to pretend that the perpetrators were not Zionist Jews, or cohorts (maybe thinking to do them a favor, as it is suggested by the MSM the perpetrators wanted to do for America by alerting them to biochemical warfare threat). The alternative to that conclusion which accepts the facts it is based on is a double false-flag operation: someone masquerading as mad Zionist fanatic, masquerading as mad Islamic fanatic. While possible in theory, Occam's razor applies here if anywhere. The 99% certain conclusion is that the perpetrator was a pro-Israeli operative, deeply and broadly embedded in the government systems, motivated by the aim of linking Israel and the United States jointly under attack by Islamic radicalism..

5. Fetal Origins and the Jews

Massive, incontroverted evidence (cf. the Institute of Psychohistory, L. Lloyd deMause) exists that the psychic disorder of Nazism that swept through Hitler's Germany in the l930's was characterized by a particular what-is-called group-fantasy: that Jews were poison in the pure Aryan bloodstream. The dehumanization and wanton cruelty subsumed under 'the holocaust' was the manifestation of this particular mental disorder. The Germans, after WWI, superior race of beings as they surely may well have felt they had the right to be, genetically speaking, were gripped by the shared unconscious group fantasy of poisoned blood. By means of the psychodynamics of Reversal, the source of this was projected onto 'the Jews', being genetically as well as dispositionally non-assimilable into the converging flow of historical nationalistic group process. This is called "scapegoating" in pop psychoanalytics, but deMause showed that the projection-reversal ("it's not us who want to kill then; its them who are killing us") is a psychodynamic template deriving from the fetal origins of experience. The reversal is the overwhelmed, squeezed ("pressured"), blood poisoned (hyper-anoxygenized), enraged, pained and terrified tiny fetal consciousness bursting for breath, birth, deliverance, and FREEDOM. What is encircling, squeezing, cutting off the flow of blessed oxygen to lungs, and brain, starved for what the enriched placental blood vessels once brought in abundance .... This is the Original Template of all psycho-historical group process, acted out in the compulsion to repeat War as Birth -- declaring external war on an 'enemy' created by projection, in order to eliminate the projected condition (persecution by a representative of the Poisonous Placenta).


That is what the Jews represented in unconscious German group fantasy: a Poisonous Placenta battened onto the Nordic-Prussian-Ayrian soul 'pressuring' (or being pressured by) the 'bourgeoise' consciousness, resisting the feeling of self-loathing foisted off on them by inferior 'allied' forces given to trickery. The cry for "Lebensraum", living space, including its latent spiritual-cultural identity, also manifested this unconscious group fantasy. An unconscious group fantasy is a fantasy in individuals which they don't know they have (generally speaking) which will automatically take over the flow-of-process through their head brain to bring about 'delegate actions': "I" called upon to act for "we"; it takes many forms. It is the inner form and energy of a 'movement', and in human events, such an energy with such a form blended from the cauldron of modern European history through the '50's can only be viewed, even at this distance, as a monumental historical testament to what coherent human will can accomplish. It is unconscionable to allow the Jews (Zionist) to smear every remembrance of that era, and its accomplishments, with the term "holocaust".

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6. This connection between the Jewish and Ivins is precisely though what is left out of the FBI's case -- the false flag blaming of Islamic terrorists. This is psychosemiotic reversal: "THEY (not us) ARE ATTACKING AMERICA". The letter's transparent content directs retaliation for the attack against America and Israel's common enemy. This is the only link between the U.S. "war on terror" and the Israeli-Palestinian intifada provoked by Ariel Sharon's desecration of the Al Aska mosque in Jerusalem in 2000. Just as the anthrax mentally linked 911 to Saddam Hussein, regularly accused of "poisoning his own people", so it linked the two nations as under attack by a world front of Muslim/Arab/Islamic terrorists. This is the very poison in the bloodstream of communication the deed introduced. It is the same group-fantasy of poisoned blood, with 'the Jews' reversing the role of poisoned to poisoner. Like, "you want to make Jews out to be poisoners? We'll show you what it is ...." etc." It is the geopolitical squaring of the metaphysical split of the two world views.

7. Psychotic splitting. The effect of the FBI's portrait of Bruce Ivins as the lone 'homocidal sociopath', carrying out....is the construction of a "2 face". There are 2 "Ivin"'s the public mind is required to fuse under the name now. 1. the vaccine scientist Ivins, known for many years to family, colleages and friends; and, behind that mask, 2. the cunning, evil genius Ivins who brought off this most, most intricately designed second act of terrorist deception of Biblical proportions. (unconscious fantasy description). (Following a script written by William C. Patrick III of Battelle Memorial laboratories, West Jefferson, Ohio.)

But Ivins no. 2 is an entire construct. There is no evidence for it whatsoever that cannot be explained as contrived to frame him. The "Ivins" given to the public to relate to as chief miscreant of the birthing millennium is a composite of Dark and Light as psychological opposites; two faces, from two sources, jammed together.

If Dark Side Ivins is a construct the FBI created in order to project guilt into, his creation was the work of the agency's Dark Side. On its Light Side, it wears the public badge of national law enforcement officers. Thus, the two Ivins mirrors two FBI's. And both mirror the two sides of the psyche, conscious and unconscious, which are in turn respectively reflected in the duality of text and token in sign use. The actual anthrax poisoning event(s) constituted the lowest-level process in a series of replications. Communication about "it", using signs (eg.S*(anthrx, 9.18 for "the anthrax mailing of 9.18.01 from Princeton, New Jersey mail box) is the next higher level. The transition from the actual occurrence as lower, in representation, to higher, as represented, presupposes a psychosemiotic process. The lowest level of representation is metaphysically linked to the extra-linguistic reality by reproducing it as content of consciousness under S*. As objective occurrences, whatever they were, the preparation, targeting and delivery of the weaponized anthrax was reproduced in word and picture, and in that sense mirrored, in the news reports where they overlap.

It was 'evidence' of just this sort that the public was shown to justify war on Iraq. An abandoned, rusty farm crop machine identified by 'curveball' as evidence Saddam Hussein was moving around his biochemical warfare labs.