tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196829553153577775.post4141890701036198678..comments2023-04-06T02:30:06.988-07:00Comments on Torrent of Consciousness: HistoryMelanie Boxallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07123851168700589156noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196829553153577775.post-56410918455646553852014-07-31T08:24:38.330-07:002014-07-31T08:24:38.330-07:00Thanks for the link to Harris. How refreshing to s...Thanks for the link to Harris. How refreshing to see a nuanced thinker for a change. It all boils down to The fact you're paranoid dpesn't mean they are not out to get you. I am sick, physically affected, by Gaza. I am spending too much time on it. Adding my voice to the many Jews around the world who are saying NOT IN MY NAME! If we want to go back to history we can also blame the Ottoman empire which was in possession of Palestine when Zionism first started. Land was sold to immigrants without regards to tenant farmers. It was a sparsely populated backwater. Early advertised as "A land without people for a people without land." Except of course it was not empty, no more so than the Americas were. Then to complicate things there is the Fundie factor who wpould like to encourage Armageddon, so Jesus will come back sooner. I am going to flee to the garden....except today I have to do Reflexology. Also a sanity saver.Ien in the Kootenayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01766317652520657570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196829553153577775.post-17880261936139709232014-07-29T20:16:00.120-07:002014-07-29T20:16:00.120-07:00As an atheist myself, I find the so-called New Ath...As an atheist myself, I find the so-called New Atheists a despicable, intolerant, bigoted, fascist clique cloaking their racism and Islamomisia in pretended "rationality". Harris is by far the worst of the lot but Dawkins and the late Hitchens aren't far behind. <br /><br />A couple of articles about Harris you might want to read (copy and paste links in your browser ): <br /><br />http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/sam-harris-uncovered.html<br /><br />http://mondoweiss.net/2012/09/sam-harris-in-full-court-intellectual-mystic-and-supporter-of-the-iraq-war.html<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus<br /><br />Bill the Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08436195659154078021noreply@blogger.com