tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post6167850977740178871..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Never ForgetAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-59633910477400310602019-09-13T08:10:15.837-05:002019-09-13T08:10:15.837-05:00i dunno, we'd have to dealve deeper into the a...i dunno, we'd have to dealve deeper into the arabic. Shamoun's reasoning looks fairly motivated.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-47816628873871420022019-09-13T08:07:27.571-05:002019-09-13T08:07:27.571-05:00so speaks a perfect and holy child of god.so speaks a perfect and holy child of god.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53548538717649183012019-09-13T05:12:33.639-05:002019-09-13T05:12:33.639-05:00Jez,
Still, the concept of Allah being a scheming ...Jez,<br />Still, the concept of Allah being <a href="https://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/allah_best_deceiver.htm" rel="nofollow">a scheming deceiver, a lying planner</a> is in the Quran.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56274150560489104892019-09-12T18:21:33.498-05:002019-09-12T18:21:33.498-05:00Thanks, I expect I'll enjoy inside the whale.
...Thanks, I expect I'll enjoy inside the whale.<br /><br />But I interpret "the folded lie" differently (although I accept that the newspaper metaphor works brilliantly) -- i see it as our deeply subliminal unspocken mythologies, lies we've forgotten even exist, lies that so much of our identity is bound up with that they are painful to unfold and read, or even acknowledge.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56005588438101412482019-09-12T18:14:03.243-05:002019-09-12T18:14:03.243-05:00as in 3:54 ? The word you have translated as "...as in 3:54 ? The word you have translated as "deceiver" (l-makirina) has other connotations... http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=mkr#(3:54:6)jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-16217857933256909562019-09-12T16:13:25.011-05:002019-09-12T16:13:25.011-05:00Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Am...<i> Those to whom evil is done<br />Do evil in return. </i><br /><br />AmenDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45301261872696707822019-09-12T15:31:49.509-05:002019-09-12T15:31:49.509-05:00Trump is WHY we have so much fake news today. He l...<b>Trump is WHY we have so much fake news today. He lies like a rug.</b>Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-80606337957661979892019-09-12T15:05:33.275-05:002019-09-12T15:05:33.275-05:00btw - "what occurred at Linz" (Hitler...btw - "what occurred at Linz" (Hitler's boyhood town)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-91122631397263175992019-09-12T15:04:10.985-05:002019-09-12T15:04:10.985-05:00It is a ‘folded lie’ in the sense that Auden refer...<i> It is a ‘folded lie’ in the sense that Auden refers, in part, to a newspaper, to the words ‘lying’ stagnantly upon a page, preaching anti-German sentiment rather than encouraging self-scrutiny (forcing us to reflect on how our cruelty upon the Germans drove them to elect a vile ‘psychopathic god’).</i>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56439032875942039352019-09-12T14:52:26.361-05:002019-09-12T14:52:26.361-05:00You should read George Orwell's "Inside t...You should read George Orwell's "Inside the Whale" for a liberal critique of Auden and "other" such writer's of "purpose". It's why we have so much "fake news" today.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53041607632318722432019-09-12T10:42:46.754-05:002019-09-12T10:42:46.754-05:00I heard this (Auden) recently on the radio... his ...I heard this (Auden) recently on the radio... his September was 1939, but much of it applies directly to the one in 2001.<br /><br />I sit in one of the dives<br />On Fifty-second Street<br />Uncertain and afraid<br />As the clever hopes expire<br />Of a low dishonest decade:<br />Waves of anger and fear<br />Circulate over the bright<br />And darkened lands of the earth,<br />Obsessing our private lives;<br />The unmentionable odour of death<br />Offends the September night.<br /><br />Accurate scholarship can<br />Unearth the whole offence<br />From Luther until now<br />That has driven a culture mad,<br />Find what occurred at Linz,<br />What huge imago made<br />A psychopathic god:<br />I and the public know<br />What all schoolchildren learn,<br />Those to whom evil is done<br />Do evil in return.<br /><br />Exiled Thucydides knew<br />All that a speech can say<br />About Democracy,<br />And what dictators do,<br />The elderly rubbish they talk<br />To an apathetic grave;<br />Analysed all in his book,<br />The enlightenment driven away,<br />The habit-forming pain,<br />Mismanagement and grief:<br />We must suffer them all again.<br /><br />Into this neutral air<br />Where blind skyscrapers use<br />Their full height to proclaim<br />The strength of Collective Man,<br />Each language pours its vain<br />Competitive excuse:<br />But who can live for long<br />In an euphoric dream;<br />Out of the mirror they stare,<br />Imperialism's face<br />And the international wrong.<br /><br />Faces along the bar<br />Cling to their average day:<br />The lights must never go out,<br />The music must always play,<br />All the conventions conspire<br />To make this fort assume<br />The furniture of home;<br />Lest we should see where we are,<br />Lost in a haunted wood,<br />Children afraid of the night<br />Who have never been happy or good.<br /><br />The windiest militant trash<br />Important Persons shout<br />Is not so crude as our wish:<br />What mad Nijinsky wrote<br />About Diaghilev<br />Is true of the normal heart;<br />For the error bred in the bone<br />Of each woman and each man<br />Craves what it cannot have,<br />Not universal love<br />But to be loved alone.<br /><br />From the conservative dark<br />Into the ethical life<br />The dense commuters come,<br />Repeating their morning vow;<br />"I will be true to the wife,<br />I'll concentrate more on my work,"<br />And helpless governors wake<br />To resume their compulsory game:<br />Who can release them now,<br />Who can reach the deaf,<br />Who can speak for the dumb?<br /><br />All I have is a voice<br />To undo the folded lie,<br />The romantic lie in the brain<br />Of the sensual man-in-the-street<br />And the lie of Authority<br />Whose buildings grope the sky:<br />There is no such thing as the State<br />And no one exists alone;<br />Hunger allows no choice<br />To the citizen or the police;<br />We must love one another or die.<br /><br />Defenceless under the night<br />Our world in stupor lies;<br />Yet, dotted everywhere,<br />Ironic points of light<br />Flash out wherever the Just<br />Exchange their messages:<br />May I, composed like them<br />Of Eros and of dust,<br />Beleaguered by the same<br />Negation and despair,<br />Show an affirming flame.<br /><br /><br />I've been carrying that phrase "the folded lie" around with me for days.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-1841099678295072982019-09-12T10:03:25.623-05:002019-09-12T10:03:25.623-05:00The Problem is Us
You dont want to blame all Musl...The Problem is Us<br /><br />You dont want to blame all Muslims. Yet there needs to be an adult conversation. The problem is the second you talk Ducky types spin. In truth the Duck doesn’t care about Palestinians. If he did he would be talking about mindless terror and unrealistic demands.<br /><br /><br />Do note Paalestinians celebrated 9-11. The PA immediately did damage control and stopped Reporters from showing the full extent. Even when Bin Ladden was killed Americans did not behave like this.<br />beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-43707577844671268812019-09-12T06:15:05.349-05:002019-09-12T06:15:05.349-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.CIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261660740601698500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-85039040794804178372019-09-12T05:28:59.489-05:002019-09-12T05:28:59.489-05:00LSP,
MTP himself questioned whether or not he was ...LSP,<br />MTP himself questioned whether or not he was hearing Gabriel or an angel of the devil.<br /><br />Interesting line in the Koran (paraphrase): "Thus saith Allah, I am the great deceiver." Just an FYI.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14825618794140002092019-09-12T05:23:15.330-05:002019-09-12T05:23:15.330-05:00Beak,
Well said!Beak,<br />Well said!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-54598879744918968612019-09-12T05:22:22.473-05:002019-09-12T05:22:22.473-05:00Jason,
My good friend! I'm so glad you stoppe...Jason,<br />My good friend! I'm so glad you stopped by!<br /><br />I hope that you are well.<br /><br />Thank you for saying that my anger is <i>a righteous anger</i>. Over the 18 years, a lot of people have been trying to get me to shrug it off.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-82403900771948779352019-09-11T21:59:15.765-05:002019-09-11T21:59:15.765-05:00But at least he's walking back his "final...But at least he's walking back his "final solution".....CIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261660740601698500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-7797449518693041122019-09-11T21:57:10.751-05:002019-09-11T21:57:10.751-05:00Quite true RN, the Founders own words refute the d...Quite true RN, the Founders own words refute the deranged, anti-American screed above.CIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07261660740601698500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-27922025845240966892019-09-11T19:55:52.981-05:002019-09-11T19:55:52.981-05:00The "whitewash of Islam." Well said and ...The "whitewash of Islam." Well said and consider, the pedo warlord prophet claimed he'd been talking with Gabriel. Or was it another angel?LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-39402572229464292562019-09-11T19:54:20.147-05:002019-09-11T19:54:20.147-05:00What, blasted the meteorite into the nothing from ...What, blasted the meteorite into the nothing from which it came? Good call.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56367929115845780222019-09-11T17:48:14.267-05:002019-09-11T17:48:14.267-05:00Agree. Same applies to non religious folks.<b>Agree. Same applies to non religious folks.</b>Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-72801935439665098212019-09-11T17:02:34.813-05:002019-09-11T17:02:34.813-05:00We should have nuked Mecca on a holiday and got th...We should have nuked Mecca on a holiday and got this thing started.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-29772999371781491402019-09-11T16:49:35.660-05:002019-09-11T16:49:35.660-05:00Freedom of religion means FREEDOM OF RELIGION. You...<b>Freedom of religion means FREEDOM OF RELIGION. You Frankie ole boy do NOT get to pick your preferred definition.</b>Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60965039882936228722019-09-11T16:14:11.120-05:002019-09-11T16:14:11.120-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Franco Aragostahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11088635482766081825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-88187842128901572962019-09-11T12:48:24.576-05:002019-09-11T12:48:24.576-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Franco Aragostahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11088635482766081825noreply@blogger.com