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by 22122 2mo ago
i think the answer is the unlikelihood of having life get started in the first place, we have a better idea of how life evolves than how it began. i think the reason it happened so early on earth's history isn't because it is comm
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by 22122 5mo ago
do you think that israel would be under threat of destruction if they ended the occupation of those territories? if so, how did israel gain those territories in the first place? if not, why does israel use that as an excuse for the continue
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by 22122 5mo ago
the early zionists had a similar attitude towards arabs as netanyahu and co do today. but for them it was more from a jewish power colonialist angle rather than the victimhood angle that netanyahu is obsessed with
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by 22122 5mo ago
this just isn't true, jews didn't have it any worse than non jews in european history, they just like to dwell on their historical instances of suffering. One could argue that jews had it better than the native peoples around them
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by 22122 5mo ago
interesting, because a common excuse given for israel's continued occupation of Westbank, Golan heights, and Gaza strip is that without those territories israel would be under threat of destruction by her arab neighbors. which is it?
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by 22122 5mo ago
why should the arabs have accepted the partition? what was the rationale behind the partition, who made the decision and what right did they have to make such a decision, what was the justification for a zionist state to begin with? the ara
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by 22122 5mo ago
in creating, perpetuating, and expanding israel, the zionist jews betrayed the ones who had protected them for so long, hosting them on lands that for the most part never even belonged to the jewish people to begin with. israel is the only
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by 22122 5mo ago
i am arguing against the idea that the romans kicked out all or most of the jews from palestine. I am not suggesting that no jews were ever expelled or sent away as slaves. I think the historical record is clear that the jewish diaspora wou
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by 22122 5mo ago
Islam allowed jews to own land, just like how it allowed christians to own land. if there were several jewish revolts until the 600s that is evidence that they did not result in significant expulsions. the fact that the region became majori
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by 22122 5mo ago
islam wasn't the only religion to have an empire. and islam spread through voluntary conversion, for hundreds of years the subjects of the islamic empires remained majority the pre conquest religion. also no muslim empire ever conquere
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by 22122 5mo ago
they were merchants and artisans part of an international diaspora spanning thousands of miles, it was really an economic role that they chose to assume. they weren't victims of a racist occupation like arabs in the west bank today. so
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by 22122 5mo ago
if you are american, cleaning your house involves going head to head with the zionist lobby which works for israel's interests. so i'm afraid the matter of israel can't be avoided here.
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by 22122 5mo ago
Hacker News is an American website. Hacker News allows political discussion. Israel is very relevant to American politics, many would argue too much so, but in any case, why shouldn't it be discussed here?
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by 22122 5mo ago
in historical jewish states, how did they treat the people they conquered? not to mention, most jews in the muslim world lived well outside of their homeland in palestine, and that's not because the muslims pushed them out, they were t
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by 22122 5mo ago
who gave the jews a state? people think it was britain but britain agreed to the balfour declaration, an agreement made between zionist bankers and the british state which involved upholding the rights of the indigenous arab population and
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by 22122 5mo ago
not just the politicians, also the media outlets that cover for them, and the zionist political donors who fund them.
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by 22122 5mo ago
as long as people keep voting for politicians that are complicit with pro zionist policies
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by 22122 5mo ago
what does it tell you that the jews who were accomodated from the start by muslims in lands stretching from maghreb to transoxiana are now fighting muslims like muslims were their enemy since day 1? the jews who the muslims took in after th
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by 22122 6mo ago
yeah, computers are better at search, humans are better at reasoning, the dichotomy continues on.
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by 22122 6mo ago
the crusaders wanted the holy land to belong to christians, not to jews
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by 22122 4y ago
its more like 'dont get them while they are young'. when society teaches children from an early age that public nudity is shameful, they are going to grow up having an aversion to it. i doubt this aversion is innate, its taught by
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by 22122 4y ago
those limits can be removed by changing societal norms, but feeling constrained by clothing is something that someone can not change about themselves.
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by 22122 4y ago
morality is fundamentally based on opinion. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem , Hume writes: "In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the
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by 22122 4y ago
the quran also has a math error in its inheritence laws: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/98rpd8/qurans_mat...
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by 22122 4y ago
Corelation does not imply causation. Maybe its that people who are prone to depression have some factors that make them less likely to believe in religion.