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@Breakingthewall israel was sneak attacked...there is a bit of a difference. It is not expanding it is destroying the threat to its own existence. Is destroying another's existence morally right? Never. But this goes back to the question of spiral dynamics. Israel has two choices here. It can just cease to exist at all - which perhaps is the more biblical position - or it can become the dog trying to eat the dog - to preserve its survival. They chose not to be the martyr. And that's fine. It doesn't make them any less wise or any less biblical. It just means they want to survive. And you can't blame them for that.

No. You are just being pompous at the moment. If you want to start a thread start one. And you can ask that those you deem ignorant stay out of the thread.

It's relative. Like anything else. If you ask science to quantify a genius - they will come up with some crazy statistic. Like if your IQ is over 145. But is the test that got there valid or did someone just say it was? What is valid? And even if it was, does that make someone with a 144 IQ not a genius? You see how we have to be very careful here because relativity is at play.

Then maybe you should get rid of your pinky finger. You don't need it to hold a cup ?

The value of this forum isn't in its political section.

@Scholar why don't you just say it yourself without making us listen to a long drawn out video. What I see is ego trying to act like it's better and more intelligent than everyone else here. Here, we are having a debate - and it can sometimes get heated and or biased. That is the nature of the beast. If you want to act all saintly, then rather than posting cowardly videos that you didn't make to point us to something- how about you say it with your own words.

With certain things it just comes to fhem. It's a gift. But no one is a genius in every aspect of being. Because they are finite. A genius is also having the humility to turn to someone who may know more in another area where they know less. In @Danioover9000's definition of genius there was also the word wisdom.

Because they aren't one nation. They have different religious views and nationalist views.

Sorry you are having health issues. What is fungal conjugal?

Israel has no choice but to exert massive force on its opponents. It has been persecuted for so long that eventually if this is not done it will never be taken seriously. Israel is tired of it at this point, and I don't blame them. As far as the US - if they go after us the repercussions will be even worse. If you don't instill fear into your adversaries they will continue to bully you. The threat of terrorist attacks hasn't gone away since 911 and it never will. If anything- it should wake us up that it could happen at any time so that we increase our awareness and preparedness.

Infinite intelligence is all the genius you need. You don't have to be an Albert Einstein in life. Truth is all that matters. But you do need enough to start with to even give you that shot. An ant will never realize it is God.

@OBEler if you want to mentally masturbate a better question is which religion is a better pointer to Absolute Truth and enlightenment. The facet or bell that rings most loudly here is the facet of no self. Discovered by self inquiry. This also was in the earliest enlightenment videos by Leo. I believe that can be traced back to buddhism. But discovering the self is an illusion is so paramount in realizing Absolute Truth. And to my knowledge no other religion talks about it. "anatta (non-self or substanceless) Sanskrit anatman, in Buddhism. The doctrine that there is in humans no permanent underlying substance that can be called the soul. "

It's inconceivable. But yes, you are correct.

That's really sad and ignorant that you sould put them in the same category. Israel just wants to protect what is theirs. War is brutal, but Israel is just defending its own existence, as it has for thousands of years. Do not put them in the same category as terrorists.

Is the Israeli army bred to hate and kill one specific people? I am afraid not. Do they feel the bloodthirst of revenge? It feels good. A little. Who wouldn't. They are human.

Yes, they have been bred to hate the Jews and that is all they live for. To wipe out their existence. Maybe they should have thought about casualties before they thought about the complete annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. You have to appreciate that the Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of time. After a while, it just gets to the point where if you strike first, which they always do, then at some point you have to pay a steep price. Playing mister nice guy didn't work in the past - and it's surely not going to work now.

You are assigning a spiral dynamic model to war. War in itself is a stage red phenomenon. When a stage red individual forces a stage turquoise individual into the corner by threatening to erase their existence- all of that goes out the window. They can allow themselves to be erased, or they can become the stage red individual in order to defeat them and preserve their survival. Does that make them stage red? No. It just makes them want to survive.

What I meant was not getting lost in imagination. The past and the future are imagination. Turning within is still staying present.

They haven't, but war is war. There will be collateral damage. That is the nature of war. It is dog eat dog.

This work is about the present moment. It is very direct. It is not thinking about the past or the future. It is not thinking at all.

Their ego was bruised by being taken by surprise - and thus they reacted by unleashing hell - not caring who suffers from the crossfire. Yes - they do need to learn restraint. But they have reduced themselves to no better than their oppressors. The irony is that it is they who have been oppressed since the beginning of time - you would think that they would behave like God's chosen by now.

What death is is really the realization that the self is an illusion. This is ultimately enlightenment in a nutshell. Since you are an idea - death is the cessation that you were a physical being - or the realization that you were just an idea and not a physical being. That "physical" is an idea. We only call this ego death because we come back. And we only come back because we are not ready to permanently forfeit this amazing creation and the creature or self we created the illusion that our consciousness is being held in. But it Is death in every way.

Israel did not strike first- Hamas did - because it wants power and land. Desperate actions call for desperate measures.

The monster will just grow a new head. It can be eradicated for now but will always return. The battle will never end.

@Razard86 it's not going to be real if you have nothing to lose. So you have to make yourself limited in a world beyond your limitations. It's quite simple yet brilliant. God added the quality of feeling to it to really bring it home. Thus - even if you beat the game and wake up as God, it's still gonna hurt like hell to have your arm cut off - or to get ALS. But that said, after you beat the game you see through the physical pain as just part of the dream. It's a bit harder to do, but can be achieved nonetheless.