If you did want to ban me though, for whatever reason, for good, that could be positive. It would make it easier. If I had to make a new account-- if it wasn't just available, no problem. I've said goodbye to much more than bluelight.
We can't all be right, and the way the conversation/argument is happening is really whacky.
Someone had an issue over this, and attacked it. I understand. What I mean by this is that where things conflict, we can't all be right. Trying to find how to say it precisely. We can't both get 2000 calories a day if there are only 2000 calories, and we all owe our existence to a man- a real man, fucking a woman- a real woman, and the most natural, practical state of regulation to the human organism exists enshrined in marriage, between a dude- a guy, and a girl- a "woman". Not Bruce Jenner. And yes, Islam does say we will all perish unless we are Muslim, or subservient, and the left tends to currently invite it in, and defends them, and aligns with them, yet scorns a Christian unless they open the door to it, and degradation of the "tribe" (however shotty, or what-better-way the tribe may come to be defined as), unless they follow the perfect example of Christ-
Himself a "racist", according to today's many people - if we're honest.
But my wording can get tricky sometimes. I apologize.
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Lets hold Christians accountable, but when Muslims emulate their prophet, or follow his instruction, even though it is a great sin in Islam to shirk the responsibilities of Islam and of Jihad (inner and outer), and their system of belief tells them they are bad, and are going to hell if they shirk- THOSE are the ones who have hijacked Islam, and who are the bad Muslims, and who do not represent Islam.
Many seem to operate with this double standard, which is stupid. I know they are people. I have a couple of Muslims on my list, on Facebook, and do not hate them. Quite the opposite. There is a personal connection, because they reached out to me. It isn't as if I don't wrestle with this. Honestly, if a single person were added in, as an individual, such as a Syrian, or whatever, I would not judge them as anything but an individual in the group, but perhaps different (in fact as I have grown older I have learned of multiple mixed people in our group that I never really consciously perceived as "different"- absolutely- I mean I could tell they were, but there was not so much, and it wasn't so frequent, as to be identified as, and for them to identify as a group/identity/belonging-to-each-other-but-not-you/"us"-generally). If
we were all
they had to relate to (one)- if the "established" group (it's dynamic, but not invulnerable) was, then they would more likely to assimilate. Much less issue. But opposing groups reinforce themselves. Number has an effect. The Muslim that may have wanted to be more free in an Islamic country, may adhere to more traditional image and group together with their likeness where-ever they go, and their identity/culture may be reinforced this way (and others as well). In many ways, although we can get along personally, our cultures do run into friction- our belief systems, cultures, behaviors, just are not in harmony, like for instance Sweden, or the Netherlands has been perceived to have been before mass-migration from Africa and the Middle East (not to say it's a hell-hole, although there are areas, I am sure, that are challenged, and it is challenging).
Actually, one seems to be a very secular Christian, and one is Muslim, but seems much more interested in the stars, and movies. Both are from Iraq. Both seem to like a lot of western stuff. I am not advocating being a monster. Or as if I completely disown them, but perhaps like Jesus, I do have a "tribe"- an identity, that I have to be loyal to. I'm aware of my nature, and I fight it every day, but I don't want to have to, too much. There is some reward in it, but there was obviously some reward in the unity that has been disrupted- the vacuum in part created by a loss of religion and the internet, and media. I mean, it-what came before, and our culture, created the conditions (was a part of conditions)- the ecosystem was had within for the people to have the ideas, and to bring them to fruition. I mean, Germany led the world in Science until the World Wars. Within them. Europe led, until then (Some of them were Jewish, like Einstein). I'm regurgitating part of a talk radio show- Startalk Radio with N. D. Tyson. He had it with an Indian American (CNN and Washington Post-- I forget his name), and they were talking about science, and diversity and openness in the world- and immigration issues, how everything effects scientific discovery. They resonated with my thoughts/I with theirs. There were areas of tension, of course, but ultimately, there was agreement. I think. They resonated with some of my arguing points- Immigration doesn't really help the countries it's coming from. Brain drain. People who would be the best, sometimes. And with them, their families, and sometimes extended families. It creates a lot of difficulty. Ultimately, I agree that relations should be smooth, and peaceful, and with working relationships around the world, but I wish we could do it more intelligently. I don't think the people who have been driving this have been "intelligent" about it, or careful, with regard to social effects, recently. Businesses looking for cheap labor, in many cases, in Europe, and in the States, where "civil rights" advocacy began in some forms in modern history, with Blacks, who began as "cheap labor". Irish too, but they have more or less absorbed as others have from similar background. Chinese as well. Most of the diverse-us existing in the same spot probably began in some similar state, that is not much different than slavery.
I just err to the conservative. I do like to attack things though, because very often, there is no real defense, or, I come here, and am attacked, but only with moral judgments, and the like- that can't really stand up to scrutiny, as altruism, the instinct known as, developed to further your genes, which doesn't fit with spreading wealth to other groups, or inviting them into your homeland in such numbers, especially certain ones. So many here take a nihilistic approach, but I like to operate as if up is up and down is down. I agree that mutualism is best. I want to have a flourishing, good relationship with the Islamic world, but I do not like the outpouring of these different pockets into each other, as has happened recently. Who does? Yes I enjoy it. It's stimulating, some things. But there are many reasons for it to make us uneasy.
Also with this, our hypocrisy- What about the rules in Christianity where God says to not marry foreign people, because that makes you "worship their Gods"??
and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. 3"Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. 4"For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.…
Now what does this mean? What does religion, even if unstated, mean for societies? What is God? I'm glad we can agree...
Likewise, in Islam, a
Muslim man may marry any woman of the Book (Jew, Christian, a convert to either of them or to Islam), and by their law their children are Muslim, to propagate Islam. Muslim women are only permitted, by their faith,
I want to live faithfully, to marry Muslim men, and fraternization with non-Muslims is difficult, even non-familial Muslim men (I don't mean that there aren't "liberated" Muslims). But, the
good Muslim is the one you dated. So goes "the left"?