No, I’ll never feel fully American:
The basic principle of American life – which is that large numbers of people should stoically accept all sorts of hassle and inconvenience to accommodate one unusual person – is incomprehensible to me. I’d say one unusual person should accommodate a crowd but that makes me un-American.
Deep down Americans have this J. S. Mill On Liberty narrative of the free spirit who improves society by making all the boring people see the error of their ways. There is no room for the possibility that the person is simply a nut job.
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Mill promotes the Libertarian viewpoint. He qualifies as a Utilitarian proponent. Mill celebrates diversity, rejects coercion of opinions, and champions the positive effects of liberty on both individuals and society.
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And yet, you’ll be back here tomorrow to remark on the absolute impossibility of someone being made to feel unAmerican. That was just a few days ago.
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I confirm that nobody can make you or me feel anything.
The next step for you is to try to process these thoughts and try to draw a conclusion. If nobody can make me feel un-American against my will and I say I feel un-American…. Try to finish this sentence by yourself.
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Apparently, Americans love it. If they didn’t, it wouldn’t exist.
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Silly the Constitution aint a gospel or koran belief system of theology.
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“Constitution aint a gospel or koran”
Au contraire! In practical terms, Americans traditionally treat the Constitution (and to a lesser extent the Declaration of Indpedence) as Holy Texts.
They obsess over the original meaning and pour over them, including punctuation and capitalization looking for shades of meaning (that were probably not there in the beginning).
Holy texts? Ya mean like the Holy bible? Bunk. Holy just a religious term of rhetoric. What makes the T’NaCH object sacred? Holy, a term which stems directly from the Torah. Translations do not have legs and feet unto themselves alone. The term ברית, first encountered in the 1st word of the Torah, בראשית\ברית אש, (words within words, a concept known as רמז\hint in Hebrew), does not correctly translate to the word “covenant”. Why?
For the exact same reason Goyim addicted to their silly bible translations do not know how the Torah defines Holy; these same Goyim do not know how the Torah defines the term Brit. Why?
The reason for the gross ignorance of Goyim, who turn words whose meaning they do not know nor understand into undefined rhetoric which sounds so wow feel good and clean (Goyim have not the slightest clue how the Torah defines tohor or Tumah. Their worthless translations of clean vs unclean OR pure vs impure: just tits on a boar hog useless bull shit.).
The Goyim new testament Roman fraud compares to the Czarist secret police counterfeit known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. The gospel/new testament fraud attempts to define a Torah mitzva, through its false notion of messiah. Alas Goyim have no concept or knowledge what separates and distinguishes Torah common law from Roman statute law. The new testament fraud failed to directly bind their messiah commandment to other Torah commandments which Torah common law requires. And this brings us full circle back to the term HOLY.
Holy and Moshiach both stand upon the foundation of the mitzvot of korbanot/sacrifices required to dedicate the House of Aaron as the anointed Moshiach!
Ooops the Book of Samual means nothing if, as the Goyim do, people divorce the mitzva/commandment given to the Prophet Samuel to anoint first Shaul of the Tribe of Binyomin followed by David of the Tribe of Yechudah.
What mitzva from the Torah does this mitzva of anointing Shaul or David as Moshiach stand upon? The basic question, which defines HOLY the Church never asked in 2000+ years. The Czar likewise did not ask his secret police why they promoted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Russia in the 1880s through the 1917 October Bolshevik revolution descended unto utter chaos and anarchy. During this exact time the Russian government made violent pogroms and expelled some 3 million Jews from Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine!
The Torah defines HOLY through some oath sworn dedication: like Abraham binding his son Yitzak upon the altar. Or the brit cut between the pieces by which HaShem swore to Avram that his future born seed (he had no children at the time) would number as the stars in the heavens for multitude. And Avram swore the counter oath (Brit means a sworn alliance cut between allies which requires that both parties swear an oath and a counter oath. The false translation “covenant” fails totally to convey this most essential priority of cutting a brit.).
The counter oath sworn by Avram: if his unborn\future born seed live as the chosen Cohen seed, then the ”holy” Name of HaShem must breathe and live within the hearts of this chosen Cohen future born seed. Herein the Torah introduces the idea of the “Chosen People”!
The JeZeus false messiah fraud, when asked by his disciples to teach them how to pray, this imaginary man — work of pure Roman fiction — declared “Our Father who art in Heaven”! Fool. The concept of both korbanot oath dedications and tefillah (mistranslated as prayer) both a matter of the heart. A person who swears a Torah oath swears this oath from the Name Spirit which lives within his oath brit heart & a Torah attribute of mercy revealed to Moshe at Horev 40 days following the sin of the Golden Calf. Name and some dedicated specific 13 attribute of mercy revelation from HaShem passing before Moshe and declaring the “sacred” attributes of HaShem HaShem El Mercy and Grace, long suffering great wisdom which discerns like from like and truth etc etc etc.
This swearing such an oath brit absolutely requires this most essential quality known as שם ומלכות\Name and Kingship. But Xtian rhetoric just hops on the word king, like the prophet Samuel who anointed both Shaul and David as king! The fail to base this Torah commandment of Moshiach upon some specific Torah commandment which Torah common law so fundamentally and absolutely requires.
So absolutely not! Americans simply cannot and do not treat the Constitution as a Holy Text.
Genetics does not determine Jewishness. Move on drop this stupidity. T’NaCH and Talmud shape the clay placed upon the potter’s wheel. Just that simple. The Religious Secular divide – just a fart. Orthodox do not hold a monopoly on the Torah inheritance. Just that simple. Just look at the Neturei karta abomination. Torah common law NOT Roman statute law, despite rabbinic celebrities like the Rambam, Tur, and Yosef Karo’s assimilated addiction to ancient Greek logic formats! Ibn Ezra’s son converted to Islam! The Yeshiva education system today does not teach T’NaCH and Talmudic משנה תורה//COMMON LAW. Just that simple. Assimilation and intermarriage defines the commandment known as avoda zarah ie the 2nd Sinai commandment. Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages as assimilated as the vast majority of Jews in America and Europe today. Aristotle’s logic does not function as a Xtian replacement theology for the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s Pardes logic system. Just that simple.
The aftermath of the Rambam Civil War, “orthodox” rabbis started to learn the Talmud as if it existed as Roman statute law. The famous Brisker Method fails to this day to discern the distinction between Rashi p’shat on the Chumash from Rashi p’shat on the Talmud. It fails to understand the chief criticism made by the Baali Tosafot upon the Rashi Talmudic commentary, Rashi’s failure to write a common law commentary on the Talmud! The Brisker Method of Modern Orthodox utterly bankrupt and void. It failed to criticize the common law commentary made by the Baali Tosafot for not learning its off the dof בנין אב/precents back to the Home Mishnaic language and making a משנה תורה re-interpretation which examines the distinct and multiple facets of the diamond language of Rabbi Yechuda’s Mishna!
All the super commentaries to the assimilated Roman statute law halachic codifications, most importantly upon the Rambam Yad ha-Hazaka, likewise made the identical error made by the Baali Tosafot common law commentary, those super commentaries Universally failed to learn the halacha and how it makes a משנה תורה re-interpretation on the different facets of the diamond language employed by the Home Mishna; how the Gemara employs halachic precedents to examine Mishnaic language with no less than a Front Top Side views! The language of the Mishna a 3 dimensional and not flat 2 dimensional blue-print of Sanhedrin court rulings which define Jewish common law.
The bankrupt Brisker method abysmally failed to discern Talmud as the model of court room justice as opposed to rigid/dogmatic\creed religious halachic ritualism and practices. The utter failure to grasp that time oriented mitzvot, apply equally to Rabbinic commandments when a person employs those rabbinic commandments at a moment of national threats or crisis to sanctify the Name לשמה. This failure to understand the expansive nature of tohor time oriented commandments, like as did the B’hag, resulted in a boxed in type of ghetto thinking which limits the Torah commandments strictly and only to positive and negative תרי”ג commandments! A completely טיפש פשט stupidity comparable to the Xtian avoda zarah which preaches that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. Or the Pauline abomination which perverts the theme of g’lut unto original sin.
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