The funny thing about our administrators is that they honestly don’t see a difference between humans and robots. After
– a month of telling faculty members and staff they would be, at worst, fired and, at best, carrying the workload of the fired colleagues for free,
– censoring a student newspaper,
– hijacking an open forum where workers were supposed to discuss their reaction to these plans,
– antagonizing everybody on campus to an extreme degree
they decided to hold a large event welcoming prospective students. On a Saturday.
Understandably, the atmosphere at the event was funereal. The word “prospective” stinks like old, dirty socks after people were told they have no prospects at this university.
I find it very entertaining that the administrators honestly think that they can abuse employees and still have a good, positive event as a result.
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“administrators honestly think that they can abuse employees and still have a good, positive event”
A really neoliberal mindset requires a total lack of empathy and no theory of mind.
That’s one step to overcoming the mentality. Several times a day ask yourself: What is this person thinking? What do they know that I don’t know? What do I know that they don’t?
Actually perceiving other people _as_ individuals with their own mental life that might be very different than yours is a valuable tool to stay grounded.
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No theory of mind is a great way to describe it. We’ve seen this at work during the Kamala Harris campaign where people were genuinely shocked that their bizarre arguments weren’t convincing anybody.
We are seeing it again now with the Trump administration where a different set of bizarre arguments is repelling people while their proponents are oblivious to this effect.
They have no idea how human beings function. They really honestly don’t seem congenitally know.
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“Harris campaign where people were genuinely shocked that their bizarre arguments weren’t convincing anybody”
That’s not the worst of it… they were genuinely surprised that white male voters didn’t want to vote for a party that routinely demonized them…
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Because they don’t think they are demonizing. They think they are being fair and anybody who doesn’t see it is an evildoer. It’s an utter incapacity to see the viewpoint of another person.
It’s exactly like when I shared that I’m humiliated and hurt by being harassed in the streets. I immediately got accused of faking it for political reasons.
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\ I find it very entertaining that the administrators honestly think that they can abuse employees and still have a good, positive event as a result.
Do they think that?
If their position sees ‘too many people / students’ as a problem to be solved, they’re acting correctly. Feeling this funereal atmosphere, many prospective students will go somewhere else, providing more excuses to cut money and close departments.
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Good point. Absolutely everything has been done to make the admissions process collapse.
Yes, I think you are definitely right.
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is there no board of trustees or statewide oversight for this university? If they get rid of students and professors what on earth are the overpopulated administrators supposed to be doing?
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The Board of Trustees came up with this whole plan to begin with and put their puppets to carry it out. They are trying to save our sister campus. We are getting sacrificed for that purpose because it serves the political goals of Governor Pritzker.
I know it sounds absolutely insane but soon this will start coming out in the press and people will see that I’m not inventing this.
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How did the letters written by the Apostle Paul expose the concealed intent of an agent provocateur? Specifically, how did his letters both undermine the Roman Pantheon of Gods and Xtianity itself?
Paul’s letters both challenged the Roman pantheon by promoting monotheism and critiquing idolatry and emperor worship, while also sometimes undermining early Christian thought, especially in his approach to Jewish faith concept of pursuit of judicial justice.
The letters written by the Apostle Paul represent a significant part of early Christian literature, and while they primarily serve to spread and clarify Christian teachings. Also aspects of Paul’s writings seen as challenging both the Roman Pantheon and elements of early Christianity itself.
The Roman Empire’s religious system was polytheistic, worshiping a wide range of gods, based upon the Greek model. Paul’s letters, promoted monotheism — as central to Christian faith. For example, in 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, Paul acknowledges that many people in the surrounding culture believe in many gods, but for Christians, “there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came.” This contrasts sharply with Roman polytheism, where each god or goddess had a particular domain of influence (such as Jupiter, Mars, Venus, etc.).
Paul consistently warned against idolatry, urging his followers to avoid worshiping statues and images of gods, a practice common in Roman religion. In 1 Corinthians 10:14, he writes, “Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.” He uses strong language to describe the futility of idol worship, which directly undermines Roman religious practices that were centered around the Pantheon of gods.
The Greek term idolatry lacks the power of the Hebrew term avoda zarah. An idol represents a limitation to both physical history, wherein Xtian theology absolutely requires a historical physical Jesus and a fundamental limitation to 3 dimensions. The Hebrew concept of avoda zarah has no such limitations. Contrast Euclid’s 5th Axiom of Geometry, and the Scientific method, who “idolatry”, limits reality to empirical physical evidence. Hence the ancient Greek Gods viewed a Giant Bearded Men and Women on Mt. Olympus. Paul’s replacement theology revisionist history of the Torah revelation at Sinai, falsely translates idolatry for avoda zarah. Paul fails to grasp the 1st and 2nd Commandments of the Sinai revelation. A failure on par with Muhammad’s replacement of Allah over the שם השם. A Av tumah avoda zarah equal to the sin of the Golden Calf!
Paul’s theological construct of a passive spiritual Moshiach, as opposed to a Bar Kokhba military Moshiach introduced a radical shift away from the Moshe model who travelled to Egypt, despite Paul’s presentation of a liberation theology freed from judicial justice – despite the judicial oppression of the court of Par’o in the matter of straw withheld and Israelite brick quotas. Paul’s replacement theology compares the Pantheon of Roman Gods with Caesar as the Son of God, compares to the mystic Book of Daniel whose vision sees the Gods of Babylon as standing upon feet of clay.
Paul’s letters aware of both the Pesach story of Egypt liberation and Daniel’s mysticism of ‘End of Days’, viewed in the surrounding contexts of the approaching General Jewish revolt in both Judea and Alexandria Egypt; his passive Moshiach theology greatly contributed to Alexandrian Jews not joining the revolt made by the Judean Jews. That military Moshiach failed to coordinate a Judean and Alexandrian Jewish revolt joined together at the hip. Bar Kokhba actually failed to conquer Damascus and throw the Roman legions out of Syria, Paul’s liberation substitute theology likewise failed to ignite a Roman Civil War and rebellion against Caesar as the Son of God, prior to the Great Jewish revolt in 66CE.
Clearly, because Paul’s letters, written in Greek, his target audience, he aimed to persuade Goyim rather than Jews to embrace his substitute theology that replaced the sworn oath of the eternal chosen Cohen people; based upon the Divine T’shuva made on Yom Kippur where HaShem rejected making of the seed of Moshe the chosen Cohen poeple. Paul’s replacement theology rejects the Yom Kippur t’shuva made by HaShem. His anti circumcision, anti-chosen Cohen people stance while in Damascus supports this premise that Paul as an Agent Provocateur sought to engage the heretical belief in Jesus messiah theology, which had succeeded in enticing some Jews in Judea and many more Jews in Alexandria Egypt, through his anti-circumcision theology preached in Damascus. After travelling to Rome, Paul’s liberation theology switched priorities to Jesus as the Son of God, messiah king of the Jews theology, which undermined Caesar as the son of god. The Roman Empire viewed the emperor as a god or a divine figure, and Roman religion was deeply interwoven with imperial politics.
Paul, however, in places like Romans 13, speaks about submission to earthly authorities but emphasizes that the ultimate authority lies with God alone. His monotheistic theology fails to grasp that Monotheism violates the 2nd Sinai Commandment of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. This can be seen as a subtle challenge to the emperor’s divine status, which was an essential part of Roman religious practice. Paul’s Greek letters failed to emphasize the first and second Sinai commandments, utterly essential as viewed from Traditional Judaism. Paul’s replacement theology emphasizes the Name of Jesus and totally abandons the Yod Hey Vav Hey Holy Spirit Name, which breathes as a Spirit and not a word, revealed in the first Sinai commandment. The opening verses of the gospel of John fails to discern this subtle distinction between the revelation of the Spirit Name and the Sin of the Golden Calf – translating the Spirit Name unto word translations.
One of the key replacement theological debates in early Christianity, the relationship between faith and works. Paul – a strong advocate for salvation through faith, as seen in Ephesians 2:8-9 (“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast”). This replacement theology subverted the Torah concept of faith which prioritizes the righteous pursuit of judicial common law justice, based upon Torah precedents, which dedicates as holy, a fair restoration of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B, as the definition of Torah faith in the sworn oath brit alliance of the chosen Cohen people. A fundamental shift in the concept of faith, which Paul’s liberation theology denigrates to – not by works, so that no one can boast.
Paul’s ‘Salvation by Grace’ likewise undermined the revelation at Horev of the 13 tohor middot, grace being the 5th middah/attribute of the revelation of the Oral Torah. His replacement theology completely ignored rabbi Akiva’s פרדס/Pardes logical interpretation of the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev.
Paul’s letters made subtle omissions to key Torah concepts. Paul’s writings, especially in Romans 9-11, as grappling with the question of whether the Jewish people were still chosen by God. Yet all his letters fails to validate that the chosen Cohen people of Avraham, Yitzak and Yaacov, the eternal life of the seed of the Avot defines the oath sworn alliance at the brit cut between the pieces, where HaShem swore to cause this chosen Cohen people to eternally inherit the Promised Land, and that the Spirit Name of Yod Hey Vav Hey breathes within the Yatzir Tov of the bnai brit Cohen peoples’ hearts.
Paul’s argument that Gentiles could be part of God’s promise without fully converting to Judaism through practices like circumcision, and notion of ‘adopted’ Goyim utterly switch the narrative away from Ger Tzaddik – who accepts all the Torah commandments, to a perverted prioritization, that Jews too, can embrace the triune God of Xtianity; where the Holy Spirit ceases to exist as wisdom how to pronounce the Yod Hey Vav Hey revelation of the 1st Sinai commandment…the greatest of all Torah commandments; do the bnai brit chosen Cohen people do mitzvot לשמה yes or no? Unto Goyim preaching the Good News gospels unto the lost and cursed Jews!
Paul’s letters both challenged the Roman pantheon by promoting monotheism and critiquing idolatry and emperor worship, while also they equally undermined early Christian thought, especially in his approach to T’NaCH and Talmudic common law and the prioritization of Judicial Sanhedrin courtroom justice as the Torah definition of faith. The Apostle Paul, as an Agent Provocateur not only did his theology dismantle belief in Caesar as the son of God, king of the Jews, it equally sought to uproot and replace Torah common law judicial legislative review and prophetic mussar.
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