My thoughts on Israel

[Age]

In order to make some people 'think', just maybe "adolf hitler" had some actual foresight.

I wasn't expecting that, I must admit. I rest my case.

Indeed. The liitle creep is showing his true colours.

Who and/what is the so-called 'little creep', exactly?

And, what are those so-called 'true colors', exactly?

[Age]

'This one' is correct, since it's referring to yourself. You need to get out of your AI-induced bullshit propaganda algorithm and grow a brain. I suppose you expect Israel to just forget about the rest of the hostages and sit around and wait for another depraved act of genocide from your heroes in Hamas (you know, the group that's slaughtering its own people and blaming Israel so that virtue-signalling Jew-hating cnuts like you can get their rocks off and claim the moral high ground).

Talk about a prime example of a "jew" lover, and an 'other' hater. it can only see "one-side" of things.

Fuck off nazi weirdo.

Once again 'this one' shows and proves that it is not even able to 'look' past its own "one-sided" views and beliefs, here.

[Age]

I wasn't expecting that, I must admit. I rest my case.

What case is that?

That coverage of the conflict is heavily biased against Israel, usually because of anti-Jewish sentiment.

Once again, does 'pro-jewish' sentiment and propaganda exist, to you?

[Age]

I wasn't expecting that, I must admit. I rest my case.

Indeed. The liitle creep is showing his true colours.

They sometimes don't even bother to hide it.

Di you think or believe that you are hiding your very "one-sided" view and belief, here?

[Age]

No, you guys still don't get it with Age. He's not a Nazi, just an autistic resident contrarian. If you're sidin with the Joos, he's gotta side with the Nazis for a minute so he can challenge your claims. Duddint matter what the content of the argument is. He's gonna play the socrates that takes the counter position. You say the Red Sox are better. He'll say the White Sox could be better unless we irrefutably clarify.

I have no interest in 'getting' him and I certainly don't need your mansplanations. I'm quite capable of working people out for myself.

What is 'to be got', here, is your own personal very Wrong and distorted views and thinking.

One day, 'you' might actually recognise and see them.

[Maia]

I know this is hard, and being nonchalant about it may be the best way for you to express those troubling feelings, but i need you to be strong right now, Maia.

A stiff upper lip, and all that. Yes, I understand.

[Age]

Anyway, back to the travelogue. I think I skipped over Jerusalem a bit in my opening post.

What has where people have travelled to, or want to travel, to, got to do in a 'philosophy forum', of all places?

Would they be better written and expressed within a 'travel forum' instead?

The hotel we stayed at was on top of the Mount of Olives, outside the Old City walls, and adjoined the Church of the Ascension, from which spot, allegedly, Jesus ascended to heaven. From there, there was an extremely steep road, enclosed by high walls, leading down to the Old City. About half way down was the entrance to the Garden of Gethsemane, which we had a brief walk round. It had some extremely ancient olive trees in it, warm to the touch, in neat little square allotments. At the bottom of the hill we came to the Valley of Kidron, and had to cross a busy, multi-lane motorway to get to the Old City, which we entered via St. Stephen's Gate. My overriding impression of the Old City was of an enclosed, very crowded sort of place, which I didn't much like. I appreciated the history, of course, walking in the footsteps of so many famous people and events. We didn't get a chance to go up onto the Temple Mount, sadly, as there was a huge queue. We did, however, have time to go in a Pizza Hut right in the centre, for much needed refreshments.

We also visited the Hebrew University, and met up with a group of blind students, who told us what it was like there. And then, later, we went for a meal.

Early on both mornings, at the hotel, we heard church bells ring out from very close by, presumably the Church of the Ascension, though the whole area was full of churches and monasteries, so it could have been any of them. Then, just a few minutes later, we heard the Muslim call to prayer, also from very near. And then, a few minutes after that, the church bells again. They must have had some sort of agreement to take it in turns, rather than trying to drown each other out.

I think Jerusalem is one of those places that anyone interested in history should visit at least once, and I'm very glad to have been able to. It was a bit rushed, as we only had one full day there, but even so, it was worth it.

Okay.

[Maia]

What case is that?

That coverage of the conflict is heavily biased against Israel, usually because of anti-Jewish sentiment.

Once again, does 'pro-jewish' sentiment and propaganda exist, to you?

Certainly not in any mainstream media outlet in the UK. They all hate Israel and the Jews.

[Age]

"Being a contrarian is fine, and all, but I completely disagree with that"

You don't imagine him to be like an old Macintosh programmed to identify simple argument algorithms and produce counter-arguments just for the hell of it? Maybe I'm wrong. I just thought he was obsessed with debate to the point of having a brain that won't let him agree with anything or anyone ever.

If one really 'looked at, and into,' my posts what can be and will be seen is that I do not do 'debate'.

One would have to 'pick' "a side", before they could debate. I do not have "a side", here, nor anywhere else in this forum.

As can be clearly seen and proved True by the actual words that I have written and used, here.

It's a mode of being for Age. He's a mode, I should say. Simple but deterninate and relentless. A rare rainmanian black swan event at a forum. He's not a schizo like the the others or a sociopath like me and fishpie and godelian. He's one of the first real forum brainiacs with assburgers. That other guy that always said the weirdest shit... the guy with the vampire name. No longer around. He was another one but he had a unique disassociative language thing going on where no linear sense could be made out of any of it. Like a computer trying to become and work out a human language.

Thank you for expressing a different, and more insightful, opinion and/or view 'about me'.

But, again, this forum was not set up to be 'about me'. Instead it was, hopefully, set up so that, peaceful, logically reasoned discussion could take place to find the answers to what is actually True, and Right, in Life.

[Maia]

Anyway, back to the travelogue. I think I skipped over Jerusalem a bit in my opening post.

What has where people have travelled to, or want to travel, to, got to do in a 'philosophy forum', of all places?

Would they be better written and expressed within a 'travel forum' instead?

The hotel we stayed at was on top of the Mount of Olives, outside the Old City walls, and adjoined the Church of the Ascension, from which spot, allegedly, Jesus ascended to heaven. From there, there was an extremely steep road, enclosed by high walls, leading down to the Old City. About half way down was the entrance to the Garden of Gethsemane, which we had a brief walk round. It had some extremely ancient olive trees in it, warm to the touch, in neat little square allotments. At the bottom of the hill we came to the Valley of Kidron, and had to cross a busy, multi-lane motorway to get to the Old City, which we entered via St. Stephen's Gate. My overriding impression of the Old City was of an enclosed, very crowded sort of place, which I didn't much like. I appreciated the history, of course, walking in the footsteps of so many famous people and events. We didn't get a chance to go up onto the Temple Mount, sadly, as there was a huge queue. We did, however, have time to go in a Pizza Hut right in the centre, for much needed refreshments.

We also visited the Hebrew University, and met up with a group of blind students, who told us what it was like there. And then, later, we went for a meal.

Early on both mornings, at the hotel, we heard church bells ring out from very close by, presumably the Church of the Ascension, though the whole area was full of churches and monasteries, so it could have been any of them. Then, just a few minutes later, we heard the Muslim call to prayer, also from very near. And then, a few minutes after that, the church bells again. They must have had some sort of agreement to take it in turns, rather than trying to drown each other out.

I think Jerusalem is one of those places that anyone interested in history should visit at least once, and I'm very glad to have been able to. It was a bit rushed, as we only had one full day there, but even so, it was worth it.

Okay.

Don't you think there could be such a thing as a philosophy of travel? They do say it broadens the mind, after all.

But no one's forcing you to read it, anyway. If you find it boring and irrelevant, that's up to you.

[Age]

"Being a contrarian is fine, and all, but I completely disagree with that"

You don't imagine him to be like an old Macintosh programmed to identify simple argument algorithms and produce counter-arguments just for the hell of it? Maybe I'm wrong. I just thought he was obsessed with debate to the point of having a brain that won't let him agree with anything or anyone ever. It's a mode of being for Age. He's a mode, I should say. Simple but deterninate and relentless. A rare rainmanian black swan event at a forum. He's not a schizo like the the others or a sociopath like me and fishpie and godelian. He's one of the first real forum brainiacs with assburgers. That other guy that always said the weirdest shit... the guy with the vampire name. No longer around. He was another one but he had a unique disassociative language thing going on where no linear sense could be made out of any of it. Like a computer trying to become and work out a human language.

It does seem like that sometimes but what's with all the "in the time this was being written" or whatever it is? I don't think he's adequately explained that.

I am sure, and thus know, that no one has ever asked me to adequately explain 'that'.

Is it not blatantly obvious, 'by now', that if one really wanted some thing adequately explained, to them, then they would have to first request 'that thing' be explained, adequately, to them?

[Age]

That "time when this was written" thing is one of those speech quirks that these guys often have. And he's not even trying to sound like a guy trying to sound like a Moses when he does that. He actually does it for real. He picked the phrase up somewhere, and now it's a permanent fixture in his speech. He is totally unaware that he sounds like Moses. Truly remarkable.

Until someone informs me that I sound like "moses", to them, then of course I am totally unaware that 'I' sound like some thing or some one else, to them.

Are any of you aware of what you sound like, to others, before others inform you of what you sound like, to them?

By the way, what does sounding like a "moses" even sound like, exactly?

[Age]

That coverage of the conflict is heavily biased against Israel, usually because of anti-Jewish sentiment.

Once again, does 'pro-jewish' sentiment and propaganda exist, to you?

Certainly not in any mainstream media outlet in the UK. They all hate Israel and the Jews.

Okay.

What 'we' have, hee, is another prime example of "one-sidedness" in its highest form.

[Age]

Anyway, back to the travelogue. I think I skipped over Jerusalem a bit in my opening post.

What has where people have travelled to, or want to travel, to, got to do in a 'philosophy forum', of all places?

Would they be better written and expressed within a 'travel forum' instead?

The hotel we stayed at was on top of the Mount of Olives, outside the Old City walls, and adjoined the Church of the Ascension, from which spot, allegedly, Jesus ascended to heaven. From there, there was an extremely steep road, enclosed by high walls, leading down to the Old City. About half way down was the entrance to the Garden of Gethsemane, which we had a brief walk round. It had some extremely ancient olive trees in it, warm to the touch, in neat little square allotments. At the bottom of the hill we came to the Valley of Kidron, and had to cross a busy, multi-lane motorway to get to the Old City, which we entered via St. Stephen's Gate. My overriding impression of the Old City was of an enclosed, very crowded sort of place, which I didn't much like. I appreciated the history, of course, walking in the footsteps of so many famous people and events. We didn't get a chance to go up onto the Temple Mount, sadly, as there was a huge queue. We did, however, have time to go in a Pizza Hut right in the centre, for much needed refreshments.

We also visited the Hebrew University, and met up with a group of blind students, who told us what it was like there. And then, later, we went for a meal.

Early on both mornings, at the hotel, we heard church bells ring out from very close by, presumably the Church of the Ascension, though the whole area was full of churches and monasteries, so it could have been any of them. Then, just a few minutes later, we heard the Muslim call to prayer, also from very near. And then, a few minutes after that, the church bells again. They must have had some sort of agreement to take it in turns, rather than trying to drown each other out.

I think Jerusalem is one of those places that anyone interested in history should visit at least once, and I'm very glad to have been able to. It was a bit rushed, as we only had one full day there, but even so, it was worth it.

Okay.

Don't you think there could be such a thing as a philosophy of travel?

No

They do say it broadens the mind, after all.

Which is meant to infer 'what', exactly?

But no one's forcing you to read it, anyway

Well this is obviously blatantly obvious.

. If you find it boring and irrelevant, that's up to you.

And, if if I find 'it' enlightening and insightful, for example, then that is also up to me, right?

[Gary Childress]

In order to make some people 'think', just maybe "adolf hitler" had some actual foresight.

I wasn't expecting that, I must admit. I rest my case.

Indeed. The liitle creep is showing his true colours.

Wow! I had to do a double-take and go back to find the actual quote myself just to confirm he wasn't being misquoted.

Age really did say that. That's "over the top", I think.