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26. You Have Trapped Yourself In Your Metaphor

Tue Oct 10, 2023, 06:11 PM

Oct 2023

When you can fight your way clear of that, and address the fact of the current situation, there might be some point to further conversation.

The prison you imagine leaves violence the sole choice people in it have is one created by the glorification of violence and martyrdom dubbed 'resistance'. The prison is created by the dream of ending Israel, expelling the Jews, and getting back everything great grandpa owned in the glory days. The prison is created by prioritizing these dreams over concrete action to improve the situation of the people. The prison is created by the refusal to recognize political, social, and military realities. Renounce violence, spurn martyrdom, accept the long-ago loss and the fact that people you hate do exist and will continue to exist, and bend all ingenuity to concrete improvement in the material and social capital of the place, this prison will cease to exist.

"Reality is that which, when you cease believing in it, continues to exist."

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I Expect You're a Decent Fellow, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #10

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It Remains A Choice, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #12

I believe it more a choice akin to a abused and battered wife Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #13

That Is Bodily Preservation In the Moment, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #14

Yes and if the moment lasts for decades? Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #15

If A Gram Weighed A Ton, We'd Need Less Of them The Magistrate Oct 2023 #16

Believe it or not, different realities would give you that result. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #17

I Like Dancing Angels On Pin-Heads, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #18

That's just it, we don't have this reality, even Israel doesn't have that reality. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #19

When You Can Explain What The 'It' Is In That Sentence, Sir, I'd be Grateful The Magistrate Oct 2023 #20

You don't do things in the most miserable of circumstances to "feel good" Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #21

Whatever: Feel Good/Feel Less Bad, It's Tomato/Tomahto The Magistrate Oct 2023 #22

Those militant bodies are fed by the children growing up in open air prison Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #23

Oh, Lord The Magistrate Oct 2023 #24

What do you expect? Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #25

You Have Trapped Yourself In Your Metaphor The Magistrate Oct 2023 #26

Do you believe that's the only way this prison was created? Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #27

Coals To Newcastle, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #28

I do believe that sometimes it's easier for people to focus on the symptoms versus the cure. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #29

The Cure, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #30

The cure is freedom, that is the ONLY cure. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #31

Now You Have Just Made Me Laugh, Sir The Magistrate Oct 2023 #32

I'm glad that you're easily humored. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #33