A paradox is defined as when "A statement seemingly based on valid reasoning and grounded in apparently valid premises, sounds unacceptable." In addition, one writer states a follow up corollary: "What most paradoxes have in common is that they elicit surprise, disbelief, bewilderment and confusion."
Welcome to Earth 2024. Paradoxes are a dime a dozen, yet stubborn people continue to refuse to see the paradox within the reality. It is so much easier to buy into the garbage fed to the populace on an hourly basis than to rethink and restate, particularly when the paradox is favorable to their views. Why do people not see the paradox, the impossibility to mesh that statement with reality? Because they do not want to. Period.
The nations of the world howl with bloodthirsty cry, with fangs dripping with the saliva of that evil hunger and bloodthirst. The chase is on, the prey the small nation of Israel, of Jews, truly a nation of refuge, the only such place in the world. A people, a religion, definitely of minority status, less than2% of the population of the world, is denied that status, denied the right to have that nation, to determine their fate, to conduct their country as an independent nation, not as a puppet or a target to threaten. And yet look at the reality. Look to Biden and Blinken. Look to the UN.
Too ambitious. Too lazy. Too inbred. Too lecherous and desirous of Aryan women. Too controlling. Too unreliable. Control all media, entertainment, stocks, economy, arts, sciences, everything from a to z. Ambitious and lazy. Communists and capitalists. Offspring of the very Devil, always accused of - and of course guilty of, blood libel. This is a small sampling of the nastiness of an antisemitism now amped and ramped up into a toxic vitriolic viral JewHatred.
Why is Israel the only nation asked to surrender itself to extinction? To abandon its people. To resign its nationhood, its ancestral homeland, its entire history, its ethos, its religion and the millennia long prayers to return to Zion.
Why is Israel, the invaded nation, told it must treat itself as the initiator of the war, forced to concede to harsh terms of surrender. Total and immediate ceasefire. No troops to remain, allowing for the revival of Hamas. To know that Hamas boasts of repetition, even more than the first time. Why is Israel tasked to rebuild Gaza, the home of its enemies who sought and still seek their extermination. Why is there no concrete assured plan for the return of the hostages - if they are even alive at this point. If Hamas had returned the hostages on Day 1 the war would have been over.
But the world forgives and forgets when it comes to Jewish blood on the ground. When it is screams emanating from the hearts and throats of Jews. Humanity? Not with Israel. Why is it suggested that small groups of Israeli soldiers enter the tunnels on impossible missions to rescue dead hostages? Suicidal, but what the hey, only more Jews.
Israel is beautiful, magnificent in its rebirth, the vital energies, the peace of the communities bloodied and destroyed, in the South and in the vacant bombed homes of the North. But we have found that bad, terrible things can happen in beautiful settings. Just as ugly beasts can hide within the disguises of human bodies.
However, we also have learned, internalized, the ability to regrow, to return and climb out of the pit to which we have been thrown. A paradox as the eminently oppressed persecuted people thought to have been destroyed, rise again. Better than before. We have overcome and will always do so. We gain strength from our woes and are the stronger for them.
These are times of great evil and great stupidity and cupidity in the nations of the world and the populations within. We have grown tolerant of JewHatred and find and worship and enable falsehoods of mammoth danger. Chaos reigns as societies break down and humanity forgets its humanity.
Perhaps there is hope. Read the following and recognize its similarity to our times. The world survived that period of history, the Jews survived, and we can do it again. There is hope. We must hold that hope close to our hearts.
"Wild dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in Comparision." Heinrich Heine; Lutezia;1854
That fear and concern of reality was expressed thousands and thousands of years before in the Psalms written by King David. I found these verses immensely personal for me as this was a hard, hard, terrible year, with the loss of my beautiful grandson and the return of vicious JewHatred in every manner and place one can think of.
"Until when, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long must I seek counsel within myself and find only sorrow in my heart ...? Psalm XIII
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Yitzy, a Happy Purim to you and may you only have holidays of rejoicing in your new home.
Love you, my boy.
Always and forever. Always and forever.
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For a joke for Purim, as we are to rejoice, here is a cute paradox re Oscar the Grouch (compliments of Mr. Barash.)
Think about it and its paradox, ever ongoing.
Oscar the Grouch could only be happy when he was unhappy. Thus, a happy Grouch would necessarily be unhappy and then that would make him happy and then of course he must immediately become unhappy to maintain that state ... on and on -a paradox never to be resolved, perhaps like our world.
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