Comments on: The Dispossessed and the Manufacture of Fury http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/the-dispossessed-and-the-manufacture-of-fury/ A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek [Mike the Mad Biologist] http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/the-dispossessed-and-the-manufacture-of-fury/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek [Mike the Mad Biologist] Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:20:58 +0000 http://southjerusalem.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-96 [...] come to symbolize an enemy to whom one can't afford to demonstrate mercy. Gershom Gorenberg relates an interesting twist on the Amalek story that changes the call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other: Read the [...] [...] come to symbolize an enemy to whom one can’t afford to demonstrate mercy. Gershom Gorenberg relates an interesting twist on the Amalek story that changes the call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other: Read the [...]

]]> By: Mike the Mad Biologist http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/the-dispossessed-and-the-manufacture-of-fury/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Mike the Mad Biologist Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:19:26 +0000 http://southjerusalem.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-95 <strong>Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek...</strong> Changing a call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other.... Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek…

Changing a call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other….

]]> By: Chris Dornan http://southjerusalem.com/2008/03/the-dispossessed-and-the-manufacture-of-fury/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Chris Dornan Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:13:19 +0000 http://southjerusalem.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-94 Gershom I entirely share your scepticism about his status. The Tibetans have many stories of this kind, where people pop up at interesting times and disappear again having said or done their piece, and in many instances it is quite clear that they are not ordinary folk. I don't know but I suspect Haim might shake his head at this credulity. I base my observations on a web of trust--to find that the Tibetans were utterly reliable in everything I can test, including on some very profound philosophical insights into the nature of reality, and their total groundedness and commitment to empiricism, only to run a vast conspiracy of lies on relatively minor points (the record of mystical happenings) just doesn't make no sense. So the fact that your story resonates with that makes me open to the possibility that your preacher "wasn't there" as you said. A super story. Gershom I entirely share your scepticism about his status. The Tibetans have many stories of this kind, where people pop up at interesting times and disappear again having said or done their piece, and in many instances it is quite clear that they are not ordinary folk.

I don’t know but I suspect Haim might shake his head at this credulity. I base my observations on a web of trust–to find that the Tibetans were utterly reliable in everything I can test, including on some very profound philosophical insights into the nature of reality, and their total groundedness and commitment to empiricism, only to run a vast conspiracy of lies on relatively minor points (the record of mystical happenings) just doesn’t make no sense. So the fact that your story resonates with that makes me open to the possibility that your preacher “wasn’t there” as you said.

A super story.

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