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Politics / Iraq War Jun 13, 2014 - 05:01 AM GMT

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Politics

It's mission accomplished for George Bush the 'manchurian candidate's' decade long the war on Iraq which has finally succeeded in delivering the country to the Saudi funded ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham), even more extreme than Al-Qeeda that it split from just over a year ago in Syria, who's ultimate aim is to create an Islamic state spanning Syria and much of Iraq that they seek to pull back in time to the 7th century.


Iraq is a bloody mess a little over 2 years after American troops retreated leaving behind propaganda of a 300,000 strong state of the art equipped Iraqi army, which in the most recent battles centred around the northern city of Mosul saw some 60,000 Iraqi soldiers flee when faced with an ISIS force of approx 3,000, leaving behind most of their U.S. supplied arms and equipment including tanks.

A politically corrupt Iraq looks set to drag a reluctant United States back into the never ending Iraq war because the invaders never understood either Iraq or the nature of the Sunni / Shiite conflict which was never focused on the present, but rather fixated on what transpired in the 7th century and ultimately on fulfilling the End Times prophecy. Therefore both sides are literally willing to die and kill to make manifest the prophecy as this life is interpreted as merely being the start for the next life that will follow the End Times Judgment Day and every action in this life be it as peaceful as praying or as violent as killing in the name of Allah are merely akin to accumulating points on a Paradise Card.

What ISIS and virtually all muslims anticipate is for Jesus to return on the white Eastern Minaret of Damascus (Syria) gliding in on the wings of two angels and then through much blood and carnage will convert the whole world to Islam including killing all of the jews, break all of the crosses and live as a muslim for 40 years, before dieing and thus heralding the final countdown to judgement day when muslims expect to enter paradise. Christians and Jews anticipate similar but off course with outcomes in their favour.

My video of November 2013 explained at length the nuclear weapons trend that the region has been on towards fulfillment of the End Times fantasy, I mean prophecy for not just Muslims but also Christians and Jews who eagerly seek the signs for End Times such as the civil war in Syria.

Isaiah 17: 1 - “Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.”

There has only ever been one solution to the never ending religious crisis which is EDUCATION, education of the ignorant masses brainwashed into religiously following ancient scripts full of contradictions and vagaries that rarely ever make any sense when subjected to lucid analysis. Instead as the recent media spot light on the Islamification of Britains schools such as 20 of Birmingham's state schools by ousting head teachers and staff that did not follow programme for Islamification. Ofsted investigated the schools and has subsequently rated several as inadequate and placed them in special measures triggering several more investigations into allegations of Islamic extremism in Birmingham state schools by the Department of Education.

Manifestations of the programme for Islamification involved for example tax payer funded pilgrimages to Mecca for muslim pupils, tax payer funded madrases (religious schools), banning of singing and music during Ramadan, raffles banned, non muslim teachers in fear of losing their jobs, teaching subjects contrary to Islam discouraged such as evolution.....

Religion Reality Check

Unfortunately 30,000 years of what effectively amounts to DE-EVOLUTION that has seen human brains AND intelligence gradually SHRINK by some 10% on average as a consequence of independent thought giving way to slave behaviour where most humans live as what amounts to domesticated animals that sees over 90% literally religiously following the elites agenda be they oligarchs, bankster's, politicians or religious preachers.

So it is not surprising that still whilst living in the age of reason MOST humans, well over 90% can still so easily give way rationale thought to pre-science ancient superstitions because instead of facing the truth they would much rather submerge themselves in the delusional expectations of an afterlife.

The truth is this, that the ONLY reason why humanity exists today is because some 5 million years ago a chimpanzeeesk ape differentiated itself from other apes of the time in only one way in the rift valley of Africa which had been undergoing environmental change from forests to savanna, and that single difference between apes that sparked the whole evolutionary trend that has led us to where we literally stand today was that this particular species of small ape walked upright and was thus able to peer over the tall savanna grass to see both predators and sources of food and thus able to run between the fast dispersing cluster of trees, and it is this which sparked brain size expansion as natural selection favoured those who were better able to utilise the two freed up limbs that terminate in what we call hands.

THAT IS MOST PROBABLE ! Not Adam and Eve and the long list of associated fairy tales that fly under the banner of religion that all usually terminate with a place in paradise for all those who submit free will in this life, that off course only materialises after the followers have brought about End Times.

The bottom line is that there is no difference between an religious extremist and all of the other followers of the religion, regardless of the religion.

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By Nadeem Walayat

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Comments

Peach
13 Jun 14, 07:55
Christianity:

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman who was made from a dust-man's rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Seems pretty believable to me!


despe906
13 Jun 14, 19:59
There will be blood

Nadeem,

I recommend you 'There will be blood' 2007 movie. Not a dogmatic movie but proper chunk of reality, I am sure you will like it.

cheers


Nadeem_Walayat
14 Jun 14, 16:19
There Will be Blood

Seen it a couple of times.

The preachers will always say what gets them power and money.

Eli: Daniel, I’m asking if you’d like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy’s thousand acre tract.

Daniel: I’d be happy to work with you…

Eli: You would? Yes, yes of course. Wonderful.

Daniel: But there is one condition for this work.

Eli: Alright.

Daniel: I’d like you to tell me that you are a False Prophet… and that God is a superstition.

Eli: I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus plus the five that is owed with interest.

Daniel: That’s only fair.

Eli: …I am a false prophet and God is a superstition. If that’s what you believe, then I will say it.

Daniel: Say it like you mean it. Say it like it’s your sermon.

Eli: “I AM A FALSE PROPHET. GOD IS A SUPERSTITION.”

Daniel: Those areas have been drilled.

And we know what happens after that...


PaulColin
14 Jun 14, 17:02
Christianity is rational

Firstly I have great respect for you Nadeem in the realm of financial expertise and always look forward with anticipation to your articles which have proven to be largely reliable.

However!

I am a Christian and my journey has been one of seeking the truth. If for one minute I believed that the central tenet of the Christian faith was false, I would drop it and perhaps just accept blindly that the universe was created by random chance some 15 billion years ago even though there is no tangible evidence before me to substantiate this.

Is it rational to believe that we live in a deterministic universe that also allows for rational thought, surely if the universe is an accident and not by design then what I think is already pre-determined and rational thought isn’t possible. Where did this mechanism of natural selection come from, it seems to have a pre-determined and objective course, is this possible in a deterministic universe. Why didn’t all life determine for example, that life is too hard and so it would be better off self destructing and have peace in non-existence! Where did life get this zest for life from! Do we as humans have free will or do we just think that we do, even that in itself doesn’t make sense in an accidental deterministic universe, like balls that have been struck on a snooker table, when is it possible for them to decide to go in a different direction.

Why is so much of the world’s population religious and believe in a deity higher in nature than themselves. Your explanation is one of control, designed by the elites to control the masses. What about a rational thought like, ‘perhaps there’s some truth in it’, that would seem to be quite a logical and rational thought. If there was a God who communicated to people long ago, and they spread out across the globe, through a kind of Chinese whisper effect you could get quite a diverse set of beliefs based on the original message, and if we were created in the image of God with a spiritual nature as well as a physical one then that might explain why most people seek something higher than themselves, and have an inherent sense of an eternal existence. If we do have fallen natures through sin, then perhaps you would get those who abuse religion for their own means, and if there were spiritual evil forces in this world then perhaps you would get many people who follow lies in the name of their religion, and of a guarantee of paradise and many virgins if they blow themselves up. In my eyes that’s more probable based on what I know, perceive, and have experienced.

You use a great long explanation about an ape sticking it’s head above some long grass to explain the evolution of humans, and the ironic thing is that so many people will immediately perceive this as very plausible, why? Perhaps (using my rational mind!) it’s because a scientific community with a largely dogmatic atheistic world view has indoctrinated western societies to accept without challenging or reason, explanations about scientific history, who we are, how we got here, and why. It seems that they can conjure up any explanation for the way things are, provide us with fantastic videos using the latest animated special effects, and then put it in educational text books as facts, and most of the population accept it as so without ever examining them or the scientific process that got them there. Were you there to see this ape putting its head above the long grass or do you know any apes that did see it, and have explained it to you! The scrutiny that you exert on religious views seems to have gone astray here. If you do know proper scientific process to determine something as fact, with your rational mind, you would understand that this is pseudo science.

You talk of probability. This is simple to calculate when for example talking about flipping a coin, but it isn’t easy to calculate when talking of subjective matters because the probably is based on what you input into the formulae, which will be different for everyone because no one perceives things exactly the same way; and how do you determine whether all your inputs are correct or that you have the right ones. The probability that you used is already affected by your bias and your world view, just as mine is, but it shouldn’t be used so flippantly as to make it sound so patronisingly obvious.

Those who talk of rational thinking quite often have completely eliminated the possibility of a spiritual reality and therefore a God, when at the same time saying that one day we will find the answer to anything that appears to be supernatural. That seems to me to be like a blind person refusing to accept the description of how something looks until he has heard it for himself! And refusing to open up his heart to the one who can open his eyes.

Was that lucid enough for you!

http://www.creationworldview.org/


Nadeem_Walayat
14 Jun 14, 19:00
Who serves the 1%

The 1% rule whilst the 99% slaves serve and that is why approx 90% let their master tell them what to think and do on the promise of a better future, though where religion is concerned that better future comes AFTER one dies.

The best way to get slaves to spend their whole lives serving is to convince them that an all knowing higher power commands it to be so.

There is no original religion, all built on and tweaked preceding systems of slavey that date back at least 10,000 years and probably tens of thousands of years older.

The chrisitans took judaism and merged it with Roman myths,

The Jews plagerised the Egyption book of the dead and a hodge podge of Bablylonian myths...

And from what I can see Islam has a lot in common with the Samaritans religion (offshoot of Judaism) tweaked to an arab setting.

Evolution - We see gradual evolutionary change and splitting in ALL species, which is why all life shares a common ancenstor, and I have not even mentioned that which DNA reveals i.e. vestigal genes!

Best

NW


PaulColin
15 Jun 14, 08:30
Perhaps you!

Some of what you say is true about religious history but I think you’re throwing the baby out with the bath water. The question is, is there a God and is He personally interested in me?

My faith is one of experiencing God personally. I go to a local community church that is free of any hierarchal structure. I had not experienced the freedom, joy and contentment that I now have until I started a relationship with God, so I’m not sure what elite human master I am supposed to be serving although I do understand your line of thinking.

Changes at a micro level are because of mutations which are copying errors and do not and cannot produce an increased level of complexity, actually the opposite. The DNA structure has been compared to a computer software program, how many software programs have you found that have evolved through a natural process, or are they created by an intelligent outside agent?

When you consider scientific fact do you go into a laboratory and discover the facts for yourself or do you accept as 99% of people everything that is presented before you, so perhaps you think you are free but really are serving a master yourself.

Why don’t you take a look at this article that provides an alternative view of genetics, fossil records and much more and might just be enlightening:

http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=53


Nadeem_Walayat
15 Jun 14, 19:11
The Meaning of Life

Hi

Sorry but you completely understand what you and all living things are.

We are CARRIERS of near immortal GENES from generation to generation everything is secondary to that FACT.

A large nnumber of our genes are deactivated but still in our DNA.

Most of our genes are UNCHANGED for millions of years.

The first step is to realise why you exist, as a carrier of immortal genes. Everything else, self importance, god, religion is WRONG!

Want to know why you grow old ?

Its because you are only required to the point you pass your genes onto the next generation, that is for as long as your genes need to keep you alive after that your genes KILL YOU because there is no natural selection AFTER you have passed your genes on!

Your a flower with a short bloom, don't waste that precious short time on BS

Best

NW


PaulColin
17 Jun 14, 21:54
My genes have never lasted that long or any or my trousers!

Wow, now that is an amazing faith statement, do you actually believe this!

Now let’s just say for a minute that you’re correct. How then do you define what is wasting ones time and what is using it un-wastefully. I have already told you that in my relationship with God it has provided me with inner peace, joy and contentment. Now if I’m deluded and it’s turns out you’re correct, does it really matter, I’m not going to exist any longer to be disappointed in my poor choice of how to spend my time, and that I didn’t choose to be like you and spend my time trying to convince people that there is no god, which of course is a brilliant use of one’s time!

You've mentioned 'being slaves to the elites', well say someone lives a life as a carpenter and loves his work, has a wife and 2 children and is thoroughly content in life, by your definition they could be slaves to the elites because of the mortgage they pay towards all their lives, religion or whatever form of control that supposedly keeps them in line, whilst the elites spend their time either consciously or subconsciously (not sure your belief) controlling this type of person. Now which one has been wasting their time, which one has led the better life?? Who really cares because it’s all a big fat waste of time and has no meaning, in fact it sounds like our genes are the masters and all humanity are slaves!

I know where this line of thinking comes from, it’s of the Richard Dawkins & clan type of thinking and it’s foolish, yes foolish, and yes you can be very intelligent and foolish.

I believe that so much of what is presented to us as fact from the scientific community, has no bases in fact because it’s purely theoretical and hasn’t been observed in reality, and is actually driven by an ideology which is anti-god, why spend so much time trying to prove he doesn’t exist (brilliant use of one’s time)! Most people accept a weather forecast for the next day or perhaps for 5 days, but most people would not accept a forecast of say a month or a year even with incredible computing power and the fact that they can adjust their models to what the weather did day after day after day, but the scientific community say that a million years ago an ape stuck it’s head up above the grass and of course it must be true! There is evidence and then there is the interpretation of it, this line of thinking is narrow minded as it refuses to accept anything outside of the physical realm to explain anything, talk about a blind man refusing to believe in what something looks like! The truth is that most people look at life, our existence and interpret the evidence very differently.

People have spiritual experiences and it tells them that there must be a spiritual reality.

You don’t know what a spiritual reality is until you have experienced it, you won’t get it by being arrogant and proud because God resists the proud.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

I will bow out of this debate now and let you have the last word.

Many thanks for all your articles and I look forward to the next financial one.

God bless!


Nadeem_Walayat
17 Jun 14, 22:33
Last Word

My last word is enjoy your freedom to believe in whatever you wish to believe in curtesy of Brtain's secular state for the history of relgion is that they tell you what they want you to believe in.

Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB

If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.

I could list a 100 such quotes from the bible instructing christians to kill for this that or the other... Such a loving god who thirsts for death, pillage and rape. Are you sure the bible originates from God and not the Devil ?

So yes, you are free to belive in what you believe, but for that you need to be thankful not to god but science and the secular state for if relgion has its way - ANY religion then you will lose that right as has been the case for most of British history.

Best

NW


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