Posted on 05/24/2019 2:33:28 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
I meant to post something last night, really, but we had a crisis involving the home cooling system suddenly not working and endangering my 89-year old mother (who has a history of heart failure). Thank G-d it's fixed now, but I realize just a prolonged power outage at the wrong time of year could be fatal.
Anyway, yes, today is my 20th anniversary as Free Republic's you-know-what in the punch bowl, as well as its most grumpy and offensive member. I first signed up to defend Israel from the freaking NAZIS who were infesting the site back then. Eventually I despaired, wrote my own opus, and left, but after 9/11 I came back. While this place is certainly much improved, there are still people here whose ability to get away with murder absolutely baffles me.
Back then I was on dial-up. I didn't get DSL until eight years later. But what a long, strange, and totally frustrating trip it's been.
I know I'm still pretty obnoxious, but nothing to what I was in the old days. It's a wonder I'm still around.
Just a word of thanks to Jim Rob for putting up with me for this long.
I still cannot understand why questioning the validity of the "new testament" in addition to previous Divine Revelation is so shocking. FCOL, if some of you folks had been around back then you'd have all rejected it because at that time "that stuff's not in the Bible."
I'll be here as long as I can, though I don't post anything like as frequently as I used to.
Youngster!
Congrats, ZC!
Humblegunner does have a point.
Double bragger.
Just kidding!!
Congrats, FRiend....from a newbie :)
Rookie
Howlin passed away last year. There has been a couple of threads on it. I knew her on-line 20 years ago before FR.
Questioning it is one thing. Trying to usurp a thread to harass others is a different thing. I have seen you cross the line with off-topic screeds. I cannot understand why YOU do not see THAT difference.
Yes, at such times you are gratuitously and intensely offensive. If someone tried the reverse, I strongly suspect you and others would self-righteously (and hypocritically) charge anti-Semitism.
P.S. I am actually part Semite: part real Hebrew with an ancestor with both a Hebrew surname and Hebrew given name. My mother and I are both so dark that total strangers sometimes ask if we are “Jewish.” So spare me any accusation of racism.
Happy Anniversary Newbie.
Oh and many of us, myself included have mellowed with age.
A+bert comes to mind also.
+1
Howlin died last year
+1
P.P.S.
1.
“I still cannot understand why questioning the validity of the ‘new testament’ in addition to previous Divine Revelation is so shocking.”
I cannot understand why questioning the validity of anything related to Jews is automatically condemned as anti-Semitism. Jews generally – and, based upon what I have seen of your posts, you specifically – refuse to separate reasonable criticism of Jewish beliefs, actions, or politics from bigotry. (That is a rhetorical device: I actually understand it all too well; it is a convenient leftist tactic to silence any opposition.)
I opine that you are a hypocrite. You insist on the freedom to attack Christians on the basis of quoting the New Testament – whether Israel or Judaism is part of the thread or not. What if we were to extensively, repeatedly, gratuitously attack you (Jews collectively) on citation from the extra-Biblical Talmud (which is no part of the Law, Prophets, or Writings)? Or on the doctrine of Tikkun Olam? Or on any number of other issues? Would we be allowed to do so without being accused of some sort of bigotry? I think we both know the answer: No.
2.
“FCOL, if some of you folks had been around back then you’d have all rejected it because at that time ‘that stuff’s not in the Bible.’”
You libeled all Christians by that categorical (“… you’d have all…”) assertion. I opine that also makes you a liar.
Unless you also assert the communist propaganda that Jesus never existed at all, then A) He was a undeniably a Jew, and B) All of his original disciples – who became known as Apostles – were also Jews. All. Of. Them.
Obviously none of his actual Jewish followers who were “around back then” rejected his teachings even though they were “not in the Bible,” as you categorically asserted. If they did not do so, then it is absolutely reasonable to assume that some, perhaps many, Christians of today would also not have done so – which makes your assertion a lie.
3.
You are essentially bragging in this post that you are celebrating twenty years of operating as a militant toll, and of being a specially privileged person, and of being part of a specially privileged group, on this forum.
I am not a troll. Though I have definite concerns about the socio-political influence of atheistic, leftist Jews, both in Israel and in America, I do not militantly seek out threads to invade and attack others in pursuit of a monomaniacal obsession.
I consider you egregiously obnoxious, and I generally avoid you, but you have gone out of your way to once again attack all Christians for citing the New Testament, so I am responding to that attack. You started it, not I.
In case it is not obvious, I do not congratulate you on this anniversary. I do not congratulate trolls for being trolls.
4.
I took Hebrew at a secular university. I was the only Gentile. The class was otherwise exclusively Jews, all of whom who had grown up in the culture of Judaism, and about half of whom who had lived for a time in Kibbutzim.
The teacher was a native Israeli from outside Tel Aviv; she was a practicing Orthodox Jew; she was also a veteran of Israel’s wars.
She appreciated having me in the class. She used the Old Testament (and she used that name, by the bye) extensively to teach, since Hebrew was largely a static language for two thousand years, and modern Hebrew is essentially derived from the Bible; I knew the passages – the persons, the stories, the meanings – far better than any of the Jews in the class. She enjoyed having at least one person who readily understood her. Unlike you, she was a genuinely respectful person. I had no problem with her.
Congrats on 20
Michael Rivero was a piece of work.
I remember my first major act as a freeper: Standing on the steps of the Supreme Court making the liberal look and sound really stupid in 2000. My favorite was turning their love for chants against them. By having my group over-shout one or two of their words, we made them our bitches.
But yes, I am obsessively obnoxious!
Some of them used names of actual infamous Nazis as screen names. Thank goodness most of them got kicked out after 9/11. Still too many here, though. Unfortunately.
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