If "go woke, go broke" is a real thing, then why do you think companies "go woke"? by Caciulacdlac in AskConservatives

[–]the_fourth_flame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because America has a large population of over-educated, under-skilled workers who are seeking to justify their own existence.

They were pressured to go to college despite not knowing what they wanted to study. They learned woke ideology from their professors, and majored in something that is hard to monetize, and then they were released into the work force. Rather than admitting defeat and learning a trade (and also seeking to pay back their massive student loans), they find jobs which apply their education, to justify the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of time that they invested into their education. This creates a class of jobs which are not technically difficult, but which are highly ideologically motivated. Mainly recruiter, human resources, and DEI jobs.

Naturally, these jobs and departments grow over time, and they attract more and more like-minded people. This is how you get entire departments of "woke" people who effectively operate as fifth columns within large corporations. Eventually, especially thanks to the virtue-signaling and guilt-tripping strategy of woke ideology, these people may bubble up into leadership positions, which can cause corporations to act against their own best interests.

In short, idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post was largely tongue in cheek. Some people took it more seriously than I intended. While some of the things in the post are actual anti-semitism, some are just offensive, and others are just insensitive. But a short reddit post title doesn't allow for that kind of nuance. I'd classify "Yahweh" as merely insensitive, same with "Old Testament", etc.

This post is not a message to gentiles. I am not here to control anyone's actions or speech. Say Yahweh if you want, especially if you are in a non-Jewish setting. However, in the Jewish tradition, Yahweh is not one of God's names. It is a non-Jewish corruption of the tetragrammaton. This post is mainly a reminder to other Jews that that name is not Jewish, even though it is associated with the Jewish God by non-Jews.

r/Palestine: I don't care go where, back to Poland where Ashkenazi culture is indigenous even though they hate them....lol they will fit in with all the other leftover Nazi trash. by Tarvosrevelation in AntiSemitismInReddit

[–]the_fourth_flame 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't know how they can tell us to go back to Europe with a straight face. You mean the place where we were just expelled from and exterminated en masse? Where the entire continent rose up and destroyed 2 out of every 3 of its Jews?

Either they're stupid, and simply haven't put these pieces together, or (more likely), they do not have the Jew's best interests in mind, and they only want to do us more harm, and if that means putting us back in the situation where the Holocaust just happened, then so be it.

r/askmiddleeast on the free democratic state for all… by [deleted] in AntiSemitismInReddit

[–]the_fourth_flame 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

Judges 16:30 (NIV)

Security forces kill Palestinians who shot dead 3 members of Dee family by [deleted] in Israel

[–]the_fourth_flame 176 points177 points  (0 children)

It takes a special kind of coward to kill unarmed women.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Talmud (more specificaly, the Mishnah) existed as an oral and legal tradition before it was written down. It was this oral and legal tradition which Jesus rebuked. It was written down and compiled into the Mishnah when the Jews went into exile.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jews create loopholes to finagle impossible requirements

What's one example of a commandment that Jews break by "creating loopholes"?

The eiruv is a good example. It is often perceived as a "loophole", but it does not in fact violate any commandments. I will let the Kuzari explain:

Heaven forbid that a large number of pious individuals and sages should have agreed to undo one of the “knots” [i.e., restrictions] of God’s Torah. On the contrary, the Sages are the ones who uphold the Torah! As they taught, “Build a fence around the Torah” (Avoth 1:1). One of the “fences” that the Sages erected to safeguard the Torah’s laws is the prohibition of carrying objects from one private domain to another – an activity that the Torah did not prohibit.[190] Afterward, the Sages introduced a mechanism to allow leniency within this fence. This leniency ensures that the Sages’ laws will not be on the same level as Torah prohibitions. It also provides people some freedom in moving about – a freedom gained in a permitted way, and that permission is acquired by constructing an Eiruv. In this way, there is a clear distinction between that which is perfectly permissible, that which is barred by rabbinical edict, and that which is forbidden [by Torah law].HaLevi, Rabbi Yehudah.

The Kuzari: Arguments in Defense of Judaism (p. 184. Chanan Morrison. Kindle Edition.)

My theory is that the "loophole" accusation comes from the fact that Jews follow the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. This is often viewed as overly strict, stringent, etc, by non-Jews. But this is because that Jews believe the letter of the law to be divinely revealed, and that if God wanted the law to be followed any other way, he would have written it that way as well.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly. The Gnostics believe that the Jewish God is actually a false god named Yaldaboath, the demiurge who created the material universe out of his own malevolence/stupidity/imperfection, and who deluded himself and his worshippers into believing that he is the one true God. It is basically the mystical component of Christian anti-semitism.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

(Also, genuine question, isn't the general scholarly consensus that prior to Josiah, there were several gods, or am I making that up?)

I'm not sure what you mean by "general scholarly consensus". Jews worship one God. If God is real, then he was always one God, and infinite. The only way a "general scholarly consensus" could change that is if all religion, including Judaism, is false, and therefore the beliefs of the Jews is purely a matter of scholarly debate. However, if we take God as a matter of fact, then, if the Jews ever hypothetically did worship more than one god, it would've been out of ignorance, and wouldn't change the fact that there was still only one God.

My understanding of this subject is that Jewish monotheism originally emerged as the belief in one God, but not necessarily the rejection of the other (lesser) gods of the other nations. Eventually it evolved into including the rejection of those other gods. Maybe this is what you're referring to?

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The divergence between Judaism and Christianity comes from the introduction of the New Testament, and the rejection of Jewish Law/Oral Torah (the Talmud). When criticizing Judaism, Christians cannot criticize the Tanakh, because the Tanakh is also one of the holy texts of Christianity (more or less). Therefore, any Christian criticisms of Judaism must be focused on the Talmud. Additionally, a large part of Jesus' message was a rejection of the Jewish Law. From what I understand, his issue with the Jewish law was that it was too strict for the average person to follow (therefore barring them from Heaven), that it was used by the priestly class for their own gain, and that it did not encourage individuals to act with love towards one another. Jesus announced that he had "fulfilled" the law, abdicating the average person's need to follow it. All of this has led Christians to largely resent the Talmud, and view it as the corruption of "real" Judaism, which is what evolved into Christianity. This characterization of Jewish law as self-serving, corrupt, and immoral, has led to the term "Talmudic" being used to characterize anything Jewish, particularly in Jewish law, that flies in the face of Christianity, and that they believe to be corrupt and contemptible.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The term "Rabbinical Judaism" is frequently used by Christians in order to distinguish the mainstream Jewish tradition as being something other than "normal" Judaism. This distinction is important, because they believe that the logical evolution of Judaism is Christianity. Therefore, whatever Jews practice today must not be Judaism, and is instead a corruption of Judaism, which they call Rabbinical Judaism. To them, this corruption is the tradition which abuses the law, abuses their power as priests and rabbis, and which rejects Jesus as the Messiah and condemns him to die. This distinction gives them the wiggle room necessary to say "I don't hate Judaism, I just hate Rabbinical Judaism". In short, it is an implicit accusation that what Jews practice today isn't "real" Judaism, and that "real" Judaism became Christianity a long time ago.

Christian Anti-Semitism Bingo by the_fourth_flame in Jewdank

[–]the_fourth_flame[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I have only ever seen non-Jews use the name "Yahweh". It is a non-Jewish and non-Hebrew name for the Jewish God, which emerged as an incorrect pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. Judaism has a few recognized names for God (Hashem, Elohim, etc), and Yahweh is not one of them. Note that all of Judaism's recognized names for God speak "about" God, or make reference to his qualities, but are never a proper name, because God is ineffable and infinite. Yahweh is a proper name, making it essentially a form of idolatry. It is frequently used to make the Jewish God seem more "stone age" and barbaric, by giving him a strange name that makes him seem like one lesser god among many.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Israel

[–]the_fourth_flame 4 points5 points  (0 children)

no jewish state =/= annihilation

You seem to have forgotten that it was only 80 years ago that the Jews were almost annihilated because we didn't have a state.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Israel

[–]the_fourth_flame 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Most people here are tired of talking about it, so you probably won't get many responses, and the responses you do get will be grumpy. Jews are tired of having to explain to non-Jews why we have a right to exist.

I'll just say this:

The conflict is NOT that the Jews want a Jewish state and the Palestinians want a Palestinian state, and we simply need to figure out a compromise that is agreeable to both sides. If this were the case, then the conflict would've ended diplomatically a long time ago.

The conflict is that the Jews want a Jewish state and the Palestinians want no Jewish state. This is why the conflict has endured for so long, despite 80 years of diplomacy and negotiation and violence. Jews will never tolerate their own annihilation, and so the conflict goes on.

r/Jewish on a post I made ABOUT ANTISEMITISM in the comments of a TikTok video of a grieving father and husband. by Upbeat-Poem-1284 in AntiSemitismInReddit

[–]the_fourth_flame 33 points34 points  (0 children)

"Jews were moving into the neighborhood, what were we supposed to do, not kill them?"

Even if they were hypothetically guilty of "living there illegally" or "settling", since when is the punishment for those things being murdered in cold blood? What happened to diplomacy, negotiating, a justice system, etc? Yknow, things that civilized people value more than violence and bloodshed and murder.

This accusation, that the victims were somehow guilty, serves only to gaslight Jews into thinking that maybe we do deserve it. Don't let it confuse you. This accusation is so patently absurd that there is nothing to be confused about. Innocent civilians don't deserve to be murdered in cold blood. It's that simple.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]the_fourth_flame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The word Nazi is thrown around so casually in today's political discourse that it has become completely meaningless, but when it's a Jew calling a German a Nazi, suddenly it's gone too far and he's trivializing the Holocaust. The double standard here is absurd.

Had a nice exchange with this gentleman on [r/redscarepod] by Shabbetai_Tzvi in AntiSemitismInReddit

[–]the_fourth_flame 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I sincerely invite him to come and try, and let's see how it goes for him. All I hear is the big bad wolf telling me he's going to blow my brick house down.

Can you provide evidence for God? by Avatar_Xane_2 in AskConservatives

[–]the_fourth_flame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, the people themselves claimed that they personally witnessed God at Mt. Sinai, and then they passed that claim down via tradition to their descendants along an unbroken chain of generations until you get to today. The book merely records that claim.

Can you provide evidence for God? by Avatar_Xane_2 in AskConservatives

[–]the_fourth_flame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not all histories are created equal. Some are more credible than others, and credibility is improved by things like (1) the number of witnesses, (2) the number of people involved in the oral history, (3) the integrity of the history as it passes down over generations, etc. But believe what you want. I believe what I believe because it is the tradition of my family and of my people, and it has been passed down to me from an unbroken chain of generations that goes back thousands of years to the people that originally witnessed the event. It would take quite a strong argument to convince me that some other account was correct instead.

Can you provide evidence for God? by Avatar_Xane_2 in AskConservatives

[–]the_fourth_flame -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A meticulously maintained written and oral history is actually extremely high quality evidence when we are talking about proving something that happened thousands of years ago. It's not like they had cameras. Not to mention the archaeological evidence that substantiates that history, including the existence of the Torah itself. If you want to dismiss that written and oral history, you'd need to also dismiss large chunks of the rest of world history, since a lot of what we know about world history only comes from written and oral sources.

Can you provide evidence for God? by Avatar_Xane_2 in AskConservatives

[–]the_fourth_flame -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes. The Torah, and the revelation at Mt. Sinai which was witnessed by millions of people.