Recent content by Servetus

This is your turf. If anyone leaves, it will be me. While we evidently disagree upon many points, and strongly at that, I wish you all the best. Best regards, Serv

The British were engaged in their usual "divide and conquer" tactics as it related to the Arabs and Turks (and also the Jews), and "the Arabs," in any case, could hardly have argued with the British when they didn't even know that their presumed benefactors were secretly giving to the French...

Dear Salishan, Good one (or should I say "g-spot" on)! Given the self-confessional nature of this thread, let this be clear: it wasn't until after I had fornicated myself half-way around the globe and abominated myself all the way back that, in mid-life, I woke from an Ecstasy binge...

Dear Salishan, I think, to those of us raised in the Protestant tradition, wherein the word "church" evokes the smell of varnish on old church pews, the sound of pantyhose squishing on the large lady's thighs as she walks up the aisle, and the sight of black-robed preachers, like Ezra all...

"Fanciful tales sprang up later, in which Alexander paid homage to the High Priest in Jerusalem and Yahweh sanctioned his subjugation of Persia (Jos[ephus]. AJ 11.304–5). None of them has a basis in fact. Palestine was of small interest to the king who captured the great fortress of Tyre, then...

It must be fairly easy for Jews to accept British promises as realpolitik when they are, comparatively speaking, the beneficiaries of British imperial policies in the region. Israel exists. Anyway, it is silly to speak of "the Arabs," especially, as if they were a unified, national bloc. The...

But you must mean this Esther: "... the chief character in the Book of Esther, derived, according to some authorities, from the Persian "stara" (star); but regarded by others as a modification of "Ishtar," the name of the Babylonian goddess ..." That is twice now, first with Marduk and now with...

Ah, the old switcheroo. In this case, you switch the focus from what I actually said and respond with a non sequitur. My point is that lobbyists for the NRA and NAACP are not lobbying for a foreign government. In some cases, lobbyists for AIPAC are. Your above comparison, then, falls flat...

I didn't say they were. I said that Jesus said that there would be eunuchs for the kingdom and, speaking metaphorically not literally, I have known some Christian guys who reconsidered their promiscuous ways and became celibate (eunuchs) in order to improve their Christian walk ("for the...

Maybe we should take this moment in our ongoing a) tennis; or b) kickboxing match to enjoy a nice, ice-cold Gatorade. If the truth be told, I usually only oppose your opinion because I sense in you a strong desire to be opposed. That, for the most part, I can usually do. Serv

What happened is that you Israelis are -and have been- standing behind the best weaponry and military machine that money can buy. In case you haven't noticed, you have the unequivocal backing of what some smarty pants Europeans call the world's one and only Stupor Power, the USA, which country...

One thing about it, neither the NRA nor the NAACP, for instance, has produced such a nest of spies as has AIPAC. Serv

Sorry. That would be buggering, or shagging, or, well, one gets the idea. Serv

Amen, bro! Glad to see you back in church! :D Serv

If, by that, you mean that you have not changed your opinion, how is it, then, that a "historian of the Hasmonean period," writing history as prophecy after the fact, could be quoted by Maimonides as foretelling the rise of Muhammad? Maimonides evidently considered it prophecy, written before...