Deuteronomy 28:49-51
Foreigners who speak a strange language will be sent to attack you without warning, just like an eagle swooping down. They won’t show any mercy, and they will have no respect for old people or pity for children. They will take your cattle, sheep, goats, grain, wine, and olive oil, then leave you to starve.
Discuss.
Wait. Since when do foreigners not speak a strange language?
Answer: When the people speaking that language are living there and you are taking possession of it.
Sounds like a warning to the people of the Middle East about the United States. And Britain. And Russia. And China. And Italy. And Germany. And France.
When are people going to learn? The larger the military, the greater emphasis on the need to maintain it. The more concentrated the command structure, the greater chance of it being misused and abused. The greater emphasis on military doctrine, the greater the rationale for invasion of foreign countries to steal their shit.
The bigger it gets, the more expensive it gets, the more expensive to maintain it becomes.
What a total waste the last 60 years has been.
I don’t think this was intended to really be about foreigners. It is more likely to be about professional groups that develop their own language when common English will do.
@4 You’re getting closer. It was a prophecy that puddynuts would show up and pollute the HA comment threads with his prattle.
Sounds like I need to brush up on my Swedish for when the Viking hordes arrive.
Damn, when will the goyem figure out I was talking to the JEWS!
This has NOTHING to do with Arabs .. Arabic and Hebrew are very similar, hardly strange.
Nor does it have with professional groups and their jargon.
The ONLY message here is that the goyem, the Romans, Germans, Brits .. all with their very strange languages … would screw the Jews. As in
The Jews learned a hard lesson from the Europeans.
@7
Dang. I was hoping to get overpowered by a horde of Swedish chicks.
That could happen.
Try praying to me, I sometimes reward prayer.
I am what am.
The Jews learned a hard lesson from the Europeans.
So they became just like them. Egotistical, nationalistic to the point of xenophobia, highly militarized, capitalistic, aggressive, and acquired nuclear weapons.
Swedish chicks are nice, but the ability to project power is a different matter.
@ 9
That seems a little…. atavistic.
Don’t you think? I mean, you seem to get your jollies answering the prayers of people like Newt Gingrich or Sarah Palin, but turn your back on hungry little kids with no shoes on their feet.
You know something God?
You are a seriously fucked up individual.
Deathfrogg
There are many reasons for praying, none of the rational ones depend on pleasing Me.
Think of prayer like playing roulette with no house? Do you go to Vegas to please the house?
If prayer makes you feel good, why not do it?
I am what am.
That little clip from the Bible could apply to almost any country in the world, at one time or another.
Why not try minding one’s own business rather than invading other countries? We could start by ending our empire overseas by gradually withdrawing from all foreign defense treaties and closing our 900-plus bases in foreign lands. We could learn a lot from Switzerland. When was the last time you heard them wanting to invade any other countries, even if they suspected thoe countires of having weapons of mass destruction?
Yeah, except “prayer” as you and your little ghostwritten tome of fixed delusions and magical philosophy calls it, is just wishful thinking. Shit in one hand, and pray into the other, and you’ll see which one fills up first.
And I wouldn’t set foot in Las Vegas if you paid me. Talk about a polished turd.
Yeahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets be Switzerland!
White as the snow!!!
Sell drugs to everyone!!
Launder the bad guy’s cash!!!
Yeahhhh!!!!!!!!
“Shit in one hand, and pray into the other, and you’ll see which one fills up first.”
Great image!
Which hand do you eat with then?
@15
You forgot immigration policies that turn people into virtual slaves.
Canada and Germany are better models. They both have their issues as well (German brothels have a lot of trafficked women), but there’s a lot we could take from them and work with.
@ 16
Whichever one I have free at the moment.
We rabbits don’t have a problem with foreign invaders. We don’t care whose lettuce we eat. It’s still lettuce.
Ans it came to pass that there were far too many rabbits, so the great keeper invented the slug.
SJ @15,
So, what’s wrong with Switzerland? They’ve managed to do very well by minding their own business. Maybe there’s a lesson in there for all of us.
# 21: I once had a political science professer, one of the early neo-conservatives of the 1970’s, who insisted that if the U.S. had more “corporation friendly” laws and tax policies, we could be just like Switzerland – making money off of other people’s money, without producing anything.
How’s that working out for you, so far?
Of course, it seems like while everybody needs a Switzerland – a neutral country where people and money can move freely – there can really be only one Switzerland (plus, perhaps, a few Carribean mini-Switzerlands). The rest of the countries have to produce the products that make Sweden possible. And if a country like the U.S. isn’t producing the products, it gets into trouble real fast. It becomes like a trust-fund baby that not only consumes the interest, but rapidly depletes the principle of the trust fund.
@22,
“How’s that working out for you, so far?”
It’s working just fine with me. What isn’t working just fine with me is our involvement in crazy foreign wars with no goal in sight, protecting countires who hate our guts, and maintaining a huge military empire that we can no longer afford or need.
BTW, the Swiss produce lots of stuff. Ever had a good Swiss watch, a nice wheel of their cheese, or some of their chocolate? They’re not just bakers there, you know!
“The rest of the countries have to produce the products that make Sweden possible.”
So, the purpose of industry is to provide for the welfare state? Individual goals don’t matter, just the collective?