RE: Breathe by Becky Hemsley
I have felt this way all my life. I sobbed after reading this poem - and she smiled, feeling vindicated...
Chonny A.
RE: The Candidate from Hell by Tom Engelhardt
Quite disappointed to have you take an overtly political fear-mongering stance. If it was more truthful, you'd also have included Kamala as the other candidate from hell. I'm no republican and certainly no democrat, but there is truth about the scam labeled as "green". taxes taxes taxes. marketing. green washing. Humans are out of their depths thinking "green" will help the planet. What will help the planet is love, reverence for one another, and knowing the American political show is a great illusion. Breaking down of giant corporations, holding corporate entities accountable to the major harm that they cause the planet. it is a lack of corporate responsibility, these businesses tricking the individual that it is their fault, that only if each individual would recycle and compost, we could reverse "climate change". All the while corporations get away with oil spills, get bailed out by taxpayer's dollars, continuing to wrap their products in oil. Trump is a symptom, not a cause of the illness of the world. Kamala is a fool who will be paid to do the biddings of the NWO.
both represent the dissillusions of the american people, both represent the lack of intelligence, lack of heart, and humanity's fall in relationship with God.
i will be unsubscribing and wish you had taken a more nuanced position.
May god save us all,
Jenny
RE: Characteristics of Judaism and Zionism by Rudolf Steiner
O ye gods!
Thank you for distributing this lecture. Can you tell us the audience, date and location of this lecture?
As a Jewish person (and something of a Jewish Mystic at 8 years old), a 50 year student of Anthroposophy with 16 years of Waldorf Class Teaching, married and participating in the Christian Community, I can concur with much of what Steiner puts forth. Yes, the 10 commandments were very clear that the people of the covenant were prohibited to make images of God (or people). But Steiner misses a cardinal piece of the story. As you know well, not only did the Rabbi’s work to preserve the covenant of the Jewish relationship to Yahweh through the Torah, Talmud and Mishnah and even the Kabbalah, but the Christian world persecuted and separated the Jewish people from the rest of the Christian World and prevented us from assimilating into the fullness of humanity. (See the book: The Sword of Constantine by the former priest, James Carroll). And the Holocaust is a primary example of the prevention of those of Jewish extraction to assimilate and even adopt Christianity. And of course Steiner was wrong about the principal of universal humanity (as evidence by German (especially) racism. The Jewish people never lost their connection to Israel - “Next year in Jerusalem.” And after the barbarous murder of 6 million Jewish people, no country wanted the survivors. Zionism grew as a force that grew out of the soil of Christian hatred and murderousness and the conviction that the Jewish people killed Christ, did it not? Seems to me that Steiner was blind to the realities that the Jewish people faced. And for those Jews who followed Steiner’s conviction that the Jewish people remain in Germany, it was the ovens that awaited them.
And who were the first Christians but those Jewish people who recognized Christ.
I know this is a complicated story, but Steiner, it seems to me, saw one piece of that story and was blind to the overwhelming history that kept the Jewish people as victims of Christian hatred.
I would also note that although the Jewish people were artists in the field of music and less inclined and talented in the visual arts there were notable exceptions, amongst whom were:
Marc Chagall, Daniel Moritz Oppenheim, Camille Pissaro, Max Weber, Boris Schatz established the Bezalel School, an institute to train painters and sculptors in fine art techniques, Nahum Gutman, Judy Chicago, Malcah Zeldis, Ahron ben Shmuel, Jacques Lipchitz, Camille Pissarro.
And a number of notable women artists as well.
It should be said that many of these were impressionistic or expressionistic abstract artists, no doubt influenced by the prohibition against creating images of human or divine beings. And what about Islam’s prohibition against representing human or divine images.
I know this is a little rambling, but as a Jewish person I admit I am sensitive to portrayal of the Jewish people as backward remnants of a people once relevant but no longer.
Thank you again for this lecture, and I look forward to your own thoughts.
An appreciative reader of the Southern Cross Review.
Jeff Kofsky
Hola Frank, disfrute mucho de leer “Exile’s End”, muy interesante,
muchas gracias por compartirla!
un abrazo
Celina MacKern
RE: The Other Me
Hermoso cuento. No entiendo cómo no te han dado el Nobel de literatura. Quizás se lo dieron a tu otro yo en un universo paralelo.
Hernán Melana