There were many streams of Judaism in ancient times, and they were not as closed off as they are today. Jews converted other people. The major distinction between Judaism and that of Christianity and Islam is the sense of universalism. The concerns of Jews are mostly toward Jews. Not outwardly toward non-Jews. It is a covenant with God. Christianity and Islam proselytize for universal reasons. For Christians, to save the souls of people against the eternal damnation of the original sin and to seek eternal existence with God. For Islam, it is to expand the community of Muslims, and in a similar Abrahamic eschatology, to prepare mankind for the end times, which strangely involve Jesus. In belligerent times, more Muslim recruits for war.

Christianity was a religion for the lower strata of society. In a world, where poverty was considered normal, and frowned upon. Poverty, disease, and oppression were considered a deserved affliction. It was a world without compassion. Entire economies were run by slavery and a Roman, saw it as his duty, without any doubt, to discipline his rebelling slave, because of what is at stake. Since there were more poor people and downtrodden people, Christianity spread like wildfire. It was not a religion just for the elites and the rich, whose gods were only concerned with superior things, even pettiness. This type of morality is the basis for Marxism, feminism, communism, etc., because the New Testament is about Jesus being against oppression, regressive taxes against the poor, and treating people equally, and against corruption. The poor in Christianity have a special purchase on the rich. For the Romans, who were looking for a religion to unify the empire, saw Christianity as the most marketed religion, and made it a state religion for that purpose.

I think Islam started as a war booty army that expanded control of ceded territory by the bankrupt Eastern Romans, who sacrificed much to lay a technical defeat on the Sasanian Empire. The Saracens, who were anti-Roman as pagans, and even as Christianized tribes afterward, they were known as thieves who robbed the caravans of the Eastern Romans. That culture was palpable to the Turks. It is important to note that the evolution of Islam involved different factions of people. For the example, the Turks, the Saracens, the Persians, etc. The Qur’an is a collection of heretical literature and theologies that are not mainstream Christianity today, but were in significant communities under the thumb of the Eastern Roman rule, who had a policy of orthodoxy. What was to become Islam, was originally anti-Trinitarian Christianity. The Qur’an contains mostly a Christological polemic against other Christians. If you were anti-Roman, how fitting it is to be against Trinitarian Romans by being non-Trinitarian. I digress.

For the Jews not having any type of universal mission for mankind in general, this was a disposition of being dominated by those religions that were universal.

It is a transmission line that is part of the overall national strategy to increase reliability and connectivity. The ERCOT market is different from the rest of the country, which is a federal jurisdiction. Different rules that make electrical trade illegal/incompatible. For the ERCOT market, it means it can, under emergency request, draw energy from MISO-S region, instead of burning coal & oil emergency stockpiles. While the same line provides additional reliability and throughput for the MISO-S region.

How about Venezuela do better? Nobody personally owes these people anything. When there is a need, then she will be hired. How about you hire these people instead of just badmouthing other people because you think you are morally superior? Talk is more than cheap, it is free. There are many illegal immigrants in the US who earn money, they pay their own rent, and they are illegal. What this says about this woman, in particular, is she has no reputable job skills in a country saturated with job skills. She had the wrong impression if she thought earning money in America was easy. The clues as to why these migrants come from abject poverty are found in this anecdotal story. Including clues why Latin America constantly votes in leftist governments.

If you read the article, you would have answered your own question.

You do know there are other possible hurricanes that could be a threat? Where is the money? Where is it? What if another hurricane hits?

Hear, hear, who is talking about ignorance!?

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It allowed people to be lazy and unproductive, hence the chronic inflation problem. They need to get a job and earn hard currency in this new economy.

How about this fact-check-check: Vladimir Putin on a whim decided to invaded Ukraine to conquer the rest of the Europe after conquering Ukraine. Where’s the fact-check on this? It does not exist, which means the origin of the claim is based on a lie. If you can find a fact-check on this, then you may have credibility. I present to you a challenge: if you can find a fact-check on the popular narrative, which all the mainstream media pushes, that the motive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is based on recreating the USSR or the Russian Empire. You win. If you can’t find a fact-check that confirms this, you are forever banished to the block list. You have 24 hours. If you cannot find any evidence for this popular claim, not only you earn the block-list, but you also confirm that the mainstream media does not have high factual reporting. MBFC only has a certain standard, but that standard is obviously not good. I’ll give you two chances: where is the evidence that Putin wants to conquer all of Ukraine, and where is the evidence that he wants to conquer all of Europe. The clock is ticking.

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Karl Marx says that labor is a commodity. A special type of commodity in capitalism. That is not that author’s views, but Marx’s views, which he is debunking. It is clear some people have reading comprehension problems.

Greg Abbott does not grandstand on the subject of illegal immigration. He embarrassed the Biden administration by doing what the federal government didn’t do. Why do you think Kamala flip-flopped on immigration? The mainstream media coined her the border czar before her run to replace Biden. Now the mainstream media is saying she was never a border czar; a title they created for the laymen to understand.

Oh yeah, quote Marx for us. Open up the book of Marx and read us scripture relating to this topic.

So his own labor is not a commodity then, or is it? You think the author does not know the plumber owns his own labor? That is the point of bringing up the plumber as an example. If labor is an undervalued commodity, then the plumber is selling his labor at a loss in a capitalist system. I understand the point quite well. Apparently, some people don’t get it, and it is not a difficult thing to understand. If the self-employed plumber is losing money due to his own labor, then he isn’t making a profit. Simple example of the contradiction.

Democrats want maximum birth control in case the condom breaks. In case their contraceptive pills fails, or they forgot to get either one in the heat of the moment. Abortion is the fail-safe in removing the expense, and inconvenience to a happy life. Kids = ::sad face::

Segment of democrats are socialist and that is acceptable.

Tony Blinken is Netanyahu’s lawyer. He is there to keep him out of legal & political trouble.

More like paranoia about technology and the robber barons behind it. This is why EU will never lead in tech because they always strangle it. Singapore’s approach to AI is very different.

When you got Shock & Awe Cheney and Putin giving their public support behind one candidate, reasonable people know who not to vote for.