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January 2023

Are Antisemitic Extremists All Narcissists? If So, Maybe the Biblical God they Follow is Also a Narcissist.
How is it that the violence of antisemitic extremists often echoes the arrogance and grandiosity of Their God? Yes, I'm talking about the one Jews…
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April 2022

Humans Live In A Fantasy World
We can't help it.
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March 2022

The Way of Power Politics is the Way of the Chimpanzee
Humanity needs a new playbook. Traditional texts can help us, but we have to read them critically. And knowledge of history is key.
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December 2021

I Became Left Wing Out of Spite.
Some people just pissed me off. Then I grew up and became a mature liberal who can accept multiple points of view without letting my ego create an…
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How I found Spirituality in Religion
Religion is too easy to condemn.
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A D'var Torah on Parashah Vayechi or Jacob's Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh
Parashat Vayechi marks the end of the monumental book of Genesis. It concludes with first, the death of Jacob/Israel, signalling the end of the…
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November 2020

All the things that give both give us power and take away our power.
A blog that covers literature, politics, the bible, and everything in between.
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