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Seeing a murder on television can â€¦ help work off oneâ€™s

Seeing a murder on television can â€¦ help work off oneâ€™s antagonisms. And if you havenâ€™t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

Finance

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Cats Humans

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, disti

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

Cassandra Clare

Life Religion Identity Race Humans City Of Ashes Discrimnation Mundane Shadowhunter

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they were for any sign of the long-sought Messiah, were not taken in by either of these two pretenders, or not in large numbers or not for long.If you meet a devout Christian or a believing Muslim, you are meeting someone who would give everything he owned for a personal, face-to-face meeting with the blessed founder or prophet. But in the visage of the Jew, such ardent believers encounter the very figure who have such a precious moment, and who spurned the opportunity and turned shrugging aside. Do you imagine for a microsecond that such a vile, churlish transgression will ever be ? I myself certainly hope that it will not. The Jews have seen through Jesus and Mohammed. In retrospect, many of them have also seen through the mythical, primitive, and cruel figures of Abraham and Moses. Nearer to our own time, in the bitter combats over the work of Marx and Freud and Einstein, Jewish participants and protagonists have not been the least noticeable. May this always be the case, whenever any human primate sets up, or is set up by others, as a Messiah.

Christopher Hitchens

Atheism Islam Christianity Jesus Antisemitism Jews Einstein Humans Messiah Abraham Christians Freud Marx Moses Muhammad Muslims

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have bee

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

Wisdom Life Thinking Friendlessness Humans