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guillaumeb's JournalWhat Does Water Represent In The Bible? A Christian Study
From the article:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2015/07/17/what-does-water-represent-in-the-bible-a-christian-study/
When someone gets baptized, they are submerged under the water for a second, and then come back up. The whole process shows an outward expression of a true inner value; the person is publicly declaring that they have new life in Jesus Christ. All of the past sins and mistakes are dead (symbolic in the act of submerging the person in water) and then raised in newness of life (symbolic in the act of raising the person back up from the water). It is an expression of what has taken place within the heart; a full cleansing and new life.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2014/11/11/what-is-the-bible-or-spiritual-meaning-of-water/
The great flood referenced in the Bible can be read literally, but when people read deeply, and widely, it is generally apparent that the metaphorical use of water is everywhere.
A ritual bath cannot literally wash sins away. And Jews understand this.
Dipping a person in water for Baptism does not literally wash sin away. And Christians understand this.
The great flood has been seen as a metaphor for the cleansing of the earth for centuries.
Crimes of the Bush dynasty
From the article:
The Bush saga — from George W. Bush in the White House today to the great grandfathers on both sides of the family — is the story of four generations amassing their fortunes and achieving the heights of power through the cronyest of crony capitalisms.
There are no think-tank theorists or college professors, no surgeons or artists among the Bush men. From root to branch, the Bush family’s rise to power and wealth has gone hand in hand with the fortunes of the oil industry and the military-industrial complex.
To read more:
https://socialistworker.org/2018/12/03/crimes-of-the-bush-dynasty
'May His Many Victims Across the Globe Rest in Peace': George H.W. Bush Dead at 94
From the article:
As corporate media gloss over the former U.S. president's record with fawning tributes and sanitized obituaries, some observers took to social media to highlight key aspects of the record and legacy of George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at 94.
Among the 41st president's acts during his political life Twitter users noted were his role in the Gulf War, Central America, and the Iran-Contra affair.
While it's fair to offer condolences to Bush's family members as they grieve, "As a public figure with lots of innocent blood on his hands, his record has to be examined without any whitewashing," asserts The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan.
https://
consortiumnews.com/2013/08/26/a-c
ia-hand-in-an-american-coup/
… #RIP41
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/01/may-his-many-victims-across-globe-rest-peace-george-hw-bush-dead-94
Condolences to his family are appropriate, but the reality of "Poppy" is that he committed treason.
And what is wrong with acknowledging that?
Can we separate George H. W. Bush the President from "Poppy" Bush?
That seems, to me, to be at the heart of the discussion at DU about George H.W. Bush.
Yes, he was a husband, a father, and grandfather. And he might have liked baseball, Mom, and apple pie. And dogs.
But he was also a person who committed treason by negotiating with the Iranian Government to keep US citizens hostage until after the election.
And he was a racist, as was his wife. He approved the Willie Horton campaign ad.
And while he initially called supply side economics voodoo economics, he had no issue with embracing it when he was chosen by another racist to be the Vice President.
So how does all of this weigh when we talk about him?
Why is the number of Representatives arbitrarily capped at 435?
I had no idea, so I did some research. Well, a little research.
And this is what I found:
On this date, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons. Thus, the size of a state’s House delegation depended on its population.
To read more:
https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Permanent-Apportionment-Act-of-1929/
Informed voters know that most voters live in urban and suburban areas, but this Act caps the number of Representatives at 435. If however, the number depended on population, it is very likely that well populated urban areas would gain more Representatives.
If the District could have no more than 711,000 residents, for example, California would gain 2 seats.
Historical Revisionism 101
As George Orwell well knew, what we call history can be divided into 2 things.
First, what actually happened.
Second, what is the agreed upon version of what happened.
An example:
First: The US settlers did their best to commit genocide on the First Peoples of this country.
Second: Mistakes were made, but they were made with the best intentions.
One reflects a deliberate choice, the other is designed to make people feel better about what was done.
Another example:
Reagan was a racist and a traitor or dealing with the Iranian Government in the hostage situation. But that racism was ignored by the corporate media.
One of the things that distiunguishes Democrats from the GOP:
We should and must fight back when the GOP attempts to rewrite history.
I wrote a post calling Bush Sr a racist, lying traitor. And that is exactly what he was. So, why should we ignore what he was while the US corporate media makes the racist lying traitor into a saint?
That is how the GOP rewrites history.
They did it for Reagan when that racist lying traitor died, and they will do it now that Bush Sr has died.
And they will do it when Bush Jr. and Dick Cheney die.
George H. W. Bush has died.
It is appropriate to feel sympathy for the family's loss. And he was a President.
But in all of what will be endless recounting of his WW II service, it is good to remember the entire reality of the man.
First, while a candidate in 1980, he called supply side economic theory voodoo economics. But after he was picked by Reagan, or Reagan's handlers, for the job of Vice President, he supported the concept that he had called voodoo economics. And he said nothing when Reagan played the race card in his campaign.
So he was a political opportunist who supported something that he knew was a bad idea, but an idea that profited his family at the expense of the 99%.
And during the campaign, he committed treason by dealing with the Iranian Government to keep Americans hostage so Reagan could win.
And during his own campaign for President, one of his advisers, Lee Atwater, devised the Willie Horton ad, a shameful bit of racist hate that was a direct appeal to racist voters.
So to me, Bush Sr. was simply one more racist, lying, GOP rich man.
New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years
'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years
From the article:
"It's easy to pay for something that costs less," Robert Pollin, economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and lead author of the new analysis, declared during a panel discussion at The Sanders Institute Gathering in Burlingon, Vermont, where Pollin unveiled the paper for the first time.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion?cd-
And how do we get more for less? By eliminating the for-profit middlemen which eats up 20% of premiums, a well as eliminating the need for providers to deal with a multitude of insurers.
We do not restrict access to other needs by using for-profit middlemen.
You do not go to your insurance company to buy a car, or a house.
There is no need for insurance companies to be in the health care system. Other than their need to profit by denying care.
If anyone likes the name Abcde that much,
they should change their own name to Abcde and live with it.
They should not burden their own child with such a creation.
My view.
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