USA: National Security Strategy, Juan's Wet Dream

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Dec 28 15:23:40 PST 2017


>> On 12/28/2017 4:18 AM, juan wrote:
>>> 	Really? How did you learn that?

 > "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>> By reading the histories of Josephus, who came mighty close to being
>> forced to suicide by Jewish religious fanatics.

On 12/29/2017 2:59 AM, juan wrote:
> 	lolwut - that was allegedly because of his fight with the
> 	romans 

We have multiple independent sources suggestive of a holiness spiral in 
Judaism at the time, consistent with the account given by Josephus and 
in the gospels.

When the area was ruled by Greeks, the Jewish hereditary priesthood led 
a revolt against Greek secularism and established a dynasty of priest kings.

The rabbis (pharisees) challenged the power of the hereditary 
priesthood, on the basis of being holier than thou, and part of being 
holier than thou was being more willing to get into suicidal war with 
powerful enemies, just as today's progressives are flirting with nuclear 
armageddon.

The hereditary priesthood had led the Jews into a war with powerful 
enemies (Greeks) and won, so the Rabbis wanted to lead the Jews into an 
even bigger war with even more powerful enemies (Romans plus Greeks 
under Roman leadership) and win.

Now that the formerly communist regimes have turned right wing, progs 
are today the war party.  Similarly, rabbis were the war party back in 
the days of Jesus and Josephus, hence the prophecies of Jesus about the 
fall of Jerusalem and the temple.

Thus we know from other sources that events must have been much as 
depicted by Jesus and Josephus.

You suggest that Josephus made up the story of being forced to suicide 
to justify his betrayal of his comrades, but we have independent 
evidence that his comrades murdered everyone, Khmer Rouge style, as over 
the top fanaticism spiraled into even further over the top fanaticism. 
If they did not attempt to force Josephus to suicide, they forced 
everyone like him to suicide.



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