tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post5417203683678875632..comments2024-03-28T10:00:45.108-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : From Slavery to FreedomDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-15832280389500230392012-04-17T21:45:03.669-04:002012-04-17T21:45:03.669-04:00Hmm.Hmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22728930091315519522012-04-17T20:36:03.021-04:002012-04-17T20:36:03.021-04:00:)
Jacob's Ladder:)<br /><br />Jacob's LadderKeliatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065269001128979990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7261491877963978242012-04-16T21:28:25.087-04:002012-04-16T21:28:25.087-04:00Counting up? Or a count-down?
Eight days, plus o...Counting up? Or a count-down?<br /><br />Eight days, plus one miracle? Or the first day, plus one Chanukah?<br /><br />Forty-nine days, plus one Shavuot? Or the Torah of Day One, plus the sefer Torah?<br /><br />The first Passover? Or this Passover?<br /><br />The Last Plague? Or the First Born? <br /><br />The chicken? Or the egg? <br /><br />Liberty? Or freedom? <br /><br />The Shamash? Or the servant?<br /><br />The servant? Or the slave? <br /><br />The attendant? Or the Mashiach? <br /><br />Moshe? Or Eliahu?<br /><br />Or Eliahu? <br /><br />Or Moshe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6931059595840733892012-04-16T11:44:59.807-04:002012-04-16T11:44:59.807-04:00Ah, counting the omer. I love that it is in ascend...Ah, counting the omer. I love that it is in ascending order unlike the old old debate on whether a chanukah menorah should be lit each night until it glows brightly for all to see or lit with all of the candles extinguishing one each night.<br /><br />I'm glad we light them in ascending order.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-74726617287366061172012-04-16T04:08:08.550-04:002012-04-16T04:08:08.550-04:00Easily enslaved are the minds which reject individ...Easily enslaved are the minds which reject individuality and the personal responsiblity that comes with it. Freedom is not for the fainted hearts. Not a while ago, I overheard someone proclaiming the death of the individual, as if individuality were an outdated concept, something passé, vous savez? Which prompted the thought, oh well, freedom is not for dummies either.Márcianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-76724100873732092662012-04-15T20:31:50.074-04:002012-04-15T20:31:50.074-04:00One of your best articles.
What you describe is ...One of your best articles. <br /><br />What you describe is an Imitation of Freedom, and I couldn't help but remember the movie Imitation of Life and its tragic ending--the black girl who can "pass" as white and rejects her black mother. She thinks she is free until her true identity is discovered.<br /><br /><br />The finale is definitely worth watching<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmohArXQX_0<br /><br />I get chills just thinking about that final scene of the young woman crying her heart out at her mother's funeral motorcade. She thought she was free by imitating an identity that was not hers, she lived a lie.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21246744436575046242012-04-15T18:33:53.274-04:002012-04-15T18:33:53.274-04:00Passover kept you alive but to know how to truly b...Passover kept you alive but to know how to truly be free is knowing and keeping the law of liberty given at mt Sinai, that's why the omer's counted to connect the two. Passover 1st then the rules kate bAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8871547032567908002012-04-15T15:53:22.380-04:002012-04-15T15:53:22.380-04:00Passover was the first Celebration of Freedom on E...Passover was the first Celebration of Freedom on Earth, and it is a freedom given from the hand of the Creator. This is the only real freedom which can never be taken away, and God is the only Source.<br /><br />For those of us who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we have accepted the words of the Bible as being true by faith. If we had irrefutable proof that the words of the Bible are completely true, how would it change the way we live? You might want to look at: http://wyattmuseum.org/ There is proof.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340332869249455215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-26996395023069053652012-04-15T13:57:04.874-04:002012-04-15T13:57:04.874-04:00Over half the Jews in this nation have no idea wha...Over half the Jews in this nation have no idea what it means to be observant in the religion. A salami sandwich and endorsing abortion on demand suffices for their bonafides.<br />Maybe thirty percent attend synagogue and lap up liberal left wing dogma under the cloak of doing Tikkan Olam...like protecting abortion rights is repairing the world.<br /><br />I have4 come to despise almost every Jewish friend I have. Supine zombies repeating Obama's concern for Israel while dealing with dishing out big dollars to the Muslim brotherhood-and celebrating the one's good hearted efforts in furthering Iran's attempts to annihilate Israel with nukes.<br /><br />Thanks Sultan...I am irritated today and you were the catalyst....again!!<br /><br />Nice on the point article.<br /><br />Peace At All CostsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-29019071362792422142012-04-15T13:08:49.993-04:002012-04-15T13:08:49.993-04:00There is no freedom without law and liberty never ...There is no freedom without law and liberty never should mean license.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-11174636743722798542012-04-15T11:51:57.511-04:002012-04-15T11:51:57.511-04:00Your posts have a unique way of stimulating my tho...Your posts have a unique way of stimulating my thoughts, both old and new.<br /><br />There is an order (of both time and place) to the universe, just as there is an order to the seder. But "Passover is the beginning and the end." The Jews count up to Shavuot; but Sinai was a unique remembrance of Creation.<br /><br />The libertine thinks himself free (at last) from his bondage to a word (sin) and everything it implies. It was G-d Who liberated him from the Egypt of that word; but he thinks that he's finally freed himself to walk like an Egyptian. <br /><br />Liberty is to freedom what capital is to money or what wealth is to commerce. The libertine doesn't know, or doesn't believe, that the one thing finds its origin in the other---that freedom finds its origin in liberty---and never the other way around. There is no such true thing as money without capital; just as there is no such thing as truth without the Creator from Whom it originates. But the libertine asks rhetorically, "What is truth?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-71818762697353232222012-04-15T11:23:56.791-04:002012-04-15T11:23:56.791-04:00That was beautifully written. My compliments.That was beautifully written. My compliments.Secular Apostatehttp://www.secularapostate.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-77001245910326373912012-04-15T11:01:37.242-04:002012-04-15T11:01:37.242-04:00The photo of the Sinai peninsula with the mounts o...The photo of the Sinai peninsula with the mounts of Edom overlooking the Gulf cries out for vast tracts of sun-harnessing contraptions which will free us of Oil. <br />Y Brandstetter MDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-50494140920188720322012-04-15T09:02:28.124-04:002012-04-15T09:02:28.124-04:00Mr. Cline identifies some very real truths among t...Mr. Cline identifies some very real truths among the constraints of our modern existence. <br />And to the Sultan, your perceptive analysis is, as usual, good food for thought.<br />My personal freedom is expressed mainly in this one belief: once there was a passover lamb that actually spoke to the oppressors before submitting to the sacrifice, and his message was: you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.<br />Shalom.careyrowlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17958687878367659875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-55510099925159260632012-04-15T08:56:43.000-04:002012-04-15T08:56:43.000-04:00The comment by Mr. Cline was a fine addition to Mr...The comment by Mr. Cline was a fine addition to Mr. Greenfield's article. Some on the Left have trotted out the dusty phrase, "wage slave," to condemn business, but the better phrase needs be spread about -- "tax slave." The middle class as well as the innovative entrepreneurs are being ever more enslaved by such stupid assertions as one's "share" of a city's, state's or the national debt. I have no share in any of these, and happily would opt for abrogation of such debt, in order to teach the greater system at large that "tax slaves" need not fund someone else's debt. Investors should not invest in greater government, for it is destined to give such investors a "haircut" as we are seeing in Europe. Freedom is not a word in isolation. Freedom best understood is freedom from governments. Freedom from debt. Freedom from slavery. Freedom from those who would so easily take it from us. Freedom from stupidity, and freedom from the nicest of thugs. Best wishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-56826819440651611382012-04-15T08:56:42.680-04:002012-04-15T08:56:42.680-04:00The comment by Mr. Cline was a fine addition to Mr...The comment by Mr. Cline was a fine addition to Mr. Greenfield's article. Some on the Left have trotted out the dusty phrase, "wage slave," to condemn business, but the better phrase needs be spread about -- "tax slave." The middle class as well as the innovative entrepreneurs are being ever more enslaved by such stupid assertions as one's "share" of a city's, state's or the national debt. I have no share in any of these, and happily would opt for abrogation of such debt, in order to teach the greater system at large that "tax slaves" need not fund someone else's debt. Investors should not invest in greater government, for it is destined to give such investors a "haircut" as we are seeing in Europe. Freedom is not a word in isolation. Freedom best understood is freedom from governments. Freedom from debt. Freedom from slavery. Freedom from those who would so easily take it from us. Freedom from stupidity, and freedom from the nicest of thugs. Best wishes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-81676277608105392972012-04-15T08:31:41.667-04:002012-04-15T08:31:41.667-04:00“Freedom, like slavery, is as much a state of mind...“Freedom, like slavery, is as much a state of mind as a state of being. It is possible to be legally free, yet to have no freedom of action whatsoever. And it is possible to be legally a slave and yet to be free in defiance of those restrictions. External coercion alone does not make a man free or slave, it is the degradation of mind that makes a man a slave.”<br /><br /><br />Excellent observation. Americans are legally “free” except when they allow themselves to be subjected to TSA searches, groping, scannings, and seizures at airports. They’re legally “free” except when it comes to income tax reporting time (notice the ubiquitous query, “Have you filed your taxes?” Whose taxes??). Americans are legally “free” except when they buy groceries with mandated nutrition and warning information on the packaging. Americans are legally “free” to enter mandated smoke-free and transfat-free restaurants and bars. Americans are legally “free” except when they wish to purchase guns for self-defense or game hunting, in having to prove to government authorities their need for the guns. Americans are legally “free” except when they establish an internet account and acquire an ISP for the government to monitor. Americans are legally “free” to spend the baseless paper funny money and debased coinage issued by the Treasury Department and manipulated by the Federal Reserve to help the Feds fund their wealth and income redirectional social programs, and to somehow deal with the funny money’s diminishing value. Americans are legally “free” except when they are forced to subsidize businesses run by the cronies of pull and special interests. Americans are legally “free” to support via taxation a Congress that feels “free” to ignore all Constitutional guarantees of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. Americans are legally “free” to work hard and produce wealth as long as they comply with two or three dozen gaggles of Federal controls and regulations. Shall I go on?Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com