Kalexander2

13 hours ago, Cynique said:

All these things are a strategy  that  keep his cause alive, keep his name in the news and make him a sympathetic underdog in the David vs Goliath saga. I don't think he's passionate about the game any more and would probably be surprised if a team signed him,

@Cynique  If so, it's a damn good strategy because he's still in the news and focus of attacks make him the underdog since it was his kneeling that cost him his job.  I'm not sure he ever was passionate about football.  I think he's just so good at it the NFL had to have him just-in-case his skill made him a household name.  He is a household name, now, since they made such a big deal of athletes kneeling in protest of DT administration.

31 minutes ago, Troy said:

'm also not holding my breath waiting for any ad buys on this the largest website dedicated to books written by or about Black people.

@Troy:  What are you doing to attract the Black audience?  Black folks are out there needing a site like AALBC.com; if for nothing more than to let off steam.  It's hard to believe you're not effectively trying every possible avenue to get subscriptions of angry, discouraged, and activists Black folks.  Are you at least appealing to Black politicians who share the views here?

16 minutes ago, Troy said:

@Kalexander2 the post you made which Del called plagiarism was made as if you had written it yourself.  That is misleading and generally when one quotes so extensively from another source this they link to it, or at least cite's the original source material.  This is considered proper form anywhere on the web.

@Troy, I did cite the source as well as include a hyperlink to the paper " Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206"

19 minutes ago, Troy said:

considered proper form anywhere on the web.

First time I've heard this!!!

21 minutes ago, Troy said:

@Delano why are you being so coy?  K2, Del is probably an expert Astrologer.  He know more about astrology than I do about web development --- and I teach the subject at the college level.

Yes, I thought he was just being modest but I seriously doubt his extensive knowledge, as you assert.  Otherwise, why would he be 'COY?'

8 minutes ago, Delano said:

Ha ha ha.. 

Ok 

OKAY, I'll never ask again as it is obviously not important.  However, I'm guessing you probably have one those 'online - drug store' degrees where you had never had to write an academic paper or learn sentence structure.  In which case you and your posts are no longer of any interest to me.

6 hours ago, Delano said:

The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own :use (another's production) without crediting the source. 

For the past 25-years (as a personal project of interest)  I've been reading, staying abreast of controversial arguments surrounding "THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION " contents of which continue to raise questions about world domination attempts by Jews.  Reduced to notions of a worldwide conspiracy theory, questions abound, for me, as to how such an effort effect Blacks, globally.  My question remains, could such a doctrine exist in today’s reality? 

Economic Wars, State powers and Methods of Conquest, Materialism Replacing human values and Religion, Despotism and Modern Progress, World-Wide Wars, ideas of Provisional Government, Re-education techniques, control of the Press, Distractions from focus, Assault on Religions, Ruthless Suppression of voices, Brainwashing, Abuse of Authority, illegal Arrest of political Opponents, Financial Program's, Loans and Credit, Instilling forced Obedience, and power-Qualities of leaders.  Is it possible a doctrine, a plan could come to fruition, could Jews and/or others really do it, or is it happening right now?

“Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors, the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure the owners of being shot on sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them for his own purposes.

Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York World, February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus: "The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." Indeed they do!”

THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION:

JEWS WILL BE SAFE

11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS IMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot.

 12. "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN.

24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the program of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our super-government.  It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.

WE SHALL END LIBERTY

5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.

2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES.

3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp.  etc.  READ MORE .....

WHY ARE YOU CONTINUING TO EVADE MY QUESTION?  This is an informal forum; paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting without giving credit, identifying sources are perfectly permitted, and not necessarily plagiarizing!  

1 hour ago, Delano said:

Interested in your reasoning or your rational

Astrology is about “ … according to recent research, astrology included both astronomy and astrology prior to the seventeenth century, and it is evident that it contributes to the persistent faith in modernity as a viable historiographical concept.

Emphasize[ing] the religious significance of early modern astrology, relating the fear of a flood to actual weather conditions – which connects with both the deluge in Genesis and its eschatological dimensions in the sixteenth century.  It is not clear why [there’s no relationship] to specific biblical passages to the findings.

Thus one might conclude there have been shifts in the religious functions taken up by astrology; for example, Abraham’s counting of the stars as a prediction of the number of his offspring in Genesis 15:5 might have been of greater significance during the early-seventeenth-century with its more explicit orientation towards Old Testament theology ...”  ( Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206).

Hence, no significance to anything except some personal value predictions.

1 hour ago, Delano said:

@Kalexander2 you answered every question pose

Now it's your turn:  What are your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials?

2 hours ago, Cynique said:

Pioneer played right into Kalexander's hands by giving weight to his outlandish attacks.There's absolutely nothing he can do to make Kalexander retract his words, so he should just blow him off and move on.

That is true, please excuse me for being human but it was like high doses of epinephrine begging me to go after P1's jugular.  However, as I stated before, it costs me absolutely nothing to apologize for the right incentive; $100 (and pay for the wire transfer: smile!!) or an apology for his insults, him FIRST.  Once again, please excuse my human stubbornness!! 

8 hours ago, Troy said:

The advice I always give to posters who DM (directly message) me to complain about some other poster (this happens more frequently than you might image) is to ignore the other poster.  Interestingly, this advice is rarely taken and usually the offended poster simply leaves.

 

Advise well-taken, brother Troy, in this case, because there's nothing lost or to be gained from continuing.   Like Cynique, I never shy away from a good fight, especially when my opponent displays signs of soft-skin weakness.    

7 hours ago, Delano said:

Do you know any metaphysician's? Where did you learn astrology? 

@Kalexander2 it's a great response except you didn't write it. If you don't mention the source it is plagiarism. 

Here's the original quote and the lin

No/Yes: I know little to nothing about the subject. But I can learn as Astrology is (mostly) a self-taught subject. However, Dr. Philipp Reisner, possibly a German/Jew who teaches as a coordinator for German as a foreign language in Maribor, Slovenia and as a lecturer at the American Studies Department of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; focuses on New English and American literature, cultures, and theologies. His review(s) of The work of the New English theologian Cotton Mather (1663–1728) in early modern society is the subject of his dissertation, which appeared in the ‘Reformed Historical Theology’ Series with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2012. His current habilitation project is a structural study of Genesis motifs in contemporary Anglo-American poetry.  (citation: Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206).

Though I still doubt 'astrology' has any meaningful impact on real life, I'd take the assessment of a Ph.D. over your's any day.  Okay, asked you the question before and you never answered:  "What is your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials?  

Yeah, brother Troy, I've been thinking a lot about sister Cynique's concept of the terms loser/winner; I too am having a really hard time seeing DT as a winner and, as you point-out, a panhandler/bum/homeless person as a loser; as much as I hate to concur, I have to because she's right.

What the sister has done is, removed herself from the empathic nature of the word(s) - not from the person(s), simply look at the strict meaning of winner and loser.  DT won the presidency, he's still fighting to win some inhumane/fascist policies, including his border wall and just won his travel ban, etc., he is winning, a winner.  An awful human being to say the least, but he is a winner.

Now, from the empathic nature of the person(s), the panhandler/bum/homeless person failed (lost) his effort(s) toward success, to be independent of poverty, but if he/she is still fighting they may be decent people who are fighters, but still losers.  Making also right that every winner is not a good person and every loser is not a bad person.   While this is something that'll be on my mind for quite some time, I think sister Cynique is onto something of philosophical importance here.  It merits further, seriously considers!

On 7/3/2018 at 12:05 PM, Delano said:

Can you elaborate? 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults believe the United States' best days are "ahead of us," while 41% say they are "behind us." Americans are more optimistic about the country's future than they were the last time Gallup polled on the question, in December 2012, when Americans were nearly evenly split in their views.

2 hours ago, Delano said:

I'm not a political theorist and Astrological charts and human nature are informing my position. Trump is one of the most important Presidential candidates since King George I I. Since he signals a tectonic shift in politics. 

No I don't think he's business as usual since the Republican party aren't endorsing him.

 

There are a few Political Astrologers. Who believe Trump beats Clinton, but Bernie can defeat Trump because they both represent change. I think Trump would be a better President than either Clinton or Bernie. Bernie wants fairness Clinton wants power, and Trump wants his ego stroked. So failure is a bigger issue for him. And I believe be will be Machiavelliapurs order not to be a failure.

 

Will post more about the sinking stocks of the US

 

And the buy ib and sell out of politics.

This is the beginning of a bigger Geo Political swing. And a client changing of the guards that will be complete by 2024

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It concerns political theorists with how we ought, collectively, to live together. Their job usually involves bringing some precision to fundamental (yet contested) political concepts- like freedom, equality, democracy, and justice.  The ideas and questions they come-up with are powerful things which can have great influence on the real world and help determine the fate of the lives of billions of people. Though many of them are confused white yoyo's working with limited honest insights/even more limited hindsight their work is important.   A diverse range of social, economic and political arrangements can (and have been) defended by reference to abstract political values. And the theorist helps equip us with the analytical tools necessary to differentiate between legitimate functions of government and the arbitrary use of power.

An astrology chart—also called an astrology natal chart—is a symbolic representation of the position of the planets, the sun, and the moon ... etc.   Astrological charts report is produced without the time-sensitive data. For those interested in knowing the possible range of signs and degrees on a particular day according to her/his birth.  I do not believe this kind of analysis serve any need except for how a person wishes to feel or believe at any given time.

The GOP will always endorse DT and his policies but will throw him to the dogs to save their own butts, self-preservation is an instinct of target over all else; most of the time it is not personal, but only survival.  Although, King George II, a despot, attempted to mimic his father (as does DT), with even similar accusations of subordinating American interests to those of China and Russia.  Other than the landscape, technology, and the military little has shifted meaningfully.

Political theorist designed the map that led us here, astrology is one of the distractions that'll stay the course of destruction and there's no politician, Black or white, capable of changing the course of America.  Between 1683 - 1760 and now solutions are limited.  With the Supreme Court largely punting on deciding the issues at the center of some of its biggest cases this term, Justices depend on 'concurrences' to fight for the future of the law.  Good luck going that way!  Faced with majority opinions of little to no precedential value, the court’s liberal and conservative wings have taken matters into their own hands, writing separate concurrences aimed at steering lower courts to their preferred outcomes on hotly contested issues.  Indicate an American open-season on positive change where any and everything is fair game.  By 2024, what's ever left is going to be resources for individual survival without organized "changing of the guards."

2 hours ago, Cynique said:

How does a winner with bad character lend to the negativity of being a loser? 

Well, according to your enlightening definition a loser can be a bad/negative trait in a person, but not necessarily, if used as an "incentive to be winner, etc.;" however, a winner who is of bad/negative character is (or can be) in actuality, a 'loser;' hence, lending to, or defining your concept of a 'loser' as possibly a bad/negative thing. YES or NO? 

@Cynique:  That's so true:  The alarm sounded 400-years ago that America would never awaken from its self-induced slumber about the reality desparities against Black folk would bring to the country.  That the very idea of involuntary servitude would trigger desparate policies that effect everyone; minorities and white folk alike.  At last, proud, rich, and powerful white America didn't want see it was facing a grave danger, one that promises to destroy the United States and its dimensions and devious complexity, is just now coming into focus. 

Black folks aren't ready for whites rebelling against each other, and white folk isn't prepared to face squarely and honestly the most profound consequences of over two centuries of the enslavement and segregation of blacks in North America; because non-Blacks will never forget and remain cynical of their own fate/survival. The dehumanization, demoralization of Black Americans during slavery has continued long after the Civil War and now American finally fear the sting of autocracy like leadership. Yet, blacks and whites continued to cling to a range of fantasies about the true nature of the relationship between America and the world, even as the nation lurches inexorably toward a possible collapse over the fundamental question of social and economic justice for the despised Black American minority.  

"Among blacks, the centuries of abuse and exploitation had created ways of life marked by patterns of duplicity, including self-deception, [and] something far more forbidding and lethal. Slavery and neo-slavery had led not simply to the development of a psychology of timidity, passivity, and even cowardice among the [Black] American masses ... Although this added element was itself susceptible to fantasy and self-deception, what ... [makes it crucially important is the depth of estrangement from both Black and White cultures] sets [is] their hatred of each other, and their sometimes unconscious but powerful identification of violence against other human beings as the most appropriate response to the disastrous conditions of their lives. Within the confines of the black world, violence was easily directed at fellow blacks; but increasingly, this violence would be aimed at whites.

4 hours ago, Cynique said:

To me, loser is the opposite of being a winner, pure and simple.   It has no character. It is simply an indication of one's status in a situation or society-at-large.  Life is made up of winners and losers, haves and have-nots.  (Losers  who come up with rationales for their status or are in denial about it usually exemplify  the word in its slang vernacular).  Fortunately, being a loser is by no means a permanent status, and can even be an incentive to become a winner. Also, no where is it written that winners are automatically people of good character.

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Actually not that simple, for some people, obviously.  The key phrase you profoundly stated: "being a loser is by no means a permanent status, and can even be an incentive to become a winner. Also, no-where is it written that winners are automatically people of good character;" lends to the negativity of being a loser.  Nobody wants to be a loser or they want to hide it and appear as a winner.  Overcoming obstacles and odds, self-sustainability, respect for family, neighbors, and the environment favor winners.       

5 hours ago, Chevdove said:

Why can't we seek a better quality of life without feeling the desire to crush other people and to deliberately support a system of lies? This is so crazy. 

@Chevdove More questions as to possible answers may be deduced via the tale of Cain & Abel who ignored a better life in exchange for human jealousy of his brother, or human 'survival by any means necessary,' responsible for the creation of powerful State governments that justify war and servitude for a better life.  Yes, crazy as it is, matters have always been this way and; any other view is a mirage, a deliberate lie to deceive us.

5 hours ago, Mel Hopkins said:

which really puts the onus on mainstream media.  They are exposed - no longer can they feed "educated" and "experienced" folks bullshit ... and expect us to swallow it.

@Mel Hopkins:  Right, and that's true for each and every media outlet in the world, especially America!!  The media can no-longer feed folks BS because people do not even to be told what's happening. At all. Period.  Anyone with eyes, ears, and the sanity to understand know what is happening.  Thanks

@Chevdove:  I've come to the opinion that we may never know, with clear certainty, true world history let alone our own true history.  What it comes down to is a kind of 'deductive' reasoning; it is unlikely life started in the 'snow' or in hostile environments unfavorable, or unable to sustain human organisms and if it did humans could not strive; too long unless they were cannibalistic in nature; many Blacks want to believe this is the case.  I disdain white folks too but creating what suits us is unreasonable; though ancient white folk must have been cannibals.   Ancient Africans practiced cannibalism up to the 19th century and they lived in favorable climate environments. 

I wish you could see the caves in the desert areas here, they can totally sustain humans indefinitely.  I've been doing a great deal of inquiring about purchasing some desert area; aside from the cobra's, scopion's, and bugs, conversion to modern living; with a dunes buggy and/or camel, comfort is truly possible.  The only real setback is dealing with locals who see strangers as unwelcome intruders.  Which tells me right-way whites  could not have come out of the desert to people who considered them unwelcomed outsiders and,  certainly not without, at least sunscreen,

It's a lie that white European Jews ever lived in the desert before the last six-thousand years; the 1947 war establishing their so-called right to return home was the biggest vile they ever pulled over on the world's eyes. And it worked through history textbooks, folklore, and myths.

The controversy between creationism and Darwin only adds to the confusion.  Take the hegemonic power vacuum over the past few thousand years and people are left babbling who they are where they came from with a few groups actually in-charge.  But it doesn't matter either because of world events of today; who's going to be left standing if James Balwin is right about destruction by "The Fire Next Time?"

17 minutes ago, Chevdove said:

That is the issue here, some statements are 'myth' and I believe that over the years, the sound proof to confirm history is a tool(s) that we can not use or do not possess to verify history as being totally true or not.  

Right, when humans adopt myths it's usually for convenience; passed down through history making its way into history textbooks is intended to only confirm white customs, their beliefs, and how they see nature.  For white folk.

Like the myth that the Middle East is the cradle of western civilization; when, in fact, in reality, there's little civilized here, unless one sees insincere greetings and mannerism civilized.  It does, however, demonstrate racist, xenophobic mentalities of the West.  

6 minutes ago, Chevdove said:

I am so amazed as your strength, you inner being. 

Thanks, your comment(s) make me want to be even stronger; you encourage my 'inner-being.'

7 minutes ago, Chevdove said:

 

I still find it hard to believe that someone today, would take 'YO MAMA' jokes personally, but historically, this kind of conversation did tear down Black people and it is a great method to cause dissention. But, I didn't get that it was a personal insult coming from @Kalexander2 either. No, I don't weigh in on either of the two posters, in my opinion. I think the insults were pretty even between the both of them. I kind of felt like it was just that perhaps, some kind of dissention started back at some point and they may have needed a little nudge to bring the purpose of this forum back into thier focus. 

I couldn't agree more, Chevdove, even a sheltered Black who never went to public elementary school have experienced the 'dozens' insult game we stupid adults indulge today.  True, it only goes to show how we Blacks still tear down each other for no logical reason except for attention, or power; is childish by all means.

After it became obvious the other party had no intention of moving beyond the petty rhetoric I decided to make the only move reasonable in such a situation.  Stoy conversing to remain focused for the sake of other members here, if not entirely make peace.   Great response, thanks for helping stay focused!!!

Everyone loses and wins over one’s lifespan. Trying to win using the same method(s) repeatedly, resulting in no change, may also show the person is borderline insane. Black folk looking for apology where there is none makes him a loser. The constant focus on a fault and blaming others makes him a sore-loser. The better person is one who walks away without looking back is on the road to winning.

The loser unable to notice mundane challenges and focus instead on personal worthless matters may never be a winner; especially if the challenges and worthless matters lives with the loser.  We Black men are always looking for a handout or apology never to receive neither; bitterness and anger turn to desperation turns to stupidity and live in a rut.

 View from the rut is limited, life in the rut is all they know while every else lives their head.  Losers.

23 minutes ago, Cynique said:

They lost everything,  their freedom, their identity, their families, their  culture.  Just because they weren't responsible for this happening, doesn't make them winners. They were victims, and victims are the epitome of being losers because Life has kicked them in the ass. 

I'm afraid you are right; by the very definition a 'loser' is one who loses, does not win.  

26 minutes ago, Cynique said:

Losers are not necessarily bad people.  They're hapless unfortunate people.  A female abuser is a bad person but if he is in total charge of his life, in this cruel world, he is a winner because he has triumphed over what was keeping him down.  

Redemption: compensating for one's shortcomings is a personal 'winning' accomplishment, then; Apologizing to one's self without repeating the fault is true sincerity making her/him a winner; not apologizing to others for redemption because sincerity may be uncertain and who's embedded fault(s) render him a constent loser? 

23 minutes ago, Cynique said:

What was your previous idea of what a loser was

Someone with the ability to be strong but chooses to submit to mundane matters of the world.  A follower too weak to walk alone.  A Blackman who abuses women, etc.

18 hours ago, Cynique said:

To wit: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." Ol Abe Lincoln, luke warm about freeing the slaves, observed that: "a house divided against itself cannot stand."  Malcolm X thought change should come by "any means necessary". 

 

What does the future hold for the Divided States of America? 

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From the lowest point on earth to the tallest mountain, no-one is listening.  We're too busy watching sports, getting high, and chasing wealth.  Attempts to overthrow America (rebellion), sister Cynique, has been going since the first American Revolution, right down to now; to recent attempts via Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.  But this time it’s really going to happen, I think, and everybody’s involved, the American people, Europe, China, Russia, and the Middle East.

She’s had it coming for over four-hundred years and; while I do not advocate mass civil unrest, I pray matters turn-around for the better.  Mass rebellion is the only answer to problems of today, worldwide.

I do certainly hope I never have to also, brother;  especially when countless others involuntarily make the ultimate sacrifice every hour of every day.   How about you, brother Troy, where's the limit drawn with your loved ones, how far will you go 'where no man has gone before' to save one or all of them?