43 Another suggested derivation is the biblical שפח-ספח “to join,” perhaps implying someone who is joined to the family; here too, however, there is no agreement as to the meaning of this root.44 The root ŠPḤ is also attested in other Semitic sources, specifically ...
Put it one last way: with horizontal translation—which is by far the most prevalent, widespread and widely shared function of religion—the self is, at least temporarily, made happy in its grasping, made content in its enslavement, made complacent in the face of the screaming terror that is...
Then again, faith is an EVIDENCE — the "evidence of things not seen." Faith precedes the actual receiving of what you ask for. And faith is the EVIDENCE YOU shall have it, before you even SEE it. It is the EVIDENCE of things not yet seen. You do not have it. You do not see i...
The following audio bit is an interesting thing to contemplate. The Story of Your Enslavement. Karl Hess, a kindly and brilliant man, said some wonderful things. RIP my friend. These are some of his quotes: My friend and mentor Carl Watner, the man that is most responsible for popularizing...
getting reelected. It’s not hard to understand though when you consider the large number of people who believe the government is keeping them safe or who are dependent on it for basic needs. It’s a form of enslavement really, of which years and years of psychological conditioning has ...
injustices committed or rights denied to back people based on their color. Historically, racial injustice has always been a thorny issue giving rise to numerous movements across the globe fighting against the same. The key elements of black oppression in history have been black enslavement and ...
for an account of the massacres and the mass enslavement to which the Germans under their Ottoman emperors subjected their ancestors? It is good for all of us to know how to forget. II. What we have said of race is as true of language. Language may invite us to unite, but it ...
is that of the war of secession where “violence” was the enslavement of populations. Throughout this article, somehow, there is the implicit assumption that there is an enlightened state project. There is no mentioning of the various wars the US, as a state, has engaged in, the dropping...
Wish as we may there is no end in sight to this unhappy condition, the Cooper Conundrum, the main reason lasting peace is so elusive. For this reason, the innocent must, if they are to be spared the injustice of homicide, theft or enslavement, be prepared to defend themselves against ...
Human trafficking is a very large illegal market. Human trafficking moves people into forced labor, prostitution, child armies, and the market for human organs. In 2021, it was estimated that there were 40 million people trapped in modern enslavement worldwide. One in four of them are children...