INDIVIDUALITY ......

What crushes individuality the most in life is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it's enforced by the will of god, through his religions, or the will of men, they all use the same brutal ways and fear tactics and strategies, to suppress people and individuals and individuality.

It is obvious that the Western and modern view of the value of individuality, took some serious efforts and long sacrifices, extending from the fall of the western Roman empire to the 1300 and 1400 years of the Christian era . Whereby the different primitive societies of Europe started slowly an age of emancipation, and the church was slowed down and became more of a silent witness to a more European influenced progress at the hands of individuality, and enlightened individuals all through the old continent .

Even classical Papal power got diminished with many kings and princes rebelling, and after the Protestant upheaval and its migration to America . Classically , Greeks, Romans, and later European middle-ages encouraged individualism and personal achievement and creativity, rivalry and enlightenment, free thinking and liberalism, until it almost became the reigning trait of modern life in the West. While the other two Monotheistic cousins, Judaism and Islam suppressed it for the benefit of God and the entire religious hierarchy and flock of believers .

This aspect of European and later Western history led to more liberty and freedom and diversity, to more individualistic creativity within their societies than the others, where they led invariably to more oppression , closure of the minds and the imposition of more restrictive rules and religious laws upon  individuals and society .

The firm belief that justice, dignity and basic human rights, mean conformity and total obedience to religion, was enforced by all religious institutions, and generally only intoxicated with power tyrants dared to outmaneuver religious powers to their benefit. Otherwise everyone must dress like all others, and every woman is ordained to her role of house-wife and mother .

Religious principles and ideas of improvement basically consist in persuading or literally forcing all others to be as good as ourselves, individuality has no place in our sphere and societies, and every believer has to keep fighting it . Every religion and every religious group, historically or presently   aspire to bring about obedience and a general similarity among mankind, and surely at least among their compatriots . All and any deviation is contrary to the nature of the divine and is considered impious, immoral, even monstrous .

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ORTHODOX RELIGIOSITY ......

Two days ago ,Israel's high court reversed and rescinded an old law of their military draft, normally all 18 years old have to serve their military for almost 3 years for the males and 2 for females, only orthodox Jews were exempt for religious reasons, the court considered it unfair to other and all the young people and idol-worshipers , some resistance to the measure is surely to be expected .

For all religions and religious systems, faith and the love of god and his laws , are not good in themselves, they're only good when they are part of virtue, bad when part of vice. Pretending and the continuous declaration of absolute faith, like other emotions must be disciplined, if it is not to collapse and be dominated by cruelty and savagery .

Gone are the days when Musslems , Jews or others can fool the world by scenes of piety , repeated prayers and physical rituals whether in front of walls or mass prayers on bear streets and open public spaces . convincing themselves and younger adepts that the love of god is strictly reserved for them the lucky and chosen ones, allowing them all sorts of privileges in this life and the next one .

Wearing shorter dresses or longer ones for both men and women, with specific long beards and peyot and side locks , while savagely killing innocent kids at concerts or at a military check point or driving a vehicle into a crowd , are not compatible with godly philosophy no matter what side you're on and do not convince anyone nowadays . Modern Israelis as historic Jews in Europe who for centuries isolated themselves in ghettos, trying to preserve a way of life and philosophy were leading the way for modern Musslem salafis  mostly immigrants to Europe and the Western hemisphere, both groups were and continue to be persecuted , isolated and loathed .

Rebellion against religious governed societies, their logic and policies, is clearly justified, when their laws are seen as usurping the sovereignty of other people, this is what made it possible, more or less, for the privatization of religion in Western and some Eastern developed societies, and the development of political orders in which the rights and duties of the citizens take precedence over religious orders , religious hierarchies and their needs .

We should not be intimidated at all or subdued into feeling guilty, or at fault toward religious fervor, as their resentment will only intensify . The Judeo/Islamic inheritance versus modernity and post modernity . Both committing tragedies in the name of their faith and gods, only to prove themselves against any triumph of dignity over destruction, and compassion over despair, people in our times who loudly claim that their religion supersedes the legal worldly constitution and judiciary laws of their countries of residence should have no place in the mentioned countries .

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THE PLAN .....

The old religion of the ancients, is being used, exploited and adapted to modern purposes, politics and ways of life. To small spheres of local interests which is exerting their theft, their brutality and their hold on the lands.

Unlike the later Christianity or even at certain stages Islam, the Jewish peoples considered the relation between their god and themselves founded on a well drawn and binding covenant, in which the allegiance and obedience to YHWH only comes after he fulfills certain obligations toward the Jews, and only Jews, an exchange of promises if you like , exactly like any modern contract, and this contract is based primarily on a promise of land, land that was captured savagely from different indigent native populations throughout history, by slaughter, annihilation and deportation, brutality and deceit . Be it the Canaanites or the Palestinians .

The Jewish peoples and their leaders always regarded these promised lands not as independent or inhabited lands, but as inherited lands, to be passed on from generation to generation, whenever available and convenient, and this is exactly how they justify the cruelty and barbarism historically or in our own times, god lives among them, he maintains a real presence among them and he is bound by his promises, mainly the gift of land, hence it's theirs in its entirety eternally, it makes no difference if they left it even for periods exceeding 15 centuries, who's to argue the will of god .

To justify all of this very convenient strategy and its governing covenant, in modern times, facing a more defiant world to their schemes, a rigorous reinstatement and reinforcement of religiosity was and continues to be necessary, thus the unconditional and unrestricted backing of ultra orthodox Jewish different madrasas, their Hakhams and rabbis, the explicit encouragement of all colors of religious folklore, dresses and religious hair styles, enforcing Sabbaths to the letter, all combined to fulfill their part of the contract toward Elohim, and proving to the world that it is a godly affair, never to be questioned or doubted .

Unfortunately in our modern times, Israel and its Zionist leadership and population are becoming a beacon , a model to many entities, trying to copy their Western backed tactics, Saudi Arabia and Iran are two clear examples, thus the love/hate relationship, the rivalry in excessive religiosity and its folklore, to pass and realize otherwise unacceptable agendas of hegemonic and expansionist policies and dreams. The alt right in the West is keeping an open eye for sure, hoping for their own agendas.

The plan ;  I believe we will witness in my life time, the creation of three major areas governing the totality of the Middle-East , one Israeli consisting of actual Israel plus all presently occupied territories, a chunk of Lebanon and Syria, most of Jordan and Sinai. The second one is Saudi engulfing all of its Arab neighbors plus a total hold over Egypt, Yemen and Sudan. The third is Iranian extending its crescent over Iraq, Syria and the rest of Lebanon.

Only then real peace could be negotiated and possibly realized. The Western super powers could share their influence and interests by extending their wings over the Israeli and Saudi sides, while Russia and to a lesser extend China could have the Iranian side. Turkey will go back to its normal size including or bordering some of the Kurdish lands and populations. All based on the will of God of course, his religions and ethnic divides .  

As always, all my thanks to all .