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In February 1949 kibbutz Lavi was founded in eastern Lower Galilee, eight miles west of Tiberias. The kibbutz based its economy on field crops, vineyards and dairy cattle. Its first settlers were members of the British Bnei Akiva religious
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I stayed at Kibbutz Lavi for 5 days in 1983.
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“Ciano also heard hints “of the Fuehrer’s tender feelings for a beautiful girl. She is twenty years old, with beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body. Her name is Sigrid von Lappus. They see each other frequently and intimately.” (The Ciano Diaries, p. 85.)”
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
“He calls religious faith “an attempt to procure a certainty of happiness and a protection against suffering through a delusional remolding of reality . . . and no one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.” Nevertheless, Freud acknowledges that one’s worldview can not only lessen unhappiness, but can also influence the degree of happiness one experiences. He expresses envy that his worldview offers little in this regard.”
― The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
― The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
“2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;”
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
“(Britain had 84 battleships and battlecruisers, including 35 modern battleships; compared, respectively, with Germany’s 48 and 20 and the United States’s 41 and 18. France, Japan, Italy, Russia, and Austria-Hungary trailed.)”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
“After hearing a shipboard sermon, a dose of the old-time religion, he trained his critical faculties on Christianity and mocked the notion of Christ sacrificing His life for humanity. “If Christ was God, then the crucifixion is without dignity. It is merely ridiculous, for to endure several hours’ pain is nothing heroic in God, in any case.”[106] He pointed out that “every girl takes a risk superior to that when she marries & subjects herself to the probable pains of childbirth indefinitely repeated.”[107]”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
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