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Paul
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Joseph rises like a cork—from foreign slave to headman in three easy lessons. Nothing succeeds like success. But the secret of his success is that Joseph brings with him a piece of dream-time. Which is the world of biological life, the processes of nature, and the purposes of God. To
interpret a dream is to read a sequence of hieroglyphs in the book of nature.
— Aug 04, 2025 03:31PM
interpret a dream is to read a sequence of hieroglyphs in the book of nature.
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Paul
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Today I think: without rage, love is helpless. We are not yet
angry enough. Not yet bitter enough. I look at the paper with
its headlines as black as vultures and its old bad news. The
disappeared, like ghosts of the shine on their rulers’ boots. My
bread tastes like sand. I finish my coffee and try to forget
what I know. The woman of whom we are portions has not yet
demanded justice.
— Sep 16, 2025 06:22PM
angry enough. Not yet bitter enough. I look at the paper with
its headlines as black as vultures and its old bad news. The
disappeared, like ghosts of the shine on their rulers’ boots. My
bread tastes like sand. I finish my coffee and try to forget
what I know. The woman of whom we are portions has not yet
demanded justice.
Paul
is on page 219
Freedom confuses us; absence of freedom destroys us.
Violence in the hand, stupidity in the mind.
Hatred of others is a knife at your own heart.
Tolerance of others is dinner with your mother once a week.
Love of others is the jackpot, the quarter in the slot, the bank
balances pouring over your hands.
Join the army, travel to exotic places, meet interesting new
people and kill them.
Is it right to kill people? No,
— Sep 09, 2025 06:34PM
Violence in the hand, stupidity in the mind.
Hatred of others is a knife at your own heart.
Tolerance of others is dinner with your mother once a week.
Love of others is the jackpot, the quarter in the slot, the bank
balances pouring over your hands.
Join the army, travel to exotic places, meet interesting new
people and kill them.
Is it right to kill people? No,
Paul
is on page 159
It is written that he was meek,
That he was a great teacher,
Moshe rabbenu. Lies. A brutal joke.
Crazy as a bedbug
Would be more like it.
He never saw God.
He hallucinated that screaming zero,
That noisy hole, it lived nowhere, it was a
Mass hallucination. Not
Even the first item did
He understand of what
People need: law and order,
Rules and regulations, something
To touch, something solid, a
Little bit of peace
— Aug 25, 2025 02:43PM
That he was a great teacher,
Moshe rabbenu. Lies. A brutal joke.
Crazy as a bedbug
Would be more like it.
He never saw God.
He hallucinated that screaming zero,
That noisy hole, it lived nowhere, it was a
Mass hallucination. Not
Even the first item did
He understand of what
People need: law and order,
Rules and regulations, something
To touch, something solid, a
Little bit of peace
Paul
is on page 145
With a rule of law composed by God instead of a king. A nation without a king. With stress on social justice; commandments of generosity to
the poor; periodic release of debts and slaves; periodic release
of the land, which it is understood belongs to God, not to
human beings, so that all “private property” is temporary.
— Aug 17, 2025 10:50AM
the poor; periodic release of debts and slaves; periodic release
of the land, which it is understood belongs to God, not to
human beings, so that all “private property” is temporary.
Paul
is on page 126
Child of compassion, child of wrath. Moses is Egyptian, he is
Hebrew, he is both/neither, he is insider/outsider, he is compressed/torn. Child of the mothers in the world of the fathers. He is the locus of gain/loss, he is where another division begins. Between the God of the universe and the God of a tribe, between inclusion and exclusion, between the imperative of liberty and the imperative of law, explodes Moses.
— Aug 11, 2025 06:46PM
Hebrew, he is both/neither, he is insider/outsider, he is compressed/torn. Child of the mothers in the world of the fathers. He is the locus of gain/loss, he is where another division begins. Between the God of the universe and the God of a tribe, between inclusion and exclusion, between the imperative of liberty and the imperative of law, explodes Moses.
