To Chidi : This is no pontificating
Cornelius Hamelberg
The Devil's Workshop
The Chosen People’s Planet
Stockholm.
Sweden
27th of October 2024
Your friend again, “city’s just a jungle …
Chidi,
It’s early Sunday morning, I forgot my prayers etc, but today, you get a piece of diaspora history with this morning's sermon :
Re - not so poetic, your words :
“…and we will soon pontificate on how Israel should respond.
( Chidi Anthony Opara )
And he knows he shouldn't kill
Have a heart Chidi,
Looka here :
Sadly, oversensitive, irate feministic literary critics
do not feel fit to jump in, to lecture us about the toxic
crimes being perpetrated against humanity when to date
more than 20, 000 unarmed & unnamed women and children
have been slaughtered in cold blood, and that figure - still rising,
is passed off and parsed as “collateral damage”; O no , some of them
are more concerned about that needle in the haystack, namely Kamala's
lonely bottom, sitting down in the oval office or prancing on the campaign trail,
observing this all and pontificating like a pontiff: “ Israel has a right to defend itself”
She obviously thinks that she is Israel and when it comes to suppositions, I suppose that you also think that you are Israel just as some of the holy Zionist American rabbis who pray three times a day most likely also believe that they are Israel and those who oppose the Zionist state or want a two-state solution are “anti-Semites”, Palestinians or self-hating Jews
Yesterday, when I first read Ojogbon Falola’s posting “82 American Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Kamala Harris”, I thought that I would be more impressed if all the Rabbis in the world or all the American Rabbis, or at least 82 Orthodox American Rabbis endorsed DONALD TRUMP - since in my view the Orthodox Rabbis should have more moral clout than some of these Nobel Prize winners…even given that their Ahavat Yisrael is, or should or ought to be stronger than their “Ahavat United States of America” - and , hopefully, my saying that does not take us back to that dreadful Dreyfus affair - nor should the rabbis endorsing either candidate imply anything like the Dreyfus affair when after all, every sabbath they pray the Prayer for the Welfare of the United States .
On the sorry subject of ABORTION you have the right to bring it to the attention of the childless Kamala Harris and all the women and pro-abortion activists who chirp "A woman has the right to decide over her own body" that it’s because none of them were aborted that’s why they can be going around chanting “A women has the right to decide over her own body”
Many years ago at a local public square meeting in a little tittle-tattle altercation - again on the subject of abortion, the use of condoms etc, Sweden’s former MInister of Defence Anders Björck retorted to my Better Half, wanted to know if her father (Karl Kilbom) had used a condom would she be standing there saying what she was saying? I suppose I could call that kind of Parthian shot, the ultimate question that would apply to all of us mere mortals, the only exception of course being Jesus of Nazareth who we are told, according to The Apostles’ Creed , “was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.”
Also not poetry but almost, about suffering - including suffering, as skipper kperogi would say, “excruciating” torture and almost being translated into the kingdom of Yama, I invite you to read once again, if you have not already done so, the first few paragraphs of Mo Yan’s excruciating phantasmagoria, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out - enough to jolt your poetic imagination and to resurrect even the brain dead…
Many of the Saro people - the Ajayi Crowther people, mostly went to missionary schools, CMS Grammar School, Annie Walsh Memorial School, Methodist Boys High School, St Joseph's Convent, St Edwards Secondary School etc., and that explains their propensity for quoting - vastly - from the Bible ( King James Version) to the extent that many of the Psalms of David, many Biblical proverbs and other ethical passages in that book have been passed on, sometimes translated, parsed, adapted and absorbed into the Krio language and those who wield those passages ( like weapons) the holier-than-thou, especially as they get older, clobber you on the head with e.g. “friend of the world, enemy of God”, deeming themselves to be paragons of virtue, whilst those who went to e.g. the Prince Of Wales School, ( a non-religious School - where religion was not taught ) have tended to abide by Shakespeare and times without number you hear both the youngsters and the old boys telling the unfeeling miscreants to their face “ You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”
The Quran 2:74 : “Then, even after that, your hearts were hardened and became as rocks, or worse than rocks, for hardness. For indeed there are rocks from out which rivers gush, and indeed there are rocks which split asunder so that water floweth from them. And indeed there are rocks which fall down for the fear of Allah.”
Your friend Bob Dylan asks, ” But is your heart made out of stone? Or is it lime?
Solid Rock ?
Bamidbar / Numbers 20 : 7 - 12
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
"Take the staff and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, and speak to the rock in their presence so that it will give forth its water. You shall bring forth water for them from the rock and give the congregation and their livestock to drink
Moses took the staff from before the Lord as He had commanded him
Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation in front of the rock, and he said to them, "Now listen, you rebels, can we draw water for you from this rock?"
Moses raised his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, when an abundance of water gushed forth, and the congregation and their livestock drank.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Since you did not have faith in Me to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly to the Land which I have given them.
Marvin Gaye : “ Don’t punish me, with brutality, talk to me so you can see, What's Going On