Interesting updates from Porter’s Pensées
Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr. Oohay
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay,
Coming to think of it
there’s the saying,
“marriages are made in heaven”
Re- Your Parthian shot, I must say
that’s a very interesting question you raise,
both the "ordinary" and the extra-ordinary,
Next stage both you and the solipsist,
the big born fool, the little born fool, the wo-
man of extraordinary intelligence start
doubting your own minds, I mean, start
doubting the veracity of your own minds ,
the truth/s of your own sensory perceptions,
speak less of the “extra-sensory perception”
All alone, Moshe Rabbeinu and the burning bush,
all that alleged prophetic pre-cognition according to,
not The Book of Revelations, the very last book
of the New Testament according to Saint John,
which according to the Book Review by Professor
Bernard Porter “would not look out of place in a
collection of supernatural horror stories”,
just as according to Shakespeare’s fantasy,
his fetid imagination, hallucinating,
premeditated murderer
Macbeth guilty as hell, yells,
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”
And what if, historically speaking,” the children of Israel" were never in Egypt ,there were no fairy tales, no ten plagues of Egypt , no miraculous parting of the Red Sea / Sea of Reeds, no thunder and lightning on the mountain ?
No problem : From 19 Oct 2024, “We begin the study of the Torah with the realisation that the Torah is not a history book, but the charter of Man’s mission in the universe. ”etc etc etc
If I read you rightly both the subjective and objective verification of be it the truth/s of whoever and whatever, become problematic once you add “ - ism” to them, because the subject then becomes amplified, almost borderless, be it Christ (Christ-ism) Judah ( Judah-ism) Buddha ( Buddha-ism) Marx (Marx-ism) Capital (Capital-ism) Tao (Tao-ism) Tribe (Tribe-ism) Race ( Race-ism), intellectual ( intellectual-ism ) Zion ( Zion-ism)
From the abstract to the concrete: With so many thoughts pervading/ polluting/ decorating the atmosphere, megalomaniacal MAGA thoughts about visionary Trump’s Great American Empire, God’s earthly Kingdom / Paradise, ”The New Jerusalem” / the New New York on the horizon - next stage of the Brave New World & the Great New American Empire, the annexation and amalgamation of Greenland, Canada, Trump’s playboy, playground dreams of transforming the tragedy of Gaza into the New Middle East's Riviera, and maybe when those two heads, Jared Kushner, and the war criminal Netanyahu get together, some more secret heady tête-à-tête to further plot “The New Middle East” they have been dreaming about, namely Eretz Israel HaShlema -
Well, to put those two wannabe empires, the MAGA American Empire (with Trump as Emperor) and Eretz Israel HaShlema with Netanyahu as the first horseman of the Apocalypse, into perspective, feet on the ground, I revisited Bernard Porter’s immensely readable book British Imperial. What the Empire Wasn't …and I assure you that even the first 42 pages freely available in that link, should help put those two dreams in perspective…
Cornelius Hamelberg
Retrospectively, the same search terms from October 19, 2024
Lawrence Wilkerson REVEALS: Iran’s Secret Weapon from Russia Crushing Israel & U.S Military Strength
Scott Ritter: REVEALS: Iran's Devastating Retaliation Plan Erase Israel from the Map! West Rocked!
Birds of the same feather : Trump and his friend
How cynical can one man be ?
The answer my friend, is Blowin’ in the Wind
God is not mocked. After bombing Iran’s nuclear research centres to his own satisfaction, “ totally obliterated “ he boasts , in eternal gratitude his friend Netanyahu the war criminal has the gumption to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Pure cynicism
This was heavy,
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Dr. Oohay
Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay,
These are the opening verses of Chapter 2 of The Quran : al-Baqarah: The Cow
( emphasis, mine)
1 Alif. Lam. Mim.
2 This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil).
3 Who believe in the Unseen, and establish worship, and spend of that We have bestowed upon them;
4 And who believe in that which is revealed unto thee (Muhammad) and that which was revealed before thee, and are certain of the Hereafter.
5 These depend on guidance from their Lord. These are the successful.
As to contemporary, post-enlightenment awareness/ consciousness/ perceptions of reality, there are those who faithfully persist in praying to Jesus , with the understanding that Jesus is listening to their prayers and can hear them when they pray to him or make requests to the Almighty, in his name, according to what Jesus is reported to have said in John 14:13
The premise is that existence itself must have a creator and those are the kinds of layman questions that Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking have expressed their views.,
These days, post-enlightenment sceptics are putting out a lot of materials in support of theses such as “ Moses never existed “ and “Jesus never existed”
Meanwhile, you and your antipathy towards “ isms” !
When last did you truck with these Four Horsemen of Atheism : Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens ?
Who was it that said that there was a time when nothing existed?
It should be very interesting to have e.g. Bishop David Oyedepo on a soul-winning exclusive on Toyin Falola Interviews…
Me? I like Pope Leo XIV and check him out regularly on YouTube
I also like Bernie Sanders
Interesting:
Cornelius Hamelberg
Further updates :
August 2025 ( https://bernardjporter.com/2025/08/)
Some historical perspectives on Terrorism , on Trump and History and most poignantly
Trump In History (about the final judgement (in the good news according to the Beatles, it’s “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. All good children go to heaven” - but for now, nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, for all we know, on the 10th of October the buzz of buzzes could be “Trump has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize”
September ( https://bernardjporter.com/2025/09/
Includes Misery ( understandably) Starmer, Trump and the King ( quite alarming )
Christian Nationalism (an update Bertrand Russell could have added to his