So check out the haircut:
https://youtu.be/v4aJIJa0XDI
Was talking to some lady at church the day after, on Sunday morning Sydney time. I don't know if she's a reincarnated Bolshevik or what her deal is but she sure didn't seem to understand the notion of symbolism. We were talking about the story of Jonas in the old testament and was saying how Swedenborg says a whale represents an entire body of teachings, such as a religion. Maybe even an entire language, who knows. That whales can't swallow people. That a shark can't swallow an orange in fact. But she couldn't grasp the concept of symbolism, such as fish represent facts.
hours later, so today, for my birthday -- took the kids to Taronga zoo for second time running -- it's becoming a tradition already --- the entry is free on birthdays and kids got in free today although technically alex should have been paid for --- anyway --- watching the seal show, and thinking about what sweedenborg might have said was the symbolical import of the seal, as opposed to fish or whales, I mean really, the truth is, I couldn't give a shit..... about the old testament --- I know it's real, and I really believe if you really want to understand it's symbology, you should read sweedenborg's Arcanum celestial -- about a ten to fifteen tome encyclopaedia explaining the old testament in great detail, book by book.... even if you're a hardcore jewish rabbi - you would actually learn a lot from it..... look lately I've been reading the quran for the first time ever (in this life at least) and it goes into a great deal of detail about the old testament --- in the context of the quran, I don't mind reading about the old testament, but generally I can tell you it doesn't mean a lot to me personally........ I understand Christians completely misunderstand the new testament, especially the gospels and that's fine, that's their concern........... the Koran says many factual things about Jesus and in general, I can tell you, the quran is the real thing, it is a real message from God - it's not fake......... if that makes me a muslim, fine..... if I go and eat some pork after that and that makes me an apostate according to isis or whoever, fine, I don't care............ on the bbc recently they were talking about a principle in the Koran: if a woman gets a divorce, she cannot remarry her divorced husband without marrying some other guy first. This is in the Koran in black and white, from God. If you can't believe that, that's your affair. I don't care. I believe it. Whether I would live by it or no is like if i'm going to avoid pork or practice fasting during Ramadan. How serious a muslim would I be? let me tell you anyway, they have this cottage industry in England, muslims on facebook arrange brief short term marriages for women that have divorced the father of their children and then want to get back with them. Problem with industry as bbc explained it: the phoney short term husbands do not provide the women a dowry. The Koran is clear about providing a wife with a dowry, you have to do it. There are rules: you don't kick her out of the house, you don't like her, you go somewhere else and find a woman to take care of her, kind of like me and my mate and our current situation. If she wants to divorce me, and I want to be a big muslim, I say no to taking her back on board unless she goes and marries some other guy first and divorces him.
Suicide bombing, as in Pakistan, all through Iraq, isis, etc: big no no. The Koran is clear: suicide from hostility and wrongdoing is wrong. The Koran prohibits even aggression. I recently used an example when talking to a Lebanese guy of a fighter pilot woman from the kingdom of Jordan dropping bombs on isis: she's not aggressive, she flies, she presses the button to drop the bomb, she craps in her nappy, she lands the plane. That's not aggressive. If she kills believers, she goes to hell, if she kills infidels in a justified way, she's fine. Probably she'll have some hell to pay. The Koran says that there's no sin God cannot pardon. Where regular muslims and I might disagree, same as with Christians is with the concept of reincarnation. I've already outlined how Christians have misunderstood the allusions to reincarnation in the gospels, example with the question about if the blind man had sinned in order to be born blind and also with jesus outright saying Elijah had reincarnated as john the Baptist. Christians are in denial. Witness the suffering they cause in Cambodia with their do-gooder instigation of the orphanage industry there to unscrupulous devils there exploiting poor parents to surrender their children to their orphanages for the do-gooder idiot Christians. Christians can be dangerous in their ignorance. Now the Koran makes perfect sense to me and it doesn't alter my belief in reincarnation one iota. In fact, the Koran refers to it as the resurrection and the hereafter. The spiritual states of suffering the Koran refers to as the Fire, and the spiritual state of peace the Koran refers to as gardens under which rivers run (in paradise) -- these states are to be had in the incarnate and disincarnate planes. The question of Jinns (referred to in the Koran) and devils and satans, the souls of evil and wicked people, of which there are many in the world today, without question, Lao Tzu refers to the overly rich as robber-barons. Generally the evil will go to hell in the disincarnate plane I would think, on some level, and reincarnate in a hellish state, here on earth or a similar planet.. Nothing I read in the Koran contradicts this in any way. That some souls may be subjected to everlasting torment and be snuffed out, I find nothing in the Koran to contradict, neither that even evil souls can be redeemed by God somehow, I find nothing in the Koran to contradict. I can see nothing in the Koran, even translated in English, to disprove in any way that it is a genuine message from God, through some archangel like Gabriel, to Mohammed. I wouldn't give an absolute flying shit if some muslim were offended by my ideas or actions, like occasionally eating pork, or loving jews and americans or American football or disapproving suicide bombers or suicide bombing as a proper Islamic mode of tactics. Neither would I give a shit if some person with some bigotry against the Koran, who hasn't even bothered to read it, but just assumes it must be crap coz so many so-called muslims look like trouble. I can tell you, there are definitely paradoxical statements in the Koran: on one hand, be severe with the infidel, crucify them in war, chop of their hand and foot on opposite sides of the body, ra ra ra. On the other hand, be merciful and kind to all, never practice aggression. It's contradictory seeming at times. Anyway, it's definitely an interesting read, and I wouldn't dismiss reading it just because you don't like some muslims.
Let me tell you about the time my Nissan maxima with a sunroof I bought in Hollywood was stolen from me by some punk kids I was road tripping with from whale beach in los angeles: I started pissing and moaning: f*cking americans! stole my car! some guy said to me: don't blame me for stealing your car just coz i'm American, I never stole your car! there you have it. How about the time I was pissed off on some bus in santa monica or somewhere and decided to throw a tantrum on the way out: f*cking stupid americans! f*ck you dumbarses! and stormed off the bus. What did they do wrong? I was just having a lot of culture shock and mental stress to deal with and having a tough day, maybe Fahrenheit was too much for me to deal with and miles being I was raised with the metric system, who knows? how can I blame all the americans for that? it's the same with the muslims. Sure the Koran says you can eat meat, it doesn't say you have to. Everyone knows if you don't eat meat you'll be more pacific. The Koran says you can marry your cousin, it doesn't mean you have to, everyone knows if everyone marries their cousins, ten generations later you will have retards, that's what we have in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and loads of countries like that, that's an issue. I can tell you buddy, the Koran is a splendid Koran, its no joke and it's not a lie. And America is a splendid America and it's no joke either. Being raised from catholic stock, I can tell you I had some confusion about marriage and divorce, but now I see in the Koran, it's a-ok, you just have to give the woman her dowry and not harass her nor commit adultery. So when I see all those americans getting legal divorces and remarrying, what do I think? I think they're a bunch of muslims and God's a-ok with it all. And if God's ok with it, and the Koran proves it, then why should I feel confused if 50% or more of americans are divorcing and remarrying. If it's ok with God than who am I to second guess it?
multiple wives, man can, women can't. Makes sense to me, women will be too busy raising the kiddies anyway. I can't see a woman having four husbands simultaneously working, but a man, yeah, he'll be knocking around doing shit, running corporations and shit and having four wives to support, it makes sense and i'm not kidding. but the Koran says it's only justifiable in the case of concern for orphans. Anyone can really be an orphan, from what i'm seeing in the Koran, the whole planet is one big fat orphanage. Having said that, do I think these Saudi princes are real Islamic with their four wives? no, I think a lot of them are stingy arseholes that want a haram. The Koran is real clear that God hates stinginess. The Koran says women should hide their beauty from everyone except close family and maybe close friends too, that makes sense to me, I can't see anywhere in the Koran that women have to cover their entire bodies and leave tiny slits for the eyes or can't drive a car like the Saudis say. I think these Saudis are batshit crazy. Would I want to be one of George w bush's college buddies chaperoning one of these dopey Saudi princes around on his jet plane from one American city to another so he can buy a case of pink champagne somewhere? no, I think these Saudi princes are going to hell for being stingy and I think most of them don't give a shit about the orphans when they take on more than one wife. I know the Korans right when it says God sees everything. The ancient Egyptians had a symbol for that, the all seeing eye. I think the Korans great. I question crucifying people in war, or severing their body parts. But I think you can cut a thief's hand without severing it, but the arabs tell me in Arabic it says cut it clean off not just cut it. I don't know buddy, I tend to agree with the rosicrucians that all religion will end up going the way of the dodo, and water will possibly become very scarce too. Hey and if you want to drop some nukes on india Pakistan, you know the Koran says you can, it's definitely not sympathetic to polytheists, but just avoid killing any of the two hundred million muslims in india.
don't even get me started on what the Koran has to say about the old testament story of Lot and lewdness and homosexuality, let's not even go there homeys, please.
fish isn't so good al
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4&index=2&list=RDv4aJIJa0XDI
Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWhite House Senior Advisor and son-in-law to the president Jared Kushner (L) joins other cabinet members and senior members of the Trump administration during a news conference.
