Month: June 2025 – ט״ז בסיון תשפ״ה

‘In Time, We Come To Find the World Is Worth Believing In’

Q&A with Nick Cave:

Following the last few years I’m feeling empty and more cynical than ever. I’m losing faith in other people, and I’m scared to pass these feelings to my little son. Do you still believe in Us (human beings)?

VALERIO, STOCKHOLM (AND ROME), SWEDEN (AND ITALY)

Answer:

Dear Valerio,

You are right to be worried about your growing feelings of cynicism and you need to take action to protect yourself and those around you, especially your child. Cynicism is not a neutral position — and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and unbelievably destructive. In my view, it is the most common and easy of evils.

I know this because much of my early life was spent holding the world and the people in it in contempt. It was a position both seductive and indulgent. The truth is, I was young and had no idea what was coming down the line. I lacked the knowledge, the foresight, the self-awareness. I just didn’t know. It took a devastation to teach me the preciousness of life and the essential goodness of people. It took a devastation to reveal the precariousness of the world, of its very soul, to understand that it was crying out for help. It took a devastation to understand the idea of mortal value, and it took a devastation to find hope.

Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, Valerio, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes, keeps the devil down in the hole. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending. It says the world is worth believing in. In time, we come to find that it is so.

Love, Nick

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Dying Waiting for the ER? Just Say You Want a Measles Shot…

Rabbi Chananya Weissman quotes a government propaganda campaign for a measles vaccine (same as was done for the Corona shots):

“Due to an increase in morbidity, the response to give vaccinations has been increased and reception hours at baby clinics and health clinics have been expanded, and it is possible to arrive without an appointment.”

Rabbi Weissman trenchantly comments:

If you need an MRI in Israel, you will probably have to wait months. If you need to see a medical specialist, the same is generally true as well. When your appointment finally arrives, you must show up early, and then expect to wait an hour or more anyway, and there is nothing you can do about it.

If you have a stroke and go to the emergency room, you might wait 9 hours or more for them to find you a bed and take care of you, while you languish among all the other people screaming in pain and begging for help. (I experienced this personally with someone close to me who had a stroke, which they confirmed on arrival, but only received care 9 hours later after I called the management and threatened to call every donor named on the wall and report what’s going on — they magically found him a bed shortly thereafter).

But if you want a measles shot, just walk right in unannounced and they will be HAPPY to stop everything and inject you or your child. Go right to the front of the line.

Because they care about you and your health. That’s their top priority.

Maybe ER patients should say they want a measles shot, and by the way, can you do something about the stroke, too…

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Exactly! And I’m writing down the tip about invoking the hospital’s donors.

Satanyahoo Directly Arms Our Enemies!

Remember how the Right yelled at Rabin ym”sh: “Don’t give them guns!”? In his defense, at least this wasn’t yet tested by fire. Satanyahoo is now, after everything, once more handing our Azan enemies guns…

Resettling our Aza is “not practical”, but giving them guns is?!

Quoting the “Jewish Insider”:

Following reports in recent weeks that Israel was working with a gang led by Yasser Abu Shabab based in Rafah in southern Gaza, Avigdor Liberman, the former defense minister and current opposition lawmaker, said on Kan radio that “Israel provided assault rifles and light arms to crime families in Gaza, on Netanyahu’s orders … These are the equivalent of ISIS in Gaza.”

Instead of lying and denying, the PMO admittedly adopts the advice of the very people who should be rotting on crosses; “the recommendation of the heads of the security establishment”!

Antiwar.com says this was also confirmed by the American State Department.

The “Conceptziya” hasn’t budged:

Liberman compared giving the Al Shabab militia guns to Netanyahu allowing Qatar to send aid to Gaza, based on an idea that keeping Palestinians divided is better for Israel.

“The prime minister of Oct. 7 hasn’t learned anything and is still continuing with the same idea that led us to the greatest massacre in the history of the state,” Liberman posted on X.

Tough-tongued Ben Gvir, naturally, chose to remain silent.

Read the rest here…