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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How can I be likeable and/or seem confident? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: Yesterday, 7:01 pm
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Get involved in groups that focus on topics or activities that you personally are knowledgeable about. Many of us are likely to find such groups easier to participate in than in the kinds of social settings where people just engage in random chitchat. And a social setting in which you can win respec... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 28 Views: 1,431
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^ Regardless of whose fault the situation is, your desire to partition Hezbollah-land from the rest of Lebanon is certainly understandable. I hope this partition can be done peacefully. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 4:03 am
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Replies: 28 Views: 1,431
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If Hezbollah does decide to escalate, I would hazard a guess that it would likely be because of stuff like this. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 3:48 am
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Replies: 290 Views: 22,625
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It's true that most Anti-Zionists probably aren't Anti-Semites, however Anti-Zionism has its roots in Anti-Semitism, Seems to me anti-Zionism can have a variety of different "roots," depending on the person Most Jews before 1948 were opposed to Zionism. and one must question the motives o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 4:41 pm
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Replies: 28 Views: 1,431
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“Israel's assessment, said the official, is that Hezbollah is desperate to avoid a full-scale war with Israel, as are its Iranian backers. Hezbollah,” Where have we heard that one before? Even after October 7th still apparently overconfident. "Desperate" may be too strong a word, but it s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestine/Israel: 2-state solution vs. 1 binational state? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 12:21 am
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Replies: 50 Views: 2,193
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Whatever the best solution might turn out to be -- one-state, two-state, whatever -- the important question is how to get there, and how can Americans and other outsiders help, if at all. I just now came across the website of an organization called the Telos Group . According to its Who We Are page:... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestinian Christians |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 11:25 pm
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Replies: 50 Views: 2,537
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Kairos Palestine is a group of Palestinian Christians who, in December 2009, published the Kairos Document: A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering . Some responses to them, both favorable and unfavorable, are described in the Wikipedia article abou... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Zionism |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 8:49 pm
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Replies: 41 Views: 1,983
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 6:08 pm
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Replies: 2,055 Views: 60,724
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Israeli families of hostages, troops block aid convoys at Gaza border Israeli protesters, including families of Gaza hostages and deployed IDF soldiers, made their way to the Kerem Shalom crossing, between Israel and the Strip, on Wednesday morning to demonstrate against aid trucks crossing the bor... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Anti-racism and Fundamentalism |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 4:38 pm
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A lot depends on what exactly is meant by the term "whiteness," which to me seems like one of those slippery political words that could mean any number of different things, depending on who is using it. But see the Wikipedia article on Whiteness theory . Be that as it may, I would say that... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 3:10 pm
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Replies: 2,055 Views: 60,724
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NBC News Live blog The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has fired 12 aid workers accused of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, and has launched an investigation. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said yesterday that he was "horrified" by the allegations and t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Zionism |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 2:05 pm
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Replies: 41 Views: 1,983
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^ Looks like that organization Passages is primarily an Israel tourism agency for Christian students and also has a business networking group for people who have been on their tours. Doesn't look like a lobbying group as far as I can tell, but probably has a role in the overall Christian Zionist eco... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Bosnian democracy is too corrupt to be truly democratic |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 9:32 am
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Replies: 8 Views: 260
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I would be interested in your perspective on how all the ethnic hostility got started in the formerly united Yugoslavia. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Bosnian democracy is too corrupt to be truly democratic |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 9:26 am
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Replies: 8 Views: 260
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Critiques of Zionism by Jews |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 9:09 am
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Replies: 22 Views: 1,542
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Some organizations I learned about just now: 1) In Israel: Standing Together: Wikipedia | main website 2) In Canada: United Jewish People's Order: Wikipedia | Connexipedia | Winnipeg chapter | Morris Winchevsky School / Camp Naivelt | page on Canadian Jewish Heritage Network 3) In the U.S.A.: United... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evidence of Israel's genocidal intentions toward Gaza? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 27 Jan 2024, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 66 Views: 2,565
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