Comments on: Poverty and terror, again http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3977 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:03:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sabba Hillel http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3977/comment-page-1#comment-29639 Sabba Hillel Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:35:53 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3977#comment-29639 <blockquote>I don’t know why Gush Emunim is thrown in. It is not a terror group.)</blockquote> I think that he deliberately threw in an Israeli <b>activist</b> (decidedly <b>not</b> terrorist) group in order to show that the connection is activism <b>first</b>, terrorism <b>second</b>. That is, the same type of people who were active in the Civil Rights marches of the 60's, Gandhi's protests against the British, the Gush Emunim protests against "Disengagement", when brainwashed and turned insane by their society could become the Arab terrorists that we see today. It reminds me of the talmudic comment that because man has free will, he can become <b>higher</b> than the angels or <b>lower</b> than the animals. Similarly we have the saying <blockquote>The greater the person, the greater the Yetzer Hara</blockquote> We see in C. S. Lewis' <i>The Screwtape Letters</i> the idea that the greater the person, the greater <i>saint</i> or <i>sinner</i> he can become. In this case, the terrorists have been seduced into evil and have used the strength that could have raised them to Paradise to cast themselves into Hell. (Religious reference deliberate because of what they have been brainwashed into thinking would be their fate).

I don’t know why Gush Emunim is thrown in. It is not a terror group.)

I think that he deliberately threw in an Israeli activist (decidedly not terrorist) group in order to show that the connection is activism first, terrorism second. That is, the same type of people who were active in the Civil Rights marches of the 60’s, Gandhi’s protests against the British, the Gush Emunim protests against “Disengagement”, when brainwashed and turned insane by their society could become the Arab terrorists that we see today.

It reminds me of the talmudic comment that because man has free will, he can become higher than the angels or lower than the animals.

Similarly we have the saying

The greater the person, the greater the Yetzer Hara

We see in C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters the idea that the greater the person, the greater saint or sinner he can become.

In this case, the terrorists have been seduced into evil and have used the strength that could have raised them to Paradise to cast themselves into Hell. (Religious reference deliberate because of what they have been brainwashed into thinking would be their fate).

]]> By: Matt http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3977/comment-page-1#comment-29637 Matt Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:03:50 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/13/3977#comment-29637 There are other aspects of the book that are not covered in detail in the article you are reference. A former student of Kruger's statistics class gives his own review here that covers a few other aspects of the book: http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/economist/53358 There are other aspects of the book that are not covered in detail in the article you are reference. A former student of Kruger’s statistics class gives his own review here that covers a few other aspects of the book:

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/economist/53358

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