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Today, I have a real treat. I want to share the instagram feed of Sunn m’Cheaux. If you don’t already know who he is, he is a man of Gullah/Geechee decent (West African Creoles who were enslaved in South Carolina/Georgia barrier islands) and the first (and only) Gullah instructor at Harvard. He is a sociolinguist. He uses the hashtag #weoutcha. He’s impressive. I find his posts educational and thought provoking. I believe more people should hear his words. Below is a random sampling of his media.
Does he cause you to think about things a little harder, maybe a little deeper? Do you agree with him, or disagree? I’d love to hear your thoughts on his words.
Have a great weekend, StarKin!
**and Happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating.
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
My apologies that the comment link wasn’t working. It’s been corrected.
Thank you,
PrP
Loved that Jesus joke.
PrP, never heard of that guy before. But I am not a follower of Cheaux. Thanks for the heads up.
Stop mentioning Musk when talking about Mars. The idiot is all lip service.
I put a camera in the kitchen and caught my bitch pissing in my food. I tied her up and pissed down her throat. Then I cut it and sent the body along with the video to her parents. They burnt the bitch with the video and sent me her younger sister as a replacement. When she turns 13, I will show her the video of me pissing down her sister’s throat and the squirming she did as I slowly sliced her evil throat. That should show her how to be a good wife.
Dude, that was TMI.
I am going to put a camera in my kitchen.
Thanks PrP. Love to hear a nigger bitch.
Dwight Mann
LOL, nice.
Maybe if the Hymies would get some balls and start raping Palestinians, those camel fucking niggers would stop raping women and children.
I really doubt it since the reason most of those butchers join Hamas is to be able to force their miniature dicks into something other than dogs, camels, and donkeys.
I don’t think you get it. Arab men rape women because they think women are mearly a means of sexual pleasure. They have little if any respect for Arab women. When they do act as if they care, it is only for political purposes, We are but chattel to them to be bargained for like any other commodity.
George, George, lighten up. I hear that like their men are with money that Jew pussy is very tight.
I feel sorry for those men here who feel that putting down people because of their race or sex is okay.
I feel sorry for those men here who feel that putting down people because of their race or sex is okay.
PrP, I hear your blog plays well in Egypt and Lebanon. We are trying to sneak it into Iran.
When are the Israelis going to get the balls to flood the tunnels with sea water. There are plenty of ducts to start the process with. The sooner they drown those rapists the better. My little cousin was raped and they stuck a gun up his rectum and murdered him. The UN and many others use a false equivalency to justify what those slaughterers did.
They are martyrs dying for the cause of the people of Palestine.
هذا صŘŮŠŘ
And if they get a little pussy or ass on the side so be it.
Aren’t you tired of hearing that “mass starvation” is about to happen in Gaza? When for god’s sake will those animals starve? Their men breed their women like cattle. No way can the Jews kill them off fast enough. They cry so loud about their plight caused by Israel attempting revenge for the atrocities done by their government of Hamas while they hardly mention the ghastly things their men did to women and children in Israel. Why they think their babies are more important that the lives of other mothers and their babies shows why we should ignore their cries for assistance.
I say they can’t be starved or blown up fast enough. No Arab country wants them in their country because their men are treacherous rapists and butchers of the defenseless. They hide among the women and children, using them as human shields. Cowards that only show their courage when they get to butcher unarmed men women and children. What the fuck do you gain by taking babies as hostages?
What kind of civilized human being accepts that from their soldiers as a means of warfare? Why should anyone care about them, if they do? I don’t care what happens to their disgusting to be raping brood. Let them be snuffed out now before they can grow big enough to use a gun to rape, torture, and murder unarmed men, women children and babies. Why do we even care what happens to them?
All this hate and vitriol, can’t we all just get along?
That’s nice Rachael, but wait until they are forcing dick up your tight ass and then come back and ask for understanding? You fucking hypocrite.
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Governments spying on us Big Brother-style is nothing new. The governments of some countries are more blatant and invasive than others at doing so, but at this point, it’s to be expected that it happens almost everywhere to some degree—even the United States, as the Edward Snowden debacle showed us 10 years ago. Now, a new report indicates governments are monitoring push notifications as an information source.
In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) raised concerns about governments potentially intercepting or otherwise gaining access to push notifications delivered to users’ phones. The governments that are implicated in this practice are not laid out in the letter, but the senator said that foreign officials were requesting push notification data from Apple and Google. In a statement to Reuters, Apple said that “in this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” going on to add that “now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”
Perhaps more worryingly is the fact that the US government itself also seems to be implicated in this practice. In a recently surfaced search warrant request by a court in May 2020, an FBI agent explains in a subsection that these push tokens are stored on the servers of tech companies like Apple and Google and can help identify specific devices. It’s not clear whether the government went ahead and requested information from both companies in this specific case, but according to a source, it’s something that both the US government and other foreign governments (not identified, but described as “democracies allied to the United States”) have been doing in certain cases.
By looking at a phone’s push notifications, you can get a pretty good gist of what’s happening on that phone or get identifying details about specific devices/users. Most of them go through Google and Apple before reaching your phone, so they’re relatively easy to intercept if you can get those companies to comply with a request.
Your government is probably not looking daily at the notifications going into your phone, but if they have a reason to, they might do it.
The immortal is capable of giving himself anterograde amnesia at will. That is the way he makes hisself unable to form new memories after the date of the event that he uses to cause the condition.
Interesting. How far in the future after the event does that last? Can you give an example?
For those of you willing to sexually expose someone: Content that is initially made in a consensual context, which is then distributed in a non-consensual context digitally, is a crime. Just because someone consented to share something in one particular context doesn’t mean that it is or should be fair game for the whole world to see.
Choosing to share content, online or in whatever medium, with select people with the understanding that it will disappear and can only be seen by those present at the time — when we’re talking live streaming, webcamming and Skype — that is a far cry from consenting for that content to be recorded and then broadly disseminated. And there is case law precedent confirming this.
He was called “filthy” because his skin was dark, unintelligent because he could barely speak English. When he arrived in this country, he was placed in a special class for immigrants. But, a few of his teachers saw something in the way he expressed himself, through his drawings, through his view of the world. He would soon master his new language.
His mother had made a difficult decision to take him, his two younger sisters and a half-brother to America, seeking a better life for their family. They settled in Boston’s South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community. The family would struggle and the young boy would lose one sister and his half-brother to tuberculosis. His mother would die of cancer.
He would write, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
He was born in poverty on January 6, 1883 in what is now modern day Lebanon.
He believed in love, he believed in peace, and he believed in understanding.
His name was Kahlil Gibran, and he is primarily known for his book, “The Prophet.” The book, published in 1923, would sell tens of millions of copies, making him the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
Published in 108 languages around the world, passages from “The Prophet” are quoted at weddings, in political speeches and at funerals, inspiring influential figures such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and David Bowie.
He was very outspoken, attacking hypocrisy and corruption. His books were burned in Beirut, and in America, he would receive death threats.
Gibran was the only member of his family to pursue scholastic education. His sisters were not allowed to enter school, primarily because of Middle Eastern traditions as well as financial difficulties. Gibran, however, was inspired by the strength of the women in his family, especially his mother. After one sister, his mother, and his half-brother died, his other sister, Mariana would support Gibran and herself by working at a dressmaker’s shop.
Of his mother, he would write:
“The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother,’ and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My mother.’ It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.”
Gibran would later champion the cause of women’s emancipation and education.
He believed that “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”
In a poem to new immigrants, he would write, “I believe you can say to the founders of this great nation. ‘Here I am. A youth. A young tree. Whose roots were plucked from the hills of Lebanon. Yet I am deeply rooted here. And I would be fruitful.'”
He would write in “The Prophet”:
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
Why can Jews pray in a mosque but they can’t pray in a church?
I am Jewish and I consider Islam to be a sister religion of Judaism.
Both Jews and Muslims have practices that are specific to both faiths and that’s ok too. Judaism, however, does not make any universal claims to be the only way.
Political differences aside, at their core……in terms of fundamental beliefs….the differences between the two are no bigger than “this line ——————-”.
If a Muslim would reach out and invite me to pray at his/her mosque….I would gladly accept.
And let me clarify one thing…..
Yes, I know about the requirement of a minyan…..yes, however, any single conversation with God is a prayer. If you are alone…..happy or perhaps even in trouble….yes, you can talk directly with HaShem. You do not need a minyan to empty your heart to HaShem. You and HaShem form a majority.
Imagine the hubris or ego required to believe that a Being(s) that could create a Universe with all the possible worlds that too are occupied with intelligent entities, is just sitting around waiting on a communication from you. That is your God moment.
Humans are creating human brains and empowering them with computer skills. Soon the secrets of terraforming will be theirs. Why not destroy them now before they pollute the Universe with creed and violence?
There will be no destroying. There is enough violence in the Universe without considering what humans could bring to the equation. Besides they are too primitive to develop the means to traverse their solar system much less the “Universe.” Your suggestions implies deeper intentions.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-built-a-functional-computer-with-human-brain-tissue?fbclid=IwAR2kZcSXHCtrjsmKwY39hA9ewv8E9MPL7X5NrxvdkNpq-u8bFhKZAB_by2o
PrP, I listened to the videos that you posted of Sunn m’Cheaux. I agree, he is thought provoking. His quick pace makes me need to listen to him a few times to make sure that I understand his message/point. I’m following him. Not sure if I agree with everything he says but his pov definitely makes me ponder. Thanks for sharing.
I hope all is well with you.
Thank you for watching them and responding. I’m doing well. I hope you are too!