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On this day in 1944, heartless Winston Churchill refused a ceasefire and continued the genocidal attack on Nazi Germany.
As we well know now, far more German civilians have died in the war, which makes them the victims and Britain the war criminal.
The best time for a ceasefire is before you launch a barbaric, sadistic terrorist attack. Those who instigate wars aren't entitled to a "time out."
By: Neil Johnston
Published: Oct 25, 2022
It aimed to encourage students to speak more “inclusively” and not fall foul of those who may be offended by sex- specific pronouns. But the University of Cambridge’s decision to say Auf Wiedersehen to teaching gendered German has prompted warnings from linguists that students risk making a fool of themselves when talking with native speakers.
Undergraduates paying £9,250 a year have been urged to use “inclusive language” and “to use gender- and non-binary-inclusive language when we address or refer to students and colleagues, both in writing and in speech in English and in German”.
Course managers said they encouraged students and staff to choose newer forms with plural nouns.
When writing, they may render feminine nouns unisex by inserting an asterisk before the suffix — a nonstandard usage known as the “gender star”.
They noted that “in extended German texts grammatical structures can inhibit inclusivity . . . relative and other pronouns, for example, are obligatorily marked for grammatical gender, so going gender-free is difficult to achieve”.
The university acknowledged that “gender as a grammatical category is part of native speakers’ language competence, and overlaps only partly with gender as a real-world phenomenon and a lived identity”, but said that students could use gender-neutral terms.
In German grammar, some words are gendered but when referring to the plural, the male form is usual.
Oliver Baer, of the German Language Association, said the curriculum at Cambridge was like a comedy sketch.“
My first reaction is it’s like Monty Python is back,” he said. “It’s a minefield and I would hate to recommend to any Englishman to have to go through the details of all that. Although it’s accepted, it’s not respected to speak like that in Germany. I’d never pay £9,000 . . . I wouldn’t recommend that to anybody.”
He added: “Language doesn’t evolve from the top down. Maybe you can do that in North Korea, but not in our society.”
Baer, who is from Dortmund, said he and colleagues at the German Language Association believed their mother tongue was being “abused”, adding that people were “possessed by genitalia”. He said a better course of action would be to neutralise the implied maleness of some forms of German language.
He added: “If a non-native speaker came and tried to use gender-neutral German while on holiday here I think they would stand a good chance of making a fool of themselves. Fortunately we have no German word for ‘woke’, so we borrow it from the English.” Others said that the progressive form of the language should be taught.
Most German nouns that refer to people are either masculine or feminine, with unisex forms rare.
Maren Pauli, head of B2B didactics at the language-learning channel Babbel, said “grammatical gender should not be mistaken with gender in general”.
She added: “If we talk about persons, like people, we only have two options to choose from. We have masculine and the feminine — if you would talk about any kind of professional, in German, if you use one single word — you have to decide whether you’re talking about a male teacher or a female teacher. There is no way in the German language to have it as neutral, as it is in English.“
What’s happening is that it’s not inventing a new word, but it’s basically just mentioning both forms.“
It’s just using what we already have in the language in a more reflective and flexible way to include everybody.”
A spokesman for the University of Cambridge said: “As it clearly states on the faculty of modern and medieval languages and linguistics website, ‘students are free to choose for themselves how to engage with inclusive language when speaking and writing in German’. To suggest otherwise is entirely wrong.”
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This is the same thing Xians have been working on for decades: legitimize the illegitimate.
As intelligent design is to evolution, as feminist glaciology is to glaciology, as alternative facts are to facts, as “latinx” is to latino.
‘students are free to choose for themselves how to engage with inclusive language when speaking and writing in German’
Translation: “You send yourself to hell.” Those who don’t will be visible from those who do.
How religious were the Nazis, if they were religious at all, that is? I have heard/read both that they were not religious at all and that they were very into occultism/Christian theology from sources that I have found to be very trustworthy in other research, and I was wondering if I could get your own two cents on this question as well.
I mean, Xianity is inherently, by definition occulty.
occult | əˈkəlt |
noun (the occult) supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena: a secret society to study alchemy and the occult.
adjective 1 of, involving, or relating to supernatural, mystical, or magical powers or phenomena: a follower of occult practices similar to voodoo. • beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or experience; mysterious: a weird occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before. • communicated only to the initiated; esoteric: the typically occult language of the time.
Everything from nothing with a spell, Lot's wife, virgin birth, water to wine, cursed fig tree, walking on water, instant healing, resurrection, flying up into the sky, the Devil, heaven, hell, souls, afterlife, transubstantiation in Catholicism, mysterious ways, unique special knowledge held by the faithful...
Xians like to pretend they don't believe in magic and are opposed to the occult, but really that's exactly what their own belief system is.
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If you want to understand the basis for the Nazi party, religious or otherwise, one need go no further than Mein Kampf (download English translation).
“The Jews have always been a people of a definite racial character and never merely the adherents of a religion.
At a very early date, urged on by the desire to make their way in the world, they began to cast about for a means whereby they might distract such attention as might prove inconvenient for them.
What could be more effective, and at the same time above suspicion, than to borrow and utilise the idea of the religious community?
Here also everything is copied, or rather stolen, for the Jew could not possess any religious institution which had developed out of his own consciousness, seeing that he lacks every kind of idealism, which means that belief in a life beyond this terrestrial existence is foreign to him.
In the Aryan mind no religion can ever be imagined unless it embodies the conviction that life in some form of other will continue after death.
As a matter of fact, the Talmud is not a book that lays down principles according to which the individual should prepare for the life to come. It only furnishes rules for a practical and convenient life in this world.
The religious teaching of the Jews is principally a collection of instructions for maintaining the Jewish blood pure and for regulating intercourse between Jew and Jew and between Jews and the rest of the world, that is to say non-Jews.
The Jewish religious teaching is not concerned with moral problems. It is concerned rather with economic problems, and very petty ones at that.
In regard to the moral value of the religious teaching of the Jews there exist, and always have existed, exhaustive studies (not from the Jewish side, for whatever the Jews have written on this question has naturally always been of a tendentious character), which show up the kind of religion that the Jews have in a light which makes it look very uncanny to the Aryan mind.
The Jew himself is the best example of the kind of product which this religious training evolves. His life is of this world only and his mentality is as foreign to the true spirit of Christianity, as his character was foreign to the great Founder of the new creed two thousand years ago.
The Founder of Christianity made no secret of His estimation of the Jewish people; when He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God, because then, as always, they used religion as a means of advancing their commercial interests.
At that time Christ was nailed to the Cross for his attitude towards the Jews, whereas our modern Christians enter into party politics, and when elections are being held they debase themselves to beg for Jewish votes.
They even enter into political intrigues with the atheistic Jewish parties against the interests of their own Christian nation.”
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Some earlier posts I've made on the subject:
In a speech delivered in front of a Nazi audience in April 1922, Hitler made a more explicit reference to Christianity, referring to Jesus as “the true God.” He made it plain that he regarded Christ’s struggle as direct inspiration for his own. For Hitler, Jesus was not just one archetype among others, but “our greatest Aryan leader. ” While emphasizing Jesus’ human qualities, Hitler in these instances also alluded to his divinity. At a Christmas celebration given by the Munich branch of the NSDAP in December 1926, Hitler maintained that the movement’s goal was to “translate the ideals of Christ into deeds.” The movement would complete “the work which Christ had begun but could not finish.” On another occasion, this time behind closed doors and to fellow Nazis only, Hitler again proclaimed the centrality of Christ’s teachings for his movement: “We are the first to exhume these teachings! Through us alone, and not until now, do these teachings celebrate their resurrection! Mary and Magdalene stood at the empty tomb. For they were seeking the dead man. But we intend to raise the treasures of the living Christ!” In a nearly evangelical tone, Hitler declares that the “true message” of Christianity is to be found only with Nazism. He claims that, where the churches failed in their mission to instill a Christian ethic in secular society, his movement would take up the task. Hitler not only reads the New Testament, but professes - in private - to be inspired by it.
– “The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945″ by Richard Steigmann-Gall, pp 27-28.
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While it's hard to pinpoint a particular denomination, he was certainly Xian. motivated by what he believed Xianity should have been and was supposed to do.
He bemoans the Catholic Church and Protestantism not promoting German interests as fervently as he wishes, with the Catholic Church's authority being located outside Germany, and dismissive or even hostile to German interests and demands, and the Protestants promoting German morality, but being too dogmatically tolerant of the Jews. He then envisions remedying this with the "German Catholic."
“The only way to remedy the evil of which I have been speaking is to train the Germans from youth upwards to an absolute recognition of the rights of their own people, instead of poisoning their minds, while they are still children, with the virus of this cursed ‘objectivity,’ even in matters concerning the very preservation of our own existence.
The result of this would be that the Catholic in Germany, just as in Ireland, Poland or France, will be a German first and foremost, but this presupposes the establishment of a radical national government.”
My impression overall is that he would have been what we might call Nationalistic Catholicism, where he wanted Catholicism, but with its authority based in Germany, not the Vatican, and working 100% to promote and advance German interests.
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Despite this, any post on the subject by a Xian will inevitably cite books by Xian authors, quoting acquaintances of Hitler's, who claim, anecdotally, that he was not a believer, and it was all just some big act to gain favor from the Church. (Even if that was true, and we have no reason to think it is, it’s kind of irrelevant, since this “act” included penning a multiple-hundred page manifesto - the EPUB edition is over 1800 pages - that successfully formulated the “movement” on the basis of that purported “act’.)
That is, they prefer unverified second-hand rumors of people with an agenda, published years later over a direct, firsthand account.
Just like their bible.
