For months, Yahya Sinwar has resisted pressure to cut a ceasefire-and-hostages deal with Israel. Behind his decision, messages the Hamas military leader in Gaza has sent to mediators show, is a calculation that more fighting—and more Palestinian civilian deaths—work to his advantage.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Cognitive dissonance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and contradictory, ultimately encouraging some change (often either in their beliefs or actions) to align better and reduce this dissonance.[1] Relevant items of information include peoples' actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things. According to this theory, when an action or idea is psychologically inconsistent with the other, people do all in their power to change either so that they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein the individual tries to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.[1]
Monday, June 10, 2024
Living with Schizophrenia
https://livingwithschizophreniauk.org/information-sheets/coping-with-voices/
Many people with schizophrenia experience hearing voices or auditory hallucinations as psychiatrists call them. These voices are usually nasty or persecutory and can cause the sufferer enormous distress. Often the voices will be in the third person and will constantly criticise the sufferer but sometimes they may also give the person direct instructions in which case they are known as command hallucinations. (See our information sheet on Understanding Voices for more about voice hearing).
Danger of too much Involvement in Commerce
Netziv (Haamek Davar Devarim 32:13) G-d established the land of Israel in a special way so that they would not come to sin. And this was primarily against the corruption that was in the second Temple that was the result of baseless hatred. And it is explained in the Tosefta that this was the because of their excessive love of money which was the consequence of being too involved in commerce. And reality the love of doing business that we find in other countries is typically either because of the scarcity of livelihood or on the contrary because of idleness when a person has nothing to do. Therefore G-d was good to the Jews and gave them a productive land which required a lot of work. This why the Torah says “He acquired for you a mighty harvest of grain and grapes and you will live securely in your land.”
Rescued hostages suffering from malnutrition, possibly Stockholm syndrome
The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday evening that after initial conversations with the four, medical professionals believed they were exhibiting signs of Stockholm syndrome, as the rescued hostages spoke about awful experiences they had been subjected to in captivity while also saying that their captors cared about their wellbeing.
Hearing Voices? It's More Common Than You Think
https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/i-hear-voices-in-my-head
Research suggests up to 10% of people will experience auditory hallucinations at some point in life.
Tzadikim : The Need to be Attatched
Meor veshemesh (Shoftim ) Even if a person learns the entire Torah and all the holy books and as well as the words of the Sages, it does not enable him to do complete repentance and to remove from him all the blocking screens if he does not adhere to the tzadikim of the generation and the Holy ones of G-d:
Working instead of Learning Torah is sign of Mental Illnesss
Sefer Hamidos (Bitachon chapter 4) G d has made material things so enticing to motivate man to the tremendous efforts necessary to obtain them. Without this enticement, man would simply produce the minimum amount of food to exist and nothing more… Therefore those things which require greater effort to produce are viewed as more desirable than those things are readily available. Thus we see that babies are viewed as more precious than older children. As the effort needed to raise the child decreases as he grows so does his preciousness… Nevertheless G d left it up to each person to decide for himself what he would devote himself to in his lifetime. Bereishis Rabbah (17:7): If a person merits he will devote himself to Torah but if he doesn’t merit he will devote himself to the physical world. So while it is true that without those who struggle in the mundane world it would be desolate but why should you be the crazy one? There is before you the vast Torah more precious than diamonds of greater value than gold…
Trump Demands Biden Remove Ad of Him Calling Dead Soldiers ‘Suckers’ and ‘Losers’
The former president’s demand came on the same day that Biden honored fallen troops in a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, the burial ground that Trump chose not to visit in 2018 and was later reported to have done so while describing the site as “filled with losers.” Trump has denied making the remark—and another in which he allegedly called more than 1,800 Marines “suckers” for being killed—ever since The Atlantic first published his purported
Sunday, June 9, 2024
BBC anchor asks if Israeli forces warned Palestinians ahead of hostage rescue mission: Defeats 'the purpose'
A former IDF spokesperson pushed back against a BBC anchor who asked if Israeli forces would have warned Gazans ahead of a secret raid to liberate a handful of hostages so they could seek safety.
"Would there have been a warning to those civilians [Gazans] for them to get out on time?" BBC anchor Helena Humphrey asked former IDF spokesperson and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Jonathan Conricus during a recent interview.
"Of course, we can't anticipate Israel to be warning ahead of a raid to extract or to save hostages because then what the terrorists would do is to kill the hostages, and that would defeat the purpose," he replied.
IDF confirms: Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/391326
Following the completion of IDF and ISA examinations of reports on the subject, it can be confirmed that Al Jazeera journalist Abdallah Aljamal was an operative in the Hamas terrorist organization, who held the hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv captive in his family home in Nuseirat.
"The hostages were held captive by Abdallah Aljamal and members of his family in their home. This is further evidence of the deliberate use of civilian homes and buildings by the Hamas terrorist organization to hold Israeli hostages captive in the Gaza Strip. Israeli security forces will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home," the IDF stated.
Theology and wealth
Mortimer, Ian. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter (p. 31). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition.
A more united Church was a more purposeful and powerful organisation. It also grew phenomenally wealthy, expressing its prosperity in the building of tens of thousands of abbeys and parish churches and the foundation of monastic orders. Its wealth was partly a result of the Medieval Warm Period – a period of favourable climate change, discussed in chapter three – but an even more important factor was the scale of the donations it received. The idea of the plenary indulgence, whereby all your sins were forgiven in return for an act of devotion (such as a crusade) had not existed in 1000; now such indulgences were accepted as ways of easing your path to Heaven. Pilgrimages too were phenomenally popular, as ordinary people invoked the healing power of saints and their relics. Whereas once few people had left home for religious purposes, now millions were on the move across Europe, enriching all the churches they visited with their donations. Christendom’s religious horizons had widened and the Church’s penetration into society had deepened, flooding like rainwater after a storm into every private crack and corner of daily life.
Letter From an IDF Soldier in Gaza
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/letter-from-an-idf-soldier-in-gaza
The following is a letter written by Jonathan, a 24-year-old who grew up in suburban Maryland, to his family. He is currently in Israel serving in the Israeli Defense Forces as a sergeant in the Givati Brigade. He is one of hundreds of American volunteer soldiers in the IDF known as “lone soldiers.” His unit has served in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge.
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