420 Lessons from History(1)
Solving the Middle East problem, heh, it's almost impossible. Even if Li Xiaofeng is an immortal, he will not be conceited that he can solve the Middle East problem once and for all. Of course, even if he can really do it, Li Xiaofeng will not do it.
Why? Because what good is that for him, for the USSR? The chaos in the Middle East is what the world's big hooligans like to see, and a chaotic Middle East is convenient for them to support agents and control the world's energy lifeline. A peaceful and tranquil Middle East is clearly not going to be so obedient.
To put it bluntly, in order to solve the Middle East problem, we must first solve the five hooligans of later generations. But apparently that's not possible.
Therefore, it is in the best interest to never say anything about solving the Middle East problem, and to control the chaos in the Middle East to a level that is acceptable to the big hooligans. But it's not easy to do that, because the problem with this hellish place is too complicated!
"To understand the Middle East, you have to know Palestine, and to understand Palestine, you have to focus on Jerusalem. The conflict of contradictions has always been that bloody city! ”
These are the words of Li Xiaofeng and Morrigan on the way to Jerusalem. However, this statement is not original to Li Xiaofeng, Midrashi. Tanhuma says in the Book of Sanctification: "The land of Israel is the center of the world, and Jerusalem is the center of Israel; The temple was the center of Jerusalem; The Holy of Holies is the center of the temple; The Ark of the Holy Covenant is the center of the Holy of Holies; And the foundation of this world stands before the holy ark of the covenant. ”
However, the legendary temple has long been destroyed by the Roman Empire, and the so-called center is no longer visible in the world. And this is not the first time that the temple has been destroyed, Solomon's Temple. The so-called First Temple had long since been destroyed by Babylon. The Second Temple, destroyed by Titus, now leaves only a Wailing Wall. The location of the main body of the temple has been changed to the Umar Mosque.
Of course. This state of affairs is cruel to the Jews, but it is not very problematic for God and his old man. Whoever makes ****** believe in Allah is actually God and his old man. Not only ******, but also Christians worship his old man's house. So no matter how many times the temple and Jerusalem were destroyed, God always had no shortage of believers.
Speaking of which, these three families are also quite interesting. The boss is the same person, but no matter who they are, they think that the other two are evil infidels, and they will fight to the death at every turn. That's really no incense at all.
Standing by the Wailing Wall, Li Xiaofeng sighed a lot, and he lamented a lot about the experience of the Jews in the past 3,000 years and the rise of Christianity and ******ism.
Why?
Let's start with the Jews, who are usually referred to by people who talk about their thousands of years of suffering, as well as stories from the Bible. This first-generation Chosen People is really unsatisfactory, as if God and his old man have abandoned it.
But truth be told, most of the stories in the Bible are unreliable, whether they belong to the Old Testament for the Jews or to the New Testament for Christians. There are a lot of places to brag about. Take the legendary King David, for example.
He was extremely important to the Jews because of David's presence. Israel is Israel. But are King David's deeds really reliable? Was King David really wise?
At least for Li Xiaofeng, he has a negative answer to both questions. First, King David's deeds may be unreliable, and even David may not be his real name. For example, the story of Goliath is told twice in the Bible, and in the second version of the story, the young hero of Israel is referred to as Ilhanan, which may be David's real name. As for the name David, I am afraid that it was his title after he became king of Israel.
To mention the history of David's rise, it must be said that David was not the first king of Israel, but that the first king of Israel before him was Saul, and David was Saul's son-in-law. So how did Saul become king of Israel?
At the Battle of Ebenezer around 1050 B.C.E., the Jews were disarmed by the Philistines to the point of extinction (the Jews often encountered similar situations, which were genuinely out of step with the Chosen People, and God did not seem to be on their side every time). Even the sanctuary of Shiloh was destroyed, and the holy ark of the covenant, which represented Jehovah, was taken away. The Jews had to flee the Jerusalem area and take refuge in the mountains.
In this extremely dangerous situation, the Jews had an awakening that they were going to choose a real leader to lead them through the storm. So who is this leader? According to the Bible, it is important to note that the old prophet Samuel (who was actually the high priest and spiritual leader of the Jews!) I chose Saul, a warrior who was very capable of fighting.
In the words of the prophet himself, it was God's will, and it was God who anointed Saul (a ritual that has been preserved until now, when the King of Christ ascended the throne). It turned out that this time God and his old man were more powerful, Saul was indeed strong, leading Israel to defeat the Philistines, Moabites, and Edomites, and ensuring the continued existence of the Jewish nation.
It stands to reason that Saul was the savior of the Israelites, the great savior of the Jewish nation, and should establish a dynasty like all the founding monarchs. Not to mention the centuries-old, but always able to be prominent for a while. But what we can see, Saul soon fell from the altar and was forsaken by God.
According to the Bible, Saul was unfit to be king because "evil spirits of the hand of God afflicted him." As a materialist, Li Xiaofeng could not have fully believed in the nonsense of the Bible, because it did not make logical sense. When Samuel anointed Saul, he said that Saul was chosen by God. How, in the blink of an eye, this chosen person of God was tormented by the evil spirit created by God. And, in the words of the Jewish priests, God abandoned Saul and said that Saul was mentally ill and unfit to be king.
The priests' statements couldn't help but make Li Xiaofeng think of the famous mental illness incident in later generations - who has the right to speak. Whoever determines the mental condition of other people. Say you're mentally ill, then aren't you too!
So. Who had the right to speak for the Jewish community back then? The priests had a firm grip on this power. As God's spokesmen on earth, their voice is probably greater than that of secular kings. They are the true masters of the kingdom of Israel!
It may be useful to maliciously guess that Samuel's choice of Saul was probably not God's will. It was that Saul was the only one in Israel at that time who could fight and lead the Jews out of the crisis. This is something that the priests simply can't do. In times of extreme distress, Samuel and Saul cooperated, or bargained, with Samuel using the sacrificial identity to determine Saul's identity as king, while Saul respected the status of the spokesperson of the sacrificial gods. Lead the Jews out of this predicament.
However, as the saying goes, you can share weal and woe, but you can't share wealth and wealth, and when Saul basically got rid of the Philistines and ensured the safety of the Jewish people, the power struggle inevitably broke out. Whoever made the first move, it could have been Saul or Samuel. Saul probably didn't like the so-called spokesmen of the Father and wanted to have power for himself. It could also be that Samuel felt that a Jewish king threatened the sacrificial position. Anyway, this kind of bullshit is too common in history, and it is more in line with historical common sense.
Anyway, what we need to know is that these two are fighting. The priests used their identities as spokesmen of the gods to fabricate all kinds of rumors to slander Saul and hack him with their lives. And Saul wasn't a fuel-efficient lamp. Prepare to snatch the power peculiar to the priests - the identity of God's spokesman.
This struggle is probably quite acute and simply irreconcilable. In the end, neither side can stand the other, and the focus of the conflict is likely to be David. This young man was probably as heroic as Saul, and judging by the Bible that "Saul killed thousands, and David killed tens of thousands" (most likely bragging, Jews did not do much of this), David should have performed very well in the Israeli army.
And it was David's excellent performance that made the priests see a possibility that Saul was chosen because Saul could fight, and in order to save the world, Saul could only be made king. And now David is also very capable of fighting, and David is more obedient than Saul. For the priests, why not simply replace Saul with David?
One can imagine what Saul would have done to David when he discovered the priests' demons. The various persecutions suffered by David later can be explained, not Saul's jealousy of David at all, but the power struggle of Chiguoguo.
Once this is clear, the following questions are easy to say. Excluding the "orthodox effect" bonus that the priests used their power to give David would allow us to view David from a more objective perspective.
David was unable to defeat Saul at first, and was forced to flee by Saul. As for what David lurked beside the sleeping Saul twice, he was so moved that Saul said, "You are more righteous than me!" "It's more like a stall story, and it's really not very credible. Because David was not a good stubble, he made a big decision when he was chased and killed by Saul and had no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth!
The significance of this decision is quite unusual, although the Bible makes it easy to say that the Philistine king of Gath admired David and gave him his territory, Seclag, which gave David a base for his comeback.
However, we can't just look at one side of the Bible, this thing is like the Spring and Autumn Period, which is a secret for the venerable and the victorious. Don't forget that the Philistines were the enemies of the Jews, who at one point nearly wiped out the Jews, and that Saul's kingdom of Israel was still at war with the Philistines (Saul was accused of sparing the Philistines). To put it mildly, David is a traitor!
And notice that the Philistines later invaded Israel again and defeated Saul on Mount Killibo, killing his son Jonathan and Saul himself committing suicide. From this incident, we can be clear that Israel and the Philistines were at war, and there was no doubt that David was treasonous!
Seeing this, do some people still think that David is a divine mandate and a wise king chosen by God? Notice also that after Saul's suicide, Israel was effectively divided, with Saul's surviving son Ish-Bo king in the north and David anointed in the south. It took seven full years of war for David to kill Ish-Po and reunite Israel.
From Li Xiaofeng's point of view, David is not a virtuous king but a generation of heroes, more like Cao Cao and other figures. This can also be seen from his later behavior. This person's character and discipline are really not as good as the legend says.
For example, on the issue of women. David really used the Ten Commandments as a piece of paper to wipe his ass. One night. While resting on the roof of the court, David saw a woman bathing (I have to say that this custom is too strange, it is unlikely that a normal person, especially the lord of a country, would do such a thing anyway. More likely, David deliberately climbed onto the roof to peep at the women's bathhouse). This wife is really beautiful and matchless, which makes David salivate.
After making inquiries, David learned that this wife was the wife of Uriah, the leader of his mercenaries, and her name was Bathsheba (Solomon's mother). Soon David hooked up with Bathsheba, and the adulterer **** was so unhappy.
However, the good times did not last long, and there were no contraceptives back then. There were no condoms either, and soon Bathsheba was hit. To cover up the fact that Bathsheba was pregnant. David summoned Uriah back to Jerusalem from the Jordanian battlefield and then ordered Uriah to go home and "wash his feet." In fact, it was to let Uriah sleep with Bathsheba so that he could be a pick-up.
However, I don't know if Uriah knew the news of cuckolding, or if he was unwilling to be a father, he was bent on returning to the front line and directly refused David's order. And soon David showed his sinister side, and he asked Uriah to take his handwritten letter to Joab (who was supposed to be the commander-in-chief of the battle at the time, or at least Uriah's superior). What is the content of this letter?
"Put Uriah in the place where the fighting is most intense...... Make it possible for him to be killed! ”
As a result, Uriah was naturally in a catastrophe, and blood was spilled on the battlefield. If you see it, this is the David who was "more righteous than him" that Saul lamented earlier. Is this the behavior of a truly righteous person, a truly chosen person by God? This also shows how ridiculous David's story of not killing Saul twice is. A whore's wife also kills and kills people. How righteous can a Jewish version of Simon Qing be? And how orthodox can it be?
Let's go back and look at the crucial Ten Commandments, the sixth commandment is Thou shalt not kill, the seventh Commandment is Thou shalt not ****, and the tenth commandment is Thou shalt not covet your neighbor's house; and thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, or his servant, or his servant, or his ox or his donkey, or all that he has.
David was guilty of all three of these three, and could a truly devout man be like this?
In fact, David's behavior could not even stand the Jewish sacrifice, and the prophet Nathan told David the story of a rich man who had everything and stole the only sheep in a poor man's house. David was shocked and said, "People who do this kind of thing deserve to die!" ”
How did Nathan answer? Nathan pointed to David's nose and said, "You are this man!" ”
Of course, the conversation between the prophet Nathan and David says nothing, but what is interesting is the biblical description of what happened next. According to the rules of the Ten Commandments, David committed the heinous sin of the Ten Deadly Sins and deserves to be punished by God, so is there any punishment from God? Yes, it is the eldest son of the adulterer **** who was taken away by the Heavenly Father, and there is no other punishment.
I have to say that from this point of view, God and his old man are too merciful, and it is not as fair as Hammurabi to give this punishment to the wife and daughter of the adulterous man who kills his mouth. And David also used his practical actions to show that any rules and regulations are all butt wiping paper for despicable rulers.
It is not a good idea to believe in the Bible that a whore who betrays his own people, a whore who kills people and kills people and destroys his mouth, and who kills people and destroys his mouth.
David's story is not over yet, and the reason why Li Xiaofeng thinks that he is like that is the case is very important is his choice of successor. Because there are too many wives and too many sons, when David was old, in order to compete for the throne, the court tearing drama of seizing the heir also happened in David's court.
Indeed, there is a father and there must be a son, and David's sons are really too much like their fathers. David's eldest son was Amnon, but David's favorite was Amnon's half-brother, the spoiled and ambitious Absalom.
Probably a provocation or a deliberate attempt to provoke Absalom, the strong woman of Amnon Absalom's sister Tamar (in fact, she is also Amneon's sister, which shows how much of a beast this person has). In retaliation, Absalom killed Amnon outside Jerusalem. It can be seen that this Absalom did not have the slightest sense of brotherhood, and this Absalom once forced David to be so embarrassed that he had to flee Jerusalem.
Of course, like all "villains", Absalom couldn't get into the end of the play, and was finally defeated by David's love for Joab, and was mysteriously hanged by an oak tree on the way to escape. But that's not all, as the battle for the succession is still going on, followed by Adonijah's attempt to usurp the throne, and David being bewildered by a virgin witch.
All in all, David in history is not much stronger than Emperor Tang Ming, nor is he more virtuous than the kings of other countries in history. He is more like a ruler of flesh and blood than a representative of glory and righteousness in mythological stories.
Not only was David not only great, but his son Solomon was probably not so dazzling. The monarch, who was said to have been of great wisdom and eloquence, had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To tell you the truth, there are definitely not many of them, but considering the national strength, land area and population of Israel at that time, the number of harems is really amazing.
Of course, lust is a man's nature, but this King Solomon definitely can't escape a lavish and wasteful evaluation of great joy. He built the first temple and it is said that it took seven years. But what's interesting is that this one also spent 13 years repairing his palace. It seems that there is no difference between Xianjun and mortals, the big guys are all the same selfish, and repairing a house for themselves is more concerned than repairing a house for God.
This was achieved on the basis of high taxes, scourging, and, worse, the disloyalty of Jehovah, not only praying to Jehovah but also worshipping other local gods. This was strictly forbidden in the first of the Ten Commandments, and in the time of Solomon's notice, an uprising against his rule had already broken out...... (To be continued.) )
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