Not known amongst outsiders is that my people prepare for death in two ways. The most common way is the affirmation of faith. The Shema is found in Cinema in unlikely places as the Sands of Iwo Jima or in most fiction.
Less well known is the proclimation of belief in the Messiah, Ani Mamin. This was the song that I sang as I departed lower Manhattan. I was never in any real danger, but nobody knew that at the time.
The notion that the buildings could fall hadn't dawned on me yet. I was a survivor of the 93 explosion we were told the buildings couldn't fall. Still even then we knew this was no accident and we did not know what was next. Shocked and dazed and fleeing home the song Ani Mamin just came naturally to me.
Hebrew is not my native language but I do not struggle to sing that haunting melody.
The Jews like Christians believe in the Messiah, just we are waiting for him to show up and Christian await his return. The Messianism is more commonly associated with Chasidic sects.
I am mostly secular, but when my time ended I reverted back to faith as I knew it. What will the Marxist poultry sing in his hour "the internationale" or an obscure song from a French Film nobody has ever heard of.
The singing of the haunting Ani Mamin is ironic. Messianism in a vortex of death. The best of man brought out by an act of pure evil. Patriotsim reborn amidst the smell of pure evil and sedition and bigotry from the usual culprits in Union Square.
The day of 9-11 was filled with contrasts and irony. The weeks ahead saw the far left stab America in the back and blame the Jews in Union Square. If one checks the Newsmax archives blaming the Jews and Israel started on 9-13.
My faith was in the Country I love and serve, my faith was in the messiah to come, my duty was to the woman I love and to my family. This is who I am and what I am about.
While I affirmed my faith so did the sons of treason and sedition. Their faith in a genocidal failed philosopher and the means justify the end were on display then. At the time we believed 15,000 of my fellow NYers were incinerated by the Sons of Allah.
The Sons of treason held a Nuremburg rally and blamed Israel, the Jews and a Capitalist Cabal for the worst attack in American history.
I have my faith, you have yours, but the Sons of Marx have theirs. They imagine that sowing division and siding with our enemies will usher in their Utopia and your hell.
If you ever needed to know that they are evil just remember Union Square on that Satuday amidst the smell of pure evil,they struck. NYers were incinerated by religious zealots and the Sons of Treason blamed the Jews, Israel, Capitalism and everyone except the actual culprits.They have no faith, they are a cult of political opportunism.
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When you have nothing to hold onto, nothing you believe in but what is here and now, it leaves you with nothing but temporal power. When you turn to the Faith of your Fathers(Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), to the Messiah, you turn to the Real. That gives you everything and temporal power is a shadow, a joke, dust and ashes. The first wind blows it away! When you have the Reality behind the Shema and the Ani Mamin, Messiah, HaShem you have life and hope and every good gift! plucky, uppity, jobro, what do they have? Wind and shadows, dust and ashes!
They may have this world's wealth, but what good will it do them in the End? The doctor who attended the Marquis de Sade's deathbed, swore never to attend the death of an unbeliever again! de Sade felt the fires of everlasting Hell burnning his feet before he died in agony! That is the fate of these three, but believers have something good to hold onto and IT holds them securely! A future and a hope.
tmw
I don't really worry about them too much. There's plenty of room in hell for them and the refund policy isn't so good once you've made it there.
one door in - no doors out.
beautiful post
those who haven't "survived" haven't a clue, since we never know how we'll really react and feel
Batya I should hit you or MZ up for a more formal translation of Ani Mamin. In general the song is about the belief in Moshiach.
When the words are sung they are hauning and almost surreal. However, the words just came to me as if almost a reflex. I am secular in my private life, but I acknowledge the existence of God.
I am not the first person to ever sing that song under dificult circumstances. I am certain many others have sung it after. Luckily, my singing was not needed,
but nobody knew it at the time. The singing of the song had a calming effect, but I was out of harms way in moments.
I hate to fly and often sing my favorite hymns and choruses as the plane is taking off and landing. I know the comforting effect spiritual songs can have.
Their faith in a genocidal failed philosopher and the means justify the end were on display then.
Their lives are based on lies. They live false make believe dreams as reality.
The are denied the joy of real life - ultimate punishment.
Felis- Exactlly! Everything they believe, follow and advocate is based on lies! No wonder they are doing the Devil's work, kill, steal and destroy. That is what they do, they cannot do otherwise! No wonder they are joyless, unsatisfied and what is coming for eternity is more and worse! Jihadist just clutch the lies tighter. The victims of 9/11 are like the rings in a pond, ever moving outward, affecting more and more people. We were all robbed that day. Nothing can restore what was torn from us, but we can and need to remember!
tmw
Felis
You are on target as usual.
Maybe we take the good around us each and every day for granted. Does it take an act of unspeakable evil for us to notice the best of man. Does man rise to the occasion at the right time?
I do not need or want Utopia in this world even if it were possible. This belongs to the messianic age and the world to come. All those who ssek salvation by elevating man to god and seeking it in the present are fool, dangerous fools.
TMW
No matter where I go or how long I live 9-11 will journey with me as a companion. It will not define my life or me, but I will always have to deal with the sincere questions.
I can not even escape the cranks up here. The other day they were out in force on a local radio show.
The locals are very good about it.
An idiotic Quebecois was running his mouth and the locals told him finnish your drink and go. Most of those who ask are well meaning, but I tell them if you are looking for special wisdom, I have none.
Beak,
Shocked and dazed and fleeing home the song Ani Mamin just came naturally to me.
Of course! In such a moment of crisis, we return to our spiritual roots. That's God calling us.
I pray that none of us ever face such a crisis again, but I think that we will. The left won't have it any other way.
On 9/11, I wasn't running. Rather, I was filling the bathtub and praying at the same time; after that, I pulled out my great uncle's flag from the cedar chest. This was the flag used at his burial at Arlington Cemetery and had 48 stars; I hung this huge flag from the eaves of my front porch, and there this special flag stayed for a few weeks until I got another flag to hang there. I still have a flag hanging from my eaves, but it's had to be replaced at least three times because of the weather here. No longer do I fly the American flag only around July 4th, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day.
So sayeth an advocate for class genocide.I suppose those towers were hit by anti-NEA Randoids or by Pro life poultry.
Lets not forget who commits this type of attrocity with regularity.
Lets not forget who has been rationalizing this criminal behavior for years even as it lands on our doorstep. Lets placate every one of their outlandish grievences and pat them on the head as more die. The Marxist game of pretending that terrorism is just a tool of the ill equiped dates back to Vietnam.
I grow weary of the Marxist filth in our country. If you think you are superior to me you are deluded.
You are just as evil as the jihadis, you just have better PR.
Tell me Ducky what makes the enablers of terrorists any better than the criminals itself. Tell me that you do not rationalize every one of these attrocities with a crank theory about the dispossed.
Tell me why rational people should hold advocates of class slaughter
and sedition in any light other than contempt.
You are so worried about the Randoids. Did Randoids send a soul to Gulags, Killing Fields?
I am a Cold Warrior and I do not mince words. The actions of your peers in the moments after 9-11 say it all.
Tell those kids in Beslan your crank concerns about hating jihadis. You can't tell them anything can you. What type of vermin shoot naked kids in the back? Jihadis and the Sons of treason behave like that.
plucky- If you would learn to master clay, would you not go to a potter? If you would learn hate, get yourself to those who dance at the death of innocents. Instead of get thee to a nunnery, get thee hence to a jihadist camp. There you will learn the art of hate! If you can't stand the heat...
tmw
Ducky,
How dare you quote that fucking dhimmi Mahatma Gandhi on September 11th!
If not for his "land for peace" deal, there would be no Pakistan for Osama Bin Laden to hide in.
But, that's India's karma. Thankfully it was mitigated somewhat by an assasination.
Although, Ghandhi's assasination leaves something to be desired. He had a chance for last words to his god that might have otherwise robbed from him had his brains been blown out as they should have been.
Farmer John,
Keep in mind it was a Hindu patriot that offed Ghandhi.
..and that the holiest sites of Hinduism were in what is now Pakistan...
..and that Ghandhi was a reliable puppet of Islamic extremists even during the days of British rule...
...even as British recruited Muslim troops were slaughtering Hindus left and right...
Grrrr. Fuck Ghandhi.
And fuck his "biographical" whitewash movie too, which is probably Ducky's only exposure to the history there.
When Ghandhi was shot, he was campaigning for HALF of India's treasury to be GIVEN to Pakistan. This after they ethnic cleansed "Pakistan" of Hindus, and destroyed most of the Vedic pilgrimage sites.
Sorry, I'm ranting. It happens when people refer to Ghandhi without mentioning the fact that he was a fucking idiot appeaser of genocide.
Oh, butr to be sure, that's probably why the Left just loves the bastard.
Nothing fires up the Left's passion like the chance to celebrate the life of those who aid, abet, and commit genocide. That kind of shit wins Oscars.
FJ,
I think you credit OBL with too much wisdom.
OBL's war is a exiled Arabian civil war.
It's the Sauds playing the sides against the middle.
nevermind, FJ, we were posting simultaneously.
The same thought.
Jinx!
FJ,
Did you hear that we have one and a half times more untapped oil reserves in American territory that we did two weeks ago.
Seems the Gulf of Mexico is full of treasure.
We could do with dethroning the Sauds and doing some tribal empowering of our own in the Hidden Caliphate.
But, we're still in the middle of helping "Iraq" in its war with "Iran."
I mean, if we're going to remake the Middle East in Our Image, why not make wars between tribes as silly sounding as wars between North Carolina and South Carolina...
er...
Damn Republicans and their zeal for liberation...
wink wink
See, 9/11 was supposed to happen in February of 1993...
But Ramzi Yousef didn't have a big enough bomb to spread the intifada...
And 2001 was too late because Americans were done with Democrats by then...
Of course "Iraq" controls "Iran." With Islam, it's all about who's charging admission at the "holy sites."
..and wiping out the competition...
before or after 1861?
And during!
Did you know Alabama had a county that remained loyal to the Union throughout the Civil War?
History is more detailed than a textbook, and human events more so.
Of course there's more than one intifada. Islam, after all, is just a business model.
Fully developed by a racketeer extraordinaire...
And if you smash all the idolized hens in the henhouse, and tell the foxes to worship the henhouse or die?
They might even earn the right to franchise to Karbala, Najaf, Jerusalem...
...as long as everyone prays toward the corporate henhouse 5 times a day and pays a visit to the accounting office there at least once in their lifetimes...
the corporate HQ henhouse... where it all started in Mecca...
When the fox finally got inside the henhouse, and cleaned it out...
I like this fox metaphor. I hope Nanc doesn't wring our necks.
And all hail the fox that controls all the empty henhouses!
Although more accurately, the Bible describes the personnel office of this corporation as donkeys, not foxes (the Bible is is, after all, a prophetic work):
The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me."
Who knew the Democratic Party was founded by an Egyptian slave girl?
Don't forget what the Sunni and Shia are fighting over, FJ.
They've been killing each other over who's going to be in charge when they come to kill everyone else for centuries. It's the fundamentalists who remember the vision statement.
"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." - King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993
Except for the fact that Osama Bin Laden sees them as our slave...
And we can't leave transnationalist tribes to kill each other off. Not with nuclear weapons on the bench and 1400 year old grudges indoctrinated into their children.
When the Pakistanis claim they will not exert sovereignty over tribal areas to keep out Al Qaeda and other terrorists, that makes those areas lawless, unincorporated areas that we needn't ask Pakistan's permission to enter and bomb.
By the rules.
and all the king's horses
and all the king's men
couldn't put plucky together again
now, i need a cigarette!
Whats your point Duck? Shall we follow the Marxist model and initiate class genocide. Do note whatever resistance we face is a fracrion of that of the Commies. If you want to see a people revolt impose Marxism on them.
Let me guess you learned your military strategy from Oliver Stoned.
Robert- For my 2 cents worth, it wouldn't surprise me. But I'm not one to put dates on G*D's business! Remember the little book that came out in 1987? "Why The Rapture Will Occur In 1988"? Where there's smoke there's fire, so it wouldn't surprise me! But I'm not G*D!
Could be something in the water, we have an awful lot of pregnant ladies in this part of Florida, seems to happen in batches. I was pregnant with my first, we went to a wedding, there were 9 of us pregnant, including ALL the bridesmaids! There's something about water...
tmw
Ducky,
I'd be happen to discuss the likely reasons the guy who used to brew tea for the British commander in Afghanistan has gone all wobbly, as soon as you will provide evidence that you know anything of Von Clausewitz's On War and Sun Tzu's Art of War. Anything particularly insightful about that name-dropping you're engaged in?
I'd rather not waste my time schooling someone who has devoted his life to convincing as many people as possible that leftists are blithering idiots.
But I thank you for making it easy to point out.
OOOoooo, A gweat big high and mighty Bwitish "Captain" and a "former aide-de-camp to the commander of the British taskforce in southern Afghanistan". Wow!
A Captain is someone that's deemed capable of commanding a company sized unit, (if they're a line officer), but an aide-de-camp is qualified to serve tea and do boring paper work detailing how many bottles of gin are in the officers mess.
Dials the phone, "Yes this is Captain Spreadbottom.... Yes, General Malaise's aide-de-camp. I was calling to remind Major Foulup that the General has requested his presence at high tea, than-q."
Yep, he's right up there in the know!
LOL!
Desk jockey officers that believe they are qualified to make strategic decisions are usually passed over for promotion and "decide" to resign. Some make it clear up to Major, (ridding on the coat tails of a senior staff officer.)
What was that fox saying about grapes?
Speaking of Helmand Province and Ducky's tendency to put his webbed foot down his throat...
Guess where seven al-Qaeda leaders were just arrested?
Now, about that reason that tea-brewing REMF was bad-mouthing his former CO...
I see one of them was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. This is very significant, on the order of zapping Zarq.
Hekmatyar and his crew were the primary conduit for Iranian meddling in Afganistan.
Good ol' reliable Ducky. Sometimes it takes him 3 posts, on a good day only one, but the result is always the same. Ducky walks away regarded more stupid and unqualified to comment than when he woke up this morning.
At least he's consistent.
Question for beak
You say that Jews as well as Christians are waiting for the return of the Messiah.
The Christian Messiah is the Christ.
Is your's the same or different?
If your "Messiah" isn't the Christ, (and Mel Gibson sure doesn't think it is) then you're pretty much out of step with your so-called "Christian allies" and pretty much in the same boat as the Muslims.
Oh yeah, a Muslim candidate in Michigan just won a Congressional primary yesterday.
stevie, what's your point besides the one between your ears?
Are you selectively blind as well as stupid or do you have some congenital brain disease?
Your post isn't the stupidest thing I've ever read, but hey, you're still posting!
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