One of the great character actors of all time, M. Emmet Walsh, would have been 90 years old today. Walsh lived a good long life, passing away on March 19th, 2024, three days short of what would have been his 89th birthday. The great movie critic Roger Ebert created his own movie rule that featured Walsh. He called it the “Stanton-Walsh” rule, which also honored the great Harry Dean Stanton. The rule went something like “no movie featuring Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.” High praise indeed.
When I think of Walsh, I picture his characters in movies like FAST-WALKING (1981), BLADE RUNNER (1982), MISSING IN ACTION (1984), and RAISING ARIZONA (1987). I’ve tried to forget one of his scenes in FAST-WALKING, but I’m afraid it’s a hopeless cause! His characters always stand out. The movie I first saw him in was the Coen Brothers’ BLOOD SIMPLE (1984). Fox 16 out of Little Rock played this often in the 80’s. The advertisements heavily featured Walsh’s amazingly sleazy private detective character, with his cowboy hat and his slimy grin. It’s a truly amazing performance.
On his birthday, I share one of his great scenes from BLOOD SIMPLE. Rest in peace, Mr. Walsh! And enjoy, my friends.
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Holly (as a straw-man Xtian) I absolutely validate the skewed false reading made by Xtians like yourself. Paul most definitely a Jewish secret agent sent to promote Civil War in Rome, and undermine the crazy messianic pacifist movement among the Jewish people, especially as embraced in Alexandria Egypt.
The whole tripe revisionist history of “Saved” religious propaganda totally ignores Yom Kippur.
[[[In Genesis 3:15, after Adam and Eve’s fall into sin in the Garden of Eden, God speaks to the serpent (representing Satan) and says: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” This verse is interpreted by many Xtians as the first messianic prophecy — a prediction of the coming of Jesus Christ, who would ultimately defeat Satan and sin.]]]
Utter nonsense. Xtians do not have the least bit of a clue how the Torah defines the key term “prophet”. LOL Religious revisionist history sucks. The story of the expulsion of Adam from the Garden introduces the Central Torah theme of G’lut/Exile, which plays throughout the Written Torah!!! Paul’s “original sin” rhetoric employed to justify belief in JeZeus saving from sin nonsense.
Torah common law which means משנה תורה in Hebrew. Honestly your sophomoric translations of your silly bible – utterly pathetic. Common law shares no common ground with Statute law. Yet Paul’s declarations of political rhetoric “Goyim you’re not under the Law” fails to make any distinction from something that’s day vs night different from one another. Isaiah the prophet called this religious rhetoric: Cursed the person who calls Day Night and Night Day!
The Mitzva of Moshiach an Oral Torah interpretation of the Written Torah! Torah common law stands upon precedents. In Hebrew precedent means בנין אב. Church religious rhetoric propaganda never once in all its bloody history ever asked: “What Torah mitzva serves as the foundational precedent for the Oral Torah mitzva of Moshiach?” A fundamental basic question that no Church propaganda ever asked in 2000+ years!!!! Sucks being lied to by your own people.
[[[The Prophet Isaiah prophesied of what you call a ‘passive’ Messiah (Is 52-53).]]] Bunk. Moshe commands Blessing or Curse; Life or Death. Life – judicial righteous justice in the oath sworn lands. Death – judicial oppression comparable to the Court of Par’o who withheld straw yet ordered the vicious beating of Israelite slaves! This concept of Death known as g’lut or exile. Like as told in the story of the expulsion of Adam from the Garden, Noach in the Ark, the future unborn seed of Avram in an unknown land; the suffering of Egyptian slavery in Egypt, and the 40 year exile in the Wilderness. A clear undeniable Torah theme that plays out in all the first four Books of the Written Torah. No Spin required.
Your Genesis 3:15 a religious spin that promotes Xtianity. Torah common law not a religious belief system like your religion of avoda zarah.
רוח הקודש which your silly religion translates into Holy Spirit Trinity nonsense, refers to the Name Yod Hey Vav Hay that your silly bible never once includes. Translating the “Holy Spirit” Name of HaShem to words like Lord or Allah etc duplicates the Sin of the Golden Calf.
40 Days after the revelation of the Torah at Sinai only persons who make a טיפש פשט/bird brained literal reading of the words of the Written Torah. The Torah speaks in the language of Man. Meaning the Torah instructs by means of משל\נמשל Metaphor/interpretation. The language Golden Calf, a Torah משל metaphor!!!! What’s the prophetic mussar applicable to all generations? The נמשל\interpretation אלהים/Gods. Any attempt to translate the Yod Hey Vav Hey unto words, herein defines the Sin of the Golden Calf throughout the generations. Be those Gods: Lord or Allah or Yahweh or Jehovah, all these Gods = to the sin of the Golden Calf. Your bible silly translations, they worship other Gods. Just that simple.
Holly Goyim do not determine Torah mitzvot. Not shabbat observance nor messiah. Goyim never accepted the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. Your religion rapes both the first and second Torah commandments. In equal manner the church makes no distinction between the different Hebrew verbs מלאכה ועבודה.
After Israel accepted these first Two Torah commandments at Sinai, because many of Israel approached unto their wives in the past 3 days, prior to the revelation of the Torah at Sinai, Israel feared that they would surely die. This stubbornness would repeat itself 10 times culminating in the slander made by the spies sent by Moshe to search the oath sworn lands. Another major Torah theme that your bible commentators totally ignore! Religious spin amounts to propaganda revisionist history!
Moshe went up the Mount and only after the sin of the Golden Calf, did Moshe teach the rest of the Torah!!! What about the so called 10 Commandments? Answer: Torah common law stands upon precedents. The 10 commandment משל teaches the 10 plagues נמשל. A Torah commandment to “remember” the exodus from Egyptian judicial injustice. The Torah defines faith as: Justice Justice pursue. Your new testament religious rhetoric propaganda replacement theology has belief in JeZeus replace pursuit of judicial justice among our own people within the borders of the oath sworn promised lands! Replacement theology utterly insidious, subtly harmful or deceitful, often spreading or causing damage gradually and in a way not immediately noticeable.
[[[Daniel was a prophet of the One true God, and his prophecies are not mysticism.]]] Bunk. The Hebrew T’NaCH divided into 3 divisions: Torah, Prophets, Holy Writings. The Book of Daniel placed in the Order of Holy Writings.
Goyim have not the slightest clue of the relationship of the Holy Writings to the Prophets serves as the model for the similar relationship between the Gemara to the Mishna. Holly, Goyim – they simply do not determine Jewish cultures and customs any more than Jews determine the culture and customs practiced by non Jewish societies. An obvious truth like the nose on your face. Absolutely no religious spin in this statement. Utter arrogance then for Goyim to pretend that they determine how the organization of the T’NaCH, which their revisionist history calls “old testament”, shapes Jewish customs and culture throughout Jewish history. “Odd Testament” a classic example of Xtian religious spin propaganda rhetoric. Spin employs subtle perversions in order to deceive the minds of sheeple.
You read your new testament totally divorced from the history and times of the people that lived when they wrote. You make the surface simple reactionary reading that the people wrote without political satire. Comparable to the Book of Kings describing king Shlomo as “the wisest of all Men”! King Shlomo worshipped avoda zarah and caused the nation to collapse into Civil War from which the First Republic never recovered! The Book of Kings utterly despises and abhors king Shlomo!!!! Construction of his assimilated copying of Goyim culture and customs, does not replace the establishment of Great and Small Sanhedrin’s of common law Federal courtrooms!
The Russian revolutionaries of the late 19th Century had to conceal their revolutionary ideals by employing משל metaphors. Similar to Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’; or Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. You read your bible much like children to hear the tales of Gulliver, Lilliput and Brobdingnag; oblivious to the satire which mocks France vs England!
[[[After a time when the Jews rejected the truth, they were partially blinded.]]] You writings duplicate the bitterness of Luther. After he realized the Jewish people did not buy his religious spin propaganda he turned and wrote the book: “The Jews and their lies”. You’re absolutely no different than Martin Luther.
Another example of religious spin rhetoric propaganda bull shit. [[[Paul doesn’t ‘fail to grasp’ anything. He was a Pharisee, a learned pupil of Gamaliel, a Benjamite, a Roman citizen — he was more knowledgeable, (I’d venture a guess), than anyone alive today. He was a chosen vessel of God.]]] You know absolutely nothing of Rabban Gamliel instructionn of Oral Torah common law; your religion absolutely denies the existence of the Oral Torah! Your claims concerning Paul – Pie in the Sky utterly bogus.
An example of religious spin: [[Holy Spirit]]], this משל refers to the נמשל of Yod Hey Vav Hey revealed in the 1st Sinai commandment, the greatest commandment in the whole of the Torah revelation.
Another example of religious spin [[[144k chosen from the Tribes of Israel.]]] based upon your Book of Revelations mysticism. Confusing mysticism for prophesy a diviant insidious perversion.
Another example of religious propaganda rhetoric spin. [[[The children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are His chosen people. Chosen for what? The service of God, the promises, the Covenants, the adoption, the oracles of God. They failed, but God has not cast away His people.]]] The translation covenant fails to express the meaning of brit. A Torah brit requires שם ומלכות concepts that go way beyond your ability to grasps how to swear a Torah oath alliance. At the oath alliance of the brit between the pieces – this brit established the eternal inheritance of the chosen Cohen people ruling the oath sworn promised land with righteous judicial justice. The Pauline rhetoric propaganda glossed over the essential fundamentals of Torah faith. A very insidious religious spin. You clearly fail to grasp that a Jew sent by Rabban Gamliel had a hostile political agenda against Rome and Caesar! Your reading of your new testament compares to children listening to the stories of Gulliver’s Travels. Wake up and smell the coffee.
You’re no different from the mobs who scream Palestine and illegal West Bank occupation! Mandate Palestine ceased to exist in 1948 when Israel won its first War of Independence. The Jordanian “West Bank” ceased to exist when Jordan surrendered to Israel following the June 1967 War. A lot of politically ignorant irrational fools run amok in frenzied anti Israel demonstrations held across the US and Western Europe. Apartheid forever separates mob rule from righteous judicial justice. Apartheid in this context completely different than that of South African Apartheid!!! Another example of spin.
Holly a fundamental rift separates Traditional Judaism from Conservative and Reform Judaisms. The latter views the T’NaCH and Talmud as historical Jewish documents. Whereas the Traditional Judaism interprets T’NaCH and the Aggada within the Talmud as prophetic mussar and the interpretation of prophetic mussar respectively.
Your new testament never once addresses the subject of prophetic mussar! This insidious perversion of classic T’NaCH literature, your description of the Old Testament, subtly deceitful.
Another example of spin. [[[Humble yourself to Him. God resists the proud.]]] The Torah employs the verb humility when it describes Moshe. Yet your surface reading only amounts to religious rhetoric propaganda. Humility defined as strict observance of honesty, even when: to ones’ own hurt or disgrace! Humble yourself. Remove the beam out of your own eye before attempting to remove the splinter from my eye.
Another example of spin [[[Paul loved, JeZeus loved]]] You have not the slightest clue how the Torah defines the word “love”. Impossible to employ an undefined term, to define itself. Just that simple. Your silly church fathers had to turn to Greek ‘agape’ to define the term “love”, how utterly pathetic.
Another example of spin: [[[gave His life for you, the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin]]] The arrogance of Xtianity has no shame. The Torah concept of korbanot/sacrifices has nothing what so ever to do with offering a barbeque unto heaven. This prostitution of the Torah, what an utter disgrace. Only matched by the story of the Romans beating JeZeus to a bloody pulp and the church declaring it as a perfect unblemished sacrifice. Ya simply cannot make up the gross perversion made by shameless Gospel Books.
Another example of tuma religious Avoda zara spin. [[[No one has ever been justified by the law. Because we are not justified by the law does not mean we are not to maintain good works (Mizvot as you mentioned) – Titus 3:8.]]]. Judicial justice has nothing to do with justifications. Justice compels the guilty to make fair compensation of damages inflicted upon the victims. Titus 3:8 both insidious and deceitful.
[[[You speak of the Spirit name. How could you be called by His name if it was never meant to be spoken?]]] A fair question, the first real question ever asked from you to me. Torah commonn law stands upon the foundation of precedents.
What distinguishes the t’shuva (repentance, a insidious and deceitful false translation) made on Chag Rosh Hashanah from the t’shuva made upon Chag Yom Kippur? A fundamental and basic question of Yiddishkeit. The Neshama Spirit Name of אל dedicates/sanctifies through swearing a Torah oath, based upon the oath dedications sanctified during korbanot offerings on the altar, the face of the Neshama which remembers “יום הזכרון” the Torah rebuke – the sin of the Golden Calf.
On Yom Kippur the Cohen Ha’Gadol pronounces the Yod Hay Vav Hay! Hence the mesechta of Rosh Hashanah introduces the precedent of blowing the shofar. The three notes, t’keah, tr’uah, and sh’varim serve as a משל which teaches the נמשל of the chosen Cohen peoples’ commitment to keep and honor time oriented, positive and negative commandments, as exemplified in the lives of Avraham, Yitzak, and Yaacov. Blowing the shofar not words but the dedication of the spirit of the Neshama אל.
The t’shuva of Chag Yom Kippur, remembers the t’shuva made by HaShem which for ever annuls the vow declaration to make of the seed of Moshe Rabbeinu the chosen Cohen people. The t’shuva of Yom Kippur denounces the Pauline revisionist history and substitute theology. The notion that adopted Goyim determine the narrative of Jewish culture and traditions. Jews the chosen Cohen people. Jews discern between tohor and tumah middot which Goyim totally ignore, as they eat their treif animal flesh.
Goyim never once ask: Why does Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, not concern itself with cutting the artery and vein that go to the brain? Had they had the slightest inkling of korbanot, Goyim would know that a Cohen MUST cut the artery and vein going to the brain. Why?
Common butchery of animals does not require this sacrficial strengency because local butchers do not sanctify living blood thrown upon an altar. What’s the נמשל of this משל? Answer: the dedication of souls/living blood.
Yom Kippur dedicates the soul called Chyyah/אלהים. This kabbalah the church neither determines, and how much more so, the church does not know.
Another example of spin. [[[I do seriously pray for you.]]] Holly prayer does not accurately translate the Hebrew verb “tefillah”. Your notion of Prayer more resembles your quote (How blessed are all who take refuge in him. (Ps 2)). Tefillah by stark contrast requires שם ומלכות, a group of concepts to which you have not the slightest clue. Translating these abstract concepts to Name and Kingship as absurd as declaring that a physical historical man exists as God.
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