Women and blacks against white men

 Many white men are accused by women of sin. The issue is addressed in the Gemara in Gitin pg 7.An amora was asked: "I can call the authorities against someone who is going around and slandering me, What should I do? Answer, ''Be silent and wait upon God.'' Thus, we see calling the police on people is not good. Blacks and women bring false accusations against white men as a matter of gaining credit for themselves.  Though they will not gain from this, still it is necessary to object. [As we see in the events of the concubine of Giva, and Bar Kamtza in Gitin. In these places we see that to object to evil is an obligation.] 

I can imagine that women that bring this endless stream of false accusations against men have not learned the laws of slander.

[But I know the general public does not know the laws of slander. So let me state some general principles.

Slander is speaking negatively [even if true] on anyone except with certain conditions. The conditions are   slightly different for sins between man and his fellow man and sins between man and God. For sins between man and fellow man to see it yourself, to rebuke beforehand, to judge the act according to the Law [Torah], to intend benefit not just to harm someone, that the benefit can not be gained in any other way. that worse punishment will not result that if he would be judged in a court that would go judge according to the Law (Torah.) 

The Gemara in Gitin pg 7 says how do we know that song is forbidden?

 The Gemara in Gitin pg 7 says how do we know that song is forbidden? It answers from one  verse. Then asks "Why not bring from another verse?" Answer: "From there we might think only by instruments is forbidden. How would we know that even by voice is forbidden? From the first verse." To Rashi Tosphot and Rav Yeshayah from Trani this means song in bars [drinking bars]. But to the Rambam all song in forbidden except songs of praise to God. But we see also in the Gemara that making songs out of verses is also forbidden. [See the Gemara where you see that making songs of any verses is forbidden not just the book of Song of Songs.]For this reason Sephardim had lots of Pizmonim [songs in their sidur in order not to be using verses of psalms to be making into songs.

The songs with verses however is worse. That is as the Gemara says about using verses as words for songs "They have made me a song to them." And this does not apply to Shir HaShirim alone but to any use of any verse to make a song. However there is a Gemara Yerushalmi הכל חולים לגבי שיר אפילן אישה זקנה Everyone is sick when they lack song, even an old woman. But not that is is a mitzvah.

So why do I write music then? Because I am sick. Betrayed by everyone I trusted. The religious world in particular. that I thought were righteous. My soul is sick from the fact that I wanted so much to learn Torah but was expelled from every single yeshiva that I wanted simply to sit and learn in. I would just walking and start trying to learn Torah and told to leave. But surprise was that there were the same places that were begging secular Jews to give them money because they had an open door policy for anyone that wanted to learn Torah. I found the opposite to be true. They were using the name of Torah to make money and try to gain power. The "Frum world" I found to be the exact opposite of authentic Torah. That just this, but in an astounding way, they did tremendous efforts to cause a divorce between me and my wife and later to rape my children. So the frum religious world I found to be anti-Torah.Opposed to true Torah Values. 

There is a kind of ambiguity in politics and philosophy that Kant was trying to solve.

 There is a kind of ambiguity in politics and philosophy that Kant was trying to solve. The idea was to eliminate speculation outside the areas of possibility of experience [not possible experience]. But that does suggest an intersection with politics. We might not know what is true justice? But what ever true justice is, is certainly not outside the area of possibility of experience. The answer of Kant has seemed weak since the first review by a critique on Kant by Schultz, his closest ally. I do not see how any other answer besides Fries is possible, That knowledge is not just from sensible perception or from reason, rather from a sort of core knowledge of immediate nonintuitive knowledge. [Fries and Beneke are thought to be of the empirical Kant first. But if you look at the friesian.com you will see that Fries and Nelson were non-intuitive immediate knowledge first.] But as close to faith his seems, it is not faith--not a sort of knowledge based on extrasensory perception. Rather a source of knowledge that is not based on any kind of feeling or reason.

In the world of politics, the answers of philosophy have been incoherent. Ideas from Kant, do not appear to have brought any kind of clarity. It seems to me that there was a kind of flow from above of philosophy from the period starting from Kant to Hegel. But ideas about politics seem to have been focused into the founding fathers of the USA. So In fact Hegel saw the USA as the State of the Future.

Modern morality the opposite of the morality of the Bible.

 ''Sit underneath your place on the Sabbath day.''[Exodus the parsha of the Mann] שבו תחתיו ביום השבת.Rav Nahman explains this thus: that a person should thinks of himself as lower than his level. Even if he know his level, he should consider himself as less that than.[ LeM vol. I chapter 31]. I have found this advice useful in terms of learning. Instead of thinking I will understand everything perfectly, I rather imagine that in fact I will not understand, but that simply go on in the subject I am learning--whether in Gemara, Rashi, Tosphot Maharsha or Physics, and thus eventually in fact come to understand.

Pride is given too large a place in modern society. This is the opposite of Torah thought in which it is thought to be the worst possible sin to think of oneself as greater that he really is. The sin of Pride.

Modern morality the opposite of the morality of the Bible. [Modern morality is the morality of Satan,] Self Esteem is thought to be the greatest thing. In the Torah, it is considered the gravest of all sins, and that leads one to the bottom of hell.

The Kant Fries school however holds like Schopenhauer that reality itself is irrational. --or beyond reason.

Dr Kelley Ross mentions in his PhD thesis [see https://www.friesian.com/]that there is a sort of ambiguity what is it that the categories are meant to unite, just conceptions  or also perceptions.["A fundamental ambiguity in Kant concerns just what it is that synthesis generates, a structured set of concepts describing the world or our immediate perceptions."] If it would be just conceptions then everything would be OK. But how can they unite perceptions? Well Kant notices this problem himself and claims that because of this problem it must be that perceptions themselves are themselves rational. Structured by reason. [That surely sounds like the exact point of Hegel.]  But Dr. Ross takes a different approach and claims that because of this very sort of problem--that sensations and conceptions are so different there must be  a deeper source of knowledge that both are just two sides of the same coin. [You can also see this as almost implicit in Kant himself if you think of the categories are being like the computer chips that process the incoming information and signals. Then the natural question to ask is, "Who is the user?" The answer: the soul.] 

The Kant Fries school however holds like Schopenhauer that reality itself is irrational. --or beyond reason.

Kelly Ross has a sort of chart. He shows things of value go up from all form with no content ;ike Logic which is formal in that its forms do not  have any content.  If A implies B and B implies C then A implies C. A, B and C have no content. Then he goes up to an area which can not be reduced to pure logic like Mathematics as we know from Godel. So math has more content but less form. numbers have reality. This is the old argument if universals exist. Well it seems that trees exist. Not the concept of trees but actual trees. Michael Huemer brings some proofs of this. One that I recall off hand is that  yellow is a color. Many things have it. So universals exist.

Music and art have more of what is called numinous content. Some sort of value that can not be reduced to a computer program--as we know from the many that have tried to do this with Bach.

Values that involve holiness even more so have less form than that, and even more content. If you continue the progression you would get to God who has no form.

[I should add that the Kant _Fries school is not "psychologism" as Kelley Ross takes some time and effort to point out.]

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 z15 F sharp minor  z15 midi   z15 nwc

My parents were loyal Americans and believed deeply in the American system of government and my dad spent most of his life supporting the American way of life

 My parents were loyal Americans and believed deeply in the American system of government and my dad spent most of his life supporting the American way of life one way or other. First by volunteering for the United States Air Force at the start of WWII. Then excelling in that service for which he gained medals of honor. [Some of which He did not tell me about  and others he revealed what they were for. One was for the setting up  of a Air Base in France which airplanes that were disabled could come in and be repaired in short order.] Later he contributed to the USA by his work on the U-2 project. He created one of the cameras used by the U-2. Also by inventing the first InfraRed telescope. Then work on laser communication between satellites for Star Wars SDA. In short my parents believed in the American way.

So when I see people like Trotsky, I wonder why the option of the American way did not occur to him as a better way to attain a just system of government?

The answer I have is that the situation was different. It was not a matter of choosing between czarism and capitalism.  Rather it seems to him and millions of Russians that the issue was how to throw off the yoke of the czars.

What this means for today is that, in fact, it would make much sense to look at the Constitution of the USA to see what a just system of government would be like.   Sadly this does not  seem to hold in the USA where the Constitution is nowadays ignored.   

Still, a lot depends n the sort of people the system is meant to govern.

If you think all menial workers are saints and all factory owners are demons that is going to result in a different sort of system than if one thinks that human beings across the board contain a evil inclination --even if they are workers, or black or female.

The shear number of people in the USA that hate the Co Constitution of the USA would have seemed as as terrible people.