Daniel Ben Abraham's quotations on Judaism, Israel, and World Peace
Humbly, here are some of my (condensed) quotations on Judaism, Israel, and world peace. More about their meaning and application can be found in my writings.
“The opposite of war is nuance.”
“The anti-Semitism that plagued Jews for 2000 years in every community will increasingly infect the whole world as the world becomes a community.”
“We are a light unto the nations, whether the world wants to see that light or not.”
“The Jewish people are the chosen people, not for privilege, but for the duty of maintaining the world’s moral compass, and if not, the pain of resetting it.”
“Anti-Semitic Europe embraced Nazism, then after World War II pretended it learned its lesson, and simply went on to embrace anti-Semitic Islamic extremism, proving it learned nothing.”
“All are subject to anti-Semitism except those with a value system high enough to accept the mysteries of Jewishness.”
“Whatever your deficiency, anti-Semitism will invade it, and use you to spread across populations like a virus.”
“Israel must be a state because the world will lose its moral perspective and destroy itself otherwise.”
“The future of war is not missiles nor drones nor bombs, as much as it is strategic understandings of how to get enemies to moderate each other.”
“Humanity’s wars are not over land nor resources nor religion. Wars are not caused by individuals, nor soldiers, nor even leaders. Wars are caused by the moral questions that humanity stumbles over. When we cannot answer them, we polarize on opposite sides in collective mindsets. Each side becomes increasingly ideological and irrational, breaking down the systems that maintained peace, believing it is defending itself from a worse threat in the other, until the only option left is war.”
“If humanity could find a way to answer the moral questions it stumbles over, it would mean the end to all war.”
“You don’t need an army to stop another army; just ask them a question they can’t answer.”
“Maybe the way to solve an unsolvable puzzle is with another puzzle.”
“Maybe the way to make the world more peaceful, is to make it more Jewish”
“The difference between other moral perspectives and the Jews’, is that civilization is built on and inseparable from ours.”
“God, Because when you pray for help with your problems, who else would give you more problems to help you appreciate what you have.”
“The “Palestinian cause” is actually two ideologies: one for prosperity, and one for conquest of Israel. The problem is they are intertwined, and the world can’t feed one without feeding the other. As the line runs down the center of the heart of nearly every Palestinian, only a metaphysical solution will work.”
“Anti-Semitism is not rational, but primitive urge, which in turn controls emotions, which in turn controls ideology, which in turn controls moral perspective, which in turn controls language, which in turn controls legal interpretation. Thus, without a moral compass, international law is useless.”
“A teacher who teaches falsely will eventually lose all their students…if you’re listening, United Nations.”
“You should pray for 20 minutes every day, except if you don’t have time, then you should pray for an hour.” (Adapted from Zen, Thich Nhat Hanh quote)
“Hostile ideologies like anti-Semitism are ‘irrational’ in that they don’t serve the interests of the anti-Semite, but irrational doesn’t mean random. They intensify and spread through populations by a set of rules, and can be broken down by understanding those rules.”
“The reason we can’t defeat ideological entities rationally is that their narratives are only conscious justification for the primitive impulses.”
“Hidden within the mystery of the irrationality of anti-Semitism is a secret to unlocking all war amongst mankind.”
“Criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic if it helps those who want to destroy her.”
“The Jews are hyper-faithful and hyper-constructive. We wandered the desert for 40 years, and when someone stepped in manure and got stung by a bee, we jumped for joy shouting that we’ve found the land of milk and honey.”
“Maybe we should consider developing more global solutions backwards.”
“There have been many sci-fi movies about supercomputers becoming extremely smart. So why not one story about humanity becoming extremely smart?”
“What is luck, if not a metaphysical phenomenon?”
“If intuition strikes you before something happens, did the intuition predict the event, cause the event, did the event cause the intuition, or are these distinctions themselves our misunderstanding of metaphysics.”
“The best reason not to be anti-Semitic, is not to help Jews, but to help one’s own soul.”
“Genius is someone whose conscious and subconscious mind fuse together on a task, taking the task out of merely the conscious mind.”
“Zionism is not merely the belief that the Jewish people should have a home in our indigenous ancient Jewish homeland; it’s that every unique, indigenous, and peaceful people and culture should.”
“Intellectualism does not always equal wisdom, and can even help one argue incorrect points more articulately.”
“It’s one thing to not let the Aspie kid play in your kids’ games. It’s quite another to not let him help save us from nuclear war.”
“If God can do anything, why can’t he create a means by which a human can solve all wars?”
“One day the PeaceMatrix™ will make our current conflict-resolution efforts look primitive.”
“Channeling humanity’s thoughts through the constructive diagram of the PeaceMatrix™ is preferable to our survivability as a species than through the destructive emotions from current media, political discourse, and negative perspectives.”
“Other than religion and spirituality, the PeaceMatrix™ may become the most advanced, organized, large scale, use of applied thought-reality causal metaphysics in man’s history.”
“World peace will not be by agreement from its current state, because growing ideologies will prevent it.”
“World peace is not the absence of war. It is the absence of empowerment of ideologies that cause war.”
“Every ideological entity contains its own subjective moral perspective, which, as it rises, will turn against the Jewish moral perspective upon which our civilization is based. That’s why we are the canary in the coal mine.””
“The key to life is knowing what to focus on.”
Shalom,
Daniel Ben Abraham