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Is every man a free agent whose moral decisions are autonomous? Historically, we’ve been on shaky ground, more of a landslide really when our eggs have been in the humanism basket, a faith in an innate quality that would ensure the preservation of universal ideals, the so-called belief in core morality, the reverence for life. However, nothing has been proven about innate rightness or goodness. It seems every moral judgment is subject to the same fate for philosophy cannot logically declare one or the other to be right. Hence, would determine what was right and what was wrong, and it was basically this type of majority culture that spawned Auschwitz, the “new morality, which to the Nazis was logical application of situational ethics. There was no reason for moral relativists to get their Irish up over the Holocaust.

---A 2,000-year-old fragment containing the Ten Commandments and part of the Shema prayer discovered in Egypt in the late 19th century was recently posted online by The University of Cambridge. http://www.simchajtv.com/ancient-bible-fragment-posted-online/---

—A 2,000-year-old fragment containing the Ten Commandments and part of the Shema prayer discovered in Egypt in the late 19th century was recently posted online by The University of Cambridge.
http://www.simchajtv.com/ancient-bible-fragment-posted-online/—

At the beginning of the 1930′s moral relativists still stood on solid ground. Who would have thought a civilized Europe could morph into SS guards capable of murdering children. It was the logic of moral relativism pushed to its horrifying conclusion. The alleged civilizing effects of culture , learning and intellectuality were placed in grave doubt shattering the myth of correlation between intellectual superiority and moral excellence. If anything was learned from Auschwitz, it taught us what man can be, either saint or demon, and based on moral relativism each can be justified and legitimate, the man as verbal biped theory with the idea of soul being negated; a kind of Gresham law in operation where the bad tends to drive out the good.

--- Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who leads the foundation, has denounced the women as zealots. “They don’t come here to pray, they want to protest,” he said. “They hurt us, the Jewish people, by distorting the truth.” The first arrest was in 2009. Since June, there have been 16, but the women were generally released and their cases dropped after they agreed not to visit the Western Wall for a period of time. In October, Ms. Hoffman refused to sign such an agreement, and spent a night in jail. She wrote in the Huffington Post that she was “handcuffed, strip searched, laid on the bare floor” and “locked in a tiny cell with a crying young Russian woman accused of prostitution.” ---Rudoren...Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/world/middleeast/at-western-wall-a-divide-over-prayer-deepens.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

— Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who leads the foundation, has denounced the women as zealots. “They don’t come here to pray, they want to protest,” he said. “They hurt us, the Jewish people, by distorting the truth.”
The first arrest was in 2009. Since June, there have been 16, but the women were generally released and their cases dropped after they agreed not to visit the Western Wall for a period of time.
In October, Ms. Hoffman refused to sign such an agreement, and spent a night in jail. She wrote in the Huffington Post that she was “handcuffed, strip searched, laid on the bare floor” and “locked in a tiny cell with a crying young Russian woman accused of prostitution.” —Rudoren…Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/world/middleeast/at-western-wall-a-divide-over-prayer-deepens.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

There is a good argument that states that our freedom lies in the ability to choose between good and evil, and not the capacity to define what is right and wrong. In the final analysis, there is a need to appeal to a higher standard than a made made definiton, and Eichmann’s or Marxist book of ethics, since there are problems that exceed society’s and science’s ability to deal with. Obviously, Auschwitz taught nothing about god , but a heck of a lot about man and only Auschwitz could teach that like no other.

---Source: The Jerusalem Post, December 7, 2012 Sweden has launched an investigation into an artist who made a painting out of Holocaust victims’ ashes, AFP reported Friday. Police said the prosecutor’s office would investigate the case and was considering pressing charges against artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Police inspector Annika Johansson told AFP that authorities launched the investigation in response to a complaint filed by a member of the public, alleging the painting was “disturbing the peace of the dead.” A Swedish art gallery owner has defended his gallery’s decision to show a painting made out of Holocaust victims’ ashes as “having no moral flaws.”---Read More:http://holocaustvisualarchive.wordpress.com/category/contemporary-art/

—Source: The Jerusalem Post, December 7, 2012
Sweden has launched an investigation into an artist who made a painting out of Holocaust victims’ ashes, AFP reported Friday.
Police said the prosecutor’s office would investigate the case and was considering pressing charges against artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff. Police inspector Annika Johansson told AFP that authorities launched the investigation in response to a complaint filed by a member of the public, alleging the painting was “disturbing the peace of the dead.”
A Swedish art gallery owner has defended his gallery’s decision to show a painting made out of Holocaust victims’ ashes as “having no moral flaws.”—Read More:http://holocaustvisualarchive.wordpress.com/category/contemporary-art/


Auschwitz demonstrated infinite depths to which man could sink, which seem incredible in a civilized world. Our reliance as the measure of all things could have remained intact- except for Auschwitz. As John Luckacs stated, what would we then think of the Nazis and Hitler if he had not used Death camps? Men had persuaded themselves that humanity could discard barbarism, though Auschwitz proved them to be confidence tricksters, false prophets, snake oil salesmen claiming to chart a course of life and architects of a viable and moral society. ( to be continued)…

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ADDENDUM:

---Source: The Huffington Post Uk, October 29, 2012 Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse’s hauntingly beautiful photos remind us of the soldiers and civilians who suffered during World War 2 on the very streets that we walk down every day. Teeuwisse sources original photos from World War 2, and after researching where they were taken, takes a modern day equivalent from the exact spot the original was shot. By layering the two on top of each other Teeuwisse creates the ghostly images that show World War 2 figures on the streets of today.---click photo for source...

—Source: The Huffington Post Uk, October 29, 2012
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse’s hauntingly beautiful photos remind us of the soldiers and civilians who suffered during World War 2 on the very streets that we walk down every day.
Teeuwisse sources original photos from World War 2, and after researching where they were taken, takes a modern day equivalent from the exact spot the original was shot.
By layering the two on top of each other Teeuwisse creates the ghostly images that show World War 2 figures on the streets of today.—click photo for source…

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