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US Army attack helicopters crashing at historically high rate amid mechanical issues (www.cnn.com)
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The US Army’s Apache helicopters are crashing at a historically high rate amid a widespread problem with the model’s transmission, according to a CNN analysis of military accident data.

The helicopter type has experienced five major crashes since October, and a deadly mishap earlier this month in Texas killed two soldiers, sparked a wildfire and led the Army to temporarily bar Apache pilots from conducting routine training flights. With that crash, fiscal year 2026 is on pace to be the second worst for Apache flight accidents since a new model of the AH-64 was rolled out in 2011.

The Army announced that the pause in training flights, which exempted units deployed to the Middle East, ended Wednesday.

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[–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

I just watched a cute little YT video, Satan's Guide to the Bible, that addressed the made up origin story of Israel (among other things) that is openly taught in credible Divinity Schools, that pastors just... ignore when preaching. And I get it, because the mobs would "leave not one alive." But it is very sad how we cling so tightly to our myths without the ability to acknowledge that's all they are, while allowing them to dictate ethos and government.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    I'm not sure of any "made up origin of Israel". King David did exist, and the time of most of old testament written.

    What happened to Christianity after Rome sacked Jerusalem Church in 70AD was the eventual erasure of Jesus from Christianity. The early 2nd century gnostics argued that exodus 6:3 proved Yahweh was a demon instead of the fatherly figure of El that Jesus was recognizing. The entirety of monotheist Yahweh God stems from a song that King David's musical director made up (psalm 82) where Yahweh kills all the other gods, but no one ever claimed to be a witness to the Astral plane's process of that happening.

    When the Gnostics believed in Jesus philophy over warmongering Moses primacy Torah version, that ignores all Jewish prophets condemning the fall of Israelite dominance as God abandoning pieces of shit genocidal evil rulers. Christianity would instead adopt the competing philosophy that every word in bible must be true, culminating in 4th Century roman papacy led by Constantine that declared Jesus and God are equal matter. This formally, forever after, cemented Christianity as being anti-Christ because the Roman empire (now officially Christian) that used the 70AD destruction of Church in the name of Jupiter as the new chosen people, now Christian, shifted to Yahweh viewing the Roman empire as the chosen people. All heretics and non Romans should now be genocided in the name of god, just as Moses said, and the parts of the bible where Israelites were mentioned were transformed them into proto-roman catholics. As late as 16th century, Saint Anne was invented as the Irish-Britany celtic goddess mother of Mary, somehow proto Roman/Catholic. Now you know, Jesus is a quarter-god Quebecois celtic.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    There is 0 conclusive contemporaneous historical evidence that King David actually existed.

    The Torah itself... was likely written and compiled during roughly 500 BC to 300 BC. David is traditionally supposed to have existed in approximately 1100 BC to 1000 BC. The oldest supposed reference to David is from 925 BC, and this interpretation of a highly damaged relief is contested, theres again 0 contemporaneous evidence, and just a scant bit of contentious/dubiously providenced evidence later than that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David#Historicity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidic_line#Historicity

    Given that much of the Torah more or less seems to be a fantastical rewriting of the history of the people exiled from Judea/Canaan/Israel, largely put together when/after they were allowed to return to their homeland by Cyrus, after Persia conquered the Neo Babylonians, so that they could strengthen their group identity with a collective mythic origin...

    In all likelihood, if David was real, he would have been more like a chieftain of basically a large village, who was then tall-taled into a much exaggerated ruler of a much exaggerated 'Kingdom', in furtherance of creating that collective unifying myth.

    Hopefully I do not need to tell you Moses and Joshua are entirely mythical figures, the Exodus did not actually happen, nor did the Israelite conquest of Canaan.

    The reason why God is a jealous God and you shall have no other representations of any other Gods and he smites all other Gods and such is because Yahweh more or less is El + Ba'al, renamed, and amalgamated with the attributes and titles and escapades of other Canaanite deities. The Yahwist cult was an offshoot of the general Canaanite religion, that started roughly somewhere bewteen the 13th and 9th centuries BC, that decided their amalgamation God was superior to the original pantheon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism

    The tale of the conquest of Canaan by Joshua is basically a dramatized allegory of the Yahwists gaining traction and popularity in Judah/Israel.

    After that group returned from Babylon to their original homeland, influenced by the two-god paradigm of Zoroastrianism... their original homeland was at that time populated by people whom some of which were Yahwists, but many of whom more or less still held to the polytheist version of Canaanite religion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I appreciate that Torah was written during 2nd temple. But the relatively recent 1st temple history and prophets cursing their kings, and declaring God himself will destroy the temple, and contradicting Moses law, seems to chronicle a fall that seems too intricate. But, there is archeological evidence that Jerusalem and Judah (David and Solomon) (surround it) had small 10000 population. That Israel was a more powerful friendly kingdom to the north, and Judahan history got rewritten after Syrians invaded and displaced Israel's citizens to Judah. Very hard to judge if its too crazy, when religion continuously proves very crazy.

    The more likely history of Judah is that the Philistines forced Egypt to reduce its empire, and Saul, just before David, consolidated the few poor tribes of Judah in defense to Philistines, with David paying tribute to Philistines to survive. Yahweh war god's chosen people never fought or vanquished anyone anywhere near Judah/Israel. It is also Israel side that laid claim to a Moses heritage instead of the Judah/David side. It would all get merged later after Israel was invaded.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I appreciate that Torah was written during 2nd temple. But the relatively recent 1st temple history and prophets cursing their kings, and declaring God himself will destroy the temple, and contradicting Moses law, seems to chronicle a fall that seems too intricate. But, there is archeological evidence that Jerusalem and Judah (David and Solomon) (surround it) had small 10000 population. That Israel was a more powerful friendly kingdom to the north, and Judahan history got rewritten after Syrians invaded and displaced Israel's citizens to Judah. Very hard to judge if its too crazy, when religion continuously proves very crazy.

    I think I broadly agree with all of this.

    Well, 'Syrians' is a somewhat problematic term, but basically yes.

    The more likely history of Judah is that the Philistines forced Egypt to reduce its empire, and Saul, just before David, consolidated the few poor tribes of Judah in defense to Philistines, with David paying tribute to Philistines to survive. Yahweh war god's chosen people never fought or vanquished anyone anywhere near Judah/Israel. It is also Israel side that laid claim to a Moses heritage instead of the Judah/David side. It would all get merged later after Israel was invaded.

    Ah thats an interesting further uh, wrinkle in the story, I'd guess you could say.

    Plausible, certainly, I think.

    But yes it gets... very complicated, very fast, the more detail one tries to cover, but again, broadly that all seems plausible to likely, to me.

    Sorry didn't mean to be purely critiqueing, I thought you had a pretty good take on all the... gnostic complexities running parellel to developments in Judaism itself, post 2nd temple destruction and such.

    I just had to quibble with a flat out assertion of David as historical, hahaha, maybe I was too zealous =P

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    All the myths are mixed and recycled from Sumer, to Egypt, to Canaan, India, China, Persia, etc, and were never meant to be taken at face value is the point. But you'd have to delve deep into Kabbalah, ancient Sumerian, Egyptian, Sufism, Tantra, Babylonian Talmudic, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Gnostic mysticism to get scratch the surface. I've been looking into it for decades, especially the last three or four years, because I had time and regular internet. Especially look to understand PaRDeS, the multi-layered garden, from which we get the word, "Paradise," and multiple other esoteric myths, like the 72 names, Abra Melin, the Ethiopian Bible, etc etc etc. It's quite enthralling, and while I don't take my faith literally, anymore, I do take it more seriously. "Milk and meat," and "When I was a child, I thought, reasoned, understood as a child, when I became a woman, I put away childish things." It's entirely worth the time and effort, should you decide to embark on the journey. Peace/Salaam/Shalom, either way.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I have gone through rabbit hole of inconsistencies, but I don't obsess over whether they are copies of other myths/legends. I study the more modern corruptions/inventions. I understand Jesus's words as worth following, independent of any of his miracles/origin/heaven. I object to a church dogma based on 1. every word in the bible has to be true, or anarchy. 2. if there are contradictions the first chronological event must be more true. The convenience of this dogma of Moses Hierarchy and war as primacy is that it strengthens any Church hierarchy, and then through Constantine (first emperor to convert to Christianity and make it state religion) make the Romans the chosen people authorized to genocide and abuse any heretic who might consider Christ as not agreeing with Pope/Emperor.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I understand Jesus's words as worth following, independent of any of his miracles/origin/heaven. I object to a church dogma based on 1. every word in the bible has to be true, or anarchy... The convenience of this dogma of Moses Hierarchy and war as primacy is that it strengthens any Church hierarchy, and then through Constantine (first emperor to convert to Christianity and make it state religion) make the Romans the chosen people authorized to genocide and abuse any heretic who might consider Christ as not agreeing with Pope/Emperor.

    In this we are in agreement.

    Blessings, friend.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    A bigger problem with the Abraham myth is the close lineage to Noah/Shem. The only geological possibility of a massive flood story is instead of 40 days/nights or rain, was a 100 year flood of Persian Gulf Oasis (likely site of Atlantis) in 6100bc as a result of ice age melting. That's 4000 years prior to Abraham's dating.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    It’s possible you two are talking about different things. There’s Israel [the place on Earth] and then there’s Israel [the recently created country/colony].

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Zionism exists based on Moses inventing a demon that mandates genocide and destruction of enemy idols for Moses's chosen followers that eventually leads to Israel domination by King David. Selectively using that section of Old Testament, while ignoring all of the latter Jewish prophets, fully included in Old Testament, that claimed God had abandoned them as chosen people due to the evil of their kings. Christianity used to claim it was the chosen people including Americans through Manifest destiny. It's a good scam to get fanatics into your army/injustice squads.

    Satan’s Guide to the Bible

    Satan's origins come from 2nd temple jews, who incidentally could build 2nd temple because Iran liberated them from Babylonians. Before I get to that...

    The first temple period lasted 500 years after King David, where Jewish prophets, like Jesus, are woke anti-poverty activists that keep shouting their kings suck more and more, ending in Jerimiah declaring God will destroy this temple because Jews are no longer the Chosen people. After in exile, "God no longer favours kings", and "God is in your heart" similar though less eloquent to "Do onto others as you wish done onto you".

    The second temple changes Jews to monotheist pure, and angels serving the demon Yahweh are invented to replace the Pantheon he supposedly overthrew. There are 2 origins of Satan. Baal (The Greeks called him the same as Zeus) was worshiped by Philistines as Baal-Zebul. The storm god jews and other tribes prayed to if they wanted crops to grow, instead of King's private messages on who to murder and steal from. Kings David and Solomon both names sons after Baal. Jews demonized rivals to Yahweh, and by the time of Jesus, Beelzebub was interchangeable with Satan, with Jesus quoted as using the term interchangeably. The 2nd origin is Lucifer. This is pure Roman fuckery in latin mistranslation of the hebrew word for venus/morning star, in yet another song, this time mocking Babylonian King who conquered Israelites for thinking he is the "falling star of venus" instead of the real "sun" god. The fallen angel myth comes from absolute stupidity.

    Both origins of Satan are complete BS, and so source has linguistic issues preventing me from bothering to view it. It is also disconnected with the selective parts of the bible that support Zionism, and the state of Israel that was created by that movement.

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