Stupidity Watch 1

The Tears of The Peacock Angel And Sea Level Rise By Robert Korczynski ​The Yazidis are an ancient ethnic and religious group that lives on Mount Ararat and in the countries that surround it, famous for worshipping a monotheistic God and the head of seven angels that serve him called Malak Taus or the Peacock Angel. ​The Yazidis say that Christians and Muslims have tried to wipe them off the face of the Earth 73 times over the last more than 1,400 years because the story in the Bible about an archangel that goes to war with God and gets cast into hell is true, but that the Christian and Muslim texts don't include the end of the story where he was forgiven by God who then put him in charge of the Earth as its ruler. ​Because the angel that rebelled against God is called Satan or Lucifer in the Bible , Christians and Muslims have spent more than 1,400 years murdering Yazidis every chance they get, though in recent years only Muslims murder Yazidis and many live in Europe where th...

My father was a child slave laborer for the Nazis. He was taken into custody when he was about 11 when my grandfather and great uncle were arrested for being part of the Polish Underground where, as lawyers, they had been getting fake paperwork for Jews to get out of Nazi occupied Poland. In the 1970s when I was about 10 years old I remember being with my grandfather when he received a phone call essentially from Israel. It was a strange conversation, and at the end I asked him what it was. He said that something like 92 people had identified him specifically as the lawyer that had gotten them their paperwork to get out of Poland, and they were now living in Israel or New York, and had been interviewed to figure out who had helped people escape the Holocaust. I think they were trying to offer him some status called, “Righteous Among the Nations,” or something that came with Israeli citizenship and free healthcare, and they mostly wanted to give him the acknowledgement. He politely turn...