@pellevoisin
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
An old colleague called to argue with me for old time’s sake. So we fought over the proposition that the Noah (the Comforter, the Strengthener) of the Hebrew Scriptures is the same person as Ziusudra and is likewise the same person as Zoroaster. It was all good fun.
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
I have been told repeatedly today that the would be Sultan of Turkey is to be overthrown. It would certainly be in the interest of both Russia and the USA to see Erdogan and his party overthrown and banned.
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
I truly hate flying in and out of the USA… almost as much as I hate intercontinental flights. However, I did have an interesting conversation with a young woman who told me she believes all political leaders are shapeshifting reptiles and that the Earth is a quarantined slave world. It was actually a far more enjoyable conversation than I…[Read more]
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
I keep feeling that I need a new country to name as my home-base. Perhaps I will simply become a senescent nomad.
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
I need to find a corner of the world where food is grown organically and glyphosphate and other herbicides and pesticides are not used.
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@pellevoisin That corner might be Bhutan which has a goal of being 100% organic by 2020. Right now it’s about 80%.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
Yes there are. There is a community in India and a community in England in addition to the communities that endure in Iran. But there numbers are small. The communities in Iran were all but destroyed and erased during the Khomeini years. His hatred for them was almost as intense as his hatred for those of the Baha’i faith.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
According to Zoroaster, external force or coercion in matters of faith is immediate evidence of the falsity of their claims to authority. So this idea has endured both openly and under the surface in Persian culture.
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That is all fascinating and shed new light on an old mess. I’m grateful you took the time.
Are there any modern practicing Zoroastrians?-
Yes there are. There is a community in India and a community in England in addition to the communities that endure in Iran. But there numbers are small. The communities in Iran were all but destroyed and erased during the Khomeini years. His hatred for them was almost as intense as his hatred for those of the Baha’i faith.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
He wanted to be the grand leader of all Islam. That meant he had to make the Shia more like the Sunni, and the Sunni more Sufi in orientation. He made terrible miscalculations making an enraged enemy in the House of Saud
No one currently in power is a believer or follower of Khomeini. Most in the West do not realise that this shift was…[Read more]
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According to Zoroaster, external force or coercion in matters of faith is immediate evidence of the falsity of their claims to authority. So this idea has endured both openly and under the surface in Persian culture.
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That is all fascinating and shed new light on an old mess. I’m grateful you took the time.
Are there any modern practicing Zoroastrians?-
Yes there are. There is a community in India and a community in England in addition to the communities that endure in Iran. But there numbers are small. The communities in Iran were all but destroyed and erased during the Khomeini years. His hatred for them was almost as intense as his hatred for those of the Baha’i faith.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
I have believed that Khomeini and his brigades greatest enemy within Iran was not a living person but was rather the Zoroastrian layer within the civilisation. Khomeini wanted to be the Islamic Pope, so to speak, but Zoroaster taught in one of his most famous prayers that each individual must choose what to believe and in whom they believe.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
In the religious context within Iran, many of the hardline religious establishment believed that in the end with the war with Iraq that Khomeini had become a heretic believing that he and Allah were one and that he had gone completely insane. There is a good book called “The Shia Revival” by Vali Nasr. The broad brush strokes of his argument is…[Read more]
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I have believed that Khomeini and his brigades greatest enemy within Iran was not a living person but was rather the Zoroastrian layer within the civilisation. Khomeini wanted to be the Islamic Pope, so to speak, but Zoroaster taught in one of his most famous prayers that each individual must choose what to believe and in whom they believe.
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Pellevoisin posted a new activity comment 10 years, 1 month ago
Sorry, Dan, that I am so late in replying. Regarding Khomeini, he believed that his voice and the Voice of Allah were one. He also believed that his mind and the Mind of Allah were one. He believed he was to become the great unifier of all of the Muslim world. He greatly underestimated the Wahhabists and Salafists as well as the resolve of the…[Read more]
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In the religious context within Iran, many of the hardline religious establishment believed that in the end with the war with Iraq that Khomeini had become a heretic believing that he and Allah were one and that he had gone completely insane. There is a good book called “The Shia Revival” by Vali Nasr. The broad brush strokes of his argument is…[Read more]
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I have believed that Khomeini and his brigades greatest enemy within Iran was not a living person but was rather the Zoroastrian layer within the civilisation. Khomeini wanted to be the Islamic Pope, so to speak, but Zoroaster taught in one of his most famous prayers that each individual must choose what to believe and in whom they believe.
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 1 month ago
It seems to me that the Russians are conveying a message to the Turkish military that is very clear: remove Erdogan and his minions or you will have to fight Russia in open warfare. The Turkish military has reason to fear that NATO will not come to Turkey’s aid because Erdogan has made threats regarding NATO members use of İncirlik Hava Üssü (I…[Read more]
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Pellevoisin posted an update 10 years, 3 months ago
Spent time today trying to explain how the Twelver Shia notion of the Mahdi is deeply informed by late Zoroastrian writings expecting the Syoshyant (the Saviour) to appear. Zoroaster himself did not write of “a Syoshyant” but said that all of us who believe the Truth are required to become syoshyanto – saviours. The original Zoroastrian idea was…[Read more]
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Write more about this please.
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Sorry, Dan, that I am so late in replying. Regarding Khomeini, he believed that his voice and the Voice of Allah were one. He also believed that his mind and the Mind of Allah were one. He believed he was to become the great unifier of all of the Muslim world. He greatly underestimated the Wahhabists and Salafists as well as the resolve of the…[Read more]
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In the religious context within Iran, many of the hardline religious establishment believed that in the end with the war with Iraq that Khomeini had become a heretic believing that he and Allah were one and that he had gone completely insane. There is a good book called “The Shia Revival” by Vali Nasr. The broad brush strokes of his argument is…[Read more]
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I have believed that Khomeini and his brigades greatest enemy within Iran was not a living person but was rather the Zoroastrian layer within the civilisation. Khomeini wanted to be the Islamic Pope, so to speak, but Zoroaster taught in one of his most famous prayers that each individual must choose what to believe and in whom they believe.
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I recall that Ayatollah Khomeini was exiled on France for quite a number of years (prior to) and then conveniently “airlifted” back into Iran to be the figure head of the Revolution….perhaps you’re totally right to say that “Khomeini was engaged in a “sunnification” of the Shia faith”….I’m old enough to remember the many images and TV news rep…[Read more]
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He wanted to be the grand leader of all Islam. That meant he had to make the Shia more like the Sunni, and the Sunni more Sufi in orientation. He made terrible miscalculations making an enraged enemy in the House of Saud
No one currently in power is a believer or follower of Khomeini. Most in the West do not realise that this shift was…[Read more]
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According to Zoroaster, external force or coercion in matters of faith is immediate evidence of the falsity of their claims to authority. So this idea has endured both openly and under the surface in Persian culture.
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That is all fascinating and shed new light on an old mess. I’m grateful you took the time.
Are there any modern practicing Zoroastrians?-
Yes there are. There is a community in India and a community in England in addition to the communities that endure in Iran. But there numbers are small. The communities in Iran were all but destroyed and erased during the Khomeini years. His hatred for them was almost as intense as his hatred for those of the Baha’i faith.
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