A Day to Bare Our Souls - and Find Ourselves

ISLAMIC 'PROJECTION' AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT

When I saw this in JPost, I laughed. Come on, how many Second Temple artifacts have been destroyed so that the denial of the Mount and Jerusalem being JEWISH can continue?

And now, to get their derrieres out of the 'sling' its in for their destructive digging - they come up with this?

First, a definition of projection (abusers do it all the time. If they are lying, they call YOU the liar; if they are predatory, the call YOU the predator... and so on.) This is so obvious its naseauting.

Projection

Psychological projection (or projection bias) is a defence mechanism in which one attributes ("projects") to others, one's own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the ego recognize them. The theory was developed by Sigmund Freud and further refined by his daughter Anna Freud.

According to the theories of Sigmund Freud, it is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, feelings 'basically parts of oneself' onto someone else (usually another person, but psychological projection onto animals, inanimate objects - even religious constructs - also occurs). The principle of projection is well-established in psychology.

To understand the process, imagine an individual (Alice, for example) who feels dislike for another person (let's say Bob), but whose unconscious mind will not allow her to become aware of this negative emotion. Instead of admitting to herself that she feels dislike for Bob, she projects her dislike onto Bob, so that her conscious thought is not "I don't like Bob," but "Bob doesn't like me." In this way one can see that projection is related to denial, the only defense mechanism that some argue is more primitive than projection. Alice has denied a part of herself that is desperate to come to the surface. She can't flatly admit that she doesn't like Bob, so instead she will project the dislike, thinking Bob doesn't like her. Another, and an ironic, example is if Alice were to say, "Bob seems to project his feelings onto me."

Peter Gay describes it as "the operation of expelling feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable 'too shameful, too obscene, too dangerous' by attributing them to another." (Freud: A Life for Our Time, page 281)

The concept was anticipated by Friedrich Nietzsche:
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Beyond Good and Evil

The philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach based his theory of religion in large part upon the idea of projection, i.e., the idea that an anthropomorphic deity is the outward projection of man's anxieties and desires.

Psychological projection is the subject of Robert Bly's book A Little Book on the Human Shadow. The "Shadow" - a term used in Jungian psychology to describe a variety of psychological projection�refers to the projected material.

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Now read this and try not to laugh too loud!

'Israel is destroying Muslim artifacts'

The Turkish delegation that visited Jerusalem in March to inspect the excavations at the Mughrabi Gate near the Temple Mount has concluded that the work is destroying artifacts from different historic Islamic periods, and called on Israel to coordinate their activities with the Palestinians and the international community, the Turkish newspaper A-Zamaan reported on Saturday.

"The work being conducted by Israel does not abide by the appropriate [excavation standards], and the dig testifies to the fact that Israel is interested in destroying artifacts from the Islamic periods," the report quoted the envoy as saying.

"It is Israel's responsibility to cease their its immediate," the envoy concluded.

The report also criticized Israel for not having conducted dialogue with the Waqf department in Jerusalem in the past seven years.

The seven-person Turkish technical team conducted their inspections in March, one month after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested the idea to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during Olmert's visit to Ankara.

According to A-Zamaan, the delegation finished writing its report in July, but the Turkish government decided against publishing it out of concern it would harm Turkish-Israeli relations.

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