I’m actually quite flattered that you want to honor our respected Dutch artist
with this beautiful quote! However, I have to correct you: Van Gogh unfortunately
never said or wrote this.

The misconception started around 2009, when a museum in Basel used this phrase
on the flap jacket of a Van Gogh exhibition catalog without a proper source. The internet did the rest, permanently gluing his name to it. In reality, the metaphor is much closer
to a line from the 19th-century French writer Émile Zola.

The underlying sentiment does resonate with my philosophy on life. For me, walking off the paved road means refusing to adopt off-the-shelf opinions or blindly follow a crowd.
My views and thoughts are entirely my own, shaped by careful reflection rather than consensus. It requires independent thought, but I can highly recommend it.

Yea, she wants Americas milk and honey but wants to complain and cause trouble for everyone else. Um, how does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot? I liked it when I read the Republicans are replying to questions about all this by quoting her words from a few years ago. No one is above the law. Well, that includes the person looking back at you in the mirror!

Ilhan Omar entered the United States legally as a refugee in 1995 when she was a child. She became a US citizen five years later, in 2000, at the age of 17 through derivative citizenship via her father's naturalization.

She did not marry ANYONE to "get into the country." Her legal entry and her US citizenship were both fully established long before her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (the British citizen at the center of the rumors). She was already a US citizen for nine years at that time.

Trump is a fucking liar and a racist, and you are too, if you keep supporting this lie.

He said (something like) that in 2015.

"The God Delusion" from Richard Dawkins mentions the following:

Chapter 7, Page 248: "The conquest of the Promised Land is presented as a series of divine commands to exterminate every living thing, to leave nothing that breathes. This is not just bad morality; it is a terrifying blueprint for ethnic cleansing, justified solely by the claim that a particular piece of territory was 'promised' to a specific group of people by their God."

Chapter 8, Page 259: "The take-home message is that 'thou shalt not kill' applies only to the in-group. Religion is a label of in-group/out-group identification, and it is a potent source of conflict... It is hard to see any solution to the problem as long as children are systematically brought up to believe that they are 'chosen' or 'special' by virtue of their ancestors' religion."

Odd that you mentioned Unit 731 , I recently read about the large facility they found and what all was done there. If you wanted to know how long a human could live while on fire, there are records to tell you that,if you want to know long it takes for acid to kill a human, there is records for that. Honestly, it makes you wonder which bunch was the worst? Hitler or the Japanese.
And here is the kicker,
Postwar Accountability: Following World War II, the United States granted immunity to Ishii and key unit members in exchange for their secret human experimentation and research data. The Soviet Union prosecuted twelve members at the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crime Trials. In 2002, the Tokyo District Court formally acknowledged the Japanese military's biological warfare atrocities

Of course we did the same for Hitlers bunch ,that's why we had color tv and rockets and jet planes and such before our home grown tech had caught up. Sadly, the research hitlers jewish doctors did to cure and treat cancer was all hidden away, to much money made nowadays in the treatment and Control of cancer, no money to made with cures. That was 1 of Hitlers worst fears, dying of cancer

The Parting of the Red Sea is based on a much older story.

Enuma Elish (Babylonian) — c. 18th–12th Century BCE
• The Myth: The god Marduk splits the primeval water goddess Tiamat in half to create the ordered world.
• Biblical Adaptation: The writers transformed this cosmic battle into a historical event, where Yahweh splits the sea to conquer chaos (Egypt) and create a path for His people.

The Westcar Papyrus (Egyptian) — c. 1600–1500 BCE
• The Myth: A royal magician folds one half of a lake's water onto the other half to retrieve a lost jewel from the dry lake bed.
• Biblical Adaptation: The visual imagery of standing walls of water exposing the dry floor was localized into the Exodus narrative.

The Baal Cycle (Canaanite) — c. 1400 BCE
• The Myth: The storm god Baal defeats Yam (the god of the sea and chaos) to establish his kingship.
• Biblical Adaptation: Israelite writers used the exact same poetic language. Yahweh uses a powerful wind (a storm-god attribute) to conquer Yam (the Hebrew word for sea) and demonstrate His supreme authority over rival Canaanite deities.

The Book of Exodus (Hebrew Bible) — c. 6th Century BCE
• The Synthesis: Written down much later (largely during the Babylonian Exile), this narrative combined these well-known regional motifs into a single historical epic to prove that their God, Yahweh, controlled the elements.

Divine Land Allocation is also a very ancient theme.

Sumerian & Babylonian Royal Inscriptions — c. 2500–1800 BCE
• The Myth: Gods like Enlil or Marduk directly assign fertile territories, kingdoms, and city borders to specific kings and their peoples to establish divine order.
• The Adaptation: The concept of a supreme deity drawing physical borders and handing a specific piece of earth to a designated group was already a standard legal and religious practice in Mesopotamia.

The Egyptian Conception of Sacred Soil — c. 2000 BCE
• The Myth: The creator god Amun-Ra designates the fertile Nile valley specifically for the Egyptians since the creation of the world (Zep Tepi), while framing outside lands as chaotic.
• The Adaptation: Regional nations adopted the Egyptian idea that living on a specific, god-given piece of land was a requirement for spiritual purity and divine blessing.

The Hittite and Amorite Land Claims — c. 1800–1400 BCE
• The Myth: Migrating Near Eastern tribes claimed their storm gods (like Tarhunz or Amurru) commanded them to march into, conquer, and settle specific fertile valleys.
• The Adaptation: Invading or migrating groups consistently used the "divine mandate"
to 'legally' and 'morally' justify taking over lands that were already occupied by others.

The Hebrew Bible & Later Islamic Texts — c. 6th Century BCE & 7th Century CE
• The Synthesis: The biblical writers (and later the Quran) took this ancient, universal political tool, using a god to legitimize territorial ownership, and tied it to their own monotheistic covenant. The land was no longer just won by strength; it was an inheritance granted by the one true God based on religious obedience.

From a literal, historical perspective, this recycling undermines the claim of unique divine revelation. It demonstrates that these stories are human literary products, evolved folklore rather than eyewitness history.

Far from proving history, this continuous copying proves something else: that myths
are just tools humans invent to claim territory and assert dominance over rival cultures.