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I would like to personally apologize for my comments regarding poster’s writing style. It served no purpose except to offend. I am truly sorry to all who were offended.

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Person1 If you want to save tree just buy e-books no paper needed. This is happening with many newspapers and magazine. Writing a whole page as one long run on sentence may sound like a good idea but it would be difficult to read and comprehend.

Just goes to show that YWN coffee room monitors don’t censor the threads.

Why are tornadoes bad? It is merely a very strong wind. Everything G-d does is good you just don’t understand why he did it and what the benefit was. During hurricanes if the wind gust are high there is a chance of a tornado so you might have lived through it especially in NYC without even knowing. Out on the plains you should look for bomb shelter to stay in until it passes.

In both the workplace and school there are regulation governing “Unwanted Touching” called EEO Regulations so you shouldn’t feel uncomfortable about not shaking hands.

There are only three sins that you should be killed rather than commit: 1) worship idols 2) murder another Jew 3) commit an immoral act with the opposite sex. Touching is prohibited by the sages and would fall under this last category. If on the other hand the choice was between eating ham and living or keeping kosher and dying you should eat the ham and live. Likewise if you had a choice of work on Shabbos and live or keep the Shabbos and die you should work on Shabbos.

You are going to college which is a sea of knowledge, be careful that you are not swept away by a riptide from your Jewish heritage.

I would like to apologize for my comments regarding someones ability to write. My criticism didn’t correct the problem and so serves no purpose. I am sorry if you were offended.

Smokers now a days are rebelling against society, if you treat them badly or even call them OTD, that maybe the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes them to really go OTD.

Try listening to music and keep busy. It’s when you have time to think about all your problems this is when you get depressed.

As far as finding a job look in the YWN classified. The coffee room is not the place to find a job.

There should be no reason a “Girl” can’t dye her hair as she doesn’t go to the Mikvah. A married women who must go to the mikvah may have a problem if it prevents the water from getting to the hair. It should be noted that some of these dyes may cause CANCER.

Science is the study of nature. The concept of nature is the denial of g-d. The vast majority of scientists are atheist. Religious Catholics who are trying to have their children taught creationism in public school but are being opposed by your scientists. Are there some Religious Scientist? Yes. The same logic that says smoking causes cancer can be used to say the study of science causes atheism.

Take a bath you will cool off.

Put on weights around your waist, ankles and wrists it will keep you firmly on the ground if you are worried about floating away. You just may not be able to move.

Mashiach Agent So are you or were you thinking of committing suicide. Because I think you should get a second opinion.

In fact maybe you should sleep on it. You know tomorrow is another day and maybe Mashiach will come and you can ask him.

Moderator-If someone threatens to commit suicide on YWN’s coffee room. Does YWN have a responsibility to notify Hatazolah and or other authorities? YWN has the ISPN and can track down the person’s name and address and hopefully help them before it is too late.

While they can be terminated if they are found to be discriminating against anyone based on religion but unless you substantiate the claim, which means that he is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, you will flunk the course and probably have to leave the college. It’s a big risk but the choice is yours.

Professors are there to teach not to cater to individual student’s whims. He may not have the time to help you. How did you ask him? He may have an assistant who can help you. Likewise there is a Dean of Students who is better able to help you in these types of situations. Making false accusation will anger the administration, ruin your reputation, make your college experience that much more difficult and less enjoyable.

SL-I agree with what you are saying but for example, why does she never start a sentence with a capital letter, never use an apostrophe. She seem to be the only one who does it.

What I am trying to say is that if she makes these error in the real world she will be unemployable.

PBA Sparkly isn’t CTLawyer daughter. His sons in law are lawyers and she wants a doctor. Also I think his youngest duaghter just got married and she is single.

Sparkly If you are driving 70 MPH you are going 103 feet per second. If you have to make a short stop to avoid something you will need very fast reflexes and even then you might not be able to stop in time. During poor visibility your headlights wouldn’t show you anything as the headlight doesn’t extend 100 feet in front of you.

While $ 130 K is the median salary for a pharmacist,which means that half of them make less then this amount. In fact you will probably start out in the 70-90 K but with more and more insurance companies requiring the use of mail ordering drug and with Obama care limiting reimbursement for drugs, I can’t see you making the $130 K any time soon. A $130 K salary when you include fringe benefits it cost the employer $200 K. In order to turn a profit the employer’s gross sales has to be a million a month or higher as gross profit on pharmaceuticals is under 5%. Many of the Mom & Pop Pharmacies are going out of business. Grocery and other stores use them as loss leaders to keep customer in the store in the hope that they buy something expensive.

This is all assuming that you pass the Naplex, there are some schools that have a 68% pass rate while other it’s close to 100%. In Jan 2015 in NY Statewide pass rate for Part 3 was 58%. Fail three times and you can’t get a licence in NY, nationwide it’s 5. No licence no job so checking up the pass rate of the college is most important also even if it’s a state university if it’s not fiscally sound they will close even if you are in the middle of your program.

Is smoking thee root cause for lung cancer or perhaps air pollution due to frivolous driving is the cause? If you would slow down instead of speeding, beside consuming less gas and creating fewer accidents it would decrease the amount of air pollution. Likewise instead of hopping in the car to go a block or two besides saving gas and time and the environment it is also healthy.

We could get rid of mosquito if we wanted to but the pesticides that could do it are outlawed.

Yeshivishe Kup – Where in Bava Kama does it say that Speeding in a motor vehicle is prohibited if the car wasn’t invented until the late 1800s almost a thousand years later? In Kiddushin page 82a the second Mishna states the Best of the Doctor go to HELL.

Jewishfeminist02 By your own admission the claim o that a smoker loses ten years is false and under Jewish Law testimony that is partially proven false is totally false and they are no longer believed.

There is a big difference between running across the street without looking because there the danger occurs at the same time as oppose to smoking where the disease occurs 20-30 years later.

Sparkly You may not believe this but if you are speeding you are driving blindly as you are traveling over 60 MPH or a mile a minute which is faster than you can see. By the time you see something it is already to late to take evasive action. Unlike smoking which is an addiction speeding is just a bad choice which can kill yourself and others quickly.

Reb Yid You have to know where the smokers hang out and avoid those places. I assume you have eyes that can see and a nose that can smell you have to avoid their hang outs. The wind cleans away the odor in seconds. You are not covered in the smoke, it’s just the odor that attaches to your clothing and you have a sensitivity to it.

Sparkly Both Speeding & Smoking MAY kill but while smoking will take years until he gets sick, speeding will kill you in a second. I never smoke and likewise never speed. Is the few seconds or minutes that you save worth your life or years of rehabilitation to get back to normal.

As to the studies that compare many people, just like you say those people that got into speeding accidents they were bad drivers but I am a good driver. You should know that if you are going 60 miles per hour which is not speeding you are going a mile a minute and you would not be able to stop in time to avoid an accident. Similarly, the smoker will claim these people have a weak immune system but they have a strong immune system. This is why some people will die of lung cancer in their 50s who have never smoked while other die in their 90s and smoked most of their life.

Sparkly- In the 1940s and 50s cigarettes were a form of currency in many parts of the world. It was only in the 60s that we started to hear that smoking was hazardous. Many Rosh Yeshivas smoked up until the 1980s and I tend to doubt they were OTD.

You state “my guy will probably not smoke” does this mean you can’t tell if he smokes or not through either sight or smell. Or does it mean that you really don’t care. Are girls either totally against it or fine with it, why can’t they possibly want and or hope he will quit smoking and think they can convince him to do it.

As for as most of the smokers in your community are OTD. Many smokers in the MO community are rebelling against society and therefor are also rebelling against G-d. There are underlining factors that have to be analyzed before you can get him/her to quit. You are trying to project this onto All Frum smokers. This is like me saying since most of the MOs who come to the Mincha minyan that I go to, learn the Daf ALL MOS learn the Daf. Which I know is not true. MO who take time from their busy day to daven Mincha with a minyan at work are more devoted and more likely to learn the daf.

I.M. Shufilin There is a limit to what Yeshivas can do. It is the parent’s responsibility to know who their children are associating with as many start due to peer pressure. As I previously said they are rebelling against society if you crack down too hard you run the risk of them going OTD. Be careful around Purim this is when many boys start smoking and drinking.

It’s a bad habit to start many got into it because of peer pressure or to relax. You must find out what the underlining factors drawing you into this habit before you are totally addicted so that you can stop.

PBA You drank raw milk when you were a baby.

Miamilawyer If you ask a smoker is smoking safe? He will say all the studies that say it causes cancer are flawed.

Joseph: Back in the late 1970s I had a similar argument if smoking is prohibited to safeguard your life. Among the claims for smoking are :

1)R’ Moshe never prohibited it he just said G-d watches out for the JACKASS.

2) The yeshivas only prohibited smoking on premises because of the parents and supporters

3) The studies that prove that smoking is hazardous are flawed.

A person who is Reform or MO “they” want to bring him closer but someone who is frum but is addicted to smoking “they ” want to discard like a piece of trash. Are smokers addicted to Nicotine? Are they covered under “People with Disabilities” Act? Is calling them OTD Hate Speech or at least slander against a protected minority according to Jewish Law?

How different is it from saying “X” is OTD because he is a Chicago Cubs fans. One has nothing to do with the other.

I don’t understand why are boys who smoke going OTD? Just because they don’t believe that smoking causes cancer they are OTD. You are bring proof from a magazine would you say the same for parent who refuse to get their children vaccinated.

I don’t smoke nor does anyone in my family, but my son-in law does. He is a good husband and only smokes outside the house or car and never in front of the children. Girls who limit themselves to those who don’t smoke may miss marrying their Bershet.

I am assuming smoking is referring to tobacco and not a smoking hot boy meaning very handsome boy.

You might want to buy a life insurance policy on this boy they are very cheap at this age.

Joseph: What this thing with left at the Alter. You know the Temple was destroyed 2000 years ago. Perhaps it’s referring to the groom who is stoned with candies as it says “From my Alter they will take him out to be executed”. I think you meant that they would even get engaged.

As Mark Twain once said there are Lies, Lies & Statistic most surveys are not accurate just look at election polls.

Sparkly: The reason that MO who attend who attended the Siyam Hashas learn the Daf is as follows:

1)The Young Israel have their own pod cast of the Daf.

2)Many Young Israels have their own shiur daily.

3)I don’t understand why someone who has no connection with learning would attend speeches about learning for over 6 hours.

4) There was a Siyam Hashas at Congregation Shearith Israel on the Upper West Side which is a MO synagogue.

It is boiled to kill the bacteria and while it may be healthy there are health concerns. Are you talking suckling it straight from the cow or goat, then there maybe halachic problems.