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I like Queen (a lot), but I don’t think that makes me a metalhead. I do like iron and zinc, but I prefer gold because I’m rich and famous.
I hired a thousand monkeys to type on a thousand typewriters for a thousand years, and they came up with this garbage.
What about the old Jewish classics? Nobody listems to Yossel any more. Which is ironic, because nobody sounds like him any more either.
If you go to Ein Gedi/Nachal David, it might be packed. I’ve never been there Sukkos time, but Purim time it was empty and in the summer it was packed. It’s a gorgeous place though.
If you go to Masada, take the cable car up and just tell everyone that you climbed it. It’s way easier.
You ever try walking with lunch boxes on your feet? Clearly you have not. I’ll stick with mailboxes.
I’d rather a girl who was shallow than one who went off the deep end.
I prefer mailboxes.
Try a Christmas store.
Here’s my advice: Don’t go to the Banyas. It’s the most overrated trickle of water in the country.
I want applesauce with whipped cream.
They believe that matter can not be created or destroyed, only transformed.
This is a true fact of truth. The law of the conservation of mass is a scientific theory responsible in part for developing special relativity theories, among others.
Besides for Hkb”h, Who creates yesh me’ayin, this rule is quite the true one.
DaasYochid – Read the link I posted earlier.
Me too. And remember people, all you need is love, love is all you need…
It’s like Voldemort vs He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (sorry, best example I can think of off the top of my head)- which one is scarier?
I hear that. In a similar vein, Louis CK says that saying “the N word” is worse than saying the word itself.
I don’t wanna brush my teeth because toothpaste is eewy and tastes like root beer. Also old people aren’t supposed to have teeth so I don’t have teeth.
Her meds! She missed her meds. We need to fill her in on those.
I’m the twelve year old boy who ran away from home and is posing as an eighty-five year-old woman, for the free food and Percocet.
+1 ubiquitin
writersoul – Well said. Now I need to invent a word.
Misameach in Lakewood is an amazing, amazing organization, and the girls’ division could always use some help.
Yeah. A heart-rending tale of a young boy with a calculator and a father with a fountain pen. *sob*
ObstacleIllusion – Though (as I stated) I do not really believe the word should exist, it is generally used in mainstream media to describe people who are opposed to gay rights. You, as a religious Jew, have an obligation to be averse to that. V’lo savi to’evah el be’sacha.
All I meant in my previous post (if it was not already abundantly clear) is that they concocted a strong-sounding word to describe views which merely oppose their own. I never said that people defined by the media as homophobes actually have an “extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to” homosexuality.
That being said, one should definitely view activities which the Torah forbids with disgust (and possibly hate). The scenario you describe is someone struggling with an unwanted attraction and who wants to work through his yetzer hara and do the right thing. A religious Jew being a proverbial homophobe should mean that he has an “extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to” open, flaunting, proud, or even simply unrepentant and rationalizing homosexual behavior.
Let’s also not forget that the sin of cursing a fellow Jew is derived from Venasi be’amcha lo sa’or (Sanhedrin 66a), which only applies to someone who is oseh ma’aseh amcha (Bava Kama 94b, Sanhedrin 85a, Yevamos 22b, etc.)
writersoul – The word homophobe was concocted by Western society trying to push its perverted “values” on the world. By labeling people who are againt their agenda as “phobes” – which means having “extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something” – they successfully managed to make the people with morals look like the crazies.
Avadim yimshelu banu … (just kidding!)
taom – Name one.
And we all know that Chaim Walder never copies stories in his books; especially not O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi.
On a completely opposite note, a guy I knew once said that he loves Jewish weddings, because all the girls are in one place 🙂
Do any women on the other side of the mechitzah feel discriminated against? If not, why the need to remove it? There happens to be an issur (d’oraysah) of Lo Sikrav, explained at length in chapter 11 of Mesilas Yesharim. Hope that didnt sound too preachy.
Wolf, I hear that. You will eventually get buried in it, and I assume you are not a Pharaoh.
Ok, good … on the topic of Jewish rap, someone emailed me last week saying that he’s engaged. He says The Aveirah/Chumrah Songs have been a private joke between he and his kallah since they’ve been dating, and he asked that I film myself saying Mazel Tov for him to show to her. So … I wrote up a little Jewish Rap and I’m about to go record it and send it over to him.
Could be. He’s in his low forties, but doesn’t look it. The guy is one of the sweetest, hard-working people I know. I don’t know where to go from here though.
Eclipse is ignoring me now because we disagreed on a different thread 🙂
jewishfeminist02 – I think you’re confusing homophobes and xenophobes. As a religious Jew, you’re probably best off being a homophobe. On that note, you’re probably best off being a xenophobe too, though obviously not against other Jews. Which is not included in the definition of xenophobe anyway. Basically we need some more words to use here.
People with cancer are stigmatized because they have cancer; not because people call cancer yeneh machla.
If you compare cancer with other illnesses (pneumonia, hepatitis, etc.), it stands out for a few reasons.
1) It can affect the health of the patient in the future (think fertility, etc.)
2) It is typically associated with a long battle for survival with many ups and downs, which is more of an emotional roller coaster than many other illnesses would have.
3) In many cases (depending on the type/stage), it has a higher fatality rate.
4) It is more common than many other diseases.
Personally I usually call it cancer. Maybe I’ve become desensitized from all the people I know who have (had) it.
I’ve never seen a woman wearing lace on her kittel.
Also you have to talk about cars and money a lot.
eclipse – Thanks for the mature response; I think that’s the best option. Let’s all disagree to agree 🙂
YITZCHOK2 – I can try to prove to you that I’m not “very young”, but it will take too much time and effort, so I’ll just announce publicly that I’m fourteen.
I know someone who’s very much the man you describe, and he’s never been married. Due to the fact that there are no PMs on this website, nothing will ever come of the idea though.
Where there’s smoke there’s fire….or a stink bomb.
Right. Or fire.
I do truly feel bad about whatever happened to you, eclipse. I’m sorry if my comments hurt you at all; I did not mean to be pushy about my opinions.
jbaldy22 – You’re probably right. However, see Rabbeinu Yona in Avos Perek 1 to “Vehevei dan es kol adam l’kaf zechus” to decide whether or not it applies here.
“Black rappers” use alliteration a lot more than rhymes, which has completely different rules and nuances. Also, Eminem isn’t black. (Someone please tell him.)
Well done, eclipse. Well done.
Gamanit – one of my favorite movies of all time!
jbaldy22 – You’re not addressing my point though. Guilty means committing a crime. I’m not saying she’s guilty. You can get arrested and subsequently found innocent, but I think that a large percentage of people arrested are somehow involved with something iffy.
jbaldy22 – Perhaps I wasn’t clear. I was referring to the modern American justice system. Also, I used the word “pattern”, not referring to an absolute rule, obviously. It’s just that certain people stay away from trouble.
Ok Popa, I’ll give you that. Perhaps I placed too much blame on her for the resulting bad press we inevitably recieved.
However, if you agree to my last point, namely, that completely innocent and righteous people never face the judge in the first place (and I agree that it is arguable), a small measure of fault may be found with her for doing whatever she did.
You must be kidding. How could she have made us look bad if she was not guilty?
Because the fact is that she looks guilty, and people are talking. Reading this thread, even people within our own camp have a hard time believing she is 100% innocent.
Seriously? First recall the case where he was facing a long prison sentence if he didn’t. Then we’ll discuss it.
Precisely my point. Real tzaddikim among us have a tendency of never having to face charges in the first place. It’s an interesting pattern.