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Evolution is a mishegas. The biggest proof is how they misrepresent to us that “all biology is based on evolution”, which is patently untrue.
Very little biology is based on evolution. The only part of evolution that is at all relevant to biology is the basic idea of natural selection, which is obvious (like when only the strongest bacteria survive). The idea that new species can evolve is not necessary for any biology, and is pure conjecture.
Moreover, it is not science. Science is things we can observe about the world, and can be proven or disproven with experiments. While experiments can show basic obvious natural selection, you cannot show a new species by experiment since it takes a gazillion years, so it is not science. The fossils and junk they dig up is just history.
The fact they teach it is science classes is absurd and outrageous.
in before pba comes in and turns the tables on you with his rand shtick.
lol wut
I’m not aware that Rand would have an opinion on this.
Also, nobody who bid had any intention of paying. The listing had been taken down the day before, and was certain to be taken down again. And even if it wasn’t, they can just refuse to pay and get at most bad feedback.
Use a sharpie for eyeliner
You can use a sharpie as eyeliner and it stays on all shabbos. That is what my husband does.
It’s ok. I’m not in skwl either
It’s hard to read them because of the stuff in the bottom.
However, I do find it useful for news about chareidim that is not reported on in chareidi media like molestation cases.
I don’t find it useful at all, because it isn’t reliable.
Therefore, if it is something I already know, then I already know about it. And if it is something I don’t already know, then I don’t know when he is twisting things so I don’t know what to believe.
So all in all, useless.
Perhaps, just perhaps, there can be a way to compromise. Perhaps the Chareidishe oilom can come up with a middle-ground that will not “drag Talmidei Chachomim from their Batei Limud” but will also not force everyone wanting to live a Chareidishe lifestyle to be a “economical parasite on society”.
You mean like letting people work without having gone to the army?
Just for the record, I don’t think I saw that implication between the lines.
I am so moving there
I suppose he is talking to Israelis, and I’m not familiar with what they do. But I don’t think that is the case in american yeshivos and kollelim.
Also, where is he davening that they are drinking things that put blue label to shame.
I’m not saying blue label is that great, but it does cost 180 after all. To be putting it “to shame”, I’d say the bottles need to be at least 300-400.
And bourbon that puts it to shame? No, nobody is putting out a bourbon bottle that costs that much.
Really? I can only think of one or two shuls that hava a kiddush club that I know of and they are the type of shuls where they have to announce the page number so that everyone can keep up.
I have a kiddush club! Me me me mememememe!
I would be quite glad to give tzedaka so that a boy could have shabbos shoes.
You’ve gone off the deep end if you think allowing girls to pick first, and ceasing advertising the shidduch disparity, will increase the number of boys available. Almost equally ludicrous is the notion that not advertising the crisis wil get people married quicker.
Of course it would.
Think about it: When the musical chairs choose the people, they will sit and try to figure out which one to take. But when the people choose the musical chairs–they just grab one.
thanks for bumping. excellent thread
writer: of course my study is statistically valid.
Here are the numbers:
The population is 100. I assign a value of 1 to girls and 0 to boys. My null hypothesis is that the underlying population mean is .5
My sample size is 20, randomly chosen. My sample mean is 1.
Thus, the standard deviation of the population as hypothesized is .5 (sqroot of .5*.5).
The standard deviation of sample means is .11
My sample mean was 1, which means it is almost 5 standard deviations off of my hypothesized population mean. So I can certainly reject my null hypothesis.
writersoul:
I think ben is trying to say that sometimes a statistical study will be way wrong, and if it is obviously wrong, the intelligent thing to do is to ignore it.
We generally consider something statistically significant if the results are 2 standard deviations off the mean assuming the null hypothesis. Yet, 5% of surveys will yield a result that is 2 standard deviations off the mean! So 5% of them are wrong.
Usually, we assume we are in the 95% which are correct. But if I see with my own eyes that the results are wrong, I won’t.
Here is my example:
I have 100 children, and I think that there are 50 boys and 50 girls (big family, I’m mormon). But just to make sure, I do a survey, and randomly ask 20 children if they are a boy or a girl. All 20 are girls. Do I conclude that all my children are girls?
people looking on a mixed blog for gyn info instead of going to imamother are probably not here with the best intentions.
Maybe he can’t make a username on imamother because he’s a man. So he has to ask here.
If this is such an important issue to us, then why doesn’t someone actually commission a real scientific study rather than just guessing about if there is a problem and what is causing it?
Yes, that should be done.
Someone suggested a shidduch for my daughter. I saw the boy talking during kryas hatorah and that was the end the suggestion.
May I ask if that was your decision or your daughter’s? Do you know for certain that she is not willing to have a husband who talks during leining?
popa, then why are they not advocating that bochrim should start dating at 17 or 18 like chassidim do?
I don’t know. And I don’t think that is enough for you to conclude that the chassidim don’t get married with a smaller age gap.
I’m confused. I don’t have statistics to prove it but anecdotal evidence would seem to indicate there is no shidduch crisis among chassidim who have an arranged marriage system, where almost always the bochur is older than the girl. Furthermore it is a very fast growing population. In short, this completely refutes NASI’s mistaken theory.
To the contrary their couples are usually far closer in age than ours, and this proves the NASI theory.
This I disagree with. The facts are they can find dates with older guys. I and many guys I know would go out with these girls. The only reason they can’t find dates is because they are picky.
Where in the Torah does it say an excuse not to get married because the guy is 20 -30 years older? I discussed this in detail in my topic of “Who wants to be a Tzdaiekes like Rus?”.
But see http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/who-wants-to-marry-a-tzadeikes-like-esther
Also, your point is not relevant, since it does not negate the result that I am proving. If indeed the only way to match up all the girls with on a 1:1 ratio with guys is to match up 12 year old girls with 60 year old guys, then that shows a serious numbers mismatch.
In excelsis deo
lol a trollectomy
I didn’t change it. Methinks t’was Mod 42
I read the letter and the response, over shabbos.
The basic analysis:
Letter writer writes thoughtful and respectful question.
NASI squanders chance to make meaningful contribution, and instead throws polemic.
NASI should have asked me to write the response. I will write the response now, for them.
Dear Reuvain,
There is no scientific study, and thus no confidence level or any other mathematical stuff. But here is what there is:
1. Overwhelming anecdotal evidence. Everyone who is involved in shidduchim knows that there are way more girls than boys. This is proven by the simple observation that boys are able to go on dates any time they please, while most girls are practically scrounging for dates. It is simply undeniable.
2. Mathematical theory. There is population growth, and matching up the smaller population with the subsequent bigger population will skew the numbers towards more girls. This is math, and it can even tell us how much it will skew.
3. Causation. We have no idea. We do not know if the age gap is causing the crisis or not. But, it doesn’t matter, because it is obvious that correcting the age gap will ameliorate the problem at least to some extent.
4. Effect on Shalom bayis. It is patently obvious that there will be a negative effect on our marriages as a result of the changes we advocate. We think it is worth it.
5. Study. There was a study done, but the results were constrained by the poor quality of the data. It will be uploaded to our website where it may be viewed.
Nu, don’t sheep without a spleen, bar shattya, and abba bar aristotle get mazel tov also?
Maybe the thread is not a joke, but the animal hugging is. Like, maybe they thought it was cute to have a stuffed animal again.
I like stuffed animals. I have one my uncle gave me that is very very big, like maybe 2 and a half feet tall. I brought it to yeshiva once because I thought it was funny. (And because I’m psychotic)
pba: You’re being unfair. An anti-Semite is someone who is prejudiced against Jews solely for their being Jewish. Someone who is prejudiced only against those more religious than him can be called anti-Torah, anti-God, anti-religious, etc. But I think anti-Semite is unfair. Or he could just be a hardcore Misnaged 😛
You are correct, I don’t think my definition of anti-semite would include this.
But I’m not being unfair, since I don’t think being an anti-semite is worse than this.
PBA: It depends on why you’re doing it. If it’s out of comfort or style, then no, it’s not assur. If you’re doing it to try and be more “frum”, then yes, I’d say it is.
1. Why do you assume she was doing it to be more frum? Maybe she is just embarrassed to stand with 25k men staring at her (I would be)?
2. That is simply not the halacha; you are simply wrong. It is not baal tosif to be machmir on tznius. Perhaps if you claim it is min hadin, but nobody has made such a claim .
Anti-semite.
Oh Shreck: So she felt that she knows hilchos tznius better than the Mechaber, the Mishna Berurah, etc?
Is it then your contention that it is assur to cover any part of your body if not required by halacha?
Anti-semite
Not every critism is Anti-Semtism.
Of course not. This is probably the first time I’ve called a comment anti-semitism on YWN ever.
Since when does hilchos tznius require a woman to cover her face when there are men around? Are Belz chassidim now joining the burka cult?
Wow, we’re bringing out all the anti-semites here.
Since when does tznius require you to say hateful things about anyone different than you?
Did anyone else notice how the groom wasnt smiling? Nor were any of the female faces that somehow snuck into a picture.
Why do some people treat weddings with the solmeness of Yom Kippur and the depressed emotions of Tisha B’av?
With your cynicism, I’m not sure I trust you would know what a smile looks like.
No, your parents insurance is required to cover you until 26 regardless.
That’s right. Feminist drivel.
Presumably, we see from here that men would be happier if they would leave and go to war right after getting married, but the poor women need husbands to make them happy.
A friend of mine used to use the appellation “got up from shana rishona”.
Could anyone tell me (Ok, I’d prefer write) what this is all about.
Sure, if you sign up here, then you are agreeing to only use one screen name per time you post. So if you come online for one posting session, you can only use one screenname the whole time. If you want to start using another one as a sock puppet, you need to log off and walk away from your computer and then come back.
Compliance is verified by other posters deciding that you are using sock puppets.
Can you cite to single psak prior to the advent of Zionism as a political movement that brings the oaths as halacha l’maysa?
Benign: You should consider though, that before the advent of zionism, there was no need for a discussion halacha l’maysah, because it simply wasn’t l’maisah.
Shulchan aruch and its progeny only discuss halachos that are relevant today. I suppose you wonder why Rambam didn’t discuss it in his mishneh torah.
rd: Can you clarify what it is about the nusach issue that you think is wrong?
Do you think the new tunes are inherently inappropriate, or do you just not like the idea of changing anything that is in the mesorah?
Cause I’m a tad surprised if you think the latter.
rd: To the extent that you are correct, I think you should give more credence to the idea that it is important to distinguish and differentiate from the apikorsim who try to destroy our religion.
The paranoia makes sense. And perhaps there is some legitimate innovation that would be allowed but needs to be suppressed because of it.
As it happens, the threat today is not from reform, but from Sperber himself. The only change he will have on judaism is a further retreat to the right in reaction to, and in paranoia of, him. And his movement, like every other movement that has split to the left, will eventually completely assimilate.
I’d say there is a better chance of my great-granddaughters wearing teffilin than of his.
This law is very easy to change. Unlike statutes, which need like hundreds of people in congress to change, laws that are constitutional are very easy to change.
I will make you a plan for changing it.
1. Get a group of 5 people together who will help you.
2. All of you get a really high LSAT score.
3. Go to elite law schools. Preferably Yale, b’dieved Harvard.
4. Get clerkships with an elite judge.
5. Get more clerkships with Supreme Court judges.
6. Work for the US attorney’s office.
7. Buddy up to your home state senators, and give them money.
8. Get appointed as federal judges.
9. Get appointed as supreme court judges.
10. Change the law!!!
See, in ten steps, you have it all changed.
Also, it is a really really good law, and I will write awful things about you on YWN if you change it.
They’re bored. If they would have just found YWN, we could have avoided the whole thing.
Out of that shittah comes the Kollel guys who claim that taking out garbage is “beneath them”. I hear, it is a “Lakewood” shittah,
j’accuse. You have no information about that; you are not aware of any kollel person who considers taking out the garbage beneath him. You have heard one famous legend which is repeated about every gadol in america that he came to the house to take out the kollel guy’s garbage because it wasn’t beneath him.
Perhaps at most you have heard of this in a couple of horror stories which may or may not have been true, but I do not believe you are aware of this in any widespread way.