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December 9, 2018 8:15 am at 8:15 am in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1639630👑RebYidd23Participant
Luckily, their phones were a link to 2018, and they were pretty sure that they would easily get back after completing an adventure in the year 1941.
After they drove down the road, having decided to look for a rattlesnake in the year 1941, Annie’s phone rang. It was Aliza.
“Hello!” Annie greeted her sister. “How are you?”
“I’m mostly fine, how are you?” Aliza replied.
“I’m actually in the year 1941, but my cell phone has the ability to reach you in 2018!” answered Annie. “I just hope I can keep using my car charger, and that nobody in 1941 Nevada notices the anachronism that I’m driving.”
“That’s super weird, and your sudden time travel raises a lot of WWII related moral obligations, but I actually have a question about business.” Aliza responded.
“If I can,” Annie replied, “But I don’t know if I’ll be able to answer. Should I put you on speaker phone so my husband can hear?”
“Might as well.”
Annie put Aliza on speaker phone.
Aliza recounted her problem. “Lately, my husband has been having some medical issues, both physical and psychological. It started when he broke his hand, and he fell unconscious. Now he says that he has stared into the void, and he had a vivid dream about being stared at by Chinese men, and he thought it was real, but if it were real, how would he know the man were Chinese? In my experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, I have never heard of a similar case to this where drugs weren’t involved.”
“That’s not a business question!” Annie exclaimed.
“The business question is this,” Aliza answered. “I believe that I can have Baruch tested for all possible drugs, even those that are currently being secretly tested by the Mossad. However, it will cost at least five thousand dollars. How can I put together that kind of money quickly and in a way that Baruch will be okay with?”
Annie’s husband spoke up. “I’m sure I can answer your business question if you give me more details. Business is my middle name! What kind of assets do you have?”
“As Annie already knows,” Aliza said softly, “Baruch and I are not poor, but we live a kollel lifestyle. That is to say, he and I both own considerable illiquid assets. We live this way on purpose, because we don’t want the struggles of being too rich.”
“In that case,” he replied, “We would gladly help out with a loan. Unfortunately, we are in the year 1941, and we cannot give you the loan directly. I’ll still help out, though. If Annie agrees, when we hang up the phone, we’ll call our older children and ask them to buy some of your stocks with the emergency funds that we left them in case of sudden time travel.”
“I agree!” exclaimed Annie.
“Thanks, Biz!” said Aliza. “Thank you, Annie, as well.”
“73. Goodbye, Aliza!” Annie and Biz said in unison, as they had rehearsed many times before in order to save time when making conference calls.
“Bye, thanks again!” Aliza answered.
Then Annie and Biz called their children to tell them to buy the stocks. The children immediately agreed and followed through. The baby started crying. As Annie rocked the baby, Biz tried to use his smartphone to send an email to his boss, who would be upset if he didn’t come to work without explanation.
John,I had no intention of skipping work, but unfortunately, I may not be able to come to work for a while. I don’t know when I will be back. I am in my car, and the year for me is 1941. I hope to return, but if I do, how much time will have passed? There is no telling. I hope that when I return, I can resume my position. Please respond to this email because I need the confirmation that I am able to send and receive email to the future.
Sincerely,
Washington Business Sakanah
Biz just sat there for a while, his car still parked on the side of the road. He realized that they would need a place to stay. He was also nervous that his boss wouldn’t get his email, or that he wouldn’t believe it, so he took a picture to send to the future as well.December 7, 2018 2:04 pm at 2:04 pm in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1639280👑RebYidd23Participant◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
Happenings were also happening elsewhere, and to other people.
Back at their ranch, Annie Sakanah and her husband, Biz, were sitting in their living room, listening to some music. Annie gently rocked her baby, who, at three months old, still did not have a name.
“I still think we should name the baby,” Annie whispered, not wanting to wake her other children.
“I would,” Biz replied, “if only we agreed on the name!”
“I have an idea, and you refuse to entertain it!” Annie pouted.
“You know I respect your ideas,” Biz responded. “But my parents gave me the first name of Washington, which I hate, and I now go by my middle name. It’s so awkward when anyone asks me. I’d rather let the child grow up without a name than to have one that is so hateful!”
“You tell me that every week! I’m your wife, so I already know that!” said Annie. “Also, okay, we can wait a little longer on the name.”
It was getting late, so Annie kissed her baby and her hunting rifles good night. But she couldn’t sleep.
“Biz?” she whispered. “Something’s wrong. I don’t know what. I just feel like we’re not giving this baby everything that a baby deserves.”
“I understand, but I can’t explain it. We’ve given this baby everything a baby needs, but it somehow does feel inadequate.” Biz whispered back as he put their pet reticulated python into its night cage.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, until Annie jumped up and exclaimed quietly, “I know what’s wrong!”
“What?”
“The baby needs a proper rattle!”
“I can pick one up at the store tomor—”
“No. The baby needs an all natural rattle. A real one, not one made of a bunch of lousy chemicals!”
“Of course!” Biz agreed, as he finished preserving some mice in formaldehyde. “But how do we get one?”
“It won’t be easy,” Annie admitted. “But I think we can handle it. All we have to do is find a place where it’s legal to kill rattlesnakes.”👑RebYidd23ParticipantHow is precious memory defined? If all your memories are bad, are you just ineligible for this exchange?
December 7, 2018 12:06 pm at 12:06 pm in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1639254👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhen the doctor heard Baruch’s concerns about the measles, he declared that Baruch’s “conversion to nothingness” was purely psychological. Then he gave him an immunity booster pill, which was a placebo, but hey, it worked.
Unfortunately, it had the side effect of making him hallucinate Chinese men.
When his wife, Aliza, found out, she was concerned about his physical and psychological health. The question was whether he was suffering from a true psychological disorder, or being drugged?December 7, 2018 7:38 am at 7:38 am in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1639129👑RebYidd23ParticipantCoffee addict, in my entry, he was still a mashgiach, but one with a broken hand and a fogged mind. Funnybone, the battery had gone out the day before.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantSamthenylic, good point. Another productive thing you can do: Go on the Internet and complain about other people’s discussions.
December 6, 2018 4:48 pm at 4:48 pm in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1638920👑RebYidd23ParticipantThe nothingness was only there for Baruch, and after an amount of time that was, to him, both eternal and nonexistent, he came to in a hospital, with a cast on his arm and an antibiotic drip.
December 6, 2018 1:54 pm at 1:54 pm in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1638653👑RebYidd23ParticipantBaruch was not amused. “Tell me, doctor”, he said firmly, “with all these other surprises, is the restaurant still kosher? You know my job, so I guess by having you here, I blew my cover. Also, would you please just tell me if my hand is broken? I am in a lot of pain right now!”
“Of course the restaurant is kosher!” replied the doctor. “The beets are 100% real beets, not potato slices dyed with indigo and carmine. This is a real restaurant, not a front for some secret drug business!”
And when Baruch inspected the kitchen, he found out that what the doctor had said was partly true. There was nothing non-kosher in the kitchen–the beets were sweet potatoes soaked in a concentrated solution of cherry juice and beet juice, but there was no evidence that anything else was going on. Also, Baruch’s left hand was painfully swollen and was getting harder and harder to ignore.December 6, 2018 1:36 pm at 1:36 pm in reply to: New Ongoing Story, please add your continuations. #1638648👑RebYidd23ParticipantActually, my post doesn’t explicitly state that he drove to the doctor.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantI wonder whether people’s choices would change based on the quality of the poems.
December 5, 2018 3:06 pm at 3:06 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1638058👑RebYidd23ParticipantPost hoc fallacy. Confirmation bias. I’d type more stuff, but you aren’t worth my time.
December 5, 2018 2:35 pm at 2:35 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1638067👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhy do antivaxxers not believe that vaccines have the side effect of preventing allergies? It makes scientific sense, and it might even be true.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantXmas lights don’t bother me. What bothers me is when there is a menora next to the tree.
December 4, 2018 10:01 pm at 10:01 pm in reply to: Leaving children out of the education debate #1637479👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhen I was a child, I wanted a more rigorous academic schedule, not ice cream.
December 4, 2018 9:57 pm at 9:57 pm in reply to: Are students allowed to be thrown out of school? Mesivta/ high school #1637476👑RebYidd23ParticipantNeville, by the time they get to Mesivta, they should already be mostly trained.
December 4, 2018 6:40 pm at 6:40 pm in reply to: Why Are Torah Observant Jews Overwhelmingly Republican/Conservative? #1637357👑RebYidd23ParticipantProtecting hunting is important, and religious accommodation should be made so that people who don’t eat animals that have been shot should be able to catch the animals and then shecht them.
December 4, 2018 6:36 pm at 6:36 pm in reply to: Leaving children out of the education debate #1637355👑RebYidd23ParticipantGood.
December 4, 2018 3:31 pm at 3:31 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1637225👑RebYidd23ParticipantDoomsday, I disagree, and I present you as evidence.
December 4, 2018 2:49 pm at 2:49 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1637194👑RebYidd23ParticipantIf there were no clear answer, it would be up to the children, not the parents. Children are people, not property.
December 4, 2018 1:39 pm at 1:39 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1637116👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhatever right is taken from the parents is given to the child, not the state.
December 4, 2018 1:24 am at 1:24 am in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1636630👑RebYidd23Participant“Regress into autism” is really offensive language, bordering on hate speech.
December 3, 2018 7:26 pm at 7:26 pm in reply to: How should we as Jews mourn the loss of former president George h.w. bush? #1636511👑RebYidd23ParticipantTrump Fan, the process of mourning for a Jew is something that’s already known.
December 3, 2018 5:01 pm at 5:01 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1636305👑RebYidd23ParticipantIf true, it is explained by natural selection.
December 3, 2018 4:51 pm at 4:51 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1636160👑RebYidd23ParticipantDoomsday, what would you say in the opposite case, where parents seek for their children to be removed from life support?
December 3, 2018 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1636025👑RebYidd23ParticipantIf, chas v’shalom, people with eczema were to have a much higher suicide rate, eczema rates would drop. One would then be able to say that in communities where people with skin conditions are bullied and tortured, the rates of those conditions go down.
December 3, 2018 2:37 pm at 2:37 pm in reply to: How should we as Jews mourn the loss of former president George h.w. bush? #1636022👑RebYidd23ParticipantObama and Bush are not in the same category as Trump and Clinton.
December 3, 2018 2:31 pm at 2:31 pm in reply to: Applesauce on latkes is better than sour cream: Prove me wrong. #1636020👑RebYidd23ParticipantSorry.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantHow did you even bring up evolution here?
December 3, 2018 12:23 pm at 12:23 pm in reply to: Applesauce on latkes is better than sour cream: Prove me wrong. #1635902👑RebYidd23ParticipantDoes nobody appreciate the taste of pure latke that they have to cover it up with all kinds of narishkeit?
December 3, 2018 12:20 pm at 12:20 pm in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1635900👑RebYidd23ParticipantDoomsday, the slippery slope argument? Really?
December 2, 2018 11:37 pm at 11:37 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1635559👑RebYidd23ParticipantThe antivaxxer has the bad habit of randomly capitalizing words and writing as though he or she is on a stage, speaking to an audience that is there to hear him or her speak.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantJustme22, antivaxxers believe that doctors are misrepresenting the cost/benefit.
December 2, 2018 2:59 pm at 2:59 pm in reply to: Your 21 year old son may be ready for marriage #1635313👑RebYidd23ParticipantSelfishness and uncaringness don’t go away with age, they get worse.
November 29, 2018 4:21 pm at 4:21 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1633301👑RebYidd23ParticipantDoomsday, how do you trust doctors to diagnose people with autism if you don’t trust vaccines?
November 29, 2018 12:13 pm at 12:13 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1633111👑RebYidd23Participant“Regressed into autism”? Do you realize what you are saying?
👑RebYidd23ParticipantMedication can be prophylactic or therapeutic.
November 29, 2018 9:42 am at 9:42 am in reply to: In a general sense, rate broad categories of devices based on performance. #1632924👑RebYidd23ParticipantPlastic and fabric transfers can melt in laser printers.
November 28, 2018 10:46 pm at 10:46 pm in reply to: In a general sense, rate broad categories of devices based on performance. #1632721👑RebYidd23ParticipantLaser printers can only print on paper.
November 28, 2018 6:43 pm at 6:43 pm in reply to: In a general sense, rate broad categories of devices based on performance. #1632507👑RebYidd23ParticipantA blanket is a thing made for a purpose, so it is a device.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantThe poverty trap can be ironed out by changing the specifics of how programs work.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantSariray, peanut allergens are airborne.
November 28, 2018 11:47 am at 11:47 am in reply to: The Anti-Vaxxers are Causing a Chillul Hashem #1632378👑RebYidd23ParticipantPlease don’t copy and paste that post to every thread.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantActually, the solution is paying out even more, but to people who earn more, not the very poor.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantPregnancy isn’t 100% safe either.
👑RebYidd23ParticipantIs there really such a thing as “agreeing to disagree” when it comes to life and death decisions?
👑RebYidd23ParticipantOP should have just posted to the other thread.
November 27, 2018 4:49 pm at 4:49 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1631801👑RebYidd23ParticipantWhy do you believe that autism is “brain damage”? And what do you think is the motive behind the huge conspiracy?
👑RebYidd23ParticipantIt bothers people for different reasons. Mostly for the reason MrSarahLevine613 mentioned, but some because they feel that the tax burden is unfair.
November 27, 2018 1:19 pm at 1:19 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1631649👑RebYidd23ParticipantAmish society isn’t more neurologically homogeneous, the differences just don’t matter as much due to their lifestyle.
November 27, 2018 1:00 pm at 1:00 pm in reply to: Studies on vaccines you might have missed.👨🔬💉🚫 #1631624👑RebYidd23ParticipantFor every doctor who says vaccines are dangerous, you can also find at least one that says ADHD is not a disease.
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