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How many of you turn off your phones for Shabbos and Yom Tov?
I never took a survey.
Joseph answers well; as usual.
Your question should have been posed as follows: “Do you turn off your phone on Shabbos and Yom Tov?”. By posing your question in the manner you did, it seems that you are looking for some form of existing survey or census.
In any event. I usually turn it off. If I get a wrong number it’ll remind-buzz me throughout the whole Shabbos.
-Leider
You what? You know how many of us turn off our phones on Shabbos? Shikur here is looking for a number. 14 or 154 or 673 would’ve been a valid answer (assuming you took such poll).
Sorry, but your response is not nearkly as eloquent and poignant as Joseph’s.
42?
the real question is how many people remember to turn off there alarms that run at 645 in te morning
42.
hmm, I understood the question as if Shikur is taking a poll. I answered the question…
something wrong?
Squeak. Perhaps you can answer this one?
OK, I’ll be the guinea pig that starts it off.
No, we don’t turn off our phones on Shabbos/Yom Tov. There is always the possibility of an emergency that might require our attention.
We simply ignore the occasional wrong number or telemarketing call.
The Wolf
Squeak. Perhaps you can answer this one?
Squeak already did… 42.
42 is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
The Wolf
Kapusta. We’re just having fun with words, is all.
Leider – I thought I did.
Shikur wants to know how many turn off their phones. I replied that the answer is probably 42, hence the ?.
MAR aka MKY wants to know how many turn off their alarms at precisely 6:45 am, to which I replied with certainty, the answer is 42.
Any other questions?
If we are taking a poll, I’ll be glad to participate.
The Wolf. Our posts crossed. Indeed I see that the number according to squeak is 42.
Please explain how and why that number is the answer to everything?
I must disagree. 26 is the answer to everything. At least according to my sources.
Leider – do you really expect anyone to explain to you the product of years and years of precise calculations by the second greatest computer that was ever built?
squeak, you got my q totally wrong.
Sorry, 26. You are quite wrong.
Happens even to the best of us.
Squeak. I’m not looking for proof. Just a quick overview of the significance of the number 42 (besides, of course, it being the precise number of people who leave their alarm clocks on at 645 on Shabbos, and also very likely the total amount of people who shut their phones on Shabbos).
Please explain how and why that number is the answer to everything?
You’d have to read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and the other books in the series) to understand.
The Wolf
Wolf – I’m afraid to recommend the Guide to yeshiva leit after one of them told me off for pushing kefira. Apparently, he was swayed by the babel fish argument vis a vis the existence of G-d.
In that case, I give up. No time or head for it.
he was swayed by the babel fish argument vis a vis the existence of G-d.
Oh dear, I hadn’t thought of that.
The Wolf (who is now vanishing in a puff of logic)
Mod26 – I’m not going to get a reply? Are you that easy to silence?
Wolf – I’m afraid to nitpick in case you really meant what you implied 🙂
Wolf – I’m afraid to nitpick in case you really meant what you implied 🙂
???
The Wolf
Why would The Wolf vanish in a puff of logic….
squeak, this is simple math. 26 is the gematria of Hashem’s name. Hashem is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
26 – did you see the post I linked to?
Squeak,
Never mind… bad joke. It’s a paraphrase of the coda to the Babelfish argument.
The Wolf
I did.
I still think Hashem is the Ultimate answer.
Hu v’oiraisa chad
Wolf – I recognized the reference (I think it was exact, not a paraphrase) but it implies that it is The Wolf’s existence that is being denied.
squeak, so is Yisrael, but you see how many brilliant “Ultimate” answers you can find in the CR.
mod 26- I must commend you on that response!
I’ve got to agree. 26 is much more of a Jewish number than 42.
Our phones go off every shabbos and yuntif. We dont want anythign to disturb the kedushas shabbos.
keep the phones on on shobbos & yom tov!
Since everyone who calls me on my cell phone is frum, I turn it off because I’m not going to get any calls.
26? You there?
Yes. Can I help you?
Ahh! Thanks a lot! 😉
I turn off my phone because of the way the alarm works. If the phone is on, the alarm will keep ringing until it is turned off. If the phone is off it rings for a few minutes and then stops. So I turn it off in order to be able to use the alarm to wake me up on Shabbos. If I wasn’t using the alarm I would probably turn it off to save the battery anyway.
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