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I haven’t been here in a while, and it seems like some things have definitely changed for the worse. It used to be that if you clicked on a poster’s name, you’d be able to see all the topics they’ve started, replies created, etc. now it just says page not found or whatever.
This is very hard for someone like myself who occasionally wishes to wax nostalgic about their past brilliance.
Zaphod is not happy.
Agreed. Allegedly in repair.
And boom goes the dynamite.
In response to the second of the OP’s questions, Allow me to answer your question with one of my own. There are many things in this world which we don’t understand, which we cannot comprehend. It is our innate duty, as men, as Jews, to ponder the questions that must be pondered, to direct our minds in the directions by which universal comprehension can be comprehended by our puny carbon based brains. We, as thinkers, as philosophers, as pontificators, and as pundits, must pugilistically, but never pompously, ponder. We must wonder at the marvels around us. Why are giraffes not purple? Would not purple be prettier? Or how about elephants? Personally, procurement of a purple pachyderm would please me. And yet, such marvels do not exist. Why don’t they exist? These are the questions we must ask. These are the questions we must answer. If people had three eyes and four arms, we would think that was normal. But we don’t so it’s not. It’s all about conditioning. Someone should totally make purple giraffes.
Does that answer your question?
If you’re so against them, why would you use that as your screen name?
@yankel berel
If they are an integral part of klal Yisrael, and our brothers, then that would mean that there is in fact a very large theological common ground. If there really is no theological common ground at all, then not only could they not be considered an integral part of klal yisrael, they would not be able to be considered part of klal yisrael at all, and by extension, not our brothers.
Since I assume that you don’t believe the second option, that would mean that there is in fact common ground upon which to argue, rendering your entire post moot by its own premise.
@ywnjudy
While you’re there, maybe you can get the Rav to look at your cell phone as well. It, too, is surely evil: after all, it has no innovation of its own and can only transmit the words that others have said (gasp)! Where’s the rachamim in that? The only possible explanation for such an obviously wicked device is that there must be a tiny little Machasheifah living in there. A Nazi Machasheifah.This is just a shot in the dark here, but are you by any chance suffering from heberden nodules, bunionettes, or another similar type of possibly painful growth?
Additionally, while I am not chatGPT, I think I can answer your third question. While I am in no way qualified to do so, I hope the fact that I am neither a doctor, a lawyer, or a politician will serve as my credentials.
The reason why researchers are not diverting all of their time and money into your extremely specific problems is because they don’t know how deserving you are of having millions of dollars and man-hours devoted solely to the issues that affect you. If they met you, I have no doubt that all of the research on cancer and heart disease will immediately take a back seat so that the scientific community can focus exclusively on bunionettes etc.
I don’t think they are narrow minded. And I’m sure they have compassion for humanity. They simply appear to be under the obviously mistaken impression that children with leukemia should receive preferential treatment to over calcification. This is understandably horrific. To make matters worse, pharmaceutical corporations and the scientific community, as well as the whole of society, appear to be under the influence of this clearly insane notion as well, and are thus diverting the majority of their available funds to the resolving of the issues they deem important.
What an evil society we live in, where malevolent 24 year old medical researchers are getting paid more money to try and discover a cure for Alzheimer’s than they would be for trying to find non-invasive procedures to treat heberden nodules. One must truly question how such a severely warped society came into existence, a society where such diabolical modes of thought have become prevalent.
I suspect the involvement of the sitra achra.
@square root
Were you dropped on your head consistently as a child or was it just that one time?
Oh, cuz what we have now isn’t groupthink.
I went through this process recently. If you can prove that you are leaving the country within 14 days then you can get it with just a little bit of hassle. You’ll need to call the 1800 number for the U.S. passport office, and then try and get an appointment at any office reasonably close to you. This is the hardest part. The first few times I called they claimed they only had appointments available in Puerto Rico but people cancel their appointment, so I kept calling and got an appointment about an hour and a half drive from me. YOU CANNOT MAKE AN APPOINTMENT ONLINE, YOU MUST CALL THE NUMBER. THEY WILL NOT LET YOU INTO THE OFFICE WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT.
Once you get the appointment make sure that you have all your documents, including old passport, social, birth certificate, license, official passport photo and proof of departure, as well as the passport application which you can pick up in the post office I think. Make sure to get there early, as there is crazy security at these places. If your appointment is the same day as your flight they will do it on the spot, if not they will either mail it to you or you can come back and pick it up a day or two later. Don’t get it mailed as there’s almost no chance it will get to you on time; it’s annoying, but the best option is to drive back there, or they will give you a receipt that will allow someone else to pick it up for you, as long as you sign it or something, not totally sure because I just picked mine up myself. There will be some fee, not the cheapest but definitely way cheaper than hiring one of those agencies. Not sure if they accept cash but they do take care or checks as long as it’s in your name.
Hope this helps
Baruch Hashem, I see the OP has absolutely no clue what instagram is. Which is great. But maybe don’t include it in your title next time.
Ah.
You’re letting me down, my child. I have no idea what any of that meant.
Grammatically speaking, one would ask, “what” is a walrus? “What” is a Vogon? “What” is common saychel talking about? We do not use “what” in reference to Zaphod. The correct term would be “why”. “Why” is Zaphod Beeblebrox? We hope that answers your question.
Sincerely,
Rupert Florbswaggle,
Head of the department of
Grammatically correct Zaphod
References.Wow, so much misinformation in this thread. Let me clear some things up. @Benjamen you can find the original requests in a thread called rants on demand. Also, it?! IT?! How dare you. I am a proud he/her. We can be contacted by creating a thread with our name in it, an approach you seem to have picked up just fine, so I’m not sure what you’re yelling about.
@wolf, thank you for that concise and mostly accurate history of my life.
@commonsaychel, first of all, I’m a litvak. I don’t go to the Mikva, except on special occasions, and I am vehemently opposed to the Tintin books, as I have pontificated extensively upon in a thread devoted to the subject. As usual, you have put 100 percent into being 100 percent wrong. Stupidhead.
@huju, you are absolutely correct. Thank you for continuing to be someone who can consistently be counted upon to uplift the conversation with your unparalleled and always accurate witticisms.As usual, I must commend you on the accuracy of your statements. I am indeed the only hope you have. However, humanity comprises only a small slice of my constituency, and for future reference, the term “futurepast savior of everything” would be preferable. I don’t know if it’s true, but my PR team tells me it looks better on the statue.
To answer your question, Zaphod can, may, and should be discussed and celebrated. Beeblebrox Inc., however, is a private entity not connected with my governing duties, and as such would earn me an additional several years in prison under one of the myriad incomprehensible galactic laws that I’ve apparently signed into being. Also, because Tyler Durden said so.
The first rule of Beeblebrox Inc. is: We do not talk about Beeblebrox Inc.
The second rule of Beeblebrox Inc. is: We DO NOT TALK ABOUT BEEBLEBROX INC.
I wasn’t saying that Sartre and Kierkegaard were solely responsible for wokeness. But existentialism is very into the subjectivity of everything, which gave rise to moral relativism, in which there are no absolute moral wrongs, which is a defining characteristic of woke philosophy. If you’d like you can check out “Subjectivity is Truth”, by Søren Kierkegaard, and Essays in Existentialism, by Jean-Paul Sartre, to see what I mean.
However, I would agree with you that the present philosophy of the left is probably not what they had in mind, as the left is straying more toward moral absolutism, in which there are objective truths, albeit quite a twisted version of it (for more information on this, you can check out a research article done by people from the University of Toronto, entitled College and the “Culture War”, in which they bring proofs that this is now the case). I merely meant that their work laid some of the philosophical foundations for the advent of modern wokeness, as without first saying that everything is subjective, thus eliminating the commonly held perceptions of what defines a moral wrong, it would be impossible to get to the current twisted absolutism practiced by the left, where they now have created their own definitions of what constitutes objective morality.
ChatGPT was not consulted in any way in the writing of this post.
Yeah, yeah, very nice. Sartre was also one of the founding fathers of existentialism, which is one of the primary philosophies of wokeness. Our world is going to pieces, and he has a lot to do with it. So excuse me for not caring to much that he once said something smart.
Not sure why people decided that there isn’t a market for secular studies. Many lakewood parents send their kids to yeshivas without secular studies DESPITE the fact that they don’t offer it, because they are often very high level places, and places where their kids can really grow in yiddishkeit. Many such parents send their kids to GED programs outside of yeshiva. If a top yeshiva had secular studies they would still get a large crowd. A prime example of this is Yeshivas Emek Hatorah in Lakewood, also known as Rabbi Weinberger’s Yeshiva, which offers secular studies, and still has a huge crowd of top bochurim applying every year.
Bourbon and scotch have no nutritional value. They are, however, made from things that do have nutritional value, which is what I think you meant. If it is, then arak is sometimes made from rice, and I think the agave plant is edible as well. 96 wouldn’t be considered a min, because the roiv of it is pure alcohol.
Sure.
Hi. |hī| used as a friendly greeting or to attract attention.
Origins: natural exclamation: first recorded in late Middle English.
Two things: first of all, there are currently TWO light rail stations in close proximity to zhvill-mir, namely the shimon hatzadik and shivtei Yisrael stations. Adding another station at the midway way point would cause a tremendous time waster for everyone.
Second: your whole thing is that the Israeli government should take the transportation needs of chareidim into account. But they are currently trying to build a light rail line through bar Ilan, which would make transportation in a predominantly chareidi area exponentially easier, and they have been met with nothing but anger and protesting throughout the process. So why would they go out of their way to try and make transportation easier for a community that clearly would rather not have it?
@HaShimeesaysno
That’s so weird, he told me yes.