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not the first time this has happened, not by far.$
January 30, 2009 5:38 pm at 5:38 pm in reply to: The Laboratory II – Try Your HTML & ASCII Art Experiments Here #1053198feivelParticipantfeivelParticipantames
now that they have given me my own section in the forums i am a subsidiary member of the YWN team.
therefore im afraid that information is CLASSIFIED
sorry
feivelParticipantwhile were on the subject:
a few ways that camels deal with the sand:
A thin nictitating membrane on the eye, like a clear inner eyelid, protects the eye from sandstorms while still letting in enough light for camels to see.
Double rows of extra-long eyelashes also help keep sand out of the eyes.
Camels can close their nostrils to keep sand out of their noses!
Their large, broad feet do not sink in desert sand.
feivelParticipantyoure right ames
except
its not actually spit
it is more like vomit
it is the contents of their stomach which they bring up and expel
it is more noxious than spit thereby more effective in getting their enemy to flee, and has a lower water content than spit
feivelParticipantive said it before
feivelParticipantmoish
like this:
lets say you want “moish in blue
moish, charles:
you type the following:
<x>moish</x>
except you dont use “x” as the letter, you use “a” i couldnt use “a” in the example i showed you because then it would just show as a blue “moish” and you wouldnt be able to see what i did
get it?
feivelParticipant“by the way everyone, check out the new joke of the day”
feivelParticipantTo all of you who wrong your hands and tut tut about the internet and the need to asser it, consider the following: When printing was first invented (and printing was its generation’s internet in terms of making information, including “bad stuff” available to the masses) did rabbonim protest and try to forbid it?
i dont recall the printing presses printing full color pictures and video of the worst kind of lewdness, with instant access, sometimes even if you dont want it. i dont reall being able to press on a piece of paper and gamble away my family’s life savings, as well as lose my job and family and health, so easily, a click away. i dont recall the instant communication and ability to fool thousands of young children by pedophiles posing as someone else and arranging ugly meetings, i dont recall men becoming addicted to printing press games and destroying their lives along with their families. you know we could go on and on
so maybe there is something to “tut, tut” about as you so nicely phrased it.
feivelParticipantsj
it is to scare off predators
feivelParticipantitzik
what you say makes sense
unfortunately you will have to find a different explanation
clarks nutcrackers are only found in the western parts of north america
feivelParticipantmoishe, perfect as usual
feivelParticipantfantastic moish
i should have a new thread coming soon (i already posted it)
about another kind of bird
i dont think it is as cute as tweety however
feivelParticipantRabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l
Rabbi Ephrayim Wachsman
notpashut:
Rabbi Yisroel Reisman said that he listens to Rabbi Millers shiurim also
feivelParticipanttweety bird would be fine moish
feivelParticipanthow about the northern three toed woodpecker
feivelParticipantgood try moish
but that’s actually a dung beetle
you dont want me to post about dung beetles i think
feivelParticipantsj
there are “scientific” explanations for the kria
ive seen:
earthquake, shifting of tetonic plates (in my opinion the most reasonable)
localized wind inversion
concentrated tidal forces of an unusual planetary and moon alignment
i hate to break it to you but your professors explanation, although possible (anything is “possible”, its even possible that oj is not a killer), is trillions of orders of magnitude less likely than any other explanation.
feivelParticipantexcellent moishe
feivelParticipantPirke Avos 5:6 states: “Ten things were created Erev Shabbos bein hashmashos”:
1.The opening of the earth that swallowed Korach and his followers.
2.the well that opened when Moshe hit the rock.
3.the mouth of Bilaam’s donkey that enabled it to speak).
4.the first rainbow, during Noach’s time.
5.the mann.
6.Moshe’s staff.
7.the shamir
8.the shapes of the letters.
9.the original writing implement used in writing the Aseres Dibros
10.the original stone tablets
feivelParticipantsj sorry i misunderstood you in the other thread
feivelParticipantok sj
i misunderstood you!
rabbi yes check Ramchal again
Hashem did NOT program miracles into the Briah, only specific ones that were created Bain HaShmoshos the first Erev Shabbos. i believe when Yehoshua stopped the sun this was one of them (not positive) this is a famous Medresh. the rest of your misconceptions i already discussed.
feivelParticipantwell squirrels used to go up trees but they could never come down again
so after a million years of squirrels stuck in trees, some cosmic rays, mutations, and other birth defects decided in their wisdom to create an unbelievably complex ankle system of tarsals metatarsals muscles nerves, and a brilliant arrangement of tendons that allow the back ankles to turn around 180 degrees and operate under complete control in the exact opposite direction that the ankles turn to go up the tree!
Evolution apparently decided the cats did not deserve such an arrangement, after consulting with some mice.
feivelParticipantok rosh
ever wonder why cats can climb up trees but cant get down, yet squirrels can zip right down trees and poles head first as easily as they go up.
both of them have front and back claws which dig quite well into wood, whats the difference?
answer to follow, b’li neder
as long as were talking squirrels. did anyone ever watch a squirrel bury a nut, then go right to that spot to see if they could find the nut? you never will.
answer to follow, b’li neder
feivelParticipantplanets? no.
feivelParticipantames
i dont know if its a bigger miracle or not, i think its the same thing, and appreciation of the Boreh’s kindness should be the same for both. but this appreciation, that is what is greater when it is recognized during health than after a recovery from illness.
feivelParticipantinvaginations happen
muscles move
the beetle learns to wiggle
cells move
cells appear
chemicals appear
walls get thicker
abdomen elongates
lots of other stuff happens, lots
A mixture of these two chemicals in the presence of the two enzymes in a confined space is explosive. The beetle, on his way to becoming a bombardier beetle, would have to be smart enough to carefully store the chemicals in a storage chamber apart from the enzymes but in the presence of an inhibitor to prevent them from reacting prematurely with one another. He also would have to be smart enough to know which enzymes he needs to catalyze the chemical reactions involved, and he would have to be smart enough to secrete them into the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber itself must be very special, able to resist the corrosive effect of the hot, irritating chemicals and strong enough to contain the high pressure without rupturing. The combustion chamber must also be equipped with a highly efficient valve, and the appropriate muscles must exist to manipulate the combustion tube and point it in the right direction. Of course, all of this incredibly complex apparatus would be totally useless without a precisely designed and perfectly functional communication system to squirt the charge of chemicals into the combustion tube, secrete the enzymes into the combustion tube, activate the valve at the appropriate moment, and differentially and precisely send the correct signals to all of the different muscles involved, in order to point the combustion tube in the right direction. Evolutionists would have us believe that all of the thousands of genes required to direct the construction and operation of all of this arose through a series of copying errors. Furthermore, these complex genetic changes had to occur in just the right order, so that at every stage of development the beetle was not only able to survive but also was actually superior to the preceding stage.
This notion is more than scientifically untenable; it is simply preposterous, but those with their rock hard faith will continue to squirm and wiggle and turn logic on its head to provide “answers”
this is nothing new. the Torah has been attacked with “logic” since the greek “philosophers” and beyond.
we know the Torah will endure all these attacks, and fools in the guise of wise professors will be seen to be what they are.
feivelParticipantwhatever you make
please dont be skimpy with the filling
this is a chesorin with most hamentaschen ive eaten, homemade or bakery.
feivelParticipantno Rabbi
you are certainly correct about Hashgacha Pratis.
but the issue i am talking about is quite distinct from Hashgacha Pratis
Hashem controls every movement of every atom (indeed every quark and whatever quarks might be composed of). every movement of every person, Jew and goy, every animal, every plant.
Hashgocho Pratis has to do with the “interest”, mida kneged mida, mercy, and other parameters that are distinguished between the Jew and goy.
in addition Hashem deals with the Jew directly, not through melachim as he does with the goy. this is all quite clear in Derech Hashem
the “laws of nature” are merely the ways in which Hashem has chosen to limit himself, so to speak. the sun does not come up every morning because Hashem “wound its spring” 5,000 years ago. Hashem brings up the sun every morning.
a miracle is not Hashem intervening in “nature”. it is the same as all other phenomena except that it differs from the “laws” of the Briah, except for those miracles that were placed into the Briah at the time of creation. it’s essential nature is no different however. Ramchal is not ambiguous about this.
January 26, 2009 9:52 pm at 9:52 pm in reply to: Daven With A Hat BeYichidus or Without it with a Minyan #1081910feivelParticipant“I still say it’s what’s in your heart”
true, when i eat pork, the taste i love so much brings me to such Simcha that i am better able to learn and daven. that’s really what Hashem cares about. why would he care about which particular animal’s meat i put into my mouth. ridiculous.
feivelParticipantPLASTIC DOES NOT NEED TVEILA
whether disposable or not, thick or thin.
if it is covered by a metal layer, i dont know, but i would doubt that it would need tveila
feivelParticipantsj
correction
i said “all” Meforshim
actually i believe there maybe a few who hold differently than the Ramchal, i think.
but the Ramchals Derech is certainly the generally accepted one.
feivelParticipantthe basic reason for the creation of the World is for Bechira, so that we may choose Good over Evil, and thus justly receive Reward.
this requires a delicate balance in the World.
thus when the Yetzer HaRah for Avodah Zorah was “schected”, Nvius also ended.
thus Good must be balanced by Evil
Emes in the world must be balanced by Sheker in the world
clear vision must be balanced by illusion
Light must be balanced by the potential for darkness
spiritual light by spiritual darkness
The Torah must be balanced by the views of the Nations
thank you, zero, for keeping us balanced.
feivelParticipantsj
CERTAINLY you are not a kofer, chas v Shalom, but what you say is not the Emes. read, if you will, Derech Hashem, who explains, as do all Meforshim, that Hashem controls everything that occurs, at all times. if you throw a handful of sand into the air, Hashem directs the path of every single grain as it falls to the ground. In NO sense do things occur according to “laws of nature” that Hashem created. the “laws of nature” are simply the ways in which Hashem limits his actions. that’s one reason why He is called Ne’eman. that’s one reason why he is called Shadai, the limiting one.
we say somewhere in the Davening in the morning that Hashem creates the world anew every moment. if so what the Ramchal (Derech Hashem) says must logically be so. think about it.
feivelParticipantzero
mr “educated in science”
how completely absurd
it is a famously discredited and futile attempt to restore a bit of credibility to “evolution” .wherever you copied it from, it is desperately all over the internet.
“small invaginations develop” they just “develop” what function did these invaginations serve untli the beetle “learned to wiggle”? how did it learn to wiggle? how many cosmic rays and birth defects did it take until the beetles central nervous system was reorganized so that it should wiggle? do you think the beetle “figured out” how to wiggle, then teaches this wiggling to its larvae? how did this occur without damaging the preexisting perfectly functioning neurological organization? after a million years of reorganization, how was it reorganized further to wiggle only when certain predators were recognized? (we dont want the wiggling to deplete its store of toxins when no predators are present.) after it learned to wiggle when predators were present, how many more millions of years were needed for the brilliant mother evolution to teach it that it should only wiggle when the predator is a certain distance? too far and its a waste, too close and its too late. and how many more birth defects did it take until it could wiggle in the direction of the predator? what good were the invaginations when the toxin was distributed over its skin? how did the surface of the invaginations learn to make more of the toxin to fill the invagination? if the skin toxins were effective why did they stop making them?
none of the components of this complex system can function without the others.
invaginations happened
invaginations deepen
muscles move
some invaginations deepen
some disappear
cells develop
channels appear
muscles move some more
no intelligence is directing this
nothing but randomness.
nothing of consequence is said
your “proposed scenario is almost as full of holes as the evolution fantasy itself.
here is how a mousetrap is made when a tornado travels through a junkyard:
a piece of wood appears
a nail is bent by the wind pushing it against a pipe (pipes and nails are common in a junkyard) the wind then pushes the point of the nail into the piece of wood
a spring is forced from a childs toy
the spring has pointed ends and is stuck in the wood across from the nail
the spring is attached to a firm metal wire which was previously bent by the wind…i havent got any more time for this nonsense
feivelParticipantames
i have not read them
i will not read them
if you have a question based on those books, i might be able to answer it or not, if you want try one.
feivelParticipantthank you ames
i also got a bit of chills reading your story.
R’ Miller zt’l, though i never saw or met him, i feel like he is my father and Rebbe.
had a PROFOUND influence on me
by the way, the first year or so that i listened to his tapes i assumed he was about 6 feet tall and 300 pounds
feivelParticipant“is is probably true for most people, but there are some true athiests”
i cant tell you but Rav Wolfson says that EVERYONE has complete Emunah implanted within him by the Boreh. an atheist is called a “kofer” in Loshon HaKodesh. Chazal say we can find the true root meaning of a word from the first place it is mentioned in the Torah. Kofer is first mentioned by Noah’s teveh, meaning to cover over, to prevent water from passing through. this is the root meaning of atheism, not really to deny as much as to cover and separate from that which is already within.
do you think one of these “true atheists” if charles manson was holding a knife to his throat, after witnessing him murder the other people in the room, would not beg G-D to save him??
“What I never understood is when Atheists talk about wanting a moral society without religion – how do you decide what is moral then? Its very arbritrary and many people end up using basic societal laws (like most of the Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach). Sorry, thats leeching off religion and G-d”
EXACTLY
hatler, i believe, truly thought he was perfecting the world, and that he was acting in accord with perfect “morality”
feivelParticipantSJ
Rav Moshe Wolfson says “they DO believe” (eg the atheist in a foxhole example and many more) but they lie to themselves and cling with every ounce of strength to what they know to be lies, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT A BOSS.
feivelParticipantames
i usually primarily copy and paste from different sources and add some words (or sometimes remove some technical parts) to make it more readable to the Yeshiva world, but completely based on one or more sources. i got in the habit of doing this and sending out the best ones to my Rav and a few other interested parties. it grew out of Seudah Shlesis discussions about Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l.
you know the Chovos HaLevovos states that this is one of two ways of coming closer to Hashem and developing a high level of Emunah, the other is Torah. Avrohom Aveinu, as you know, utilized this first method, and saw the second method within it.
Hashem made the Briah with its BILLIONS of wonders for us to utilize. shall we ignore his will and kindness?
in many regards (not all, certainly not for direct Schar) it is equal to learning Torah
(the Gemorrah you might know about not stopping learning to appreciate the trees outdoors, which you might bring as a contradiction, referred to taking pleasure from the trees, not studying them)
feivelParticipanticot, i took no offense at any post.
i was however disapointed that some posters didnt understand the point of marveling at Hashem s works. probably i shouldnt have said that. i particularly was not referring to your post.
feivelParticipantcurious: kind of randomly, ie one day i might type “amazing creatures” in google, then take it from there
RY: yes, in jest; or rather, said in wonderment at how anyone could think chaotic randomness could produce such a marvel.
feivelParticipantitzik
i dont know about tigers stripes, you may very well be right.
certainly as regards color, the world could have been created to function without it. it is purely for our pleasure, and to show us the kindness of Hashem in the olam
as regards zebra stripes which, like the tiger, actually seem to worsen their camouflage, they have done some research that indicates that the movement of zebras within a herd, stripes against stripes, serves to confuse the visual system of predators as to how far away the herd is, how large it is, the presence of slower moving zebras (weak ones), and perhaps other matters.
tigers dont really have predators but maybe there is something similar in some way to how the stripes function by zebras.
feivelParticipantcurious, itzik
i thought my facetiousness was glarlngly obvious
im sorry, i guess i was wrong, i thought the phrase “Chasdei Hashem” was a giveaway, no?
feivelParticipantim a Yid.
im sorry there is so much letzonis here
feivelParticipantthese threads are not strange
Hashem’s works are beautiful and marvelous
and put here to show us his Majesty and Oneness.
should we fail to study and publicize them?
feivelParticipantRY
out of touch with what?
what reality?
did you learn the Shaar Bchina in Chovos HaLavos?
are you familiar, do you understand what Rabbi Avigdor Miller, tz’l said so often?
feivelParticipantcloseness to Hashem
feivelParticipantyu- bochur:
a previous post:
“Can someone please explain to me exactly what is “not kosher” about sports”
its not “not kosher”
its simply a lowly derech, a goyish derech.
if it fits well into your mahalch, it is not “not kosher”
no reason it shouldnt be allowed here in my opinion. this is “yeshiva world” not “trying my best to utilize OlamHaZeh purely for the sake of the RibbonoShelOlam world”
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