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“I wonder how chazal would have classified other media besides sefarim, had they been able to envision them. Would radio be a “media chitzoni”? Internet? et al.”

you dont have to wonder

find out what the Gedolim and Poskim say.

SJ

a not so smart friend of mine just came back from australia.

he visited the main zoo there.

but however many animals he described to me, whenever i asked him what the name of the animal was, he said it was called a “dangaroo”

i told him they couldnt all be “dangaroos” but he insisted

when i asked him how he could be so sure, he said there was a sign there. it said: ” do not approach the animals, all the animals are dangerous”

kiruvwife

i apologize

ive seen so many people here, who hold their opinion to be greater than the Gedolim that i expected that kind of response.

“Showing love for a fellow Jew (at least in my opinion) is trying to bring them closer to Torah – not making them feel comfortable with their growing distancing from it.”

a golden nutshell

latkes

argument: i prefer them

“I am proud of the fact that I have completely eliminated talking by davening”

yasher koach!

like most Halachos that are trampled on, it usually means that it is a particularly important Halachah, and the Yetzer Horah spends extra koach to make sure it is light in the eyes of the klal.

i would guess that this is a particularly important inyun because it is disrespectful both to your chaver and to the Shchinah.

lashon horah was once such an inyon, before the Chofetz Chaim began his war on the Yetzer.

SJ this applies if there is not a Mechitzah (such as a support post, a bimah, certain shtenders. a chair and typical table dont qualify.

you can here samples of all the tracks on the cd here

http://www.mostlymusic.com/morah-music-morah-music-movement-p-4055.html

i like it

your child asked an excellent question

yanky surely should not be offended by his letzonus being mentioned, (and apparently he wasnt)

there are actually some pretty nice things about letzonus.

it gives you control, you dont have to worry about listening to others, and evaluating their words when they point out problems you might have. just laugh it off. the next world is very far away (does it even really exist?) no need to be so solemn and serious and all (the Chovos HaLevovos points this out.)

why you can even thank HK’BH for separating us and elevating us from the Nations during Havdalah, then go into the den and open up the pipes pouring all the Nations, values, talk, immorality, ways of dress, open and subliminal attitudes, nivil peh, prishus, and tumah into ones passive and receptive head. one touch of letzonos and……presto! no problem, no contradiction, all is well.

letzonus is precious.

there was an explosion on the block that my brother lives.

i didnt ask about him however, i just wanted to know if anyone was hurt.

i had no particular concern for my brother more that anyone else.

i love everyone equally.

cognitive dissonance

hi bob

i dont know what incorrigible means but it doesnt sound too good.

i made a polite request, he of course is free to deny it.

should YOU ask me mechila for calling me, b’rabim, incorrigible?

i dont know, i better look it up.

how about stating b’rabim that i have “rishus tendencies” and “pseudo-holiness” doesnt sound too nice to me.

its okay, im moichal you

however in the future i think illini can answer for himself if he wishes. he is very articulate and uses logic quite well. and i bet he knows what incorrigible

means.

“those activities you list will not help you reach your potential and accomplish great things. However, owning a dog may indeed help you reach your potential”

and here i am wasting my time with Chovos HaLvovos and Msilis Yesharim

im going out right now to purchase a holy Rebbe Dog.

DOGS ARE WONDERFUL !

and dogs are mutar

i love dogs!!

really, im not being sarcastic, ive always liked dogs (and cats too)

(now here is the sarcastic part)

i also love watching movies, laying down on the sofa and watching tv, i could do it all day, really, and stuffing myself (mostly cookies, potato chips , popcorn, pretzels), reading novels, listening to talk radio, classic 60s music, why not?, show me in the Torah where its asusur. i love staying up till 3am watching police dramas, waking up at 11:00, if i could. im not hurting anyone, its mutar, why not? bitul Torah? im not such a good learner, and i learn when i can, i need to relax, thats how Hashem made me. im sure they will be understanding on the Yom HaDin.

what this has to do with dogs, im not sure

sj your logic is reversed. you are stating a chamur v kal, not a kal v chamur

if their lifestyle was much poorer than ours, so that they were NOT disgusted by things (such as an outhouse, or mud floors, etc) and we ARE disgusted by them, then how much more so should we be disgusted by things they WERE disgusted by. in other words they were MORE tolerant of disgusting things than we are.

i didnt presume you to be calling past generations ignorant, not at all.

“I dont know if there opinion holds much water today”

to me, to any Yid connected to the Mesorah, their opinions ALWAYS hold much water, and we must be exceedingly careful if we think we understand who they were, what they knew, and how they lived in their hearts, we must be exceedingly careful when we wish to deviate from what they held. (not necessarily though, the physical standards by which they lived, because nothing else was available in those times)

im sorry if we are misunderstanding each other. discussion is over for me, thank you.

“I cant answer because I do not know how Hashem judges and neither do you”

Hashem tells us exactly how to judge fellow Jews. this is the Tanach, Mishna, and Gemorah, especially Nezikin.

of course exactly how one is judged in Shamayim we cannot know.

i think the queen of persia pointed out the reason for much if the disagreement here.

iluvchulent

you have ruhform and cunsurvativ switched

i heard a similar joke, it went:” excuse me, should i put a Mezuzah on my car?

the final answer was an israeli. he said: “what’s excuse me”

“The British (who were at war with the French at the time) were boarding American ships and impressing their seamen.”

my great great grandfather was a seaman on an american ship during those times, he said no one was very impressed with the british, he said they spoke funny.

“Thus when not so long ago, Kenyon explained his views on Intelligent Design to his introductory biology course, his department used this as a pretext to remove him from teaching introductory biology and to relegate him to supervising lab experiments–this even though he was a senior faculty member.

Every review committee confirmed that Kenyon’s department had violated his academic freedom.

It took three meetings of successively more weighty academic review committees at his institution to lean on the biology department sufficiently to reinstate Kenyon’s right to teach introductory biology, and this only after another Design theorist, Stephen Meyer, wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal detailing Kenyon’s treatment at the hands of his department.”

-Dembski, William A. 1998-

“In China its O.K. to criticize Darwin but not the government, while in the United States its O.K. to criticize the government, but not Darwin.”

Chinese Paleontologist Dr. J.Y. Chen

“There is no publication in the scientific literature in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex, biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred. There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations.”

-Behe, Michael J. (1996), Darwin’s Black Box, The Free Press, p. 185-