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to btguy
sorry but no.
just because someone is a chiropractor does not mean that everything he does is practicing chiropractic.
very often it is not. (chiropractors, unlike doctors, seem to have carte blanche to do anything they want).
Sometimes it is some other type of nonsense
sometimes it is something good. and sometimes even nonsense works in a particular case!
chiropractic itself is an invalid idea.
Oh wait! I forgot I wrote earlier that it was my last comment!
well having written this, I may as well post it, but now I really am done for this thread.
and if you accept one of these suggestions, and one of us encounters your store, we will know who you are!
I reject the idea that only if someone is seriously hurt
(physically or emotionally) it is not funny,
but a minor hurt is hilarious!
terrible way to think.
done.
in response to btguy
i am convinced that
a)chiropractors sometimes help people where doctors have failed to.
b) chiropractic itself however is not a valid idea.
c) I disagree with your statement that
“People with medical concerns are the best, unbiased judges of what works. “. I disagree with both parts: they are not unbiased and even if they were, they are not necessarily the best or even good judges.
my last comment in this thread.
Why do you need to know what homeopathy is?
but since you ask:
Homeopathy is the idea that “LIKE CURES LIKE”.
Meaning that if a substance causes a particular symptom, then that same substance in very small diluted amounts will cure a disease that causes the same symptom. Never mind what condition or disease caused the original symptom.
Never mind that the fact that this this substance causes the same symptom is based on only one person having blamed the substance for it. Never mind that the the dilutions used bring the solution to zero so that the “medicine”
is all solvent with no solute. Never mind that they claim that the water used has some sort of memory for the drug it was once introduced to but which it no longer contains. Never mind that the whole idea is based on nothing but somebody woke up one morning and invented the theory. Never mind that the idea that LIKE CURES LIKE is too general to be of any use, and so on.
Homeopathy is nonsense.
what ever studies were done were a waste of time.
There is no point in studying something for which there isn’t even any theory or experience or folklore or anything else to back it up.
it is totally made up, is ridiculous in about 4 ways, and it is amazing that anyone not making money off of it, still touts it.
troll.
everyone is so sure of themselves on this issue.
but cases are different.
I suppose it may be better to have a general rule, so that people will not hesitate to report when they should. but really, sometimes it just doesn’t make sense.
said my piece.
deja vu is the feeling we sometimes get that we are re-experiencing an event that happened some time ago.
it is an illusion, a trick of one mind.
about berra:
and let’s not forget, “I never said those things I said”.
I think the best one is, ” Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”
assuming you have no health or metabolism issues,
it is a good way to lose weight.
to gabi
It certainly is not an URBAN LEGEND.
That phrase has a specific meaning. more and more lately
I hear see it used as a synonym for “myth” or “false”.
Worse, it has spawned a new meaningless phrase URBAN MYTH.
Pity.
to midwesterner:
I am the same way.
the same as your guest, that is!
when I hear someone lain that i really like, I am likely to feel the urge to give him a pointer or two, if I think I know something he doesn’t.
for others I just keep quiet. your guest is probably sincere when he says he likes your laining.
I cleared my own post.
to think_first.
and if I am laining and someone corrects me about something minor for which the halacha is clearly ‘ain machzirin’ I will still take the correction because I don’t want to discourage a valid correction
I checked the website not long after maariv.
I was hoping for some updates in the news.
once again was very disturbed at a new thread that had started.
I stuck in my not quite two cents.
this time though, I was glad to see next morning that the thread was removed.
I somewhat recall opening my computer when I got home from my seudah, and maybe modding a few posts completely drunk. So it makes sense that I let that through. Sorry. -95
the coffee room is not the place to pose actual questions of halacha.
oomis wrote (1 day ago) “
When you pour water into a cup from a kettle that has been on the blech, does the water that remains in the kettle not heat up even more (because there is less volume in the kettle now)?
“
So what if it does?
huh? how do you figure that?
to logician:
you did not aprehend what I wrote.
this discussion is not apropos to the situation.
about 10 days ago the rav shlita was much improved and they were talking about the possibility of sendimg him home.
he now has contracted pneumonia. May hashem send him a refuah shlaima b’karov.
I think this thread should be closed.
to sam2:
source?
to wolfish:
wow, I didn’t notice this was an old thread that had woken up.
to realisraeli.
there is no halacha relating to such a person.
even so, such a person is called by some a PAGUM and suggest
avoiding marriage with him her. but this is choice and suggestion not halacha.
TO WOLFISH
those are only two ways. your number two is simply an example of your number three.
to naysberg.
logic please.
sofek to whom?
I agree both with the complaint and the comment that they hadn’t a clue. why did they need the music at all?
it is possible for a patient in a years long coma to awake and return to nearly normal life. it is rare.
I have heard of cases where a person in a ‘coma’ needed surgery and was administered anesthesia. after the sugery the person awoke completely from the anesthesia. in most such cases but not all, this doesnt last. sometimes it does. why doctors dont try to exploit this fact as a treatment, I don’t know. I also don’t know how deep a coma these patients were in.
To thegog
we do have SOME power.
last comment
Live and let live is a possul concept.
I don’t it can be called a possul liberal american concept.
that is not where the phrase comes from.
and besides, american liberals believe in interfering in many different areas of peoples lives when it violates their own neo-religous ideas.
I have heard that a museum in Iraq claims to have an original
copy of talmud bavli. I don’t think it is available for examination and may not even be on display.
I have no more information about this.
it is all very interesting discussing back problems and chiropractors. I don’t know if some of them can help with backs by manipulating them. it is a reasonable idea that it might be possible.
but the idea (the nonesensical idea) of chiropractic is that the body will heal itself of many if not most diseases and conditions, if only they re-align the spine and remove subluxations.
rediculous on its face and rediculous when studied.
end of my comments on this thread.
Perhaps you see other cars and drivers as just anonymous obstacles to your driving goals.
Would you be quite as angry if all the cars around you were filled with people you know, even casually?
Remember other drivers are people, just as those you meet in a store or on the street are. Cut them some slack.
difference between 1) muttar and 2) not-forbidden?
to Kollel_wife.
I understood that, which is why I even made a suggestion.
my comments were not meant to be directed at you specifically.
sorry if they seemed to be.
about dick francis.
they are not merely “not squeaky clean”.
Mr. Francis has some peculiar attitudes (peculiar to me and most of the posters here) which he always puts in the mouth of his heroes. If you are trying to be careful and proper, I would avoid these books. (sorry, I know more about this than I should. I have only read some of the RD versions. I shudder to think what may be in the originals).
If you really feel that this is necessary, despite peoples comments
there very few stories/books that will fit your requirements.
after he completes those in a short time, what will you do then?
in any case, if you must
try
“the greene murder case” by s. s. van dyne
I hope I remember correctly that this book is fairly without pritzus but has several murders. check it out before giving it.
to feif un
And slightly earlier in the winter.
years ago I enjoyed murder mysteries until someone in my neighborhood was murdered. Since then, I can’t stand them.
What I am trying to say, is that in my view, the very idea of treating a horrible thing like murder, as just a background for a puzzle, is disgusting. second I later realized that those stories and books I read were not clean in other areas either.
I have often wondered at those who explain that the rabbonim
were partly at fault for not having interfered. ( think the maharsha is one of those? )
what could they have possibly have done that wouldn’t have made matters worse and caused even more embarassment? although bar-kamtza thought they should have done something and was angry that they did not, I find it hard to understand that the maharsha (or someone) would agree with him.
I also don’t understand the question, “why is the story called kamtza bar kamtza, since kamtza had nothing to do with it”.
yes kamtza had nothing to do with it, but the confusion of the two names did, and that is why the story is called that. simple enough.
rav Miller pointed out that the sinas chinam referred means the sinah of the prushim for the tsedukkim! puts a completely different slant on things! I thought it was his own pshat, but it is not.
to longarekel.
I don’t think you are right. as I understand it
one may not give his life for another but one may risk his life to save another. are you sure of your version? I am 90% percent sure of mine.
none of this has anything to do with the topic the thread started with. perhaps davening that hashem take time from your life and give it to another is sensible or silly, possible or not,
but certainly not an issur of suicide. the comparison is rediculous.
I am sorry, I just don’t think this is the proper place.
I heard the story during a drasha and found it involved the grandfather of someone I know slightly. I will mention that
the chofetz chaim was mentioned in this story also.
to repeat though
it was not public until the participants were gone.
so far the discussion has mostly been about whether one should or may do this.
Another point is whether one CAN do this.
The story is reported as though it is a simple matter, like transferring some funds.
That being said, I actually do know of a story where someone offered to give years of his life to a sick godol. I will not tell the story here, only point out that it was a private matter, only told to his family because of something that occurred afterwards.
the story was only made public at his l’vaya many years later and only because of the follow up.
Agav is aramaic!
not quite. he says you can’t make fun of it. I think what it boils down to is ‘Who knows?’ rather than saying that it is valid.
start with yourself
and start right now.
good grief! I actually wrote,”A mail animal”.
I am very ashamed of myself.
to ‘neuter’ a mail animal is one of the 365 laavin.
the posuk (perhaps in emor, I am at work and don’t have seforim)
is uv’artzechem lo saasu’.
I am not sure about spaying a female.
to yahad:
I agree, but any question can be asked when asked honestly.
(ok, you have to find the right person to ask).
but I am always a little suspicious of someone otd who blames it on not getting an answer. How did they ask? and did they really want an answer. remember the chacham and rasha in hagada seem to be asking the same question
Facilitated communication is mostly nonesense.
I say mostly, because it can’t be stated definitely that it is NEVER real. most likely though, it is never real.