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Mod-18: That was a mean comment.
there is a typo in the OP
yehudayona: You need all three Maths, actually. It was two when they had A and B instead of 1, 2 and 3.
ouch mod
Sorry I missed this thread! Hope you are feeling better now.
anyway, when I am feeling peevish I watch Pomplamoose’s Angry Birds cover. lol it is hilarious ^_^
A dolt is what happens when a snortface snorts.
and there is no spoon.
OOH OOH I love penguins!
And Paperman when La Luna didn’t? They really have it all backwards…
help me, i am trapped
in a haiku factory
save me, before they
(not written by OOM [who wishes it had been])
:/ I hope your seminary experience will make up for it. 🙂
Brave and not Wreck-It Ralph?
BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sounds pretty intense…I definitely feel for you. I went from a out-of-town BY elementary to a pretty straight-laced (probably using this as a euphemism here) NY Bais Yaakov high school. I like to focus on what I gained (and I feel that I gained a lot from high school), but I’d be lying if I said that I was completely peachy with everything that happened there. Especially going in–I was totally unprepared for all the crazy politics, and I was initially very put off by it. But I sort of just learned to deal with it and keep my nose clean, and focus on what I stood to gain there. And now, what matters to me most is that I had a few really great teachers (that I am in close contact with even today), made some good friends, and learned lots of stuffs. I hope you were also able to get something from your BY experience.
Also, it sounds like your sleeping issues were unfortunately a big part of your high school experience. I am sorry about that. Hop you find a good eitzah soon. 🙁
Knowing before that they are homicidal? Yes, that would be different. (You misunderstood my point.)
And I am personally aware of several cases where people suffered from depression brought on by different circumstances, dealt with it, and are perfectly normal and well-adjusted today. Still, I wouldn’t make assumptions based on my experience–which is why I would look into the matter carefully.
Toi: And I am saying that that that is a false assumption based on a lack of data and no small amount of undue prejudice.
Obviously I am not interested in marrying someone who would attack people with meat cleavers. I would not, however, write off someone with an emotional or mental disorder as potentially homicidal. For one–if I did so, I would have to write off the rest of humanity as well, since every last one of them has the potential to become mentally ill.
Also, I am not trying to say that I would totally be okay with any sort of illness at any stage of treatment. Some mental illnesses have more serious implications. The OP specifically asked about depression, to which I responded that it would depend on the circumstances surrounding the depression and how it was being/had been handled. Other illnesses, especially ongoing, would definitely give me more pause.
Someone buying this costume is basically dressing as a person who was RESPONSIBLE for many of the KINNOS that we say on TISHABAV. Knights were promised great rewards in heaven by priests for killing Jews.
This is somewhat incorrect. The Rhineland massacres took place at the hands of the People’s Crusade, which comprised mostly peasants and freed criminals who were easily whipped into a frenzy by the clergy due to various factors.
(That is not to say that the knights and titled nobility were not just as bad, and didn’t kill Jews on their own. Just that you seem to have mixed up your facts.)
no one’s biting, though…
Because Joseph got ’em.
lol I actually think your definition might be better than mine. 🙂
So I just learned last week that “chirrrrrriPACHa” means turtle in Russian! (Random, I know.) ^_^
latkes
^_^ ^_^ ^_^
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One or the other; not saying which.
Dolts never go out of style.
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early bump
Yes, where?
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Who’s getting shhhhhhhhikur Motzei Shhhhhhhhabbos?
bump ^_^
and NOW you’re older STILL
DUM DUMMMM
Toi: Your lack understanding of the nature of depression and other disorders does not make the rest of us lalala idiots. My opinion, for one, is quite well-informed.
frumnotyeshivish:
Always? The sour grapes fable is often right on but that doesn’t prove that the grapes aren’t sour.
Was I trying to prove that they weren’t? I am pretty sure I was making it my premise there.
Additionally, it irks me when people take a dismissal as a presumptive indication that the dismisser had or would have had trouble with the dismissed.
No, I don’t presume that. I am talking about people who have demonstrated/stated that they have difficulty with something, then belittled said something. You are referring to people who think they are smart and decide to reject knowledge out of their infinite wisdom and prescient understanding, whom I discuss in my next paragraph.
And please point out at which point I declare myself against religion or religious intellectual pursuits.
Yes yes yes. It always irks me when people dismiss what they have trouble with as “not worth knowing”–math most of all. It is by far the most seminal discipline in the pursuit of knowledge. And I am an English major with limited mathematical breadth, so this opinion definitely isn’t coming from some puffed-up sense of self-importance I have on the matter. But I do have enough background to recognize how vital the bigger picture of mathematics is.
In general, I am a firm believer that the “how will this help me in life” view is most guaranteed to fence you in and prevent you from ever achieving any sort of meaningful success. And I don’t see at all how that self-centered assumption is somehow “what Hashem wants.”
Agreed entirely.
Okay…but what does that have to do with what I posted…?
Now that you’ve done so, will you tell me why you think I am ignorant and talking about things I don’t know I don’t know using imprecise language?
HA you responded. 😛
I don’t get it–can you give me some context?
Are you just going to keep dropping in on this thread to make snide comments and not address any of your responders?
The common denominators throughout the bais yaakov system are their rule books and their ideal end products. Uniform, no talking to boys, tznius, good middos, and being taught the majority of your school subjects by Rabbis and rebbitzins.
Those are common denominators, but I would most emphatically say that they are NOT what makes a school Bais Yaakov. They are the outer trappings of what makes a Bais Yaakov, and can vary from school to school. What unites all Bais Yaakovs is that they have certain hashkafos about Torah and the role Torah should play in your lives that try to imbue their students with. The rest is just commentary.
Also, I have to say that I went to a pretty mainstream Bais Yaakov high school (there isn’t a single person here who would contest its Bais Yaakov-ness), and the majority of the teachers were NOT rabbonim/rebbetzins (the male contingent was mostly rabbonim, but there were very few of them). And all the female teachers vehemently protested the title (even the ones who probably deserved it).
Hmmm. Okay. I’m sorry if what I was saying sounded too harsh or judgmental (I do stand by it, though).
I’m definitely not saying that I don’t believe you. What I am saying is that for real problems the most important thing to do is talk to the doctor who is intimately acquainted with your medical history and diagnoses, not a zillion random specialists.
I have a sibling with bipolar disorder (as I mentioned in the other thread) who participated in a sleep study when he was younger (my great-something-or-another had narcolepsy, so sleep disorder was a valid suspicion). It ended up being a big waste of time for him and my parents because the problem had really mushroomed from a combination of bad habits and the wrong med dosages.
I of course can’t make any definite parallels, but what I can say that instead of running higgeldy-piggeldy to all sorts of specialists that will evaluate your problem through the prism of their area of expertise, talk to the original doctor that diagnosed you, or your family doctor that you rely on and is aware of your complete medical history. They will probably have the best eitzah.
So what does he say about your sleeping problems and additional therapies?
But you should probably talk to your doctor first…adjusting meds is something that the doctor should really be doing (I have a sibling with bipolar disorder, so I am not talking through my tuchus on that one). And he will probably also be able to advise you as to what additional therapies would be helpful. And you should REALLY let him know about your difficulties sleeping.