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  • in reply to: I moved! #797753
    popa_bar_abba
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    I once lived in Canada. For three years. In Ottowa.

    (I should note that neither Minyan Gal nor Mikehall brought bread and salt that time.)

    in reply to: I moved! #797750
    popa_bar_abba
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    No, not in canada. Although, I think I’d like to be neighbors with Minyan Gal.

    in reply to: new gender test #806215
    popa_bar_abba
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    in reply to: Salads #797378
    popa_bar_abba
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    No. No more party and marriage advice until YOU answer some questions for us.

    When is the wedding. Are you interested in a CR crash en masse.

    in reply to: I moved! #797747
    popa_bar_abba
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    Have you really never heard of taking bread and salt?

    Guilty as charged.

    But come to think of it, I don’t think we have any salt, and we could probably use it.

    in reply to: I moved! #797745
    popa_bar_abba
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    Hmmm. Bread, salt, and cake.

    I’ve never heard of that before.

    in reply to: I moved! #797743
    popa_bar_abba
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    I took my car with me. Some of the people are open minded, and some are closed minded.

    I sometimes have a different opinion of who is open minded. Sometimes, people who agree with me are closed minded, and just happen to agree. Sometimes, people who disagree are open minded, and just happen to disagree. Sometimes, I am closed minded.

    in reply to: A Critique of Contenders #797438
    popa_bar_abba
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    ytayninggut

    in reply to: I moved! #797735
    popa_bar_abba
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    Maybe tomorrow. I need to go to sleep. It is so late here.

    in reply to: I moved! #797733
    popa_bar_abba
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    Not chicago.

    8 states touch the great lakes.

    MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, PA, NY.

    So not telling

    in reply to: I moved! #797730
    popa_bar_abba
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    Not israel.

    I didn’t address middlepaths guess, because it covers too large an area, and after 5 guesses I’d have to decide if I feel like telling you.

    in reply to: Dating in the Rain #799266
    popa_bar_abba
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    Oomis:

    I don’t know.

    If I approach a random girl in shul and say her dress looks great, I am definitely hitting on her. And I definitely think that is inappropriate.

    And I could see why someone would think it is inappropriate on an early date.

    in reply to: I moved! #797727
    popa_bar_abba
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    Not new jersey

    in reply to: I moved! #797725
    popa_bar_abba
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    Not NY.

    I ignored your question.

    in reply to: I moved! #797721
    popa_bar_abba
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    may we ask to where you moved?

    Guess

    in reply to: I moved! #797718
    popa_bar_abba
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    State. And city.

    in reply to: What makes someone a dolt? #1021610
    popa_bar_abba
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    It only works thay way by morons (sic).

    in reply to: Children : The Challenge #796216
    popa_bar_abba
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    I just want to the be first one to sanctimoniously say that some people would give everything they have to have any children.

    Now that we got that out of the way, I think you’re kids are normal. Maybe they have a wild “lively” nature, but kids are kids.

    in reply to: What's for dinner? #796200
    popa_bar_abba
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    I am hungry.

    We are having onion soup with cheese, and pumpkin bread.

    in reply to: In honor of Tisha B'av. What you respect about… #1165106
    popa_bar_abba
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    My stepson is currently in Basic Military Training with the US Air Force and I respect and appreciate his decision to join. Hatzlacha Rabah to him as he goes off into the wild blue yonder.

    Cool.

    Speaking of US army, I have heard of people who go into the army as chaplains. My cousin made Deputy Chief of Chaplains, with the rank of General.

    in reply to: #796163
    popa_bar_abba
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    I think, every story I’ve heard so far was a woman. And it makes sense, since they tend to be more absent minded.

    Or maybe they tend to have the kids

    in reply to: #796159
    popa_bar_abba
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    This idea got me thinking that you really need a pressure sensor alarm built into every car seat, so that if you leave without the baby, it sounds an alarm.

    Then I thought I better patent it quick before I post it. Then I thought I should google to see if it exists.

    It does. NASA made one.

    Do your own blazed google search, I don’t want my link to get mod-ed.

    in reply to: Post of the Year Contest #1146702
    popa_bar_abba
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    Thanks!

    whatever picayune means.

    in reply to: bicyclists #796127
    popa_bar_abba
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    I hear you. And I’m planning to get a bike myself pretty soon. But still, I am in favor of outlawing it.

    in reply to: Levi Aron Wasn't Religious – Ate Non-Kosher (McDonalds) #796075
    popa_bar_abba
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    anon1m0us: You would be in prison for a long time in that case (killing)

    Yes, you should try to make sure and kill them quickly while you are still really worked up, and then try to get it downgraded to manslaughter.

    in reply to: bicyclists #796125
    popa_bar_abba
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    Gummy: While I do sympathize with cyclists for having to deal with some crazy drivers, I happen to think that having cars and bicycles on the street is unsafe to both parties, and that one should be illegal. Since cars are more necessary than bikes, I say outlaw the bikes.

    in reply to: Sitting on Toilet and Bed on Tisha B'Av #1161471
    popa_bar_abba
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    nonsense

    This.

    in reply to: Shliach Haken #795979
    popa_bar_abba
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    So I think it needs to be hefker property.

    So this guy near me had one on his porch, so he made it hefker.

    So I went and was koneh the land. Then I filed a claim to quiet title and he couldn’t dispute it, since he knew he had made it hefker. Now, his mortgage company is suing him, and also suing me. We’ll see what happens.

    in reply to: Commiting to two dates?? #797604
    popa_bar_abba
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    U dont ditch a girl in middle of a date because it is rude and disrespectful, but there should be no reason to agree to date #2 before date #1.

    I think he meant that you also don’t ditch a girl for the second date who flew in from out of town because it is rude and disrespectful inasmuch as she already invested significant time and money in you.

    in reply to: Charliehall? #1219816
    popa_bar_abba
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    lying? heh?

    in reply to: Charliehall? #1219814
    popa_bar_abba
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    Bro:

    Don’t sweat it. I don’t mind at all if you use that screenname. I was just curious if you really were my brother, and I have a bunch, and didn’t know if they would tell me. So I asked a mod what city it was coming from.

    Then, I wondered who from that city would do it.

    But please, post from there. I don’t mind.

    in reply to: Charliehall? #1219811
    popa_bar_abba
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    Acc to the mod I spoke to, your IP is in a city where I have no bros. If you do know who I am, I’m guessing your last name starts with O, and your street starts with M.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003560
    popa_bar_abba
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    I don’t really see how we are disagreeing on anything very substantial. (Including whether I am married, which is very substantial to me, but not to the CR). So ok.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003557
    popa_bar_abba
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    LMA:

    If it makes you happy, I’ll say I’m only talking about married people. (I just wonder if you think shir hashirim is only for married people.)

    And you have no idea if I’m married or not. And I like it that way. (Unless you know who I am- in which case I don’t know why you are saying I’m not married. Unless you are my wife and I really should come home fast.)

    in reply to: bicyclists #796108
    popa_bar_abba
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    Bicyclists are a menace to society. It should be illegal to ride a bicycle in the street.

    And if you hit one, it should automatically be the bicyclist’s fault unless you did it on purpose.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003554
    popa_bar_abba
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    LMA:

    Ok, we can talk about that.

    All human relationships were created by Hashem for us to either learn something about Hashem, or to be able to emulate Hashem.

    Thus:

    We have fathers so that we can understand that Hashem treats us as a father.

    We have children so that we can emulate Hashem by doing for someone with no expectation of a return. (and yes, Hashem made the world and could have made us have fathers and not children. Don’t ask me how.)

    We have spouses so that we can understand that our relationship with Hashem is like a spouse.

    We have kings so that we can understand how Hashem relates to us as a king.

    This is clear from shir hashirim, which uses the romantic relationship to analogize to our relationship with Hashem. We are supposed to do that.

    You ask whether a single person can have a relationship with Hashem. Yes. But perhaps not the same way a married person can. And perhaps an orphan cannot understand the way Hashem acts as a father.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003550
    popa_bar_abba
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    LMA:

    If I am not married, and if one needs to be married to understand (which is probably true), I still don’t know what that has to do with this topic.

    The fact will remain that we are supposed to use the human romantic relationship to understand our relationship with Hashem- as best as we can understand it.

    Thus: Eh? Not sure what you’re saying.

    in reply to: Halacha Discussions, Obscure Heteirim, and the Modern Orthodox #795512
    popa_bar_abba
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    The most famous person to come out of Volozhin was Chaim Nathan Bialik

    Famous to who? I have no idea who that is.

    The most famous person to come out of Northwestern Law School is Jerry Springer, but he hardly carries their banner.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003547
    popa_bar_abba
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    LMA: Eh? Not sure what you’re saying.

    in reply to: TEXTING ON SHABBOS #815530
    popa_bar_abba
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    And Rav Chaim Ozer used to make havdala on an electric bulb to show that it was eish.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003544
    popa_bar_abba
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    popa – the gemara says ????? ??????? ?? ???? – LIKE the way of the leitzim.

    Hmmm. I don’t know.

    in reply to: dealing with the public #795687
    popa_bar_abba
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    That is something they should think of. You are correct in being a bit annoyed. But they aren’t doing it on purpose, it is just unthinking.

    in reply to: Charliehall? #1219805
    popa_bar_abba
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    I have a screenname for a reason so that nobody except yossi z knows who I am even if it’s the nicest guy in the world

    And Bar Shattya knows who I am. Also most of my friends in real life. But charlie hall doesn’t know.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003541
    popa_bar_abba
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    twisted: I can’t do google translate because I don’t know how to spell that in yiddish.

    chacham: Precisely. Because shir hashirim is not a song about human relationships, it is about using human relationships to understand our relationship with Hashem. Leitzim use it to sing about human relationships.

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003532
    popa_bar_abba
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    Thank you aries. I like when we agree.

    Your post expresses this much better than I can, and is beautiful.

    in reply to: Charliehall? #1219801
    popa_bar_abba
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    Yes where is he?

    He will like my romance thread. I so rarely agree with him and it is such fun when we do.

    in reply to: A Lack Of Sensitivity #795237
    popa_bar_abba
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    Read the later posts there.

    I am saying:

    1. Romance is not treif.

    2. Your kids should know you love your wife. By showing it in your home.

    3. Using the concept of romance in your connection with Hashem is absolutely appropriate, and I am unconvinced that romantic songs are inappropriate for that.

    I am not saying:

    That movies, TV, looking at shiktzas, goyishe music, facebook, twitter, YWN, Public Displays of Affection, are ok.

    in reply to: A Lack Of Sensitivity #795234
    popa_bar_abba
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    And I agree with everything you just said.

    in reply to: A Lack Of Sensitivity #795232
    popa_bar_abba
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    observanteen:

    I’m sorry you feel that way.

    I have a hard time seeing what you find so offensive about my thread, even if you disagree with me. I’m open to being convinced that I’m wrong; I’m not bashing anyone; and there is nothing vulgar about the discussion itself.

    If it is making people leave, I guess it should be closed. I certainly don’t want to chase anyone away.

    Anyone else want to weigh in on this? Does the actual discussion bother you?

    in reply to: Romantic songs #1003521
    popa_bar_abba
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    Itche and Pops and other defenders of MO

    I have nothing against Modern Orthodox, and in fact I know some modern Orthodox people who are well versed in Torah, however if you have a shittah that it is permitted to watch movies, have girlfriends and do other dvarim assurim, you aren’t modern “Orthodox” you are just plain a modern day mumar lteyavon.

    Firstly, I am not remotely a defender of MO.

    Secondly, talk about setting up a straw man. I don’t endorse those things. I never did.

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