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(How does the Twilight Zone theme go?)

I just checked the threadstarter’s profile. He’s been registered for 4 years. This is his first post. ?!?!?

This is not uncommon. A user may sign up to post comments in a different section (news) and later decide to also comment in the CR.

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WannaBeChasidish –

1) Jokes aren’t usually put up under

“Inspiration / Mussar.”

2) Jokes do need to make sense to a certain degree to be funny

(unless the joke is simply how absurd the joke is).

3) A play on words certainly needs to be understandable.

4) I don’t want to see you post that statement a third time. 🙂

does the enjoyment I feel at complimenting people and seeing their faces light up emanate from a healthy place of caring for others, or is it subconsciously a desire to get them to like me?

I don’t think the desire to get others to like you could trigger

pleasure at the knowledge that you’ve cause someone else pleasure.

More questionable is whether you’d compliment others even if you didn’t feel such pleasure as you describe at the realization that

they enjoyed your words, but merely the satisfaction of a mitzvah accomplished. Either way, keep complimenting! People need it, not enough people do it (?), and in any case, “l’olam ya’asok adam b’Torah ub’mitzvos shelo lishmah!”

Your job is not to figure out what will be accepted or edited by sending “tests” through (your words). If your posts continue to be about how to get different things through the moderators and then analyse how to use that information to get other things through (something you have mentioned), or if your posts continue to take too long to moderate because everything you reference has to be cross referenced, I will simply start deleting all posts. That is NOT what we are here for. Please respect the rules of the CR or you will be blocked.

OBJECTION!

I wrote out those names IN FULL – they were truncated by a mod.

1) The post was not marked as edited. Isn’t that contrary to accepted CR-mod practice? (Yes, I acknowledge that the meaning of the post was not changed… still.)

2) What reason could there have been for this?

I’m not saying them, nor are they on paper that the paper should become sheimos, if that is indeed what would happen.

Mods or DaasYochid, can you explain this?

(Are we being choshesh for printing now?)

We are not poskim and we will always err on the side of caution.

Modified old rejected post:

Thinking of the words “confusion in their eyes,” I remembered “The Twilight in Your Eyes”, but that’s

all (kol isha warning).

Actually, it seems the phrase isn’t uncommon as a lyric.

SIDI:

0: Bullet points. WANT! Please give me the code for them and any other non-alphanumeric symbols you know. Pretty please?

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The Joke thread is not really meant for discussions of any type. By having a lengthy conversation it ruins the whole point of that thread.

Surely you can discuss the jokes? We were arguing, which might be better done elsewhere,but where?

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2: That kind of thread may be worth re-doing for the fresh perspectives and/or knowledge the current community has to offer.

3: Check again. It’s there now, 2 posts above yours.

There are a number of things most people would not marry anyone lacking, such as sanity and the ability to have children.

Do you mean only those things that are a necessity for you, but possibly not for other people?

(I’m not sure the right word with regard to middos is “attractive” – perhaps “admirable.”)

Eftach, I’m starting to wonder if you only start threads in an attempt to spark philosophical discussions.

What I said stands, unless you mean that no vendors treat their chickens right. In that case, we’ll need to see sources that mandate a certain standard which Kapparos vendors never adhere to, AND evidence that that common chicken-handling practice is better. Otherwise, why pick on Kapparos?

CozImJewish:

The first song on Country Yossi’s first album is “Cause I’m a Jew.” Given your love of music, I was joking that you should’ve had the name that would mean the same thing and reference a song.

I guess you’re too young to have gotten the

joke – the album came out in 1983.

If you like Jewish music, though, you should definitely get your hands on all six albums by “Country Yossi and The Shteeble-Hoppers” and These I Remember, which consists of 8 songs by his old group The Or Chodosh and 2 new ones.

NOTICE: The majority of the “Shteeble-Hoppers” songs are parodies of non-Jewish songs. (These I Remember has no parodies.)

(An earlier attempt at a post was not approved, so I’m splitting it up. I hope I’m allowed to say that.)

DaMoshe, you may answer now – I’ll wait for you to visit

the CR before I post the answer, b’li neder.

SIDI:

I’d like to give DaMoshe a chance to answer first. Meanwhile, here’s a hint to help you find it yourself – the line before the first line I posted is

“Everybody eats it Friday night.”

How much more Jewish does that sound? 🙂

Country Yossi’s got a song called “I’m Proud to Be a Part of Am Yisroel” (on the album Ride Again!), if we’re making a game of naming such songs.

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Chossid has three meanings:

1. The original – “Haoseh chessed im kono.”

2. A Jew of the chassidic persuasion.

3. Someone with a certain relationship with a rebbe (this meaning is derived, of course, from the emphasis Chassidic teachings put on such a relationship).

You can use the third meaning in reference to Hashem (presumably as a joke) whether you’re chassidish or not. The female form of the word is “chassidah.”

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Personal discussions about things that come up in threads (like discussing someone’s username) is an issue that may not have a solution other than just letting people do it.

I plan on posting about this in the “For PAA and Randomex…” thread one of these days.

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Males and females “talking” to each other on the CR is another issue I plan to address. No starting such a thread before I do, please, and I copyright the thread title

“Males and females on and of the CR [not a typo].”

You’re welcome! (And thank you, Letakein.)

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Update: The second song is “Leibele,” from the album There’s a Place in My Mind, composed by Mrs. Dina Storch and sung by various male singers.

1)

I think maybe we’ve focused too much on the “happiness” example.

Still, I’ll say this. Eftach, you can think about what you believe makes a person happy, and if you think you feel as good as you should in the situation you’re in (although the way you look at yourself and your situation makes a big difference in happiness, so take that into account). See also Yytz’s post.

2)

I also heard someone ask once that if something is there and no-one is there to see it, is it still there?

The answer science (and possibly Kabbalah) gives for that question might surprise you.

3)

Maybe our eyes interpret the colors differently but we've all been shown the same objects and taught their colors. But our colors could all be different. But there is no way to know. You can only know what you're seeing and what you're feeling.

Certainly an interesting concept, but I came up with a way to determine if this is occurring on a large scale.

Certain colors are known to have certain psychological effects – if we assume that our brains’ emotional responses to “objective” colors are uniform, then if enough of us were not seeing the same colors the same way, this could not have been an observable phenomenon. Rather, it would have been observed that not all people have the same emotional responses to color (though it is likely that such a phenomenon still exists between cultures that use various colors in different ways).

The concept is probably still useful in philosophical thought, though.

4)

Does anyone know the name of the concept that we never physically experience something, only our sensual perception of that thing?

(Unless perhaps during an out-of-body/near-death experience…)

How can I know the truth about anything? What I mean to say, is that if I am only me, and I only know my own experience in anything, then how can I know if it's normal or not?

You may well not be able to know. The color-blind sometimes go through much of their life not aware of the fact, and that is an issue which is easily testable.

Example: Many of us know people who are “not quite right,” but how many of those people are aware of it?

If you suspect others’ feelings or reactions are different from your own, perhaps you can ask them to describe them – if it sounds very different from your own experience, there may be a problem.

Eftach, my friend, if your experience does not include what you understand from others’ descriptions to be happiness, you may want to read up on depression – perhaps Dr. Twerski’s “Getting Up When You’re Down,” which I am fairly confident could not inspire you to misdiagnose yourself.

This question doesn’t bother you enough to interfere with living your life, does it?

SIDI: Wasn’t Arthur’s sister DW?

Yes, but why do you ask?

Maybe someone should start a forum somewhere to post things people tried to post but had rejected (especially if they don’t understand why).

Humans are mammals, but 1) possums would be marsupial roadkill, and there are probably others I could name if knew them, and 2) what makes birds similar to humans?

Well, if we’re going to talk about names, what are we supposed to say you did?

I didn’t come back for that!

(I still haven’t finished reading the posts…)

PAA (what is your preferred form of address?):

If you have a problem with non-Jews having slightly different versions of a joke (or with saying something in a slightly different way than it was said before), you should see THIS.

According to Matt Cutts of Google in his TEDTalk™, the trick is not to go to sleep without having written your quota.

“You’ll be tired, but you’ll finish (approx.).”

I don’t know if that wuld work out for a seminary student…

Actually, you guys keep crazy hours anyway, right? At least some of you do, or so I hear.

(DaMoshe, please don’t answer this! [Darn.])

Down at the chicken farm they’re in a fright

All those chickens running left and right

Lookit them chickens go!

Yes, it’s Jewish. Don’t you believe me?

[I might be off by an exact word or two, as it’s been a while since I heard it, but no more. When I looked for the mp3 to check,

I found I’d deleted it, probably thinking I didn’t care to hear it again.]

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Seeeing as this is pretty much the music thread:

If anyone here owns Step It Up (the dance game), can I ask

you to post a list of the instrumental songs it includes?

(Also those from its 2nd and 3rd track packs, if you have them

and if there are any such songs in those.)