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No, because your posts are fully trackable.
AH! Game theory! At last, higher level riddles.
It was printed in the Hamodia magazine for crying out loud. But not everyone understands what the coming of moshiach means. So wait and see and when he comes you will understand.
Hey listen, I don’t buy the bottom line off of snopes every time, but be realistic. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on – shame on, uh Condi, what was that line again? Oh right, fool me twice, shame on me. If you’ve never heard this hoax before then it’s one thing, but this is at least the fourth time I’ve seen this ‘warning’ come up. Snopes is right.
If you have room to change something in your life based on current events (who doesn’t?) then let it be because of the matziv in EY. Amazing how little we are shaken by real live scary events and how much we can be shaken by hoaxes.
areivimzehlazeh, please stop posting on this site or I will have to mention it on your performance review.
SJS, I don’t doubt that you may know a case (or more than one) where the parents heaped responsibility onto a child to the point where it became abusive. But I would suggest that this is a rare exception. I hope that you won’t deny that. As I said, there is a fine line and it is not often that it is crossed these days, but no one should be allowed to cross it. I’d also add that in a case where it appears that the line has been crossed a professional should be consulted (or a competent Rov) to determine if the situation is as serious as it appears. Most of the time people make judgements by comparison rather than factual analysis.
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What about children being children? by not being carefree and on a n important part of life- being carefree. by forcing them to grow up early- it can be damaging to their growth… Responsibility is good, but forcing them to be adults at 9,10 or 11 years old is crazy and abusive.
On a whole, children nowadays have too much free time on their hands. This is the number one cause of kids at risk (though of course we have seen countless people point to various micro-causes, I am stating the macro-cause, and I am sure of it). Some of us remember, while others can read about it in books (fiction and nonfiction), that not too long ago and going back to the beginning of time!!! children were EXPECTED to be productive even in their childhood years. Yes, we were children too, and were granted time to play, but we were always on call to perform chores – whether it was milking the cows, filling the water barrels, taking care of siblings (this was usually left to the mother, though), helping out in the store, splitting firewood, etc, etc. (I’m not saying that I did any of those things, but I had similar responsibilities)
In fact, the main reason for summer vacation from school is because children were needed at home to help with the harvest (also because of lack of air-conditioning). So don’t start with this garbage about how kids should be carefree and not given any responsibilities.
Now, there is a fine line that must not be crossed, and that is that we cannot expect too much from our children, or give them too many responsibilities. But in this day and age, we are so far to the opposite extreme that it is wild to even think that this line will be crossed. If a child has the time to sit in front of a television show every day, and play on the Xbox with his friends for hours at a time, have no fear that the child is being “forced to grow up too fast”. Many children in fact never grow up and continue playing on their Xbox into middle age, shunning responsibility.
If a 9, 10, or 11 year old knows that when he or she comes home from school he or she will have to watch the little kids for an hour before doing homework, what is wrong with that? That’s not forcing them to be adults, that’s barely asking anything! Point to a kid who has to do that AND give the kids baths, AND put them to sleep, AND make supper for the family AND make lunches for everyone to take the next morning AND help all the kids get dressed and I will agree that the child is being abused. But having a DEFINED responsibility to younger siblings is NOT abuse and is one of many VERY GOOD ways to give a child responsibilies (if he or she can handle it physically).
I am truly amazed at how much free time youngsters have and how strongly they feel that they are entitled to it. We live in a spoiled age B”H, but that does not mean that we should become lazy and unproductive.
So, after that long megilla, I hope that I have managed to at least divert the conversation back to something that fits the title of “Society and a Developing Crisis”.
…..said the anonymous woman
🙂 🙂
You are free to believe that I am a 15 year old boy who hasn’t even completed high school, if you wish. Or whatever else you want to believe.
Just for the record, when I said to send me all the hard questions I meant it as a joke. You know, mock bragging. I didn’t realize when I made my next post that it would seem snotty (until asdf pointed it out). My apologies. And that brag should still not be taken seriously even by those who choose to believe me. I don’t have a brklyn19 self-image. 😉
The functioning of an army all comes down to the orders it is given. Therefore, the “Jewishness” of an army depends on who is giving the orders, not who is carrying them out, IMO. So without offense to Yanky or any of the fine Jews who serve, Joseph’s characterization seems correct to me.
Here’s a quote that’s missing from the quotes thread:
“You are unique, just like everybody else.” -Dusty
I guess in the situation that you mention, it may be better to circle. If the road is not wide enough for a half-decent driver to get by your pulled-over car, you should keep moving. Otherwise, sitting beats circling for a number of reasons:
1) It is just as likely that someone will pull out right where you are sitting as it is that someone will pull out near the random spot you are at while circling. And…
2) If you are sitting, then you have chosen the most convenient location to park
3) Sitting is less stressful than driving around in circles, especially when you have to face red lights, double parked cars, stop and go, etc.
4) It uses less gas, so you waste less (both from a yiddishe gelt perspective and an environmental one)
5) There is a better chance that someone will notice that you want a spot and inform you of one opening up.
I was what they call a “professional academic” for a long time.
bored, I don’t know about the others, but shindy kind of signed out not too long ago.
I can guess at the other 2. Nobody seems to be more of a lurker and only posts when the flaming gets more out of hand than usual (to tell us to stop). As for teenager, I was going to guess that she is doing homework, but I think the likely answer is that…. she turned 20?
Offer to meet him for lunch and you’ll find out all of it.
asdfghjkl = intellegent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good job on waiting until both identities were fully developed before validating them!!!!!!!!!
JK
Well, if makeup alone doesn’t do it, there’s always the option for rhinoplasty and the like. It’s a cutthroat business staying on the “A-list”.
Let me know when the hard questions come in so I can help out. 🙂 🙂
OK, who is sending out the invitations for Joseph’s 13th birthday party? I hope I get one. Curious, are you up to it?
You can’t really change it, but you can register a new user name and the mods will surely tell us that you did.
SJS, I am sure that I understand quite a bit about MO. What you seem to be missing (and correct me if I’m wrong) is that it is possible to be fully Orthodox (i.e. charedi) without being “yeshivish”. There are plenty of fine Jews who are not yeshivish (and I count myself as one). The prefix “Modern” connotes a desire to modify Orthodox standards to “fit with the times”. Choose what example you will, but you can’t avoid the fact the the MO philosophy, as you put it, is simply “permissiveness”.
Otherwise, you are just Orthodox.
And although this is an entirely different discussion, you should be able to understand from this why MO is clearly NOT the scion of Rabbiner Hirsch.
Joseph, don’t compare kum v’asei (eating treif) with shev v’al ta’aseh (m’neias leida).
I wonder how brooklyn judges beauty, then. With her ear? Must he sound beautiful?
If we used our real names, we would probably be more careful about what we say, wouldn’t we? But I don’t think that people want to be careful.
Joseph, you sure have a looong memory.
It was not the ‘comment of the day’, I know, but THANK YOU, Joseph!
frum – I’m very surprised that anyone got my reference. I wrote Baltimore because a)jfem is from Baltimore and b)that is where I saw the sign posted. What other city could I have written? That little bit was just a joke I added in.
PS – I am not from Baltimore (if I didn’t say this, the mods would probably expose me anyway)
I will have more information on Thursday.
Curious, Does “ask your local Rabbi” mean that you can ask one in Eretz Yisroel (or maybe Yerushalayim)?
What does that mean “my husband left being yeshivish to become MO”? He suddenly decided one day that he approves of mixed swimming and immodest dressing? Or that shmiras einayim and negiah are not worth keeping?
If you meant that he stopped learning full-time to go to work and maybe stopped wearing a black hat, or even put on colored shirts, why does that make him MO? It doesn’t. Will you please clairfy.
I don’t use CB anymore, so I had no idea. But of course I was talking about a while back, I thought it was clear from my post in that thread that I was talking about the days of yore.
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He seems more like a Frankel’s kind of guy
Someone’s gotta end this list thingie.
Well, she’s gone now. Driven away by the mod’s cruel unveiling. So end of confusion.
Joseph, you got the second rule wrong:
Rule 1: Threads never stay on topic
Rule 2: Any thread that does stay on topic is by definition, off-topic
Corollary: When 99% of the site population is teenage girls (and early 20’s), everything veers to shidduchim.
joseph you need a license to broadcast on certain channels.
I agree, collecting ny’s garbage is a great service, but why does he have to dump it all on this site? JK
By the way, they used to call me “Dusty” before that Delta air-lion took the name away from me.
That would be the 3rd day of Teves. If R”CH Teves is two days, then it is a regular day. If R”CH is one day, then it is the last day of Chanuka.
OK, you knew what I meant. What should that be called?
Yup, that’s three. I think that’s a high proportion, wouldn’t you agree (especially when you consider that that’s all the GUYS in the CR – e/o else is sem/high school girl).
I have driven a truck, but not as a profession. My experience with CB was as a hack only, not a ham. I never had a broadcasting license but it was great to listen to the truckers while drivin’ along (at 55 or below, of course).
OOh ooh, can I chap this one?