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Kimchee (produced by Adamah at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, Vaad of Hartford)

Never knew anyone that ever heard of that stuff. My parents love it while I can’t even touch it.

I would add:

Truffles

Hot dogs with marshmallow fluff

corn and spinach crepes

quesadillas

Fried Pita stuffed with cheese and tomatoes

omelet with peas

scrambled eggs with couscous

Sephardic dishes such as

yebra

machshi (onion, tomato)

kibbeh

lachmagine

nudnikit: Granted that while one is connected to the bus (either through sitting down or standing on the floor) one would be traveling at the same speed of the bus, but when you jump in the air, what helps keeps you up to speed with the bus?

farrocks: I call an “active date” any date that includes a ton of walking, or any activity that would make it really hard to wear heels like. going to six flags, walking on a boardwalk, etc.

The guy can simply suggest before the date that she may want to wear comfortable, regular shoes. There’s nothing wrong with it, and every girl appreciates it greatly.

Oomis: How excited were the Yekkes when Hitler rose to power? Would you call them sour grapes too?

If only secession was possible. The Federal government is overly bloated and doesn’t serve it’s original purpose. I think many states would be happier to be on their own again. No one forced the States to join the Union, and no one should force them from leaving.

ready now: I did not take the time to read your post fully before posting. I saw you ranting and raving for a couple of paragraphs about how I am postings thoughts from a non Jewish source. I didn’t mention ANYWHERE that those thought weren’t my own. I DID specifically state that my thoughts were NOT from non Jewish writings. NO non Jewish references, quotes, paraphrahing, whatchamacallits, NOTHING!

Not like it makes a difference if I did.

Get over it.

If you would like to call me a Kofer, go ahead.

aCookieJar: Why did you reject Judiasm and why did you embrace whatever you have embraced?

DaMoshe: a) I agree belief in G-d cannot be based on Pascal’s Wager. Though I understand that the opposite -someone’s belief in atheism- can be torn down (albeit not completely) using a simple logical wager, a wager that forces one to objectively consider the possibility of a G-d.

b) I agree that Pascal’s Wager does not come into play when deciding a religion. I specifically wrote in my post above that it gives a logical reason to pursue ANY religion. It won’t provide you with belief; it’ll provide you with tools that will help you believe something in the future. I wrote about this at length above. There are many other proofs, probably better ones. Though I feel that bringing up Pascal’s Wager would help reveal intellectual dishonesty in a discussion such as this.

Ready now: I said “reason for anyone to pursue a religion, whatever religion they believe to hold the most truth.” which is not from non Jewish writings, but rather my own thoughts. It’s actually pretty logical. On the notion that there is a Jewish G-d, one must understand why someone would get punished and sent to Gehinom for not keeping the 7 Noachide laws.

If I was christian, muslim, or buddhist Ch’V, I would be able to say to at the Day of Judgement, that I did all that was supposed to do. I was a faithful X, Y or Z. Why should get I punished for keeping my religion 100% Lechumra? They would tell me Upstairs that that reason doesn’t help. I should’ve known that Judiasm is the #1 real religion, and that I would at least have to keep the 7 Noachide laws.

But I would complain again and say “How am I supposed to know that Judiasm is real, if I wasn’t born Jewish?” To which they would reply to me, “If you would’ve objectively seeked out the truth, you would have found Judiasm to be 100% authentic. The fact that you didn’t seek out the truth is what you are getting punished for.”

Therefore, it’s pretty logical to say, that if a christian, muslim, and buddhist would get punished for not seeking out the truth, the same obligation would apply to Jews too. For how can a Jew get rewarded for keeping a religion he was born into, without seeking the truth, while a christian, muslim, and buddhist get punished for doing the same exact thing!? Don’t we have a Benevolent G-d, Whom Judges every person fairly?

Therefore I am happy to say, that I am not a religious Jew because I was FFB, I am a religious Jew because I was proven beyond a shadow of doubt that it is much truer than any other religion can hope to be. My belief in G-d doesn’t come into play until it comes to the things that I cannot logically understand, (such as the 4 Questions that one may not ask); though after seeing that 99% of Judiasm is proven true, I can believe that the rest is true too. Staying religious based on plain Emunah Pshuta without any proofs that Judiasm is authentic, IS DEFINITELY KEFIRA.

(Note: these thoughts only explain why I pick Judiasm over other religions; I would use Pascal’s Wager among other things to push away atheism.)

Where I come from they are called Tosafot.

Readynow: If simply hearing the words “yiddishkeit is THE BEST” would stop Jews from going OTD, there wouldn’t be any OTD’ers in the first place. I believe the problem is the OPPOSITE. Intellectual Jewish children are being propagandized from birth by uneducated teachers about how great Judiasm is, without explaining to them the whys and hows. These children, as they progress into adulthood feel like their religion has all the same qualities of all the religions they’re supposed to denounce.

Wild and hyper active kids go off for different reasons, most probably because no one in the education system has the time and patience for them. At least where I came from, the motto was always, “If you don’t like it, LEAVE!”. There’s not enough competition, as the religious population keeps on expanding, there aren’t enough schools around to give the big ones competition. There’s nothing keeping such schools in line.

Veltz Meshugener: One can be an intellectual but that doesn’t make him intelligent. Obama is an intellectual fool if we judge him by his thoughts.

How do the invitations double if you invite MR and MRS on one invitation? Actually, you may even save some invitations if some of your friends married some of your fiancee’s friends.

I like it that after his presidency he would make a perfect case study for pathological liar researchers.

I posted over 10 hours ago and it’s still didn’t go through yet…

Price gouging laws + not rationing out the gas until now + an extremely populated city + a completely incompetent mayor = No gas in NYC for weeks.

I understand that he’s a statistician by profession. I still believe that there is a great amount of science to be applied to many of the statistics. Take for example, baseball. Every team had a great deal of statistics, and the players with the most RBI, HR’s and hits were most likely to sought by all the richest teams. Billy Beane came around and decided that while the use of those statistics were a decent indicator of a players talents, they were highly flawed in regards to the overall contribution of a team. He built a team built around OBP and was highly competitive with extremely low salaries paid out. (I never watched Moneyball but I heard that as the basic idea).

So while I agree that his statistics may be the best ones out there today, I’m not extremely sold on his use of averaging unscientific polls. He has to un-skew the polls, which would based on the average turnout predicted in polls, and average a demographic of the Likely Voters. I believe his accuracy can’t stay perfect if he keeps his same methods for next election. Again, the Redskins called almost every election correctly without any use of science. Hopefully he uses a little more science and not just numbers next time.

goldersgreener: Not like the British ever stopped Jews from coming into Israel ala White Paper laws.

Shlishi: Calling a coin toss correctly doesn’t make the random choosing of heads or tails any more scientific. We both agreed pre-election that he’s a partisan hack. Nate’s “scientific” collection of polls that liberals love to tout, were barely scientific at all. Where was the Gallup poll in the averages? He seemed to make room for every high school that decided to hold a poll, though Gallup was not added to the average. Also, not one pre-election poll assumed that Republican turnout would be lower than 2008. How does averaging out results of polls that wrongly determine the turnout of voters deemed “scientific”? With skewed data comes unscientific results, however correct the results may turn out.

It’s funny that Republicans are portrayed by liberals as hating math, numbers, and science. We all know that it’s a farce. When a liberal person using unverified scientific methods spews the results to attack the GOP (or vice-versa), there is little reason to believe those numbers or scientific methods have any substance.

I will admit that his numbers can be scientific with some tweaking. He needs to learn about the fundamentals behind polling and not just the technicalities. It shouldn’t matter if in the past 30 elections the incumbent won if the election was on the 6th of the month. Or whether the Redskins win or lose their previous home game (this year was an anomaly compared to the previous 19 elections).

torah613613torah: We are always in His hands. Doesn’t mean its easy to accept the current and likely forthcoming hardships.

Bitachon isn’t enough at this point. We need to daven For Hashem to rip up the gezeiros that were written against us.

I think Obama will win.

Sandy was caused by gays and the internet. A better reason- it’s because of gays that USE THE INTERNET!

shlishi: Any poll that assumes that the democratic turnout will be equal to 2008 is skewed. In 2008 the democrats had an especially high turnout due to much higher enthusiasm. This year the pollsters are saying that republicans have much higher enthusiasm; the 2010 midterm elections have proven that.

Additionally, 8% more independents voted for obama than for mccain. This year the polls show Romney leading by 11% in independents, a massive change that isn’t applied in most of the polls. Most state polls with Obama leading are showing a lead of a small percentage which DOES NOT include the independents, or it includes too little independents, or they have the independents leaning towards Obama like in 2008. Include the independents the right way, and Romney clearly wins all the close polls.

History also states that if an incumbent isn’t polling at least 50%, then he will most likely not win the state. (For example, if Obama leads 47-45, that means that there’s another 8% which is mostly undecideds.) That is because all the undecideds are usually undecided about voting for Romney or for some other third party candidate. They are familiar with Obama and his policies, and they wouldn’t still be undecided if they end up voting for him. So Romney wins a great percentage of the undecideds, and the race isn’t going in Obama’s direction as Nate Silver wants us to think.

I second Gas Buddy. Best list around.

YWFAN: ….and look at purplelicious’ posting to explain why Toi posted what he did.

YW fan: Yes, I know you posted your extremely interesting line of reasoning before my posting. I called you out for hypocrisy, because as you know, if you look back at your posts you will see that you attacked Toi before explaining the extremely eye-catching title of this thread.