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Tzemach: Well Harry Truman supposedly famously said that "if you want a friend in Washington (DC) buy a dog" to which one may add in the age of the world wide web, if you really want an exciting friend online try cyber-sex.
Quit the whining, PLEASE!!!!!
You are a good blogger with a proven readership. Whatever you can do is appreciated. Your obviously nihilistic world view is your business but don't expect everyone to buy into just because you like it.
While this may seem difficult for you to stomach and realise, religion brings much good and pleasure into the lives of billions of people.
You, as an individial, cannot turn the clock of history back on Judaism, nor on its two theological progeny, Christianity and Islam. If you think you can, then you are displaying the SAME delusional messianist and magical thinking you hate to see in some religious Jews. So PLEASE stop that too, or at least try to control yourself. Try talking to a therapist. Maybe if she will be female and good looking she will seduce you and you can finally find love somewhere, and not keep spilling all your guts in such colorful and obnoxious detail.
You seem to constantly complain that you need "friends" well why don't you try finding a spouse who will be your soul mate and best friend and will meet all your higher order intimcy needs that will then free you emotionally so that you don't keep on persecuting us, your readers and blog responders, with your emotional neediness and obvious lack of early maternal nurturing, like virtual nose-bleeds all the time, that you are displaying like a slip all over the place.
Grow up!
the commenter above must be a woman... sex is not the answer.
the religious quest is a long and difficult one. There is no simple answers and finding the truth doesn't mean just going to specific synagogue, etc. You are concentrating on the bad things about Jews, think about what they have accomplished!
there is a homily: the beams which carried the holy ark were called KeReSh, the letters of which can be recombined to spell SheKeR, or 'lie'. Without them we never would have made it through the desert.
I enjoy your blog and please don't give it up. Tell your truth in your own way and the real god will listen.
o god ur sounding more and more like a Russian choy who doubts and mistrusts every one and every thing
it seems to me that ur ranting just to satisfy your need to write (which by all means is a good thing) being that at the end of the day ur a writer with the beauty of Russian complexes and this is whats bothering u at the moment therefore ur writing about it but come on do u really believe that readers will truly understand or be able to connect to what ur feeling? try writing ur feelings in more of a mysterious fashion at least the reader will be mystified by it thus creating some sort of genuine interest in what ur trying convey in simple words write ur own senor senor
parrots, repeating the same tired mantras.
zeitgeist:
"your emotional neediness and obvious lack of early maternal nurturing"
stop the bs you know nothing about.
so here's my first comment - I have been reading and enjoying your stuff for a long time - you have an acutely perspective and often accurate point to make. You have probably realised by now that most of your views are not shared by most of the world but that does not stop your work from always being fresh and thought provoking. so I would be sad if you stopped.
Tzemach, thanks for being brief in your crticism of me ("stop the bs you know nothing about.") But I do like and agree with "steve mcqueen"!
hi
"There is a homily: the beams which carried the holy ark were called KeReSh, the letters of which can be recombined to spell SheKeR, or 'lie'. Without them we never would have made it through the desert." I am curious about the source of this "homily." Standing on its own it sounds too cynical.
By the way, the aron hakodesh was borne on boddim not keroshim which were to used for the walls of the mishkon.
Tzemach,
As far as I am concerned you are doing a fine job with this blog. Your rages while oftentimes are unsettling and leave me without the capacity to comment, are integral (at least for now) to the its appeal.
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