http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for dovbear. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/8287264975249129189/?src=hsr#534034 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:08:05 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/8287264975249129189/?src=hsrs#534034 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/8287264975249129189/?src=hsrs#534034 a machitza is not a fence. Thanks for the glossary update. I was speaking metaphorically, as in a stringency, a fence around the Torah, etc. Again, either the wall belongs to all Jews, or it's an Orthodox shul. Either way, Israel should decide and have the courage and integrity to stand behind its decision and let the chips -- and the shit-- fall where they may. which would be all http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534033 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:04:21 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534033 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534033 here's a better and complete version - mathemagic http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534032 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:37 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534032 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534032 which is why witches can appreciate the magic in this - math magic http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534031 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:51 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534031 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534031 in fact, science too is magic http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534030 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:47 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534030 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534030 and neither is contrary to science http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534029 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:52:41 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534029 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534029 I don't want to chuck the AUTHENTIC mystic tradition. I want to chuck the stupidity that's been associated with it by emotion-driven bufoons who think mysticism = magic. When you understand magic, you'll see that mysticism does equal magic. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534028 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:09 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534028 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534028 or not http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsr#534027 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:18 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534027 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/4766147011478630910/?src=hsrs#534027 There's no good reason to "have faith" that plants talk. It's isn't a mitzvah. It isn't supported by our sense, our experiences or our minds. True, there is no good reason to believe that plants can talk. The secret isn't that plants talk, but that we may understand. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsr#534026 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:07 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsrs#534026 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsrs#534026 I will confess that what really burns, for me, about the deaths of so much of Dutch Jewry is that thereby the variety and sum-total of the Dutch world was also lessened. I would have much preferred to still have all those people as part of my world. The emptiness they left is cold and dark by comparison with what should have been. Like any society, the Dutch need something that leavens the di... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsr#534025 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:41:50 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsrs#534025 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dovbear/6005934529264771486/?src=hsrs#534025 I think almost every European country, with the exception of Holland Sorry, Big Phil, but that isn't true. The Dutch constructed an image after the war. During the war they were not nearly as sweet as they since have pretended they were. There were 140 thousand Jews in the Netherlands before the war. About 30 thousand returned from the east after the war. Yes, there were Dutch who h