The other day I was discussing kolel with a friend of mine (the one who irked me into writing the Another Rant post). Well anyway, I know many of you would recommend I seek new friends (I recommend it to myself each morning), but the problem is, I live in the past. She used to be such a good friend, she was so smart, and we used to mess with our teachers together.
I remember once one of our teachers was discussing the importance of minhaggim. The teacher said " Ashkenazie do not eat kitniyos on pesach, because in Europe these things weren't readily available for the Ashkenazie community. Even though these things are available now, and we're so diverse, it is still important to keep the minhaggim, because they represent who you are. " The lecture continued, and the teacher said something bizarre (can't remember what), and so this freind was like :
"now, lets say my grandfather lived in an area that had bug infestations every summer, and so going to shul was not an option on shabbos, because it was inevitible that he step on a bug, does that mean that now, for a few months each year I should not go to shul on shabbos?"
My teacher was like "well no, because now you don't have the bugs!"
So my freind was like "and now we know about kitniyos"
The teacher got ticked, came back the next day with a passuk that said something we already heard, and life continued in its usual routine way. My friend and I were so compatible. Always with our smart-a** remarks annoying the teachers. Both of us were frum. We read alot, we spoke to alot of people, we compared notes, and overall we got along. Then she went to seminary...
OMG! You know how frummies tell you you shouldn't watch TV because it brainwashes you? And because there are subliminal messages in the shows and commericals and stuff similar to that? Well I truly believe that frummies just fear their own methods of subliminal messaging will not work in contrast to the multi-million dollar budgets of the fancy ad agencies.
This friend, is now a pain. She takes everything she hears literally. She constantly quotes pirkei avos, and other things, and never makes a freakin decision without asking "advice" first (from the Rebbeim or their wives). Its like if she were stuck in an elevator she'd prob call the Rav first and ask if she should press the emergency button.
Anyway, we were discussing Kollel and welfare. I told my friend that if a telemarketer calls and asks for tzedakeh, my parents always ask if the organizations gives to kollel families. If they do, my parents don't give them money. Then I said that it really sucks to have your money taken away (in the form of taxes) and given to people who are smart, and perfectly capable of getting their butts up and working. Instead they think they run the world by "learning" Torah. I gave her a whole speech about the time-zone thing, and how Hashem created the world with time zones so that there's always Torah learning going on, and I gave her a whole thing on how Adam's punishment was to work from the sweat of his brow. And then she goes..."well, I'd much rather be paying kollel guys with my taxes than black guys."
Wow did I get mad at her. Am I the only one that doesn't see that comparison as plausible, considering the Jews constantly claim to be "better then the goyim" or "chosen"? If we're "better" or "chosen" why the hell would we be ok with giving one of our, perfectly able-bodied kind, charity, then giving another? Shouldn't it be that we lead by example? That WE work, and they get their butts up because they'll be like "Look at the Jews, maybe we should work too?"
This really bothers me. Maybe, if we really are "the light unto other nations" and weren't cheating in taxes, and weren't hiring illegal immigrants, and weren't only getting married by chupa (but civil weddings as well) maybe then the goyim WOULDN"t be cheating as well...but I dunno... how would we ever know? We keep justifying our actions by saying "well, the blacks are on welfare, why can't the kollel guys, or the chassidish guys with 15 children be on it too?"
I'll tell you why...because its wrong. I'm not one to promote welfare, and I hate the idea of it, but I'm not naive enough to think it'll ever leave. The people on it, should be on it because they DESERVE it (temporary setbacks- unemployment, injury, unexpected death of supporter, etc).
I was also reading other blogs on the Rubashkin issue, and one person said "who cares, goyim don't treat their employees well either."
Well... thanx for the news. Next time I go out wearing a short mini-skirt a low-cut blouse, eating a cheeseburger, and you tell me "the torah doesn't allow it" I'll reply "well, the goyim do it too." Try answering me!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Nerd Article
This is the Nerd Article I mentioned in my post "Speak English" that I had written for my school newspaper. I remembered it being better, but I figured I'd share it anyway.
Why the Educational System is Failing
Every person strives to be the best that they can be. They want to be as smart as Einstein, play as well as Jordan, and skate as well as Sara Hughes. Einstein, Jordan and Hughes are role models for such people. Not just anyone can be Jordan, or Einstein or Hughes.
If a girl is trying out for the nationals in figure skating, and she wins with straight 6.0's, everyone would chant her name. If the girl came in sixth or seventh place no one would chant her name, because that shows she doesn't deserve the praise. If people did chant her name, no one would try hard at the sport. It takes skill and talent, and if you get applauded, and you weren't even on the podium why would you bother? If the complements and the applause come without the strive, you wouldn't strive anymore, it wouldn't be worth it. It's plain and simple human nature. The problem with the educational system is just that, the fact no one needs to strive for anything anymore, they just get applauded and complimented for doing their silly stupid things.
A few weeks ago one of my friends used the word "nerd" to describe girls cutting school. A nerd is smart, single-minded and accomplished. One that cuts school is the exact opposite. However, these girls that cut school just got nerds, so what more is there to strive for? Of course they don't want to go to school, if they're being called nerds for not coming. Why should they go, aren't they smart enough already? If they're not, they are told they are. Haven't they accomplished already? But he girls haven't accomplished anything. They weren't smart, and to cut school is not an act of a single-minded person, its usually an act of a person that can't think with their own mind.
Since the Jewish people make up the world and what they do influences the goyim then it's the fault of the Jews that the worlds education is falling apart. If they can't keep their own kids striving, how could the goyim do it to their kids? It's the misuse of words like "nerd" that cause such problems. To give another example of this outrageous misuse of the English language leading to messed up society, think about how English is spoken in our school (a wannabe good school). In real English you would say, "I don't want to go to the store either" in our school you would say "I don't either want to go to the store." Once a Jew does something wrong it's a chain reaction, it leads to all nations. Speaking incorrectly leads to them, and eventually no one is literate anymore, and poof...President GW Bush can't speak English! So don't blame bad Public Schools on the government, blame the bad public schools on your classmates. Government cannot do anything without Hashems chosen people acting chosen (speaking properly).
SO GO SMACK SOME OF YOUR CLASSMATES TODAY! IT'LL MAKE THE WORLD A MORE EDUCATED PLACE!
** The last action was not meant to be taken literally **
Why the Educational System is Failing
Every person strives to be the best that they can be. They want to be as smart as Einstein, play as well as Jordan, and skate as well as Sara Hughes. Einstein, Jordan and Hughes are role models for such people. Not just anyone can be Jordan, or Einstein or Hughes.
If a girl is trying out for the nationals in figure skating, and she wins with straight 6.0's, everyone would chant her name. If the girl came in sixth or seventh place no one would chant her name, because that shows she doesn't deserve the praise. If people did chant her name, no one would try hard at the sport. It takes skill and talent, and if you get applauded, and you weren't even on the podium why would you bother? If the complements and the applause come without the strive, you wouldn't strive anymore, it wouldn't be worth it. It's plain and simple human nature. The problem with the educational system is just that, the fact no one needs to strive for anything anymore, they just get applauded and complimented for doing their silly stupid things.
A few weeks ago one of my friends used the word "nerd" to describe girls cutting school. A nerd is smart, single-minded and accomplished. One that cuts school is the exact opposite. However, these girls that cut school just got nerds, so what more is there to strive for? Of course they don't want to go to school, if they're being called nerds for not coming. Why should they go, aren't they smart enough already? If they're not, they are told they are. Haven't they accomplished already? But he girls haven't accomplished anything. They weren't smart, and to cut school is not an act of a single-minded person, its usually an act of a person that can't think with their own mind.
Since the Jewish people make up the world and what they do influences the goyim then it's the fault of the Jews that the worlds education is falling apart. If they can't keep their own kids striving, how could the goyim do it to their kids? It's the misuse of words like "nerd" that cause such problems. To give another example of this outrageous misuse of the English language leading to messed up society, think about how English is spoken in our school (a wannabe good school). In real English you would say, "I don't want to go to the store either" in our school you would say "I don't either want to go to the store." Once a Jew does something wrong it's a chain reaction, it leads to all nations. Speaking incorrectly leads to them, and eventually no one is literate anymore, and poof...President GW Bush can't speak English! So don't blame bad Public Schools on the government, blame the bad public schools on your classmates. Government cannot do anything without Hashems chosen people acting chosen (speaking properly).
SO GO SMACK SOME OF YOUR CLASSMATES TODAY! IT'LL MAKE THE WORLD A MORE EDUCATED PLACE!
** The last action was not meant to be taken literally **
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The English teacher conspiracy theory
The following was written by my sister, who apparently had way to much to drink before writing her english essay on Great Expectations. :-). Enjoy! Please comment, as she is so excited by this. I told her to start her own "anti-English teacher blog" but she decided she didn't feel like it- afterall- if you knew my sister, she'd much rather just be watching TV and eating chips- while she complains about how dumb the teachers are on TV- and then compares them with her teachers in school!
Hundreds of years ago, before the evil existed was a group of people more commonly known as "the losers." They were incapable of doing anything with there lives; they lacked in logic, creativity and in memorization skills and were therefore unable to have any jobs. They decided to make a convention which they called "The Loser Convention."
The convention was established. Together they decided that they needed to think of a way to manipulate society into thinking "The Losers" were valuable members. They came up with a curriculum on analyzing literature in terms of symbolism and characterization and all other forms of brainless activity. They called this curriculum language arts.
The question was, how would they get society to believe such a load of baloney? They thought about it and came up with the "Big Lie Technique." These losers used the idea of "persistence" to get what they wanted; they were constantly annoying people with their loser stupid ideas, and after a while, their ideas started gaining acceptance and "language arts" became a new subject in the towns curriculum. Over the years this subject was more and more accepted and eventually became a mandatory class in all schools. Sadly many people were lost to this horrible conspiracy.
I thought I'd let you in on the secret, these "losers" are our modern day English teachers. I thought it was only fair to warn you, that you should not believe all the trash English teachers tell you. If an author describes a hill as "smokey" it is probably because he felt like it. He's an author and he's entitled to write whatever the hell he wants. If he wanted the town to be smokey, its because he wanted it to be smokey. It's a rather clear concept.
When teaching Dickens, it is obvious that English teachers forget that he was paid per WORD. So when he describes a scene, there most likely isn't any symbolism, or any clear, specific images he was trying to portray. HE WAS TRYING TO GET CASH!! -especially in his later works for example Great Expectations-
When teachers discuss why Dickens created that atmosphere or why he made that certain scene lengthy its not because there is a meaning behind it, but is because he had other motives-CASH!
So next time you hear about someone saying..."OMG I'm so good in English" you know that they really mean "OMG I suck at everything! :-( I guess i must fall back on this loser-ish pile of garbage known as language arts".
(The loser convention was later changed to the ELA part of the board of education- and if you ask any English teacher, how much you wanna bet they won't tell you that the subject was started by a bunch of losers with no skills who decided to manipulate people into believing in their retarded cause).
Hundreds of years ago, before the evil existed was a group of people more commonly known as "the losers." They were incapable of doing anything with there lives; they lacked in logic, creativity and in memorization skills and were therefore unable to have any jobs. They decided to make a convention which they called "The Loser Convention."
The convention was established. Together they decided that they needed to think of a way to manipulate society into thinking "The Losers" were valuable members. They came up with a curriculum on analyzing literature in terms of symbolism and characterization and all other forms of brainless activity. They called this curriculum language arts.
The question was, how would they get society to believe such a load of baloney? They thought about it and came up with the "Big Lie Technique." These losers used the idea of "persistence" to get what they wanted; they were constantly annoying people with their loser stupid ideas, and after a while, their ideas started gaining acceptance and "language arts" became a new subject in the towns curriculum. Over the years this subject was more and more accepted and eventually became a mandatory class in all schools. Sadly many people were lost to this horrible conspiracy.
I thought I'd let you in on the secret, these "losers" are our modern day English teachers. I thought it was only fair to warn you, that you should not believe all the trash English teachers tell you. If an author describes a hill as "smokey" it is probably because he felt like it. He's an author and he's entitled to write whatever the hell he wants. If he wanted the town to be smokey, its because he wanted it to be smokey. It's a rather clear concept.
When teaching Dickens, it is obvious that English teachers forget that he was paid per WORD. So when he describes a scene, there most likely isn't any symbolism, or any clear, specific images he was trying to portray. HE WAS TRYING TO GET CASH!! -especially in his later works for example Great Expectations-
When teachers discuss why Dickens created that atmosphere or why he made that certain scene lengthy its not because there is a meaning behind it, but is because he had other motives-CASH!
So next time you hear about someone saying..."OMG I'm so good in English" you know that they really mean "OMG I suck at everything! :-( I guess i must fall back on this loser-ish pile of garbage known as language arts".
(The loser convention was later changed to the ELA part of the board of education- and if you ask any English teacher, how much you wanna bet they won't tell you that the subject was started by a bunch of losers with no skills who decided to manipulate people into believing in their retarded cause).
Monday, May 19, 2008
Bison
Frum people never fail to amaze me. A few weeks ago my family was at someones house for shabbos. These people are the "typical" frummy BY/Yeshivishe types. Anyway, they were discussing Bison meat, which is now all the rage. Its leaner and apparently the original meat of America (or whatever that commercial says). So these people tell my mom "OMG! you should go and try bison at restuarant (don't remember the name), it's amazing."
My mom goes "really, I never tried Bison, what do they do with it at restuarant?"
They're like "Chilli"
Wow! OMG...as if that isn't the BEST way for someone to try a NEW meat, but to eat it in a chili...brilliant frum people.
I couldn't resist telling this story. I have finals now, so I thought of something short to post.
Gotta love 'em frum people. Their logic is absolutely flawless, and the mastercard commercial should say something like:
"Bison meat for chulent- $8"
"A variety of Kugel- $15"
" Listening to people rave about how they loved bison (by eating it in your chulent)- Priceless"
My mom goes "really, I never tried Bison, what do they do with it at restuarant?"
They're like "Chilli"
Wow! OMG...as if that isn't the BEST way for someone to try a NEW meat, but to eat it in a chili...brilliant frum people.
I couldn't resist telling this story. I have finals now, so I thought of something short to post.
Gotta love 'em frum people. Their logic is absolutely flawless, and the mastercard commercial should say something like:
"Bison meat for chulent- $8"
"A variety of Kugel- $15"
" Listening to people rave about how they loved bison (by eating it in your chulent)- Priceless"
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Forbes article
This is the Forbes article I had mentioned to The Babysitter in response to one of her comments on my "From the modern person's perspective..."
This isn't exactly what she mentioned, as in this doesn't discuss sweatshops nor does the article discuss Wal-Mart, but it does discuss the fact that child-labor is something we cannot rid, and that the US is trying to find ways to protect kids.
I don't know if I read it in this article, but I read somewhere that if the Indian's or Mexicans, or other 3rd world-country citizens would be paid the same wages as we were, it would be as if we're sending kids to the candy shop with a credit card..they wouldn't be able to handle it. They have a certain standard of living.
Anyway, I am looking for a paper I wrote on wal-mart, I also mentioned it, to post how wal-mart is not that bad.
This isn't exactly what she mentioned, as in this doesn't discuss sweatshops nor does the article discuss Wal-Mart, but it does discuss the fact that child-labor is something we cannot rid, and that the US is trying to find ways to protect kids.
I don't know if I read it in this article, but I read somewhere that if the Indian's or Mexicans, or other 3rd world-country citizens would be paid the same wages as we were, it would be as if we're sending kids to the candy shop with a credit card..they wouldn't be able to handle it. They have a certain standard of living.
Anyway, I am looking for a paper I wrote on wal-mart, I also mentioned it, to post how wal-mart is not that bad.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
From the modern person's perspective...
You know how frummies constantly bash things not-so-frummy people do, or rather not do? Like when they say "Well, they eat gebrakts" with this disgusted look, as if you're on the level of a convicted criminal. Well, its about time (well, actually lately its been a norm) that frummies are actually the criminals.
Today I received a call from a family friend who is frum. She wanted to know if I heard about what happened at the Rubashkin plant in Iowa, after I told her I didn't she was like "well, this is blog material for you, and she told me all about the occurrence.
So anyway, I would just like to say how disgusting that is. It is so wrong that these frum Jews are probably the typical "holier-than-thou" type when it comes to Jewish law, but when it comes to the "law of the land" thing, which is also very important, they don't care. They tend to ignore the fact that its a huge chillul hashem to hire so many illegal immigrants, and help them hide their illegal status, by using fraudulent social security numbers.
Hmm...lemme play their game.. It isn't that girls dress untzniously that causes terrorist attacks, but rather its the ridiculous amount of cases that have been coming up lately which reflect very badly on the Jewish community (ie sex solicitation, money embezzelment, molestation by Rabbi's)... well...that kind of speaks out alot more than if the girl dresses untzniously, and it sure
bothers alot more people.
So while I do not believe that we really know anything about why there are terrorist attacks in Israel, I think its "fun" (for lack of a better not-so convoluted word) to blame frummies for once for causing the terrorist attacks!
Today I received a call from a family friend who is frum. She wanted to know if I heard about what happened at the Rubashkin plant in Iowa, after I told her I didn't she was like "well, this is blog material for you, and she told me all about the occurrence.
So anyway, I would just like to say how disgusting that is. It is so wrong that these frum Jews are probably the typical "holier-than-thou" type when it comes to Jewish law, but when it comes to the "law of the land" thing, which is also very important, they don't care. They tend to ignore the fact that its a huge chillul hashem to hire so many illegal immigrants, and help them hide their illegal status, by using fraudulent social security numbers.
Hmm...lemme play their game.. It isn't that girls dress untzniously that causes terrorist attacks, but rather its the ridiculous amount of cases that have been coming up lately which reflect very badly on the Jewish community (ie sex solicitation, money embezzelment, molestation by Rabbi's)... well...that kind of speaks out alot more than if the girl dresses untzniously, and it sure
bothers alot more people.
So while I do not believe that we really know anything about why there are terrorist attacks in Israel, I think its "fun" (for lack of a better not-so convoluted word) to blame frummies for once for causing the terrorist attacks!
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