Israel/Palestine thread

Israel/Palestine thread

Think this merits its own thread...

Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..

AM YISRAEL CHAI.

[QUOTE=Crossnerd]

07 October 2023 at 09:33 PM
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by metsandfinsfan

The mishna was written between 0 and 200 ce. As i said it is interpreting the torah and "deciding" what is mean in the torah and there are whole books of the sanhedron dedicated to capital punishment

I wasn't arguing with you fwiw. I just thought it would be unlikely that washoe know what you meant with "Talmud".


by Trolly McTrollson

I learned this back in primary school, FWIW.

Lucky you having all those religious lessons at an early age.


by chezlaw

We're certainly the biggest threat to your idea of what western society should be

Except maybe yourselves.

You are the conservatives here lol


All the Jewish kids I knew just knew where to get the really good weed. What are the Jewish values I missed out on?


by jalfrezi

That's not how the law works except in your feverishly fascistic imagination.

depending on the country, you can cut off your adult children completly when they are 18, and only give them money if they do exactly what you ask from them.

Now as for taxpayers, you can put a lot of rules if you want (including behavioral ones if they want to keep getting free or subsidized college), like you know welfare is sometimes linked to work requirements, drug-free requirements and so on. Not unusual at all.


by metsandfinsfan

University require IDs. The students not part of the mob shouldn't have to be intimidated by outsiders regardless of their age

100%

But that was hard to argue 5 years ago, it's near impossible in the post-covid era

In italy it was always illegal to cover your face in full, after some problems in ERs (violence toward physicians because of long waiting times) we had both "mandatory mask" and "illegal to cover your face here" signs in ERs (really).


by jalfrezi

So no make up? I see your latest policy is as well thought through as most of its predecessors.

cover your face man, cover your face. Make up such as you are unrecognizable? no.

We had to give special rules to Venice for carnival to allow masked people to go around legally, we are a country which had enough terrorism and mafia killing with covered faces to keep it illegal (unless otherwise dispensed) to be irrecognizable in public.

VERY basic security law.


by corpus vile

You can't do that any more than you can make it illegal to wear hats or have beards.

we do in italy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_...

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Italy
In Italy, a law issued in 1975 strictly forbids wearing of any attire that could hide the face of a person. Penalties (fines and imprisonment) are provided for such behaviour. The original purpose of the anti-mask law was to prevent crime or terrorism. The law allows for exemptions for a "justified cause", which has sometimes been interpreted by courts as including religious reasons for wearing a veil, but others –including local governments– disagree and claim religion is not a "justified cause" in this context

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by Crossnerd

Extrapolating on this thesis leads to some truly deranged scenarios

such as people actually being really, really motivated to be financially self sufficient? regarding being parasites as something they have the utmost moral imperative to stop being the instant they can?


by Crossnerd

For all the race traitor talk being levied itt, Mets doesn’t embody *any* of the Jewish values my Jewish in-laws taught me when I joined their family 20+ years ago. Just for the record.

it's as if jews aren't all the same, incredible uh? vaguely related ethnic groups with vaguely common religious values with various different interpretations aren't a monolith


by microbet

I think this is a learning moment. I suspect washoe and probably a lot of Gentiles don't even know that the Torah is the first 5 books of the Bible.

also called the pentateuch and also fully part of the ... christian bible?


by microbet

rafiki is right. Jews can be *******s too. And it's kind of a low bar. Your friends and family don't have to be that extraordinary to clear it.

I’m comfortable saying that “Kill ‘em all bibi” is not aligned with any Jewish values with which I’m familiar


by Luckbox Inc

All the Jewish kids I knew just knew where to get the really good weed. What are the Jewish values I missed out on?

On Purim adults are supposed to get intoxicated until you can't tell the difference between good and evil because in some kind of cosmic buddhist way it's all part of the same thing or something. When I lived at Chabad most of the Orthodox men were dancing around with bottles of vodka, but some of the younger men were doing acid.


by Crossnerd

I’m comfortable saying that “Kill ‘em all bibi” is not aligned with any Jewish values with which I’m familiar

"Kill 'em all Dubya" is not aligned with any Christian values with which I’m familiar.


by Luciom

also called the pentateuch and also fully part of the ... christian bible?

Yes. The Torah is the Old Testament. Basically anyway. I've never been religious, just spent time around religious people/picked things up. I was just thinking some people who know the Christian Bible might have thought the Torah was something different.


by metsandfinsfan

It's also a pretty bad quality to talk about someone you despise and is ignoring you but hey do you

You have a delightful imagination. This is just how normal adults behave in large groups. There’s no special safe space for emotionally immature passive aggressive old men with brain worms.


Hardly anyone percentage wise really honestly believes in the full set of their religious values.


by jalfrezi

"Kill 'em all Dubya" is not aligned with any Christian values with which I’m familiar.

Yeah, that’s kinda demonstrative of how most “religious” people are just bigots dressed up as sky man worshipers


by Crossnerd

I’m comfortable saying that “Kill ‘em all bibi” is not aligned with any Jewish values with which I’m familiar

You just need to frame them as a direct threat to you and you are good to go in judaism.



by jalfrezi

Hardly anyone percentage wise really honestly believes in the full set of their religious values.

They do it's just not the value you think their religion "should" include.

Within any major religion you have enough variants you can find one that accepts your preferences, within a wide range. That's how they get and stay big btw


by Luciom

it's as if jews aren't all the same, incredible uh? vaguely related ethnic groups with vaguely common religious values with various different interpretations aren't a monolith

Clearly. If I thought Mets was representative of every Jew, for example, that would be problematic.


by Luciom

They do it's just not the value you think their religion "should" include.

Within any major religion you have enough variants you can find one that accepts your preferences, within a wide range. That's how they get and stay big btw

Jews do have a lot of variance/variation especially as there is no central Church. But, we don't get or stay big because we don't proselytize. For conversion, Orthodox anyway, you get turned away three times before being allowed to begin the process. The Druze make us look like Catholics though.


by microbet

Yes. The Torah is the Old Testament. Basically anyway. I've never been religious, just spent time around religious people/picked things up. I was just thinking some people who know the Christian Bible might have thought the Torah was something different.

Well parts of it are very different in interpretation. The king james interprets many things differently than the tanach

The virgin birth is a good example. King james version mentions the messiah coming from a virgin mother, a jewish Bible translation would say a young woman

Some of this is due to the lack of vowels in the Torah, so the word can be several different words. Some has to do with the king james Bible being interpreted from the Greek translation of the torah. And some because the Hebrew is interpreted in a way that makes sense for whatever belief system you are teaching


by microbet

Jews do have a lot of variance/variation especially as there is no central Church. But, we don't get or stay big because we don't proselytize. For conversion, Orthodox anyway, you get turned away three times before being allowed to begin the process. The Druze make us look like Catholics though.

That's supposedly what Romans had to do when offered the crown


by microbet

Jews do have a lot of variance/variation especially as there is no central Church. But, we don't get or stay big because we don't proselytize. For conversion, Orthodox anyway, you get turned away three times before being allowed to begin the process. The Druze make us look like Catholics though.

There is variance between sects but each sect does pretty much do the same everywhere

Reform, conservative, and Orthodox each do have a Us authority to Change rules

A good example is kinyot. For thousands of years both Orthodox and conservative jews would not eat rice or beans on passover .. for really no good Torah reason. In 2016 the conservative committee on Jewish Laws and Standards decided that it is okay for conservative jews to eat kinyot on passover.

Sephardic Jews always allowed it, even the Orthodox. I love the way Sephardic Jews interpret the Torah in general

But i digress

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