Comments on: Non-Shomeret Jewish Woman Pulls off an Amazing Feat!

By: Ziva Lehava

Ziva Lehava — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:25:30 +0000

Oh, I enjoyed the post and comments—-it is more the idea of reading them all at one go and having some disparate views warring in my head!

By: ck

ck — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:14:08 +0000

It’s not a spoof so much. I think grandmuffti was actually trying to make a valid point. So don’t feel so bad about reading all 73 comments.

By: Ziva Lehava

Ziva Lehava — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:20:34 +0000

Wow. Ok. Wow. Note to self: do not read all 73 comments at one go when the original blog/post is a spoof.

By: shtreimel

shtreimel — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:09:57 +0000

Yeah, but Shtriemel’s are furry, fuzzy and warm. Strudel’s are sticky.

By: T_M

T_M — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:40:13 +0000

I don’t find your comments preachy, Shtreimel. And I do believe personal experience stands for something. But there’s no question that people would take your comments more lightly if you were called Strudel.

By: shtreimel

shtreimel — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:10:20 +0000

“Just because it worked for you (and didn’t for you mom’s friend) doesn’t mean it’s applicable to everyone.”

Ah, but that’s where you’re mistaken. But the whole post-modern/it’s all relative thing has been beaten to death. So we’ll leave it at that. But I hear ya about the preachy thing, it would annoy the f out of me as well.

By: patty-cake

patty-cake — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:03:45 +0000

Hey shtreimel (though I must say you are obviously mistaken – your name should really be strudel), I’m sorry you feel like everyone is ganging up on you (or maybe that’s just the way I see it). Thing is, it’s kind of anoying seeing someone try to apply his personal values on everyone else. Just because it worked for you (and didn’t for you mom’s friend) doesn’t mean it’s applicable to everyone. And you know what they say: the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know anything. Oh and ck, sweetie, whatever your dad wants is fine he’s a cutie too

By: shtreimel

shtreimel — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:35:04 +0000

GM:
“though he gets a little flustered when he sees someone be rude to Tiff”
Ohhhhhhh…all of that huffing and puffing was to save a damsel in distress. It all makes sense now.

Grace:
Thanks for the kind words. It’s funny how people discount the “both sides of the fence arguement as being poo poo and silly”. There’s space for both logic and intuition. Personally, I prefer intuition to make judgements about personal and creative matters . I leave logic for driving and figuring out how to wire a MIDI keyboard into my soundcard.

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:16:46 +0000

Shtreimel, do you have any male children around the age of 2 or 3? I have a daughter who will be looking for a shidduch in about 18 years or so, and you sound like you’d be an awesome dad and inlaw.

I have nothing more to add, except that I’ve lived on both sides of the fence, and I’m with Shtreimel!

By: Grandmuffti

Grandmuffti — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:05:33 +0000

Muffti worships neither logic nor reason; he just thinks that they are useful cognitive tools. And he doesn’t take anything here personally, though he gets a little flustered when he sees someone be rude to Tiff (no matter how rude she was to him). Even if he did worship reason and logic, there is no reason why those should prevent him from taking things seriously. As Hume said:

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Argument by authority? Yes. But what a great authoritah.