TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 4y ago
>Molokai I hope I'm not misunderstanding, but this is the last book in the books of the prophets, Malachi? >That's the last book of Talmud, right? The Talmud is not the old testament, and isn't even written in Hebrew, b
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I never found many of them particularly meaningful, and my community doesn't accept homosexuality at all. I still keep the parts I like, and I live in a orthodox-left community (if you know the school Ramaz or Frisch in New York, my fr
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
There's a lot of prejudgements based off of very little knowledge that goes on. I remember a comment section in a YouTube video about the eruv in New York where all the comments were either like "interesting do you know [innocent
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I didn't realize it had that connotation for some people, I'll be more careful about that in the future.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Many people in this thread are assuming that the site can be used for "open-forum" discussions like most other social media sites, with whomever replying to whomever, when in fact it's more like a public 1-on-1 discussion boa
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Whenever I see something about the Talmud in gentile-dominated spaces I tense up a bit. I'm not orthodox anymore, but I was orthodox for the first 20-odd years of my life so I'm in the unique position of being around a lot of gent
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Pirates don't pay media companies to produce media
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Pirated content doesn't need ads because they steal the work of people who do.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I have given it some thought, but I don't really know of any communities of reform Jews, my impression is that reform Jews are less community oriented than modern orthodox communities. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just d
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I don't know how to reconcile them, and it's something I've been struggling to do for quite a while. Even when I was younger I didn't really believe, so going through the motions of spiritual practices I don't find
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's for sure true, and I'm also not sure if everything I want from a community is present elsewhere, at least all in one place. Anyway, it's hard to find a new community to live in when I'm still in college and don&#x
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
18fourty is a great podcast, I actually personally know the anonymous interviewee.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's a great source, thank you so much. And yes, it is, lol.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Spirit doesn't necessarily mean God.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Atheism is not spiritual and to conflate the two is foolish. Not necessarily, obviously, but there are spiritual atheists, and if OP asks "what are your spiritual practices" then "I have none" is a valid answer. >
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I'm a religious Jew, in a bit of a crisis of faith. I still pray three times a day, I still make shabbat and observe holidays, I even still learn Torah even though I don't really believe in it anymore, because I find being well re
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Is 20 minutes supposed to be long or short? Without a minyan it usually takes me about 10-15 minutes and I'm faster than average.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
45 minutes? That's a long shachrit.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Name and cite a single Christian source from before 1600 which believes the Bible is a flawed text which contains errors.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The solution is to differentiate between 2*x and 2x. / would have higher priority than *, but lower priority than conjunction
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I feel like that was a plot point in Ubik as well.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>and off goes the profit of x2 speed I'm unconvinced. Is it better to listen to something once at 1x speed or twice at 2x speed?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
There's an Ashkenazi Jewish dish called Gefilte fish that's a fish sausage. I doubt it's uniquely Jewish, so it's definitely a thing.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
GP didn't mean Democrats as in the party, but rather Democrats as in the people in charge under a democracy, i.e. Democrats as opposed to Oligarchs
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Subscriptions are basically that. A curated feed of only creators you're interested in.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Do you recognize that this is subjective? YouTube is way better than TV, imo.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I would be very, very surprised if this sort of subliminal effect was strong enough to make advertising worth it.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
A zombie has no thoughts, that's the point.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Dark Matter and Dark Energy are just catchall terms for "the force that causes more gravitation than we'd expect" and "the force that causes the universe to accelerate in expansion" respectively. Those two phenomena
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>such a mechanism could not appear in any environment where ATP and the other nucleotides did not already exist. What evidence is there that this is true

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