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About Me
- Am Kshe Oref - A Stiff-Necked People
- As I will tell people, I am a Halacha following Jew. Don't try to niche me. You won't be able to. Many have tried, all have failed. I created this blog to discuss the problems proliferating and dividing Klal Yisrael. And, it turns out, to discuss and write about other things too! Although, politics and Yiddishkeit seem to go hand-in-hand these days, don't they? My wife and I moved to the Midwest in June 2005 in search of a more affordable, yet still frum lifestyle. We have two beautiful children, a boy (2002) and a girl(2005).
Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture." Very Inspirational...
Dilbert!
ACHMED THE DEAD TERRORIST!!!
This is just SO darn funny, I want to keep it where everyone can see it!! :)
Orthodoxy Test
Left Wing Modern Orthodox: 78%
Right Wing Modern Orthodox: 89%
Left Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 37%
Right Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 4%
This means you're: Modern Orthodox
What does it mean?
Congratulations. You're Modern Orthodox all right, but wait! Just when you were ready to live an idyllic happily-labeled life they announce Left Wing and Right Wing Modern Orthodoxy. What the heck is up with that? Maybe you need to rethink and refine some of your positions, and then take the test again so I can put you in a little box.
See? I'm not such a Kofer after all!!! :)
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3 comments:
I really don't know what this proves, if anything. Scientists have debated this topic for ages, and just because someone of Hawking's caliber voices his opinion (bad choice of words, but you know what I mean) doesn't mean there's been any breakthrough in our knowledge of the subject. I do personally suspect there's something out there, but I have my doubts that anyone in our lifetime will even come close to finding it.
One more thing. I think, from some of Hawking's remarks, that he has a sly, very English sense of humor that goes over the heads of his interviewers. Maybe it's the American accent of his voice synthesizer that causes people to overlook it.
Eh. I just thought this was interesting. Personally, I think there's got to be SOMETHING out there, probably even something intelligent. After all, as they said in Contact, if there wasn't, it sure would be a huge waste of space...
I always was surprised by that statement in Contact, because it has theological overtones, and Carl Sagan didn't believe in God. I don't remember whether that statement appeared in the book, which I read a long time ago. I think the film Hollywoodized the story a bit by making it more religion-friendly.
A more scientific argument would be that it's unlikely that life just happened to arise on Earth and nowhere else. Then again, I'm not sure how scientific this argument really is. Since scientists still haven't unraveled the mystery of how life arose on Earth (or even if it arose on Earth), they have no way of calculating how likely or unlikely it was.
These discussions remind me of the old debates over the existence of God. People think their own arguments are virtually self-evident, but there simply isn't enough data to confirm or refute anyone's assumptions.
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