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*I* am the one who so "unwarrantedly personal"? Really? Now THAT is just too much! Let me play back some of the crap you posted to me last week and we'll just see who got "unwarrantedly personal": Taking everything you know about me into account--not just the one post or one part of a post...

BB, It's late and I can't answer your whole post now, except to agree with you and say YES, I would be pleased by that. Furthermore, I consider that one of the truly unique aspects of Judaism--its saving grace you might say. I mean exactly what you're saying there: the concept that the right...

Avi, I expressed my thoughts on chosen-ness about a month ago in a post on another forum. So far I've avoided linking to my other forum from IO, but I'm going to do it now to save myself some time. I'm still pretty satisfied with the way I expressed myself in that post, although it seems...

Saltmeister, Thanks for an excellent post. You just expressed my position better than I could have done. It isn't that I'm not capable of it, but I tend to get too angry and the anger interferes with my ability to express myself. I'll probably have more to say about specific points you...

CZ, Thanks...I just read the Admin. topic you linked to. I always thought you could say anything in a PM, but I guess that doesn't apply if the recipient takes offense and complains. Not that I blame C0de for taking offense. Tao really should know better than that, and the fact that he called...

CZ, I'm not familiar with scam.com, but I know what you mean about "some places" on the Internet! As much as I hate having notes pulled or censored, I think I'd rather put up with that than be subjected to the kind of hatred and abuse some of the more unbalanced posters on unmoderated or...

Avi, Are you serious? Did Tao really get banned? If so, what did he get banned for? --Linda

CZ, I think Avi peppers his posts with smilies when he's ragging on someone, which seems to happen pretty often. Just an educated guess anyway. Or maybe that's empath in me coming out again? --Linda

Now this is just plain WEIRD! I think I've got the most under-active root chakra in the country. I was not surprised at that. As for the rest of it...I'm not really sure what it means. --Linda Root: under-active (-56%) Sacral: over-active (63%) Navel: under-active (-44%) Heart: open (13%)...

Donna, Sorry about that! I don't like it when other people put words in my mouth, so I certainly would never want to do that with anyone else. But I was pretty upset and defensive yesterday, and I obviously DID put words in your mouth. If you want to tell me what your current attitude is...

That's an absolutely brilliant idea, Avi! You ALWAYS have an answer for everything!

Janz, Very well stated. I don't understand why we always have to look at such phenomena as your empathetic pregnancy symptoms (less common than high blood pressure) from a scientific POV either. I don't think the classic scientific method is very well suited to this kind of investigation...

Earl, I hope you don't kill her either! Your story makes me very grateful that I'm not a physical empath, although I have a strong tendency towards emotional empathy with people I'm close to. Physical empathy sounds like it can definitely be hazardous to your health! --Linda

BB, I read your Spitoon article. You'll be happy (I hope!) to know I totally agree with you when it comes to both Neturei Karta and the Christian Zionists. You didn't so much tell me anything I didn't know before about Neturei Karta as confirm and expand on what I already knew. I also have...

Avi, Just for the record, I don't reject the idea of a divine revelation out of hand. But whatever form it took, it obviously could not have been according to the traditional view, the one in which Moses wrote the five books of the Torah with his own hand...including the one that wasn't...

Avi, Aren't you being a little bit unrealistic, though? After all, you aren't going to find any one writer or teacher you agree with 100% about everything, as if that person's beliefs were custom-made for you. It's always a do-it-yourself project, so you take what you need from wherever you...

CZ, I've always called that stance "religion as fire insurance." And I agree with you that it's a dishonorable basis for one's faith...craven, in fact. --Linda

Avi, Not now...I'm kinda preoccupied here! :) But if I hang around you'll be sure to hear it all, although not all at one time and not necessarily in that order. But you know I can never keep my mouth shut about anything. :p Okay, one of 'em I can answer in two words: Reform/Renewal...

Chris, EXACTLY! I think that's what I was trying to say even if I didn't know it. It's pretty hard to see a belief in everlasting damnation (for other people outside of your own group, of course) as just one more innocuous preference, like a preference for chocolate ice cream over strawberry...

Avi, I meant that the issue with BB as to whether or not I have the right to call myself Jewish is more important, if I was going to fight with anyone on the board about anything. But I should have been putting my energy elsewhere at that time rather than fighting with anyone. B'shalom, Linda