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Lately I've been watching Farscape on netflix (on season 2) and the last few episodes of Dollhouse on hulu as they come out. Joss Whedon's always getting the short end of the stick. Watching Heroes as well and disappointed so far with the new episodes.

I mean it more psychologically: we're a product of our environment and our genes, nature and nurture. We're complex organic machines who act according to our programming and collected data. Rather than making choices, we compute the data that we have available. That's circular reasoning. It's...

Wouldn't that be malchei hamlachim or king (of) kings? I'm more tempted to think that all three texts are interrelated without assigning too many specific influences, although I do think that some passages in the Torah are probably later than and responding to the code of Hammurabi. That's...

There's a really awesome illustrated guide to trolls that I posted some time ago. I don't remember the URL.

CZ I appreciate that there has been some confusion in our interaction, wherever the gap may have been. It helps me to find clearer language for what I mean to say. I'm drawing a distinction between beliefs leading or causing us to act and our making choices that would demonstrate free will...

CZ, I don't think you quite follow my reasoning. Our beliefs lead us to act one way or another. If we believe that the experience of free will reflects what is then we will act in certain ways and not in other ways. If we had recourse to saying "I have no control over my actions" we wouldn't...

I think free will is an illusion but an important one. It allows for notions like accountability which in turn influence our actions.

I've watched every episode of Chuck til now. I think they're kinda jumping the shark in the upcoming season.

My avatar synopsis: SPOILZ Once upon a time the evil white male industrialists and white army men destroyed earth. Then they moved onto some other planet inhabited by peace loving natives who were in touch with the planet who acted like some stereotypical indigenous tribe on earth, but most of...

Liberal translation and interpretation: Amazon.com: Ethics of the Sages: Pirke Avot (Skylight Illuminations) (9781594732072): Rabbi Rami Shapiro: Books There's an ebook format as well. also see: My Jewish Learning: Pirkei Avot: Ethics of Our Fathers

I liek tofu!

Nopes. Sorry. :/

I dunno what yer talking about. ???

I saw Avatar. I enjoyed it but the only thing groundbreaking was the special effects. The story was tired, the characters 2-dimensional. I enjoyed picking up on some of the allusions in the film to religion. Some of them were a bit obscure. I saw Young Victoria. As a period romantic film it...

FS, I've seen that site before. I think it's pretty cool. Avi, Thanks. I am very happy about the progress that I've made. I think I learn languages better when I do so quickly and with an emphasis on grammar. I've gained more over the last few weeks than I did from a semester of ulpan. -- Dauer

Sadly, yes.

I like Dollhouse.

Hello all. I thought this might be of interest to some other people on this site. I've been teaching myself Biblical Hebrew using The First Hebrew Primer. It's an excellent introduction intended for adults. Before the 30 chapters are up you're working directly with the Hebrew text. It teaches...

That is wrong for a few reasons. As shawn says, Judaism accepts converts. The converts are equally Jewish (in some communities there are contrasting attitudes about converts but those aren't attitudes based on Jewish law). Secondly, there's a principle, dina d'malchuta dina or "the law of the...

NA, I'm aware of all of that and don't really think it matters. I don't agree with their definition of what makes a Jew. I would consider the child's conversion valid. Even though I do believe in certain standards for conversion (not theirs) I would still recognize another person's conversion...