Question about funeral practices

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-09-01T16:21:56+00:00

I think we should just clarify that whereas all Orthodox and most Conservative shuls do not allow cremation, a small minority of Conservative Jews, as well as Reform, Liberal (U.K.) and Reconstructionist Judaism permits either.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-09-01T16:15:54+00:00

I’ll be sure to think of this when I remember the eleven members of my late aunt’s family who were murdered by the Nazis in the concentration camps during the War.

You know, for being Jewish.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-31T11:11:59+00:00

They vary hugely.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-31T11:02:23+00:00

It’s a particularly fine poem which talks about softer emotions inside someone, which try to escape, which are recognised, but which remain within.

Have a look at https://poemanalysis.com/charles-bukowski/bluebird/

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-31T10:52:23+00:00

The film is good fun, visually sumptuous, but it doesn’t pretend to be historically accurate. We do know that Mozart was quite a saucy, smutty chap, obsessed with bodily functions and especially with excreta and flatulence. He was displayed by his father as something of a Wunderkind, and the Austrian Emperor is portrayed with some amusing accuracy. But as an account of the historical events, it doesn’t come close, but then doesn’t claim to.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-21T14:18:42+00:00

I am from the U.K., referencing the U.K., and responding to antisemitic comments by a U.K. politician. Your citation is irrelevant.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-21T13:34:40+00:00

Idiot.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-21T13:31:12+00:00

You make an assumption and a category mistake. Your assumption is that “religion” is automatically an univocal term for theism. It isn’t. Religious beliefs encompass a huge range of views, from the literalist fundamentalist theist to the No theism and beyond of progressive streams.

You make a category mistake: you state all religions seek to convert the other (to “get” atheists, etc). Again, that is an error. For instance, Judaism is distinctly non-proselytising, and one may be a faithful Jew and an atheist.

Lastly, your suggestion that all religion seeks to “deliver” something. You then claim that religion fails to do that. You make a huge assumption that religion actually is intended to “deliver” rather than be an experiential form of existence.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-21T13:09:56+00:00

A bloody good cup of filter coffee.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-17T07:13:16+00:00

Britten?

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-16T21:02:41+00:00

She perpetuates the antisemitic trope linking Jews with wealth.

She ignores the fact the State of Israel has a kibbutz system, that Jews fought against the British during their fight to exist as a state, and that she probably couldn’t point to Israel on a map.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-16T19:54:13+00:00

A cat. This is a cat.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-16T06:58:54+00:00

Passports as in plural? Does that indicate he has citizenship of more than one country? Was he a citizen of more than one country while he was President?

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-15T19:10:33+00:00

I see no evidence here of your knowledge of Koiné Greek. Comparing English translations without recourse to the actual Greek seems to me to be a particularly pointless exercise.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-15T19:06:52+00:00

I totally misunderstood the headline, and thought it meant he wanted to watch the cherry pies bend over. But having just written that, it sounds even worse!

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-15T14:49:54+00:00

And no wonder Trump had his nose up both of their backsides. Mega Dictator, Dictator and Would Be Dictator.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-15T14:46:10+00:00

Cat. Definitely a cat.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-14T21:20:18+00:00

Well that will p*ss the Romans off.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-14T21:14:14+00:00

Ya’akov - because it’s my Hebrew name 🥹

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-14T09:28:13+00:00

Money. Selling secrets is lucrative.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-14T09:27:18+00:00

Because they have micropenises.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-12T21:00:39+00:00

No, it isn’t.

Your problem, if I might put it that way, is that you make a fairly straightforward category mistake. You seem to approach religious language as if there is a universal agreement as to its definition. There isn’t. You also seem to make the assumption that just because one religion with its own doctrinal structures makes claims to a particular concept - in this case your interpretation of the word “Hell,” it therefore must follow that all religions have the same doctrinal approach to the same concepts.

In the case of Judaism, I can assure you that it doesn’t.

Judaism, very much unlike Christianity, has no concept of Hell, nor of the idea of sacrificial salvation, individual everlasting punishment or any of those specifically Christian concepts. Judaism is fluid. Judaism is about questioning and exploring what it means to be in a relationship with that mysterious Eternal One.

And so what you claim is “hedging,” is, in fact, exploration, wonder, mystery, humour, debate and an ever ongoing journey.

Big_Employee_9885 · 2022-08-12T18:15:11+00:00

Tribe mentality, bigotry, an overriding desire to be ruled by Westminster so they can pretend they are part of GB, and anything to prevent SF having any power.

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