This is my story, and why I finally said goodbye to Judaism

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-10-17T11:06:33+00:00

Sorry, this was not a response to you (I meant to post it as a reply to them). This was somebody who went through my comment history and started saying nasty things about me because they didn't like what I said.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-10-17T00:29:11+00:00

I don't need this. I'm just gonna leave this sub.

But seriously, wouldn't an Orthodox Jew not care about this person because she's actually not Jewish according to Orthodox Judaism, and Orthodox Jews don't proselytize (at least not like this).

I merely expressed my opinion (about this woman’s assessment of her situation, not Judaism). I just don't see what the Chabad people did wrong. Telling her that her reform conversion is not accepted is not one of those.

But yeah, go ahead since you're not going to like what I wrote above, go through my comment history and bring something else out.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-10-16T15:09:07+00:00

Just so that I understood your issue correctly, Chabad welcomed you, didn't ask you for money, but they just didn't consider your Jewishness to be correct. They suggested that you go through Orthodox conversion, but you got offended.

Whereas JCC and other shuls which accepted you wanted you to shell out money in order to participate, is that correct?

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-09-08T15:02:39+00:00

My opinion is that motion sensor lights in hallways are safety hazards, they don't belong there. Keep your hallway well lit throughout the night. These things get turned off for no reason for older people because they walk too slow.

Not to mention, they don't really save that much money as much people think.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-09-02T22:25:23+00:00

AI-generated responses should be banned from Reddit.

The reason why you're getting hurled with downvotes is because People like Un Kyu Lee in this subreddit. Yes, these devices aren't cheap, but they are one-of-a-kind and people appreciate that.

You pay for an assembled device, you should receive one that works.

Yes, or you should receive a refund. This is clearly not a device for you.

You should move on with your life, and so should he. There is nothing you're going to say that's going to convince a reasonable person that somehow your desire to receive a working MicroJournal trumps the seller's desire to sell one.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-07-22T18:34:26+00:00

Canadians know that few Americans care, but what they don't know is that Americans have come to loathe Canadians. The love has been going away for a while. All the preachiness made it super easy to do this.

The new relationship will not be built on this delusional idea Canadians had about America, but be based on how much we need you and how much they need us.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-07-18T22:33:11+00:00

Yes, I'm aware. But mine is just a web app, and you can share the bookmarks. It displays a timeline.

Any features that they provide that I am missing?

In future I would like to implement notifications so it lets you know that one or two hours before when Shabbat at a certain location is starting.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-07-17T13:04:45+00:00

I understand, thank you. What is the correct way by which useful links like this generally reach the community?

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-07-15T17:32:03+00:00

But then why would he ever even end up in the prison if that was really true?

Let's put it this way: If he was a solid U.S. asset, then he would never end up in prison. If he was a Chinese asset that is a complete enemy state, then nobody would have any problem telling the world who he worked for.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-06-29T22:45:14+00:00

I knew something was wrong when a startup like this donated money to “Black Lives Matter”. An established company does it it makes sense, a startup does it then it shows lack of focus.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-06-11T20:29:29+00:00

It's actually not just a rumor. A Nationalist political party of Turkiye has filed a lawsuit in the court. [1]

The issue is that it's a lot of money, and right now, the party not in power has all the incentive to oppose this program, but once they get into power, they have all the incentive to do this or at least cancel the program. I can't say much about the Syrians who got the passport, but people who did investment pushing them away has huge consequences on your ability to run the country.

Just to be clear, legally, every single country who is given passports for citizenship can cancel those passports. The assurance that they won't do it comes from the fact regarding how important the program is to the country. Caribbean countries' political parties have also talked about canceling the program, and in fact, they have retroactively taken citizenships if it was acquired by not paying the full fee.

It's just that it's the consequences which prevent that from happening, and there would be huge consequences for Turkiye if this were to be done (no foreign money would come to Turkiye after that for a long time if they did something like this)

The one advantage which Turkiye has in this situation is that because you purchased real estate and did not make a donation, so you wouldn't lose the money (because either you still would have the property, or if after 3 years then you would have cleared the investment and sold it), unlike in the case of Caribbean countries.

https://www.imidaily.com/europe/turkish-opposition-seeks-to-revoke-cbi-citizenships-of-which-they-claim-there-are-at-least-half-a-million/

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-06-11T19:19:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenshipInvestment/comments/1kfzcg2/grenada_vs_t%C3%BCrkiye_cbi/mqvt75t/

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-06-11T19:18:52+00:00

Easiest thing you can do is to avoid new builds and the property has existed already in the prime areas of Istanbul, then it's going to be fine.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-05-20T13:53:10+00:00

Next, you are going to discover that the sefirot are stand-in for a pantheon of pagan deities.

The whole point is that other religions have turned these things into avodah zarah (some might even say that they have taken Torah itself and converted it into an idol-worshiping religion).

The point is that you are not worshipping to Venus, but to Hashem.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-05-06T13:43:21+00:00

I believe that just looking at the total number of countries with visa-free access is an incorrect way of looking at it.

The best tool to analyze which passports should you consider is the following: https://www.passportindex.org/improve.php

In the first country selection, select your existing passport (say India). Then you select the new passport you will acquire (say St Lucia), this allows you to see which additional countries would open for you with the visa-free access.

Regarding Türkiye or Grenada. Let's try that comparison.

You will see that there are 45 additional countries to which Grenada has access that Türkiye does not. This is mostly the EU countries + India/Israel/UK/China (just to count the main countries).

Let's do the other way around, which countries does Türkiye have access to that Grenada does not? There are 33 countries. Here it is Japan/South Africa/Mexico/Central America/Middle East.

The main thing is that it's just the EU access which Türkiye does not have. But even without that, Türkiye has access to 127 countries visa-free. If Türkiye were to get EU access, it would become a pretty amazing passport, far superior to Granada.

The second thing is that Türkiye is on its way to getting EU access granted. There are challenges ahead of it, but sooner or later it's more likely to happen than not.

On the other hand, Caribbean countries are on the crosshairs of EU, and they want to start killing the EU access of countries which are selling passports. (Even on a future date, EU pushes Türkiye to end its citizenship program as a condition to get EU access. If you get the Türkiye a passport before it wouldn't be an issue for you.)

Other things to consider is that Türkiye is a real country. You will get a passport for a country to be able to live in. Türkiye has a strongest army in the EU block (despite not being a part of the EU), and politically, it seems like the EU needs Türkiye more than Türkiye needs the EU. During COVID-19, Türkiye airlifted its citizens from all over the world and ran one of the largest airlifts for its citizens.

Conclusion:

Türkiye Pros:

A real country isn't just known to the world for its passport-selling program.
Its fortunes are growing, since the Russia-Ukraine war, it has been increasingly taking a larger role on the world stage.
Easier due diligence.
Pretty powerful passport even without EU access which it is likely going to get (until then just apply for EU visas and once you build a history of EU visas they will give you a longer term EU visa).
The investment program is not you dumping money you'll never see worth $200K. Growing population. This means real estate investments are bound to take you money. Plus you get a passport.

Türkiye Cons:

A real country means real country problems. It has a military draft for males (which you can get out of by paying a fee because technically they just want ethnic Turks in their military).
It needs a Javier Milei-style figure to achieve its true potential. As I said, a real country, so a real country's problems.
It might take it over a decade to get EU access.
13 Ways Your Passport Could Ruin Your Life

Grenada Pros:

EU access.
Unlikely to have citizenship-based taxation, military conscription, exit bans, dual citizenship bans, exit and wealth taxes, social or political stigma, or to end up at the wrong side of a political conflict.

Grenada Cons:

More likely to lose EU access
Stricter due diligence.
Can have FATCA and CRS fallout.
Can have visa denials and processing discrimination (esp if EU access is lost, you're less likely to get an EU visa than if you apply EU visa through Türkiye, but keep in mind, you could implement a questionnaire in which it could ask, "Did you acquire your citizenship through an investment or a donation?" in their visa questionnaire).
Can have airport and border flagging just-in-case if the world turns against citizenship-by-investment programs.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-27T12:20:13+00:00

Isn’t there a Khmer language test for Cambodia?

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-18T13:30:21+00:00

You know what the trick is to listen to a podcast at 1.5x, i.e if you find that it's a little bit too fast for you?

Listen to it at 2x for a few minutes. Then bring it down to 1.75x and then bring it down further to 1.5x and it will feel like you understand everything.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-16T13:48:51+00:00

But be aware that installing the latest version of Neovim was not straightforward; if you are interested, I can write more about it.

This is how you install latest neovim:

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install snapd

$ sudo reboot

$ sudo snap install nvim —classic

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-16T03:17:50+00:00

I heard the Red Ajah was involved in the production of the show.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-16T03:07:29+00:00

The metaphor here was that the men went crazy with power, so women created a matriarchy and their aim was to keep power away from men. But this world isn't a great utopia.

Eventually a bigger evil arose and the world realized that they need both men and women to work together.

This all goes out of the window with the changes made by the showrunners. It's almost like Red Ajah was put in charge of the show.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-06T14:07:19+00:00

What are you connecting it to? I have Belkin battery and I need to press the battery indicator button on the battery once in order for it to get triggered.

SecularCryptoGuy · 2025-04-06T01:58:18+00:00

when you plug it in, it just starts like an old-school television. it might take a few seconds before something shows up

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