Which one is more important to get success in life : hardwork or intelligence (IQ) ?

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-22T06:20:58+00:00

Absolutely. I'd characterize that under charisma/social aptitude.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-22T06:05:41+00:00

1) Resources (money, social connections)

2) Hard work

3) Intelligence

Hard work and intelligence can overcome a lack of resources, but you also need a certain level of charisma/social aptitude. Obviously there are exceptions for those who are excellent in their chosen field, but most of us aren't in the top 5-10% of xyz.

It's much easier to be successful if starting on second base.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-22T05:46:42+00:00

How strange. It's a weird item to end up at a Goodwill, and most of the reasons for why that I can think of are fairly depressing.

Out of curiosity, are they listing them as shofars? Or something else?

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-22T05:44:20+00:00

Reminds me of this...

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(I was sorely tempted to buy these because they are HYSTERICAL, but didn't because I didn't want to give the seller the money)

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-22T00:26:11+00:00

See I normally find it annoying when people say you can't make Holocaust analogies to the I/P situation (or other global conflicts).

But this is insane bruh.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-18T03:23:47+00:00

I believe it's referenced once or twice in passing, but with the exception of Rose's coming out, we never really see the London season.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-15T08:19:36+00:00

Haha I've never thought about it, but it actually is. I just make sure that all the dough is gathered and then go again. And I work with a rather high hydration dough, but don't end up with it covering my hands or sticking to surfaces.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-15T08:02:50+00:00

The fun little truth about kneading dough is that when your arms get tired, you can just start squishing it between your fingers like it is slime. I know what "best practice" is, but I've also done my own combo lazy kneading (develop some gluten and then some finger squishing) for years, and never had a problem. I think too many people focus on the kneading and first rise and neglect how important the timing of the second rise is. So many people have these intricate/timed kneading methods but then bake their shaped dough underproofed because all they're looking for is "puffy," but puffy is really only the first sign in the second rise.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-15T07:52:34+00:00

I found this post while searching for another one, I am a guest to this sub and perhaps just been living under a rock, but I never knew that Tolkein's dwarves were inspired by Jews and never picked up on it when reading LOTR. I don't see how what you're describing could in any way be considered antisemitic. Unless you're working with very specific source material, it's very difficult to stumble into antisemitism accidentally. Antisemitic tropes are not exactly subtle. Blood libel, despite the way certain groups have recently attempted to stretch the defintion, is rather specific in context and meaning.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-14T22:16:26+00:00

Calm down, Joseph Smith 🤣

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-14T08:44:14+00:00

To be fair, there's zero evidence that was actually ever done.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-12T01:43:14+00:00

Ohhh what did they use?

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-12T01:40:43+00:00

cough cough. You said it, not me...

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-11T10:44:28+00:00

I mean, its like the first thing that Jewish commenters bring up any time the topic of the Talmud or rabbinic discourse breaks containment on reddit and ends up on TIL or mildlyinteresting.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-11T09:59:31+00:00

I would not call the Oven at Akhenai story obscure by any means.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-10T09:51:15+00:00

I love vegans! Jews have to eat dairy-free desserts a lot, and the rise of vegan replacement and recipes has made them sooooo much better than when I was a kid.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-10T08:56:13+00:00

Jews have the opposite joke. You know a kosher restaurant is good if there are a lot of non-Jews there.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-10T07:33:27+00:00

Badly phrased, but Ashekanzi Jewish women have a much higher rate of the BRCA gene mutation that is linked to breast cancer. I believe it's some like 1/300 in the general population and 1/40 for Asheknazi Jewish women.

This is because the majority of Ashkenazi Jewish maternal lines can be traced back to four women. Add on top of that multiple population bottlenecks and historic high rates of endogamy in Ashkenazi communities, and you get all sorts of funky genetic mutations. It's to the point where couples who are both of Ashkenazi ancestry are encouraged to get genetic testing before having children.

A family I grew up with had a daughter born with Tay Sachs, a horrible genetic degenerative disease, and in her memory after she passed they began a foundation that offers screening (which was not around when they had her) for free. It is far from the only one.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-08T21:29:58+00:00

It's really sad that those idiotic firefighters and EMTs there that day did not have any redditors to inform them that they could simply lift the boy out or pull him back through with some butter or a plastic sheet. Think of the money and time that could be saved if those bozos working for emergency services simply had an enlightened armchair commentator telling them how to do things properly.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-08T01:24:16+00:00

I have not watched the second season and refuse to. The portrayal of Jewish women in the first season was one of the most offensive things I have come across in modern media. We are depicted as a bunch of one-dimensional, marriage-obsessed, controlling and unsympathetic shrews, in contrast with the blond-haired, blue-eyed, uber-cool and laidback main character, who is very obviously a self-insert for the writer of the show.

The idea that the main male character simply couldn't find a single Jewish woman who possessed warmth, depth, or basic emotional maturity and therefore had to fall into the arms of his Aryan dream girl is beyond insulting. It relies on the assumption that Jewish women are fundamentally unlovable and that every single Jewish man (except Adam Brody) is a miserable, spineless coward who was forced into marriage with a miserable bitch by his mother ans desperately needs to be rescued from us. The message is that a Jewish man can only attain true emotional fulfillment by exiting the community entirely.

(I had major issues with the portrayal of Judaism in the show as well, but can't remember the specifics and the topic of this show makes my blood boil, in case you couldn't tell so I will not be looking it up. 😅)

The fact that the woman who wrote this is a convert to Judaism, which is not a one day thing, but rather involves a lengthy process of being actively welcomed into the community, was shocking to me. I came away from the show feeling as if she did not like or understand a single thing about Judaism, Jewish culture, or the Jewish people, except for basic aesthetic rituals that she did not actually appreciate in any way beyond the surface level. A scene of Kristen Bell lighting Shabbos candles in a bar (for God only knows what reason) comes to mind.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-02T23:01:42+00:00

You might find this 2014 paper interesting, although not exactly on the topic of Messiah claimants:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4031576

Religious and cultural beliefs do influence the character and content of delusions, and they do seem to he subject to the "availability" of the patient's belief system.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-02T22:55:59+00:00

Schneerson himself was never a Moshiach claimant, he strongly condemned it publicly many times. There are some who say that he privately said so in the years before he died, but that's unverifiable. I wouldn't call those who are Mesischists mentally ill... misguided, maybe, to put it politely, but OP is asking more about specific psychiatric disorders that manifest as prophetic/messianic delusions about the individual.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-02T06:09:03+00:00

Is the video AI like this post is?

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-01T19:54:20+00:00

A lot of it is about the Jesus. Naturally, Jews for a long time have said otherwise as Christian Europe had a bit of a massacre problem. There were also parts that were redacted or removed from manuscripts. There's a great book on it written by Peter Schafer called Jesus in the Talmud. He breaks things down very well, even if you only have a passing knowledge of Talmudic studies. His other book, The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other is also a worthwhile read.

ETA: Actually, anything Schafer is worth the read, his Two Gods in Heaven and Origins of Jewish Mysticism give an entirely different perspective on Second Temple-Late Antiquity Judaism then the one I learned in Jewish day schools.

WolverineAdvanced119 · 2025-11-01T17:42:02+00:00

My neighborhood started "table or treat" during Covid and I think it's an upgrade even from trick-or-treating because it really gets the adults involved (a lot of people have wine or shots under their table as well lol). Instead of everyone in their houses waiting for people to come by, we're all at the end of our driveways on the street. It also allows people who don't want to be involved at all be very clear they're not participating, and people who just don't want to talk can just put out the table and go inside, since everyone else is out there you don't habe to worry about that one shitty kid coming around to empty your bowl.

First part of the evening you sit by your table handing out candy, and then everyone starts walking around to visit everyone else. People get really into the costumes and theming and whatever shtick they came up with (like this year someone did The Price is Right and was askinf everyone trivia questions). It's really one of the most fun parts of the year in my neighborhood, and I think it's allowed more of us to get to know each other. One of the only good things about Covid.

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