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[Ramo]

What did you study at school?

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
I mean if you want a jewsh law vs ethics involving people on a desert island, I can think of better ones.

Theres been a worldwide thermonuclear war. Youre trapped on a large island, with one other person. Youre a man. Shes a woman. Shes married. You dont know for sure if youre the last folks on earth, or if her husband, among others, are alive somewhere else. If you procreate with her, and her husband is alive, but no one else is, you save humanity, at the cost of committing adultery. If lots of other folks are alive, then you arent even saving humanity. If her husband is dead, then youre not committing adultery at all. What does Jewish law say to do? what does general ethics say to do? Are they in conflict? (Probably

I don't see the conflict.
Jewish Law says that you shouldn't procreate.
What's on the other side i.e. what says that you should?
Ethics? I don't see why.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
why do you always intervene in geo-political/ international relation between states politics debate attempting to make some incredibly deep and foresighted point, only to have it always seem to miss the mark, so to speak

I have an avocational interest in geopolitics and foreign relations. I think some of my points hit, and some miss.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Ramo
What did you study at school?

Undergrad I majored in econ, but I took a lot of poli sci, phil, and a scattering of other stuff.

Afterwards I got an MBA, though in retrospect I think an advanced degree in Econ would have served me better.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme


I don't see the conflict.
Jewish Law says that you shouldn't procreate.
What's on the other side i.e. what says that you should?
Ethics? I don't see why.

I would think the preservation of the human species would be a positive good, but maybe Im showing my age, thats no longer so viewed.

[LordShiva]

You have an MBA? From where?

[Sprayber]

The other day I was reading in the paper where more and more Christian churchs were having Passover Seder , some with help from local Jewish friends and others transforming it into their own thing. Some Jewish groups frowned upon this while some offered their help. Just wondered what your take might be on this.

[Drake Tungsten]

Are the Japanese really one of the Lost Tribes of Israel?

http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Sprayber
The other day I was reading in the paper where more and more Christian churchs were having Passover Seder , some with help from local Jewish friends and others transforming it into their own thing. Some Jewish groups frowned upon this while some offered their help. Just wondered what your take might be on this.

I think its great to invite non-Jewish friends to experience a seder. If a church is holding a seder, though, it would seem to be a church event, which will end up having a church message. Im not sure its appropriate for Jews to be helping to organize a church service. Though Ive never been involved in such an event, and really couldnt speak to the details.

[lord of the mark]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Are the Japanese really one of the Lost Tribes of Israel?

http://www5.ocn.ne.jp/~magi9/isracame.htm [/QUOTE

It wouldnt surprise me. I know 5 Jewish teenage girls, all of whom are fascinated by things Japanese, at least 3 of whom have taken Japanese in HS, and who IM each other in an odd blend of English, Hebrew, and Japanese. One of whom, (not POTM by the way) seemed intent on translating, Hebrew songs, I think, into Japanese. POTM is quite interested in the interfaces between Japanese and Jewish society. So far we've come with Chabad Tokyo, the Israeli embassy in Tokyo, and the Japanese embassy in Tel Aviv.

[MRT144]

why is drake acting french?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by MRT144
why is drake acting french?

i would guess to mock both silly rightwingers who think France teh Gay, and silly euros who think all American conservatives are stupidly antifrench, and to mock the French, of course, and to take an ironic view on this whole Euro-US thingie.

I approve.

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


I would think the preservation of the human species would be a positive good, but maybe Im showing my age, thats no longer so viewed.

From an ethics point of view?
I just have never tought of it that way.
What kind of ethical basis would you use to defend the preservation of the human race?

[DrSpike]

LotM: How would you rate the XBox 360, PS3 and Wii out of ten?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


In the good old days, Jewish atheists would have had a meal on Passover, and not bothered with any ceremonies. Theyd have been too busy arguing over whether Trotsky or Stalin were right. These days we've got all kinds of funky groups, Jewish Humanists, and such. I frankly dont know what they do. I presume they wouldnt mention G-d, though.

Well, we read through a little book, which had a lot of biblical stuff in it (sometimes responsively, sometimes not). I gather that recently they have done more than they did in past years.

I think that the family considered it just culturally though (the grandparents are metaphysicists, the mother I am not sure, the daughter is an atheist).

Jon Miller