Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
BAR wrote:
Boater wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
Boater wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:21:23 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

John wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:34:41 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III,
Esq."
wrote:

John wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:09:38 -0500, Boater
wrote:

John wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:43 -0500, Boater
wrote:

John wrote:
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:17:56 -0500, Boater
wrote:

John wrote:

Your agreement is acceptable on a one-to-one basis. To
go beyond the two of us, your compadres would have to
agree.
Bull****. Learn to disregard the personal insults
directed towards you.
Have you seen me respond to any of the Salty or that
other guy's attacks?
No, not lately. You decide to ignore them. It can be
done. Hell, I've gone
for a couple weeks without responding to any of your
****, even though
you've directed a couple dozen posts a day towards me.
I'll ignore the attacks by Donnie and those other
friends of yours. Easy as
pie.
--
We say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

John
As I stated, I will enter into and honor a one-to-one
agreement with you. If others decide to join in, I will
extend them the same courtesy.

Quid pro quo. It's the *Christian* thing to do, don't
you agree?
I think you're lacking in the will power department. You
whine about folks
attacking you, but you won't stop. I'll be glad to do the
Christian, and
Jewish, thing. I'll stop *all* personal insults if you'll
do the same.

Do you find it too hard to ignore the attacks of others?
Can you not
participate in *any* discussion without resorting to
name-calling?
--
We say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

John
Actually, most of jackals are permanent members of my bozo
bin, and will never be allowed out. The permanent members
include but are not limited to Loogy, DK, FloridaJim, et
cetera. But that's not the point.

I'm not lacking in will power on this issue, I'm simply
unwilling to extend "good will" to those unwilling to do
the same.
Having all those folks filtered should make it easy.

No one is suggesting you 'extend good will' to anyone. I'm
suggesting you
stop extending *bad* will to *anyone*. Do you see the
difference?

Look at your statement above:

"Most of the jackals are permanent members..."

If you had omitted the word 'jackals', you would have
gotten the same
message across, but without the personal insult.

It's not that difficult.
--
We say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

John
I call 'em as I see 'em. If they are in the bozo bin, they
are there because about all they do here is toss insults.
Jackals.
You totally disregarded the point of my response. Do you ever
consider that
the insults may be fewer if you controlled your behavior? I'm
not saying
they'd stop, but those that are hurled simply in retaliation
would diminish
greatly.

--
We say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

John
We say "Chanukah Sameach" to each other, and Merry Christmas
to goys who celebrate Christmas.

I guess to some we should just say, I hope you got some nice
presents for Dec. 25th.
No, it would be, "Hope you get some nice presents for Winter
Solstice."
--
I think you should only say that if they celebrate on the Winter
Solstice, in 2008 that would be Dec. 21st, on the 22nd in 2009
and the 23rd in 2010, when it would go back to Dec. 21. So,
those who open presents on Dec. 25 and are not Christians are
really just celebrating Dec. 25th. I think Festivus and Winter
Solstice makes a lot more sense than just opening presents
because the Christians are celebrating the birth of Christ.

Imagine what would happen if all the Chinese celebrated
Christmas on Dec.25?

Where would all the Jews go to eat on Dec. 25th. We would have
to eat at home, and that is against our religion.


Now that's something I didn't know.
--
We say, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"

John

Sure, just go by any Chinese restaurant on Dec.25th and you will
find all the restaurant full of Jews. It is a tradition that goes
back almost 6000 yrs.

http://dragon.soc.qc.cuny.edu/Staff/...20Chinese.html




If you are seeing Jews in "any Chinese restaurant," they certainly
are not observant Jews. Observant Jews eat in Kosher restaurants,
and while there any Kosher Chinese restaurants, very few of them are.

PS - There are more sects and diverse opinion among those who
consider themselves Jewish than there are among Christians.
Yet, all of them consider themselves observant Jews. Are you now
going to tell Jews that the only ones who can be considered
"Observant Jews" are those who observe all 613 mitzvot? If so, you
would not find one Jew in the entire world.

I do find it funny that you, who said you are not Jewish, know more
about the Chosen People than most Jews. There is an old joke that
if you locked a 100 rabbis in a room and they would not be let out
until they had written a book on what it means to be Jewish, they
could not agree on the first sentence.


I grew up in a city that at the time had a very high percentage of
Jews, and am more than a little familiar with Jewish observances,
customs, traditions, et cetera. The observant Jews were the Orthodox
and Conservative "sect" Jews, the ones who went to synagogues on
Friday nights and Saturdays, who kept Kosher, and whose children went
to Hebrew school several times a week, among other things.

I'm not discussing "cultural" Jews.

Of course, I know nothing about Atlanta Jews.


Are you Jewish Harry? Yes or no?

No he isn't. He just wants to define what it means to be an Observant Jew.

In America only about 15% of those who consider themselves active
practicing Jews (those who regularly go to shul, temple or synagogue)
keep Kosher year round. A much larger percent will keep kosher for the
high holy days, (Chanukah is not a high holiday), but Harry's knowledge
of Judaism is a vast as all of his other knowledge.

It is one of the benefits of getting a excellent liberal arts education
from Univ. of Kansas.


My former next door neighbor an observant Jew got me a Rosary blessed by
Pope Benny when he was over in Rome. If you don't believe me you can
stop by and see the picture of my neighbor Pope Benny and a bunch of
other members of BOD of the National B'nai Brith.