Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq. wrote:
BAR wrote:
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.

Historically there have been problems between Judaism and the Vatican. A
very sensitive one with many Jews is they way the Vatican handled the
Nazi's and the holocaust. The Pope has stated he would like to heal
some wounds between the two faiths, and i would assume the B'Nai Brith
visit was related to this in some fashion.

He has traveled all over Europe and Africa with the B'nai Brith working
on better relations between Jews and other religions, cultures and
countries. Amazing guy really.

My other Jewish friend and him don't get along. Difference of opinion
about how to help the poor people of the world.

By the way, according to Harry's definition, if your neighbor has ever
eaten or had a drink at your house, even if he strictly ate "Kosher"
foods, he is not a observant Jew. Your house is not kept Kosher, so if
he ate anything in your house, he was not observing Kosher Law, hence he
is not really a Jew.

He let my dog screw his dog quite often. His is a Wheaton Terrier
purebred and mine is a Beagle mutt

He did eat chicken cooked on my grill once or twice. After I had just
cleaned it. I have drunk some Hebrew wine that was actually pretty
good, kind of like Chardonnay. I will never drink Hebrew beer again,
that stuff is nasty.