Calif Bill wrote:
"Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq." wrote in message
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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.


Reminds me of a Russian Jew I worked with in the 1980's. Asked if he kept
Kosher while in Russia. He said they ate what ever they could get. Was
better to be fed than starve to death.



Jews are a very pragmatic people or they would never have survived