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Q: Concretely, what kind of constitution would this state have? |
A: Who says that a state must have a constitution? |
Q: This state ruled by the Torah would not guarantee freedom of speech, then? |
A: Of course not! In a religious state, there can be no such freedom. |
Obviously, I think that today it is not possible for us to have such a state without a civil war, and I’m not prepared to encourage such a conflict. What I am ready for, though, is to tell my voters that I want a religious state. And if the people vote for me, then we’ll have the religious state that I’m hoping for. An... |
My worst nightmare is to see Jews fighting other Jews. |
Q: In a religious state, will all public schools have to be religious? |
A: If someone wants to send his children to a private school, he’s free to open a private school. |
But in a religious Jewish state, all public schools will have to be religious. It’s through education that I want to achieve my objectives. What I want is not at all the Western state that some people would like to see. There are many rights which Western democracy considers fundamental and which I consider to be witho... |
Q: What rights? |
A: For example, the right not to respect the Sabbath. This right must not exist. In all public life, the Sabbath will have to be respected. Restaurants must be kosher. If you don’t want to eat kosher food, you’ll just have to eat at home. As for censorship, it already exists in Western democracies, and in the state tha... |
Q: When you say that, aren’t you talking like Khomeini? |
A: OK. Let’s say you’re right. So what? Who cares? People who stick labels on you are refusing to talk about the content. What’s the problem? Anyway, I can tell you that in certain respects Khomeini and Islam are a lot closer to Judaism than Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Locke or Thomas Jefferson. In my mind, there’s n... |
This strategy centrists pursue of claiming historical figures were moderate, but their followers are insane really doesn't work. |
The attitude of literalist Judaism as presented in the above interview with Kahane, is quite problematic and in my opinion, despite it's acceptance by many Rabbis can hardly claim to be really Jewish. |
(I am quoting here from R Berel Wein's commentary on Parashat Mishpatim, reg Parashat Yitro. R' Wein may not agree with my position) |
In my opinion, in today's world, when the civil law, often proves more humane, more equitable and fairer than the Torah law-forgive the thought- in a lifnim meshurat hadeen way, then, following the civil law, is better than vekatzota et kappah lo tachos aleiha. The Rabbis in their wisdom realised that at a certain poin... |
Another exemple of such rabbinic concession, is that of the relation of a ger and his mother, a ger upon conversion, ketinok shenolad dami. Is a baby born to the Miqveh. His mother being no longer his mother, he is allowed 'al pi torah to have relation with his biological mother who is no longer his mother. The rabbis ... |
In this way, much of the savagery deemed acceptable in the old scriptures, could be dismissed for actual practice , since the common law is superior. |
I may not make to myself many friends here & am very curious to hear Shmarya's opinion here or to my email address. |
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Comment: Read the statement (Score 3, Insightful) 627 |
Am I the only one that read the statement? It seems to me that they are collecting information. In fact McDonald's doesn't deny they attacked him, they only state that their employees denied it. It's an important distinction. Their employees are quite naturally saying, "We're innocent!" while Mann's saying "They're gui... |
Comment: Re:Where does the Higgs mass come from? (Score 1) 82 |
Sorry for all the responses. I asked Professor Strassler on his website. He replied that it's actually a mystery where the Higgs gets it's mass! It's a very good question. All the other standard model particles, except the neutrino, get their masses via interacting with the Higgs field. We don't really understand neutr... |
Whoops. Allow me to correct my own post. Not all of the Higgs particle's mass is from the Higgs Field: |
I wonder how it gets the rest of its mass? That's a good question. |
Comment: Re:Where does the Higgs mass come from? (Score 5, Informative) 82 |
They get their masses from the Higgs Field. The W Boson is like a ripple in the W-Field. An electron is like a ripple in the electron-field (not the electrical field). Et cetera. So a Higgs Boson is like a ripple in the Higgs Field. But it still gets is mass by interacting with that field, like most other elementary pa... |
Comment: Re:Yay America! (Score 1) 226 |
by Quantum Jim (#36660678) Attached to: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player Legal? |
The RIAA and Co. have never sued anyone for using their own music digitally. They have sued when a third party is involved. The issue isn't that you are able to stream your music to you from your own system, or even from a web server somewhere else that you operate. The problem is that you are uploading your songs to G... |
The DVD-CCA (an organization run by the motion picture studios) sued Kaleidescape for making a personal server where you could upload your DVDs and then play them anywhere in your house. Kaleidescape won their suit, fortunately. Of course the DVD-CCA isn't the RIAA; however, I feel they are cut from the same cloth. |
Comment: Re:so naive (Score 2) 286 |
by Quantum Jim (#34927526) Attached to: Google Releases Software To Iran |
I concur. The export restrictions are frankly ridiculous in this case. If they wanted to, the Iranian government could just send someone to US to download Google's software for free. If Iran can import centrifuges to purify Uranium, they can surely use proxies to download the software directly too (spoofing their count... |
Indeed, Google says they worked with US government officials before releasing the software with these restrictions according to TFA. They believe that releasing the software to Iranians will help promote the flow of information and help them exercise more freedom of speech and assembly, as shown in during protests of t... |
Comment: Re:Told but didn't understand..... (Score 2, Interesting) 332 |
by Quantum Jim (#31944840) Attached to: After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation |
So, were they mislead, or is this more of a type of "buyers remorse"? There are plenty of places where the local population is uneducated and unlikely to fully understand genetic testing, should we stop studying them, and in the process deny them the good (potential treatments for disease that they suffer from) to prot... |
Also, one of the big issues here seems to be that the findings contradict their folklore: Another article, suggesting that the tribe’s ancestors had crossed the frozen Bering Sea to arrive in North America, flew in the face of the tribe’s traditional stories that it had originated in the canyon and was assigned to be i... |
I agree with your second part. Challenging anyone's worldview is always a good thing. Whether they are Christians, Havasupai, or even athiests, challenging people with evidence contradicting their ignorance is a good thing! It keeps society from stagnating by encouraging free thinking! |
Comment: Re:I assume you mean MD-diagnosed (Score 1) 423 |
by Quantum Jim (#30382082) Attached to: I know X people with diagnosed H1N1 flu, where X is: |
Yes, it was a nasal mucous swab. It tickled... haha. I was diagnosed after I was on the way to recovery. The meds they gave me helped a ton. I think it took only a few days (it was over a weekend iirc). I seriously thought I had a concussion earlier that week because of the headache. I live in Pittsburgh, and we have a... |
by Quantum Jim (#30296664) Attached to: I know X people with diagnosed H1N1 flu, where X is: |
I'm a little confused. I am pretty sure I had H1N1 flu in late October for about a week. I had a 102 degree F temperature, clogged sinuses, really bad headache, fatigue, and lost about 5 pounds of weight. The doctor prescribed Tamiflu and Mucinex, and he told me to take 48 hrs off after my fever broke to reduce the ris... |
Comment: Re:Linearization (Score 1) 553 |
by Quantum Jim (#29153555) Attached to: Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves |
Ancient people's idea of gravity was simple. Stuff goes down. |
That's not actually true. Take a square apiece of paper. Draw a straight line parallel with one side in the middle. Then tear the paper perpendicular to the line from one side to the line. Now pull one side of the tear over the other. See how the paper bends into a cone? That's what gravity does. It causes "space" to n... |
The Twitter Book 88 |
Posted by samzenpus |
from the read-all-about-it dept. |
stoolpigeon writes "Microblogging service Twitter has undeniably been a hit, with growth rates that were at times in excess of 1400%. The growth was rapid enough that the site became well known for its periodic, and, at times, extensive downtime. Even with these issues, the service continued to grow rapidly, and with c... |
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169 |
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