Flattery and emails like these are my inspiration so keep em coming.
Like any frumsatire reader, I’m obviously not a stereotypical right wing ultra orthodox jew. I have my frustrations, and don’t usually feel that close to G-d. I usually associate pretty well with OffTheDWannaBe’s posts. I have been known to mock kol koreh’s, and highly criticize the roshei yeshiva at my yeshiva where I learned for a really long time. I can’t for the life of me figure out what is wrong with text messaging (see assorted stories on frum media, re: BMG bans texting for single students).
But when I come on here, and see people espousing certain positions, I get all defensive. I say, “well, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” I start arguing back, and I think what I say makes sense. Then, I start wondering about my own life: If I criticize Avi for not caring what the gedolim say, why don’t I care that they don’t like text messaging? Don’t I trust that they know what they are talking about before they speak? Don’t I trust my roshei yeshiva that they make more or less good decisions for the yeshiva? Don’t I at least think that they have a better idea what G-d wants than me?
So you see, being forced to defend what I do believe in, makes me believe in it all that much more. So keep posting yom kippur pick up lines and hot chani pics, that’s what gets me here, and I think it is good for my soul.
Nothing like an outsider attacking Judaism to make all us aporikosim yid out.
so true
This guy sounds like a “normal person” kind of Jew.
This guy kind of sounds like me.
and me..
And me. I really associate with otdwb’s posts. He’s so smart and funny and handsome. And he has good hygeine, and isn’t creepy. And he is desperately horny, so give him a ca- no, not horny. He’s fun! And he pays for dates, and holds shit open, and doesn’t swear in front of you, unless you let him, and won’t fart in front of you in line and blame it on someone else, unless it’s crowded. No- even if it’s crowded.
> If I criticize Avi for not caring what the gedolim say, why don’t I care that they don’t like text messaging? Don’t I trust that they know what they are talking about before they speak?… So you see, being forced to defend what I do believe in, makes me believe in it all that much more.
It’s funny. For the email-writer, from the premise is that you should care about what the gedolim say follows the assumption that you should care what they say because surely they know what they’re talking about, and that leads to a strengthening of his emunah and presumably increased adherence to the ban on texting.
For people like myself, from the premise that one can judge someone by their actions comes the assumption that bans like the one on texting show that the gedolim in fact do not know what they’re talking about, and leads me to care even less about what they may have to say.
Ah well. We all have our biases.
Among frummies, I like to mention that I wear short sleeves and say something involving a suf, but pronouncing it like a tuf. Among non-frummie Jews, I like to mention that I go to Bais Yaakov and say something involving a suf, and pronouncing it like a suf. Sometimes I wonder if I’m schizophrenic.