“Why are there so many Jewish Agnostics (oxymoron?) in the OT??”
The Jews lost me when they made me go to Hebrew School every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon when I should’ve been out playing with my friends. And it’s not like they “taught” anything meaningful. It was all vapid, just like I find all the “prayers” in the “prayer” books when I have occasion to be in synagogue. Teaching us the history of the world’s religions and the history of the Middle East would have been meaningful. Teaching us, “God is great. Praised be he”, rinse, repeat, never did anything for me, so I found it all to be a colossal waste of time. I quit the day I became a fountain pen.
Jackal, I see you’re warming up and if you took it just a little further, I’m pretty sure you could turn this OT into a cult and you could be the leader. Hell, you’ve already got a heavily wooded area where we can all live and wear nothing but squirrel loin clothes.
That surprises me, jackal. You, too, dave.
Imagining certain people in their underwear didn’t help either – that just turned me on!
“Jackal, I see you’re warming up”
Clearly I need to retrench to maintain my reputation.
I too am a bad speaker when I’m doing something “prepared” like a presentation. once it gets to extemporaneous Q&A, I’m much better.
“Why are there so many Jewish Agnostics (oxymoron?) in the OT??”
The Jews lost me when they made me go to Hebrew School every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon when I should’ve been out playing with my friends. And it’s not like they “taught” anything meaningful. It was all vapid, just like I find all the “prayers” in the “prayer” books when I have occasion to be in synagogue. Teaching us the history of the world’s religions and the history of the Middle East would have been meaningful. Teaching us, “God is great. Praised be he”, rinse, repeat, never did anything for me, so I found it all to be a colossal waste of time. I quit the day I became a fountain pen.
^^^nevermind then.
Jackal, I see you’re warming up and if you took it just a little further, I’m pretty sure you could turn this OT into a cult and you could be the leader. Hell, you’ve already got a heavily wooded area where we can all live and wear nothing but squirrel loin clothes.
I am an awful public speaker.
I had an astonishingly embarrassing, want to crawl in a hole and die moment yesterday as a result of this.
Put another way: a great leader doesn’t use the word “I” so much. President Obama has yet to learn this lesson.
If it wasn’t for my irrational fear of public speaking, I’d surely volunteer to be the leader of our megachurchagogue.