Sunday, December 18, 2005

Gone Til Saturday

Folks, I'm going to take the week off. Have a good one!
Posted by Jewish Atheist at 11:04 AM

19 comments:

Wandering Coyote said...

Jeez...just as I was gathering up the courage to leave a comment...

1:15 PM, December 18, 2005
Laura said...

We'll find something to argue about without you I'm sure ;P

9:06 AM, December 19, 2005
dbackdad said...

You'll be missed. Have a good one.

3:59 PM, December 20, 2005
asher said...

An athiest taking off for Christmas holiday..for shame.

On one of my previous posts I remarked that a "jewish athiest" was a contradition in terms. You corrected me by saying that one can be both since being a jew means you are connected to clan, tribe and traditions of the jewish people. Could you tell us which traditions and connections you feel with being jewish? Also, your bio says that you find much beauty and wisdom in Orthodox Judaism but that it causes harm. Could you tell us what you find so harmful and what you find beautiful?

7:16 PM, December 20, 2005
Laura said...

See, toldja.

9:32 AM, December 21, 2005
asher said...

A recent article on our ongoing debate about creationism appears here



http://nationalreview.com/comment/klinghoffer200512210814.asp

Does anyone know how to make this a clickable reference?

6:52 PM, December 21, 2005
asher said...

http://nationalreview.com/comment/klinghoffer200512210814.asp

there has to be an easier way to do this

7:11 PM, December 21, 2005
Anonymous said...

http://nationalreview.com/comment/klinghoffer200512210814.asp

1:01 AM, December 22, 2005
JDHURF said...

“An athiest taking off for Christmas holiday..for shame.” – asher

In his case it would be for Hanukka and not Christmas, you fundies really do think that your religion is the only one huh?
In any case a lot of us atheists, secularists, and non-believers still celebrate the holidays that we were raised celebrating for the fact that our families most likely do and there is no reason to ostracize ourselves from them. Also when I celebrate Christmas with my family it is more like thanksgiving, it’s about each other and the love we share not the birth of Jesus. Holidays can and are secular to some people, despite the religious overtones. Happy holidays!!

1:32 AM, December 22, 2005
JDHURF said...

spelled hanukkah wrong, sorry.

1:36 AM, December 22, 2005
asher said...

it's chanukah....and I'm jewish and can spell it in hebrew too

6:11 PM, December 22, 2005
dbackdad said...

jdhurf said, "... it’s about each other and the love we share not the birth of Jesus. Holidays can and are secular to some people, despite the religious overtones. Happy holidays!!"

Well said. That pretty much says it for me.

10:45 AM, December 23, 2005
JDHURF said...

asher,

That's great, but the general spelling in english is hanukkah. But it would be cool to see it written in Hebrew.

3:41 PM, December 23, 2005
asher said...

If you say so...however that would imply the correct pronoucation is something like ha-nu-k-k-ah which is totally wrong. Why is the "k" doubled.

In hebrew it is written chuf, nun, vov, chuf, hey, and if this computer could write in hebrew script I would give it a shot.

6:28 PM, December 23, 2005
Anonymous said...

YAY! Let's get in on the imprecise turf of transliteration debating. To begin with, transliterations are an imprecise field at best. Any person who has opened up more than one siddur should have noticed as much. So, there's really no point in arguing over the petty phonetic English spelling of a Hebrew word. The only definite is the spelling of the word in its original language.
As my holiday gift, here is a clickable link for the web address posted in previous comments (I hope. Blogger is being weird about the HTML script.):

12:11 AM, December 24, 2005
Anonymous said...

Damnit. Sorry folks, blogger decided to do away with the HTML altogether. Happy holidays nonetheless!

12:12 AM, December 24, 2005
JDHURF said...

Yeah, I wasn't trying to argue about the correct way of spelling hanukkah. My point was that when you see it spelled anywhere in America it is usually hanakkah, I havn't seen it any other way. Too bad you can't write it in hebrew text in this thread....that would be really cool!

12:25 AM, December 24, 2005
Anonymous said...

Happy Festivus! You'll be missed J.A.!

3:46 PM, December 24, 2005
Laura said...

BTW - to post an HTML link, do this using the type of brackets shown in the comment window (it won't let me type them cuz it thinks they're tags).. So where you see [ or ] below, just imagine a < or >

[a href="www.website.com"] Text you want to appear[/a] So you'd see this:

google

2:17 PM, December 28, 2005

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)