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Pip's Sister ([info]pipssister) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-02-07 13:32:00
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Current mood:WTF?

Your "Idoltry" offends my rational thought process and Jewish identity ...
It's hard to tell, but I think Schechinah is pissed off because of Jewish traditions like kissing books when they fall down and kissing mezuzahs are not about the spirituality and loving they neighbor and that makes her mad.

Taken from Here. Choice quotes from the weirdness.

Hashem as my judge, I am a judge of rational behavior and will NOT stand next to a pool of my neighbor's blood. ...

And ...

Lost on the understanding of the symbolism for wine during passover, and brought up in many mystic sonnets (THE ELEVATION OF SPIRIT), I have had to endure the horrific experience of a TORAH SCHOLAR teaching rather dogmatically some incredibly flawed understandings.

"AND IT STOOD UP FOR US":

"IT" IS NOT "JEWISH IDENTITY", which preserved the lives of Moses and Aaron.

IT IS THE ELEVATION OF SPIRIT, which stood up, unfettered by the hardships of the material world, as a result of living by the laws of Torah, rather than studying them until you know what Hebrew word lays on the numerous consecutive pages beneath.

I am living testament.

I will not tell you I am from the tribe of Dan, because I do not know.
But-- my existence on this planet is no joke.

The material must be dropped and the spirit, taken up.

I am sorry I had to break this to you all, but please understand, I get no gratification out of these words I am sharing.

Yes, that up there was all one thought process.

The rest of weirdjews offers up a collective "WTF?" Even though Shechinah admits that she hasn't actually ... well, read the Torah ... she is still a source and judge of God. And if you want to argue with her, you could always call her telephone in Israel.

Although, I guess it's a little too much to expect someone who names themself after the feminine presence of God to be humble.

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[info]smo
2006-02-07 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Even though Schechinah admits that she hasn't actually ... well, read the Torah ... she is still a source and judge of God.

*pfft!*

*snerk*

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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[info]sashenka
2006-02-08 05:12 am UTC (link)
Your icon makes me proud to be a Jew.

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[info]smo
2006-02-08 05:19 am UTC (link)
*g* I'll be sure to pass that along to [info]nicolae, the highly awesome f_w-er who made it.

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redwarrior
2006-02-07 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Actually, back in the days of my researching Judaism, I found nutcases like this.

Which made me want to leave ALL religions behind FOREVER.

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[info]pipssister
2006-02-07 07:47 pm UTC (link)
Oh, as a Jew I KNOW that Judaism has as much crazy as other religions. The only difference is that most of the time Jews don't put it out on TV. They just have to subject the rest of us "Chosen People" to their madness.

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[info]rachel_pi
2006-02-07 08:54 pm UTC (link)
It kind of warms my heart* to see that my religion doesn't have the monopoly on crazy people who haven't really read their own religious texts.

*and by "warms my heart" I of course mean "makes me want to beat my head off the desk"

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[info]jadelennox
2006-02-07 07:48 pm UTC (link)
She'd *love* me; I'm an athiest and I still kiss mezuzot -- one on every door in my house -- and kiss siddurim when I close them. I won't say the name of God aloud, either. Yes, dear, I've successfully turned thousands of years of tradition, belief, and spirituality into a superstitious habit. And I'm proud of it. Yay me!

Also, much love for people who claim they know what tribe they're descended from are like Otherkin.

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[info]smo
2006-02-07 07:49 pm UTC (link)
[info]ono_sendai wins at life.

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[info]dalassa
2006-02-07 08:21 pm UTC (link)
Argh, there are no more tribes for most people. They got all mushed together after the Assyrians and the Babylonians conquered the kingdoms. Besides, Dan was in the Northern Kingdom which was carried off and lost. Lack of basic knowledge about stuff you are talking about like this makes me crazy.

*breathes*

Okay, geeky Jewsplosion over.

Oh yeah, naming yourself after an emanation of God is very not okay either.

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[info]cairea
2006-02-07 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Is it possible she got some Mormon education? *shifty eyes* Mormons do all believe that they are spiritually descended from one or another of the tribes and part of coming of age in the church is finding out what tribe you're from.

... though as I recall, most people alive today are all from one specific tribe for some reason to do with it being the end of the world soon. I could be totally wrong, though. I've been telling missionaries and visiting teachers to leave me alone since I was fifteen.

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[info]greenling
2006-02-08 04:29 am UTC (link)
Mayyyybe. Have furries decided whether they're a fandom or a fetish or a spirituality or a hobby or a roleplaying game or a community or a subculture or a genre yet? Or more than one of the above?

And if we are furries... does that mean there are "elf furries" now? Would that make me more a skinny or a hairy? :3

I love that statement. I'm forcibly reminded of my desire to write fantasy where the Tribe of Dan, the Danaans and the Children of Danu are all some kind of faepeople.

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[info]jadelennox
2006-02-08 06:38 am UTC (link)
Icon love!

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[info]nebbieq
2006-02-08 05:28 am UTC (link)
Also, much love for people who claim they know what tribe they're descended from are like Otherkin.

Does this mean they can only choose kosher animals for their inner spirit?

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[info]jadelennox
2006-02-08 06:40 am UTC (link)
Only the Jewish furries, and they can also choose insects with six jointed legs and wings. The Otherkin can choose... seraphim, I guess? And Leviathan.

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[info]nebbieq
2006-02-08 06:45 am UTC (link)
And Leviathan.

That would be one of the most delicious Otherkin ever.

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[info]hellespont
2006-02-08 08:21 am UTC (link)
That would be one of the most delicious Otherkin ever.

We ritually consumed Leviathan, and Behemoth, and the Ziz-bird in our slapdash version of the Apocalyptic Banquet at the end of my Ancient Near Eastern Religions course last year. Leviathan was represented by heaping helpings of St. Peter's fish, which one of the students' caterer wife imported from the Sea of Galilee. Tasty as hell, but TMI! I shit green for three days.

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[info]kadath
2006-02-07 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Is Shechinah a native English speaker? Because I don't want to mock her COMPLETELY BIZARRE writing if she's not.

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[info]somnambulicious
2006-02-07 09:56 pm UTC (link)
From looking at her LJ, it seems that she's from Boston; at least, that's where she lived before going to Israel.

I guess that would make her writing not so much completely bizarre as it would be wicked bizarre.

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[info]queencallipygos
2006-02-07 10:01 pm UTC (link)
It also looks like she just got dumped and was expecting a Spiritual Pilgrimage (tm) to heal her or something.

...Okay, I'm a shiksa, but is it safe to assume that that actually doesn't have anything to do with why I don't get what's happening in here?

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[info]kraken_sleeps
2006-02-07 10:28 pm UTC (link)
was expecting a Spiritual Pilgrimage (tm) to heal her or something.

Wasn't that an X Files episode?

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[info]kijikun
2006-02-08 03:42 am UTC (link)
In any case it should be iconed.

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[info]chibikaijuu
2006-02-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
No, no, I'me right there with you (though admittedly I'm a very BAD Jew). She's making no fucking sense. I mean, I get vaguely what she's going on about but... no. She's crazy.

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[info]kadath
2006-02-07 10:30 pm UTC (link)
ITYM "wikkid bizz-ah."

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[info]jadelennox
2006-02-07 11:45 pm UTC (link)
wikkid queeah, but that would be an insult to all of us locals who actually are, er, wikkid queeah.

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[info]pyratejenni
2006-02-07 08:18 pm UTC (link)
Not only is everyone in the internet laughing at her, God is, too.

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[info]rotten_fish
2006-02-07 09:51 pm UTC (link)
I mean, I'd love to be proven wrong! LOVE TO!!

I am the coming of judgment, for I have been given sight through wisdom. I am the little girl who you least suspected. A non-nation.

I have a strong feeling you have not given yourself the capacity to ever fully be able to know who I am.

Maybe she just watched Star Wars and The Matrix too many times.

...miracles, though (she said doubtfully

(she boggled that people actually write out in parantheses what they say. Thoughtfully, she scratched her bum.)

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[info]issendai
2006-02-07 10:00 pm UTC (link)
Troy Brooks/Schechinah OTP!

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[info]jadelennox
2006-02-07 11:46 pm UTC (link)
*is ded from laughing*

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[info]emiweebee
2006-02-07 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Now, I can't actually speak with confidence since I know next to nothing about Judaism, but...well, it's been my experience that when ANYONE claims a religion is idolatrous, they actually have no idea what they're talking about and cannot differentiate between worshipping and object and using that object to focus one's prayers/spirit.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2006-02-07 11:40 pm UTC (link)
(Being Jewish myself,) I think my icon sums it up pretty well.

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[info]mousy_345e4
2006-02-07 11:47 pm UTC (link)
*blink* So she lives in Israel and knows everything about being Jewish (and hates it too) and she's never read their holy book?

Okay, just clarifying *headdesk*

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Way, WAY off-topic...
[info]singe
2006-02-08 01:43 am UTC (link)
, I guess it's a little too much to expect someone who names themself after the feminine presence of God to be humble

Being raised in the Southern Baptist tradition of god being A MAN, BABY! A HAIRY CHESTED MASCULINE MALE with a BIG CELESTIAL WHANGER OMG!!1 I find myself really envious of any religion that recognises the feminine in god enough to actually have a name for it, Shechinah.

Had it been otherwise, I wouldn't be such the atheist I am today, I think.





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Re: Way, WAY off-topic...
[info]nebbieq
2006-02-08 05:30 am UTC (link)
Out of curiousity, did your church also have a fancy suit to accompany God's manly image? Because that would explain so much about televangelists...

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Re: Way, WAY off-topic...
[info]singe
2006-02-08 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Yes, and a Rolex on his wrist. Also He drives a white Rolls Royce. God = Heavenly Pimp Daddy.

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Re: Way, WAY off-topic...
[info]amxjm
2006-02-08 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Does He even have a Heavenly Pimp Stick to go with all that?

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Re: Way, WAY off-topic...
[info]singe
2006-02-08 10:46 pm UTC (link)
Of course. And a pink shag interior for that car.

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[info]floriatosca
2006-02-09 09:21 am UTC (link)
Now, granted, this is a vast overgeneralization -
but I thought that traditional customs and Torah geekery were a large part of what distinguished Judaism proper from generic monotheists with a fondness for kosher delis and the Kabbalah.

This actually reminds me a little bit of Daniel Boyarin's discussion of the idolization of "sublimity" in religion in the late 19th century in Unheroic Conduct.

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