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Post by Roshan on Sept 7, 2020 17:30:34 GMT -5
My brain is breaking again. You have no idea. What a brain. Other people's Ti causes it suffering....
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Post by Roshan on Sept 10, 2020 11:06:37 GMT -5
One time at a family funeral I met an older Orthodox cousin, actually on the cusp of ultra-Orthodox. I did not know we had such people in the family. I'm trying to remember whose funeral it was, I was in my twenties, but if memory serves me, it was then and only then that my father told me the name of the village his family came from. He said what I understood to be Chereditch, with the gargly sound like Loch Ness but the hard ch at the end, and that it was outside of Minsk in what was once Poland but became Russia (and is now Belarus).
In my mid-thirties when I was teaching the second (and sometimes third and fourth) degree Jewish students from the then recently become former Soviet Union, I told them my father's family was from Chereditch outside Minsk and they said there were no more Jews in Chereditch because the Jewish section was razed by the Nazis. But as they knew both sides of my family left for America in the late 19th century and that was really the last I heard of Chereditch.
Not for lack of trying but with the advent of the Internet I just couldn't find it, even though I did try it with the less Anglo spelling Cheredich and also the more Slavic spellings, Chereditz and Cheredicz, and also beginning with K.
Until last night. On occasion the Philo-Anti-Semite gives geography lessons and he uses maps to show where the prominent American Ashkenazi Jews come from; of course he's obsessed with the Pale of Settlement. And he was giving one of his geography lessons, I just love them, and I got a brainstorm and I googled "shtetls near Minsk" and I found a long list and I went in order, first the Ch's, then the C's, and then the K's...
It wasn't even a 'd', it was an 'l' made with what in phonetics is called a 'flap' of the tongue tip on the front palate, which is how we make intervocalic 'd' anyway but especially if you're me and you're bilingual in Spanish.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 10, 2020 11:10:09 GMT -5
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Post by Roshan on Sept 10, 2020 11:30:25 GMT -5
Karelichy (Belarusian: Карэлічы, Kareličy; Russian: Коре́личи, Korelichi; Lithuanian: Koreličiai; Polish: Korelicze; Yiddish: קארעליץ, Korelitz) is a town in the Grodno Region of Belarus, the administaritv centre of Karelichy District....
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Post by Roshan on Sept 12, 2020 23:50:39 GMT -5
There were so many men I couldn't count them but the ones that counted I probably could. Oddly--but as is often the case with sx doms--most of the ones that counted most I probably never slept with. But I did sleep with the one who gave me this cd. He was a German raised in Italy and was the head of IT at the UN Secretariat and I met him at the theater right before I went to live in Germany in January 1997. The play was The Seven Streams of the River Ota and it was about Hiroshima and I saw it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. (It was Johnny, the we now know FeNi who btw is similar to *Bender*, who noted the date.) Long story. Maybe I'll tell it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about the men in my life or lives. For reasons. About this cd Johnny also noted that Thomas like so many Europeans was such a snob they would rave about music like this but would never deign to like country music. Johnny had such great taste. One time he bought me the most amazing costume necklace and another this oversize maroon sweater that hung so well. It was really too bad for us Johnny turned out to be gay (he was so young when we met). Too bad for all of us, really--Johnny, me, and Thomas too. Well what can you do, that's why or part of why the sweater hung so well and the necklace was so amazing and in the end we are what we are.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 16, 2020 12:57:00 GMT -5
I bothered the philo-anti-Semite again about how is he accomplishing his stated goal of protecting Jews from a backlash by 'discussing the elephant in the room' after another of his went too far moments. He responded (quite possibly, anyway, the timing indicates) by putting Steven Spielberg with a yellow star saying Jude as the cover image on his next video. And this video illicited some enthusiasm from the usually quiet peanut gallery, and I said, Seriously? A Judenstern on the cover frame? Were you that kid who put frogs in the teacher's desk? I told you, I am not going to lose my jocularity with this one. Say and think what you will about me. I am very counterflow. My true meaning and fulfillment may not fit so neatly into the comings and goings of our everyday lives; they may be irreconcilable. Ultimately exile is home to me.Famous last words in pink (or is it magenta) but fortunately for me the ones in green (or is it blue) are laster.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 16, 2020 13:41:12 GMT -5
What is a 4 and 1 fix together?A 4 and 1 fix together is the thing that makes you go back and take out the question marks after magenta and blue because it's better. What is it that makes it better?Six fix. The colors is and isn't a question. Should I keep the question marks here tho.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 16, 2020 21:37:08 GMT -5
And another thing.... the reason the removal of the question marks was 4 with 1 was because it was for aesthetic purposes only, akin to sculpting a thing. The meaning was already clear. The thing that brings me back here to explain this, that is 6 with 1.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 16, 2020 21:44:56 GMT -5
Chapter 1: Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
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Post by Roshan on Sept 21, 2020 22:29:57 GMT -5
Sigh...lie in bed with Neo-Nazis, however ambivalent and reluctant they may be about their evolving world view, and you get...Neo-Nazis. To be fair, the Philo-Anti-Semite likes everybody but the Jooz and those who would do their bidding, so he doesn't really qualify as a Neo-Nazi. So let me put it another way. Lie in bed with Philo-Anti-Semites however ambivalent and eager they may be, and you will eventually just get Anti-Semites. You knew what you knew signed up for, Robin. It's fine. It will all work out just fine. It already has. "During her life Norwich suffered terribly when the Black Death reached the city. The disease may have killed over half the population and returned in subsequent outbreaks up to 1387.[2] Julian was alive during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, when the city was overwhelmed by rebel forces led by Geoffrey Litster,....[4] As Bishop of Norwich, Despenser zealously opposed Lollardy, which advocated reform of the Catholic Church, and a number of Lollards were burnt at the stake at Lollard's Pit, just outside the city.[2]..."--wiki article on Julian of Norwich
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Post by vincent on Sept 23, 2020 15:57:33 GMT -5
You're DEFINITELY more Christian than he is.
And right, "all shall be well"
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Post by Roshan on Sept 23, 2020 16:07:08 GMT -5
And right, "all shall be well"
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Post by Roshan on Sept 26, 2020 22:52:44 GMT -5
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Post by Roshan on Sept 28, 2020 12:03:37 GMT -5
"“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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Post by Roshan on Sept 28, 2020 12:05:58 GMT -5
I hadn't realized I was posting de Chardin on Yom Kippur.
I simply cannot convert and so like Simone Weil I must stand at the door of the Church.
On the threshold between here and there, then and now, but rooted in the then > there. That is the 'abstraction of Ni'.
Ni dom = Si role.
G'mar Chatima Tova
May you be sealed in The Book of Life.
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