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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeph" data-source="post: 578245" data-attributes="member: 6738">That would quite definitely be wierd for her. She doesn't even know the ENworlders cyberly. However, it would also be quite wierd for me. I mean, I feel like I have many friends here on ENworld, but have never actually met any of them, IRL (except fot the ones that I introduced to ENworld myself). I feel slightly odd accepting gifts from people that I haven't actually met in person. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Right. Back to psued-philosophy and stuff. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Wait, nevermind . . . Have to comment on Word Freak first. Good-ish book. Can get slow at times, but interesting.Okay, now for my religious views. Neither of my parrents grew up religious, they only started going to the Synogogue because they wanted their children to grow up Jewish. I've been the nice jewish boy for most of my life (aside from getting 2 sunday school teachers and a director to quit . . . but that's another story), but never actually totally believed the whole God thing. Neither did my parrents, I guess that's part of (or most of) where my thoughts are coming from. Anyway, after my bar mitzvah (which was 356 days ago exactly), we kinda phased out the Synogogue thing. We still keep Shabbat and all the holidays, but don't attend services that often. (Mostly because our Rabbi is an ignorant <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, but that's another story, too). We picked back up again when an orthodox rabbi that we really liked started to hold services in his house. Aaron Shone. Nice guy, verry smart, too. Anyway, I'm still not very religious--that is, I keep my religion, but don't really believe in it. The Bible Unearthed, and a few works by Karen Armstrong, reinforce by disbelief in the man upstairs. But anyway, that's just me..Whoa . . . that was quite a block of text. Sorry. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Jeph</blockquote>

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