Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A little common sense



Someone (a local Russian club, from whose e-mails I've been trying to unsubscribe for years) sent me the above t-shirt design. What do I say to that? Duh!

(Not "da", but "duh". Well, "da" too.)

[For people without a sense of humor, the above is a joke. I don't necessarily advocate for people — especially chassidish people — to start driving German cars or wearing Italian clothes.]

67 comments:

Just like a guy said...

I didn't know Russian was a state of being.

Anarchist Chossid said...

It's not. It's a state of outlook on life. A derech.

Just like a guy said...

ahh.

Anarchist Chossid said...

You mean "daaaah"?

Just like a guy said...

No, I'm not Russian.

Anarchist Chossid said...

All Lubavitchers are Russian.

Just like a guy said...

Well, everyone is entitled to their own fallacies.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Just see this. Nu? (Also a Russian word, btw.)

Just like a guy said...

Cute.

Anarchist Chossid said...

And true.

Just like a guy said...

Of Russians.

Anarchist Chossid said...

And Lubavitchers.

Just like a guy said...

As I said, earlier, everyone is entitled to their fallacies.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Well, I am sure "real" Lubavitchers like Mottel or e would agree.

Just like a guy said...

They would agree that everyone is entitled to their own fallacies? Probably.

Anarchist Chossid said...

And that all Lubavitchers are to some degree Russian.

Just like a guy said...

Highly unlikely. e and Mottel rarely agree with fallacies.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Which is why they would agree with me.

Just like a guy said...

Well, if you want to add this fallacy onto your previous one, who am I to stop you?

Anarchist Chossid said...

Calling things fallacies is not an argument. Btw, the list I posted is mostly about Jewish Russians. Lehavdil, Russian Russians are quite different.

Just like a guy said...

With some people, it is impossible to argue- the only thing to do is to smile.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Can't argue with truth.

Just like a guy said...

Which is exactly why you have ceased to argue with me many a time.

Just like a guy said...

In fact, every time.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Most cases that I have seized responding is because there were no new arguments to respond to, and I have stuff to do in my life.

Just like a guy said...

(ceased)

Excuses, excuses.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Yes.

No.

Just like a guy said...

Maybe

so.

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e said...

Anon took my comment.

e said...

trs+pc: you guys are bloody nuts.

Anarchist Chossid said...
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Anarchist Chossid said...

e: why not?

e said...

don't say something if you're ashamed to have people know you've said it.

e said...

why not? Why not what?

Anarchist Chossid said...

re: ashamed: my comment was not for a mixed audience, just you and trs. There is a difference between being ashamed and decorum.

re: why not: why not the french thing? Nothing unchassidish about that. V’dal.

e said...

umm. perhaps one who has gone to chassan classes will want to elaborate.

Just like a guy said...

How do you know who anon is?

e: We aim to amuse.

Anarchist Chossid said...

You know how I know. (Unless there was a mistake in time stamps.)

Just like a guy said...

Do I know this person?

Anarchist Chossid said...

Just because the person cannot stay anonymous from me doesn’t mean she should not stay anonymous from you.

Anarchist Chossid said...
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Anarchist Chossid said...

Oops. I didn’t mean to remove the comment about S"A and Rema. Whatever. Maybe it’s Hashem’s way of telling us to drop the subject. Of course, you don’t believe in Hashem, so blame it on Freud (lehavdil).

e said...

Doesn't shulchan aruch+rema say that you can pish with tefillin on?

Just like a guy said...

The question is, what can life teach you that chosson classes can not?

Anarchist Chossid said...

e: good point. And yet, there are areas to be machmir in and to be meikel in.
TRS: see the title of the post.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Duh.

e said...

dah?

Anarchist Chossid said...

Ita vero.

Dowy said...

not all people would say lubavitchers are russian - some people might say they are hippies for example.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Real Lubavitch chassidim are Russian. A lot of Lubavitch pseudo-chassidim are hippies. Just because you wear a hat and have a beard doesn’t mean you’re a chossid.

Anarchist Chossid said...

e: to answer what you said, it’s all about kavanah.

Dowy said...

wat does mean your a chosid?

Anarchist Chossid said...

What did the Rebbe say?

e said...

Ita vero can be the name of a person. Ita=yiddish name; Vero=Russian name.

e said...

Why don't you write "eta vero"?

Anarchist Chossid said...

The Russian name is Vera. It comes from the same word and means “faith”. In English it is also present in such words as veracity or verification.

Ita vero is in Latin.

Dowy said...

well he certainly didnt say anything about being russian - not that i have heard about anyway.
admittedly i dont think he mentioned anything about being hippie, im just saying what some people might say.

e said...

who might those "some people" be?

Dowy said...

im sure youv read memoirs. do the charachters present to you a more of a typical russian, or a hippie?

e said...

This is true. They were all about love.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Actually, “What did the Rebbe say?” was my answer to what makes one a chossid. If a Jew asks this question and uses the answer as guidance in life, he is a chossid.

Russians are also about love. But tempered with gevurah and common sense. Hippies are about love without boundaries and seichel. Read the beginning chapters of Kuntres U’mayon. That’s Chabad. Stopping while driving to let a car in front of you get out of a drive way (while there are 50 cars behind you waiting) is Chagas.

Dowy said...

“What did the Rebbe say?” being the true and only answer - i agree with you completely.
therefore i think a person can be russian or hippie or any other style and still be lubavitch. none is more right than the other.
its like the students of R' Akiva.
as long as you dont say, ONLY russians are lubavitch.

Anarchist Chossid said...

We are approaching the point where I have to defend seriously something I said as a joke. But seriously speaking, you’re right, but there is a level of Russianness in Chassidus Chabad, which is unspoken. And if you’re a Lubavitcher Chossid but don’t have it, you’re missing something from the “oral tradition” of Chabad Chassidus.

Having said that, if it’s allowed to be lost, maybe it’s not so integral/important, and such is h"p.

Dowy said...

well this is where i would disagree, becouse i think there is more hippieness in lubavitch (originally, actually before hippies even existed) than russianess.

Anarchist Chossid said...

Define hippiness and Russianness.