He’s from Massachusetts. He’s a communist. Looking at some of his pictures, I think he prefers places whose economic situation is in the gutter. I don’t what goes on in his head.
Like any metro, there is more to it than just the city center areas. 700k live in Seattle, 5 million live the Seattle area. Not to mention it gets REAL red, real quick when you get to the outskirts of the suburbs.
Curiously, what season were you there and what aspects made it so you wouldn’t want to live in the area?
late May/Early June. I prefer where I live.
I read this is becoming increasingly common in Japan.
This relates to the thread considering the OP seems to be lonely. I think he’d still dislike his job in a different situation because a boring job is far more tolerable when one strong social and family ties outside of it. Without those, a job can eat at someone.
So true. I have a communist friend, and its like because she has no money, she wants everyone else to have no money.
I feel like that is the backbone of that particular way of thinking. Unfortunately, in South America I feel that hard leaning left politics might make a comeback.
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FWIW that’s the worst weather of the year imo.
I might start on thread on your second point. I think it’d be interesting to hear why folks like where they live.
Looking that way in Chile, that’s for sure. We’ll see what Bolsonaro does in Brazil, but it doesn’t look like the courts favor him.
Nah, the weather was nice when we were there …didn’t get any rain. FWIW I’m not knocking Seattle. I had a good time there for sure and the surrounding area is beautiful.
Brasil is a sad case. They needed change but ended up going with Trump Lite. He gets nothing done, and all he does is talk shit and create havoc at this point.
Now the Leftist leader that was let out of jail is making a resurgence. He literally bankrupted the country but because at one point long ago when the entire world was seeing economic growth he threw money at poor people they think he’s great and want him back.
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Modern Orthodox, although I am a member of a Chabad shul and have been for decades now. My late first wife was Hasidic and it just kind of stuck with me because they were so kind and helpful to me when I was widowed and had various other problems.
Judaism is very important to me. I exist to serve G-d and my fellow man.
From a purely psychological perspective, I guess that gives me a reason to get up in the morning sometimes. There are so many people who need help. No ennui worries here.
As for whether Judaism helps us survive, I don’t know. I think obedience to G-d helps us survive, as He promised. Of course, you could also say that the structure and close society helps us survive, without taking into account various events I would attribute to the hand of G-d. That’s a matter of faith, which one is granted or not.
Regardless, the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Roman Catholic emperors, various European kings and queens, Ottomans, and the Nazis have all tried to exterminate us for the past 3000 years at various times, and are all (generally) in the dustbin of history. And yet here we are, fundamentally unchanged and back in the land of our fathers.
So it appears to be a winning system.
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Thanks for the response. At 23 years old I was strongly looking into Hasidism and once went to a Shabbat dinner with Chabad Lubavitcher and visited the rebbe’s grave. I took a Mikveh, all that.
Maybe I’m mistaken but I thought the Ottomans were friendly to us. My maternal Sephardic great grandparents were born and lived a chunk of their lives in Ottoman Turkey. Weren’t there successful and influential Jews there?
Well, pick your century. Sometimes things were good; mostly they were not.
And just because some Jews did well, it doesn’t mean others did. Heck, George Soros started to get rich in the chaos of WWII.
In fairness to you, academia looks fondly at the Othman Empire because of British elites that romanticized the “Turkmen”. So people tell the good stories and omit the day to day. And they wrote the books we have.
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Thanks for the response.
Advice to OP…
Have you ever tried getting into spirituality? I don’t mean the creepy, weird voodoo stuff, but the real spirituality stuff. Try praying and have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Life is different when you have a personal relationship with God.
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He’s answered this question a few times in the thread.
How goes everything? Figured I asked, because…well I care lol.
Hey man, I’m glad to see I’m not the only man here devoted to God. lol
I’m a Christian myself.
Uh, that is the weird voodoo stuff, lol.
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Nah. lol. Well, it depends. If you’re a pure atheist, then yes. But for us Christians? It’s the only way to live.
I’ve never been able to get into the church thing. I like the community aspect, I even like the spiritual aspect but to sit there and listen to some guy that really doesn’t know much about anything talk in such an authoritative way about god stuff has never, and I don’t think will ever, appeal to me.
At a friends wedding once the brides father was a pastor. I swear the only thing that came out of this fucking dudes mouth was “god is love, love is god, god brought us here, and god…” and blah blah blah. The dude didn’t say a single thing worth a damn, he just injected ‘god’ into his sentences as if it carries weight (which it did to some people, as i saw some next to me shaking their heads in agreement)
Later when I met the pastor he had such a smugness to him, this humble superiority as if he knows he’s better than everyone because he was a fucking pastor. A few min conversation with the guy and you realized he was dumb as rocks. I would eventually find out he was ordained at a very young age so it makes sense he knew nothing of value outside of giving sermons.
Anyways, yeah the church isn’t for me.