I’m writing in response to this thread in the Great Debates forum, which seems to be little more than a reprise of another thread.
In the earlier thread, dated 8 April 2002, you stated:
In the new thread, you tell the story (which I have great difficulty believing, given your past history on this board) where you find out that you have a Jewish ancestor, and that you are Jewish yourself (by ancestory). You then proceed to get tremendously bent out of shape.
Something about the new thread strikes me as dreadfully inconsistent with the old thread. I’m not calling you a liar, yet, but I just find the tale you tell in the OP to be somewhat far-fetched, given your antics in the “I want to be a Jew” thread.
Then you drop this little nugget in the midst of your rant:
Look…you don’t have to tell anyone you’re Jewish, if you are (and again, I’m doubting it). You can continue living your life just the way you’ve been living it.
Take me, for instance. I found out a number of years ago that on my mother’s side, there are Jewish ancestors. Did I freak out? Did I get bent out of shape? No…the reason was because I was still the same person before I found out as I was after I found out. This is a lesson that you need to learn.
As for the rest of your OP, get professional help. Seriously.
Someone else has already decided to put me on the family tree for heavens sake. What should I do to stop others from saying that I am Jewish? If you read the “I want to be a Jew” thread you find that someone already picked up on what my interest in all of this is. I don’t remember who but someone stated that they and a few others thought that I was already a Jew. Pretty perceptive.
Let me try this again. In that thread I was repeatedly told that I could not be a Jew because I did not accept the conversion process. That is exactly what I wanted to know. How do characterize people who would not allow me to convert just as I am but they do allow me in due to ancestry just as I am? If it is not racism please tell me WTF it is. I don’t care for Judaism, I will not accept the faith. The old gentile can’t get in but the new Jew can.
Good for you. I know who I am. It is some other people who think they know better that bother me.
Well, well, well. I’ve stayed out of GD so far today. I’ve got some actual work to do here, so I’m trying to keep my board surfing to a minimum today—and I’m spending all my time talking about AOTC, which I just saw last night.
But if my favorite hog-farmer-hating, Masonic-conspiracy-touting anti-Semite is back for another round, I guess I’ll have to go take a look…
Hey Ferrous !! Interesting that you should bring up the Hog farming topic. The tax payers of NC just picked up a 30 million dollar tab to clean that shit up. Funny. I don’t remember making that mess to begin with.
My sincere apologies to every cat on the planet. In addition, I apologize to any extra-terrestrial cats as well. Furthermore, I aplogize to Cat Stevens, Cat Ballou, Bucky Katt, Kim Cattrall, Eartha Kitt, Lee Merriweather, Julie Newmar, Michelle Phiffer, the people and cats of Katmanduj and anyone with cataracts.
Aw, Sweety, you know you will always have a special place in my heart, since it was due to my interaction with you on the temp board that I was first accused of being in The Clique. [sup]TM[/sup]
But, um…I really have no idea what you’re trying to say here. Clarify, please?
I still don’t understand why that would freak you out so much. Are they planning on publishing the family tree in the newspaper? Will there be a “breaking news” report on the Fox News Channel? (ALERT! Sweet Willy is a Jew! Bill O’Reilly will discuss ramifications in the No Spin Zone!) Will there be town criers walking up and down the streets of Pine Level bawling out the news?
It’s just a freakin’ family tree, and the person filling it out is trying to be as accurate and complete as possible.
If your story is true (and again, something in the back of my mind tells me that it isn’t), then it is true regardless of how you feel about it. Your ancestors are your ancestors, regardless of your attitudes, but your life is your own. How you live it is up to you, and if your posts here are any indication, you live it badly.
A while back, a great aunt did some genealogical research and found out that, on my mother’s side, I am descended from the hereditary court musicians of Schleswig-Holstein. (You all may bow before me :D).
My great aunt didn’t “put” me on the family tree of those hereditary court musicians. She simply found out that I was on said tree.
Similarly, your raving fanatical long-lost cousin ( :rolleyes: )didn’t “make” you Jewish. She simply informed you that you were.
Not having seen the aforementioned ‘family tree’, are the religious affiliations of each member marked in? or is the concern that suddenly ‘everybody’ (probably amounting to the person who is making the tree, SW his own little self, and anyone else not able to escape), will ‘know’ that SW is related to
“Uncle Bleepenstein” and therefore SW is Jewish?
I had two co-workers one with a so-called Jewish last name and another w/ a seemingly Irish one. They were both black, neither Jewish nor Catholic and enjoyed the hell out of the startled looks they got
Yeah just a family tree. I think we all know how imortant this family tree is to Judaism. Doesn’t mean squat to me except that someone has changed my identity for me. The identity I have worked all my life to build. Now there is a group of people adding my name to the list of the chosen people of God. I have a serious problem with that. Suppose that a very large group of people put your name on the list of the knights of satan or the genetically homosexual? Wouldn’t bother you a bit that someone did that to you eh?
No one changed your identity. Your perception of your own identity was apparently changed. This is an important distinction, which I fear will be utterly lost upon you.
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So now we’ve gone from one person adding your name to her family tree to “a group of people” adding your name to “the list of the chosen people of God.” Tell me, exactly when did this happen? How does a family tree equal God’s List? Does God come down and notarize the dang thing or what?
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I have no doubt that you have a serious problem, and I repeat my assertion that you need to seek professional help.
The Knights of Satan? Cool. Do you get a free pitchfork after enlisting?
