"Religion sucks, G-d is great..!" 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

This is my most controversial heavy duty subject I have commented on. I have been sitting  on a rough draft of this blog  for two years. I finally decided to publish this, some will love it, others won't.  Please note I love G-d, and do not intend to offend anyone. I believe that all religions work if you believe in them...  G-d is everywhere and an understanding and forgiving G-d, I Love the L-rd! This is just how I feel... Read more... 

 It's funny, I used to look forward to the sabbath, now that I am retired everyday is like the sabbath, in fact on sabbath I usually work more than I do during the week. Sabbath is good for people working and having the stresses that life throws their way. During the week I bicycle and walk as my primary means of transportation, however on the sabbath I drive my car so I can visit and relax with good friends who live further than a relaxing walk or bike ride.

They say you should be in a different consciousness on the sabbath and since during the week I walk and bike, sabbath is the day I drive.


I love my orthodox Rabbi friend's but find some of their customs to be unhealthy and just plain not Jewish.


1- They (Chabad) worship the former  Rebbe as a 'messiah,' they write letters of prayer to him and throw them on his grave.(ohel) Not that there is anything wrong with this since I believe there are many ways to get to your spiritual destination. (More than one road to Rome...)
(for information log ontohttp://www.ohelchabad.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/AID/78446)


This is ironic since the 'Shema' the signature prayer of Judaism, states one G-d and only one G-d) that's one of the reasons the Jew's don't believe in Jesus, they believe in going to the source, no intermediary. Yet they write letters of prayer to a dead person they worship as the messiah and display wall photos of him similar to many Christians displaying photos of Yeshua. ( The Hebrew name for Jesus)


2- During circumcision the orthodox Rabbi will suck the infants penis to clean off the blood. There is an incident where an infant boy contacted the herpes virus from this procedure.The practice is known as oral suction, or in Hebrew, 'metzitzah b'peh.' After removing the foreskin of the penis, the practitioner, or mohel, sucks the blood from the wound to clean it. It became a health issue after a boy in Staten Island and twins in Brooklyn, circumcised by the same mohel in 2003 and 2004, contracted Type-1 herpes. Most adults carry the disease, which causes the common cold sore, but it can be life-threatening for infants. One of the twins died

(read more about this incident in the New York times;) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/nyregion/26circumcise.html

3- During all simcah's (celebrations) men dance with men and women dance with women, I would like to know the rate of closet homosexuality in the orthodox sect?


4- Some things are translated literally and some things symbolically? Not driving, not cooking, not talking on the phone on the sabbath all stem from a biblical passage that states, "no kindling of a fire." Ex(35:3) Therefore driving one's car ignites a spark plug and in modern day went on to include no driving. Symbolically I would interpret this to mean no fighting with family or friends.
( http://www.letusreason.org/7thAd4.htm) explains all rules of the sabbath, in fact disobeying them would be reason for a stoning, and I don't mean getting high.


5- Not carrying on the sabbath is another rule the orthodox follow on the sabbath, yet someone figured it was OK to wear your keys around your neck on a string since your not allowed to carry them in your pocket, playing attorney with G-d is stooping pretty pretty low...


6- Kosher laws are so crazy that one orthodox Rabbi will not eat at another orthodox Rabbi's since he may use products displaying a hechsher that he does not recognize, or might think that the oven used in baking or the ways of the food preparations was not properly administered. Another law hard to swallow is that if a non Jew turns on the oven and kosher food is to be cooked it makes the food non-kosher. Only a Jew can turn on the oven in an orthodox kitchen.
http://www.hechshers.info/about.htm


7- The old ritual that says you shouldn't work on the sabbath? Well sabbath is the day the Rabbi is on stage, he needs an audience a congregation, so of course he will say to not work, but ironically he is working, and usually the wife is dishing out food and moving chairs to accommodate guests.I think G-d would be happier if you took a homeless person to dinner than worried whether or not the potato chip had the proper hecksher marking on the package... Oy Vey... Read more on the different certifications and  kosher hechshers logos.
http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/kosher/lifestyle/kosher-certifying-standards.asp


My conclusion is 'religion sucks and G-d is great,'(not a bad idea for a bumper sticker) and come judgment day, all of us will be in for a rude awaking when we say, oh, that's what you meant Lord.


Although all these laws seem crazy, even the practitioners who are usually of a high intellect will tell you they make no sense, but practitioner's continue on with the practice as a way to be obedient to their G-d.

They say you shouldn't question G-d, I agree you shouldn't question G-d, but you can question the people who interpret what they think G-d said.


Update, 03-23-14   Rabbi being sued for cutting off boys organ during the a ritual bris ceremony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twY4jnV8M_Y
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For more interesting readings  go to; http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/chabad_gathering_no_jew_left_behind 
http://www.chabad.org/   (Has all the answers you may need)
http://www.frumsatire.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/thou-shall-smite-you.jpg (cartoon below)

This has to be my all time favorite cartoon!  ;D)  Thanks Rod

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

'About Bettejo..." "Bettejo Dux' (Inspirational Wednesday)

Guest-blogger Bettejo Dux is one of Kauai's most colorful people, she has lived on the cosmic island of Kaua'i for over 40 years... She is an animal lover, people lover and enjoys life to the fullest.Today she guest blogs about  "About Bettejo" and her fiction book "The Scam." Plus as an encore(Hana Hou)  of  her daughter Blu singing her award winning song on YouTube for the third  week in a row... "Kalaheo shuffle."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0YuQLhBVo
 Bettejo  also  publishes her own blog column.
You can check it out at ;  http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com .   Besides her blog she recently published and authored the humorous fiction book, "The Scam," check it out at(www.bettejodux.com) or  on Amazon.

ABOUT BETTEJO

I've seen Kauai through my own eyes for over forty years but my humorous novel, The SCAM, will be seen through the eyes of a character I love and created, Karen Holt, she and her whole clan, in the hip 60's. This column-you call it a blog-will take us back and bring us forward to today.

Today, driving to metropolitan Lihue, I see more cars than there were on the island when I arrived.
My husband, Bill,  was the Engineering Department Head for McBryde Sugar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alexander and Baldwin, Big Five, lots of land and MATSON navigation; sugar was King then, actually the managers were Kings and department heads and their wives Lords and Ladies of the land. It was a wonderful life. We lived in some beautiful homes, one on the Spouting Horn Road-millionaire’s row-overlooking Kukuiula Harbor, where we kept our boat, and across the street from land we leased where we kept our horses. Our last abode, a lava rock  mansion up the Alexander Dam Road where, behind us all the way to Hanalei, there was no other habitation, was delightfully secluded.  Up there I rode my leopard appaloosa, Beauregard, followed by the dogs and my  black American Show Shetland stallion Flash’s Fanfare Sensation. Flashy darted along, no halter, no line, a free soul who, at the ripe old age of 40, sometimes led the way.

Our canine companions were two  Great Pyrenees and an odd assortment -sometimes two , sometimes three- of mixed bred size and shape. They fit in.

I did not. I was, and still am, sometimes, the one everybody loves to hate. In my lifetime of travels I've been the one everybody loved to love and the one everybody loved to hate and, truthfully, I  can’t tell you what role I liked the best.

Remember, I’d blown into Kauai from  big city Honolulu where I wrote a column for the Honolulu Star Bulletin/Advertiser,  some small local magazines, and acted with the only professional theater group in Hawaii, the Magic Ring Theater at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. I was also a noisy Peacenik, an early environmentalist, and a rabid Letter to the Editor writer. I've kept what I call the Bettejo Page, an entire Letter to the Editor section of the Honolulu Advertiser with a guest commentary about over-development signed by Mrs. William Dux. A picture of me-2X6- with a blurb about my column and a cartoon showing a lady  holding back a million junked cars has a caption that still reads “Beauty and the Beast”. The head of my long diatribe reads “Where To Go When All’s  Gone?”

My writing and outspoken personality went over on Kauai like a tsunami at a beach party.
Poor Bill, he was constantly bombarded at work with, “Do you know what she did?” Which, by the way, most of the time I didn't.

I once had a neighbor drop in for coffee and regale me with his hour-long diatribe of what people were saying about me. My response, as I spilled hot coffee in his lap, “…and I hope they believe every word of it. Then they’ll stay away which is exactly what I want them to do.”
They did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0YuQLhBVo


Bettejo has a blog of her own you can check out at ; http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com  


Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.


http://www.bettejodux.com/

Professional hand wavers are back....2012 is an election year, or should I say a hand waiving year!‏ 'Obama Da Dog'

"Hand-waving is one of the most important aspects of an election campaign on the quiet cosmic island of Kauai..."
This blog also appeared as an opinion article on Father's day, 06-17-12 in the Kaua'i Garden Island News.
http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-to-the-editor-for-sunday-june/article_ae4c894c-b861-11e1-b2e5-0019bb2963f4.html

The Professional sidewalk trespassers and hand-wavers are back for the 2012 elections doing what they do, trying to employ and emulate what they believe a politician does best.

A Politician first and foremost must be able to wave, the Shaka wave will usually get you extra votes in Hawai'i.

Blocking sidewalks  and forcing  pedestrians to walk on the street is another prerequisite in running for political office.

After the elections there  is no longer the need to block sidewalks or wave from their favorite street corner. For the hand wavers who win  county council seats,  it's now time to attend to their part time job which pays $56,000 a year, (an extra $7,000 for the chair) $500 a month car allowance, the best available health insurance known to  man and woman-kind and  free bus service for unlimited travel island wide of which most county employees never use.

Enjoy the hand-waving competition for it will soon be over, and make sure to vote for your favorite hand waiver this coming November. I still like the Miss America wave da best!

http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-to-the-editor-for-sunday-june/article_ae4c894c-b861-11e1-b2e5-0019bb2963f4.html

" Advocate..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspirational Monday)

"Guest-blogger Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst N.Y. and has worked in the ophthalmology field of medicine for over 30 years..." She talks about her father's medical condition and how the elderly are treated...Enjoy...

ADVOCATE…ADVOCATE….ADVOCATE….CHILDREN FOR YOUR ELDERLY PARENTS
　
I have just spent a grueling week of advocating for my 92 yr. old dad who has been in the hospital with some serious medical issues. I can’t count the number of phone calls and hospital surprise visits that I have made to make myself heard. Why do some doctors look at the elderly and just treat the symptoms and not the cause. AMONG his several medical symptoms, my dad has pancreatitis…from where, we have no idea and neither did the Doctor. IT TOOK GREAT CONVINCING TO EVEN HAVE HIM BRING IN A SPECIALIST to let him take a look at dad and run some tests so we could have some answers. It really comes down to this…..

If you question a Doctor as to
 his medical protocol and he resists and gets offended….get another doctor!!
Any professional that takes offense to your concerns and requests is not worth having.
 

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher

"Religion and Porno sites are dangerous to your computers health..." 'Obama Da Dog'

"We now use computers for everything the mind can imagine and then some..."Religious and porno websites carry more virus and corruption than any other websites..."

Porno is readily available for free on the Internet. One no longer has to be embarrassed going into a convenient store to buy Playboy, Playgirl, Hustler, Swank or Cheri magazine, one no longer has to go to adult book stores to rent x rated DVDs, you can download many for free right on the computer your using reading this. The days of the x-rated movie theatre with the perverts in trench-coats are long gone, no longer does one need to worry about being asked to sample some popcorn from the weird guy sitting next to you.

Most people denounce porno yet in private will view it. There are millions of  porno sites, in fact porno is the number one Internet business. In fact "the statistics are truly staggering. According to compiled numbers from respected news and research organizations, every second $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography. Every second 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography. In that same second 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines. Every 39 minutes a new pornographic video is being created in the U.S.  


Adolescent boys no longer worry about hiding the Playboy magazines inside of a Time magazine or Sports illustrated, however they do need to worry about crashing the family computer.

Ironically there are more worms and Trojan horse viruses spread through porno websites than anywhere else besides religious websites. The Trojan horse is somewhat the VD virus of the Internet.

The first Thing I think of  when somebody tells me their computer crashed is this person is  either religious, enjoys porno, or both.


Beware of the televangelists leading you to their websites, they may be leading you into a trap for identity theft and crashed computers. Religious websites are  dangerous to your computer well being.  Make sure you have  good firewall protection.

It's impossible to not run into porno, you may be looking up  breast cancer and to your surprise you find a nudist colony of all woman with big breasts.  You may be surprised as I was when I looked up the signature prayer of Judaism called the 'Shema,' and the search engine showed me many sites with she-males, (Woman with men's genitalia)   It's a different world these days.

Be careful, when you least expect it your web-cam may kick in and catch you in the act you only wish to deny. There are viruses that ignite your web-cam when your laptop is left open, there have been cases where people have left their laptops open in their bedrooms and others have seen first hand what they do behind closed doors.

 Remember the best way to keep your computer clean, is to keep your mind and search engine from wandering, and of course make sure and perform a monthly scan with your anti-viral software.
 Just remember your hard-drive stores everything, even the things you delete, Big Brother is watching and loves every minute of it!

It’s big business. The pornography industry has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix combined. 2006 Worldwide Pornography Revenues ballooned to $97.06 billion. (2006 & 2005 U.S. Pornography Industry Revenue.) 

 Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

" The Kiss..." "Marvin Gross' (Source)

Marvin Gross is a financial consultant residing in the suburbs of Buffalo N.Y. Marvin sends us another fun filled blog about a fun sport, kissing...Enjoy!

She is pregnant;


he had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.


When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.
He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this photograph.

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"The Unasked Question..?" 'Michael A. Herr' (Aloha Friday)

Renowned author Michael Herr is back guest-blogging on this awesome Aloha Friday talking about  those unasked questions that may had brought us a different destiny, if only... Make sure and check out Michael's website at; http://www.michaelherr.com/

 　
It's Aloha Friday.
The Unasked Question.Aloha folks.
Star Trek had "The Undiscovered Country". I present to you "The Unasked Question".

I live my life following my own set of rules. Ones like: "Don't eat anything bigger than your head"; "Always yield to any vehicle that could run over your car and not even feel the bump"; "If you hear fighting outside, lock the door and stay inside".

But the one rule that I only started to scrupulously follow after I retired is the Unasked Question Rule.
It's a simple rule. If you don't ask, you may never get. So always ask. "Is there room for one more?" "Can I substitute for the fries?" "Could I get upgraded on this?" "Can you take these charges off my bill?"

I wish I had learned to follow this rule when I was much younger. When I was in high school and college I was often afraid to ask questions that now I see I should have come right out with. Questions like: "Would you go to the dance with me?" "Can I have an increase in my allowance?" "Would you like to go to the movies with me?" "Can I skip practice today?" "Would you like to go for a drive with me?" "When Grandma comes to visit, do I have to kiss her?" "Could I kiss you?"

Do you see any pattern to my questions?
I think a lot of people are held back in life by their Unasked Questions. Like me, later on they wind up saying a litany of "If Only". "If only I had asked out that beautiful girl." "If only I had asked my boss for a promotion." "If only I had asked my doctor for another option."

By the way, I did ask that beautiful girl out and I did ask her for a kiss and then I asked her to marry me. So no regrets there. But I have cold shivers at times thinking how my life would have been so diminished if I had let those questions go unasked.

If you wonder if you should ask some question, stop wondering and ask it. Otherwise you may regret not getting the answer for the rest of your life.

Okay folks, see you next week.
　

check out Michael's website at http://www.michaelherr.com/ 

The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this blog site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of the Publisher of Dakinetalk the blog, but they could? ;D)

ALOHA FRIDAY

June 8, 2012