Random questions.

[aygart]

-If I am watching an avalanche from afar and see someone walking right into it, am I hindering his free will because I know what is about to happen?

Do you know with the same certainty as if it had already happened that he will not inexplicably turn back?

[Baruch]

And to think, the whole point of him winning the election was just so one Lubavitcher could go free 

מי יודע אם לעת כזאת הגעת למלכות

Honestly, the night Trump won I was pretty upset, my only consolation then, was the Supreme Court, Israel, and that the Kushners might get Rubashkin out.

[Dan]

מי יודע אם לעת כזאת הגעת למלכות

Exactly.
@ChaimMoskowitz Esther 4:14

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Honestly, the night Trump won I was pretty upset, my only consolation then, was the Supreme Court, Israel, and that the Kushners might get Rubashkin out.

You hit the trifecta.

[jackofall]

Would this be accurate?
Jewish philosophy stresses that free will is a product of the intrinsic human soul, using the word neshama (from the Hebrew root n.sh.m. or .נ.ש.מ meaning "breath"), but the ability to make a free choice is through Yechida (from Hebrew word "yachid", יחיד, singular), the part of the soul that is united with God,[citation needed] the only being that is not hindered by or dependent on cause and effect (thus, freedom of will does not belong to the realm of the physical reality, and inability of natural philosophy to account for it is expected).

A lot of this is fairly accurate. However, and paradoxically we believe in G-Ds absolute control of every occurrence in the universe. These 2 ideas can not be reconciled. Yet they are both essential and fundamental Jewish beliefs.

[ExGingi]

A lot of this is fairly accurate. However, and paradoxically we believe in G-Ds absolute control of every occurrence in the universe. These 2 ideas can not be reconciled. Yet they are both essential and fundamental Jewish beliefs.

Let's just simplify and say that different things are true in different realms.

[aygart]

A lot of this is fairly accurate. However, and paradoxically we believe in G-Ds absolute control of every occurrence in the universe. These 2 ideas can not be reconciled. Yet they are both essential and fundamental Jewish beliefs.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-Fransisco D'anconia

[mileagejunkie]

Sorry. Too much vodka consumed this evening. Can’t chime in on philosophical discussions. Try me in a week.

 

[a good yeshiva bachur]

 

That’s no נס 😂

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Are Jewish people big on tans?

[yitrap]

Are Jewish people big on tans?

Not really a thing...

[gingyguy]

Are Jewish people big on tans?

im interested in the story that triggered this question

[ExGingi]

Are Jewish people big on tans?

Are Catholic people big on tans?

[Yehuda57]

Do Catholics like eating crow?

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Are Catholic people big on tans?

I would say about the same as rest of the population.

Do Catholics like eating crow?

Don't think most have had it.

What's with singling out a religion?

[aygart]

im interested in the story that triggered this question

+1

[ExGingi]

What's with singling out a religion?

Are Jewish people big on tans?

Wouldn't really call it singling out a religion, more like grouping people using an unrelated/non-correlated "identifier" (for lack of a better term at the moment).

Any answer to that question would be as valid as the answer to "do tall people like vegetables?"

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Wouldn't really call it singling out a religion, more like grouping people using an unrelated/non-correlated "identifier" (for lack of a better term at the moment).

Any answer to that question would be as valid as the answer to "do tall people like vegetables?"

Sorry but when you ask questions about a certain religion you are singling out that religion.

[Something Fishy]

"do tall people like vegetables?"

No.

[a good yeshiva bachur]

Sorry but when you ask questions about a certain religion you are singling out that religion.

And....

Are Jewish people big on tans?

So is this answered?

What's with singling out a religion?