@Lucy_Gothro, excuse me for writing this, but I do enjoy your posts.
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Well, no excuse needed, Iâm quite glad you enjoy my posts!
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Is banning Twitter what it will finally take for Trump to recognize that Edrogan has gone too far?
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I would love it if Trump visited Turkey.
âSo Mr Trump, weâve shut down the media, murdered thousands, and Iâm president-for lifeâŚâ
âThatâs nice, Erdogan, let me just run my country for a sec by firing up Twitter.â
âAh, Mr Trump, please remember that Twitter is forbidden here, even for yourself.â
âYOU⌠YOU AUTHORITARIAN MANIAC!!!â
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I canât deny my curiosity any longer.
Who is the âskinny Rabbi?â
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Trump doesnât post for the benefit of Turks, so I doubt it.
Buying Twitter and closing it down, that would get attention.
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Jesus Christ.
Yes, I was a bit surprised he didnât spot that. Though I thought that the accepted expression was âJesus H. Christ!â
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I almost typed âJeshua Ben-Miriamâ.
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OK. That was one option I was considering.
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Heâs the best-known skinny Rabbi, isnât he?
I guess Hillel wasnât technically a Rabbi, so you might be right.
Jesus might have been chubby. After all he didnât stand on one foot while delivering the Sermon on the Mount.
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But the depictions of him while carrying the cross, and on the crossâŚyeesh. Thatâs what I was thinking of. Or course, by the time he got to that point, he probably was a bit emaciated, due to his treatment at the hands of the Romans.
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I didnât know he was a rabbi as well.
I canât offhand think of any thin rabbis; one I knew briefly fifty years ago is long dead, and the best known British rabbis - Lionel Blue who sadly died at the end of last year, and Julia Neuberger who is now a baroness were/are not underweight. I donât think the general public knows who is the chief rabbi of the United Synagogue. Perhaps in the US you have more choice.
I donât think they were politically correct then. Yeshwa ben Yusuf? Bulgakov refers to him as Yeshwa ha-Notsri, Jesus of Nazareth.
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[citation needed]. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Does he balance the two skinny ones?
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Did you by any chance mean Jonathan Sacks? He was the Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogues (i.e. Orthodox) which the Conservative Party persisted in treating as in some magic way the leader of British Jews - which he wasnât, not by a long, liberal and reform way.
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Jeshua ben-Joseph, Iâve seen, as well.
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[citation needed].
To be totally honest, I couldnât have completed my first degree without them. Heck, I know a guy who spent three years out of his tree and then ended up a senior marketing manager for a large pharmaceuticals company - I begin to wonder if this is going the way I meant it to. But my point is that so many young men aged between about 17 and 30 are so messed up with one thing and another that self-medicating with a little cannabis, acid or e is likely to do them a lot less harm than an alcohol habit.
I know Iâve wandered so far off topic that Iâve lost all the signposts. Forgive me, my country is going full Dumpf and I am very sad.
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I regret not paying more attention to that post the first time I read it. Well done for a very clever reference. Too clever for my poor old brain the first time round.
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