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Category Archives: Personal
With Or Without You
External validation was my favorite drug. Until my 50s, I often put more value on what other people thought of me than on what I thought of me. As a child, I think I got most of my strokes for … Continue reading
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Does Your Life Work? Stroll Streams For 12-18-20
The difference between Indy pics and studio pics: Streaming as a compulsion: Toby Young’s Humiliation Diet: Happy memories: Provoking people means hurting people: COVID, Cucks And The Blitz (11-27-20) Are Sanskrit prayers the most powerful? Conversion is just doing a … Continue reading
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I Remember The First Time My Back Went Out
I believe it was late 1992 or early 1993. I had just passed the Reform Beit Din for my initial conversion to Judaism. I had just started placing and responding to singles ads. I had met a woman over the … Continue reading
Healing Back Pain
My back went out yesterday morning. It happens to me about once a year and I’m down for the count for a couple of days. I rarely have back pain or any muscular pain, but I notice that when I … Continue reading
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How Your Phone Rewires Your Brain
I’ve been taking a break from streaming. I’ve been affected by Fred Luskin, he talks about how your phone, or your epersonality, hijacks your central nervous system and reduces your ability to love real people. My 21 years of blogging … Continue reading
A Place For You
I just thought of a four-word phrase that sums up my approach to politics, sociology, recovery, self-help, spirituality, God and religion: “A place for you.” We deserve a place to feel at home. Government policies should promote that. People should … Continue reading
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Is It Your Place?
In the early years of my conversion to Judaism (1994-1995), when I was filled with enthusiasm and ready to tell off other Jews for doing Judaism wrong, Dennis Prager would sometimes say to me, “Is it your place to do … Continue reading
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We Depend Upon The Tolerance Of Others
If you infuriate people, they will retaliate. No man is an island. We depend upon others. If you antagonize people, they will make your life hell and drive you out. To live a good life, we need the tolerance of … Continue reading
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‘I Need You’
“I need you like the flower needs the rain You know I need you, guess I’ll start it all again You know I need you like the winter needs the spring You know I need you, I need you” (America, … Continue reading
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