* Sheryl Sandberg is single. Perhaps I’ll lean in.
* We saw that our own attempts to scheme and manipulate did not work. We admitted that we were powerless. We were ready to ask for help.
* Jew Ed Miliband, perhaps the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, stepped over his own brother. I guess it worked for Jacob and Joseph and David etc. Baruch HaShem, he will make the UK a friendlier place for Africans and muslims.
* In a rush, I dropped a can of orange soda the other day and it sprayed all over my room, making an enormous mess. I feel like it was a metaphor for my sins. I’ve yet to clean up every drop. The stains just keep spreading and turning up in unexpected places, like Ebola. I wish I could afford a Mexican.
I resent cleaning my room. I should be concentrating upon my study of Torah.
* I immersed myself in a friend’s Artscroll Gemara this morning. A Jew from birth asked me if I understood anything I was ostensibly studying. “Here and there,” I said. “I’m mainly looking for the racist bits.”
At least I’m no longer just looking for the sex.
Baby steps.
Recovery means progress, not perfection.
* A friend says: “BY THE WAY, I’m sure you’ve noticed, you vampire, that I’m talking to you white-to-white here, with surplus trust between the lines… but now I’m aware that you’ll eventually use my trust for your own gain! But, because it’s a biological inclination, there’s nothing I can do about it! Unless of course your biology trumps your conversion and deep down you’re a truster too. Exciting!”
* “All men, being brothers, are equally capable of being Americans.” (Harvard’s Oscar Handlin in Commentary, 1954) What about Israel? Are all men equally capable of being Israelis?
* 19th Century Reform leader David Einhorn opposed allowing gentiles to convert to Judaism because it would threaten the “racial purity” of Judaism.
* A friend says: “My dad always described the Seventh-Day Adventism of his youth “a cult.” He retreated into Methodism. He always talks about getting his circumcision at age 9 with some shady Adventist doctor who held him down and used only a topical numbing agent or something… guess he fought them off and ran for it and for a couple weeks had a dangling half-taken foreskin.”
