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Hi, I'm gonna ask again, since no one answered the last time I asked...Here it goes:
What was the name of the expedition which was gonna explore the northern polar areas, but was literarly burdened by it's own weigth - you see, they used a snowcat/armoured wagon that was much too heavy for the snow, and it eventually sunk through. I believe the snowcat still lies there today (possible Greenland or the outer areas of The Northern Pole) -- Petteroes 01:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
On one of Sonic Youth's albums, Daydream Nation, there is a song listed as "Silver Rocket." What is this song about?
A Silver Rocket is a type of dildo, if that helps. -- 81.111.18.84 12:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
The Silver Rocket dildo's earliest reference i can think of is in a song by the band Placebo in 1995/6: '2 rubbers, 2 lubes and a Silver Rocket' - from the context of the two other items it's clear he means the dildo. of course, that is still a long time after daydream nation, long enough for the dildo to have taken its name from the Sonic Youth song. -- 81.111.18.84 21:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Making Sunnis and Shi'ites suspicious of one another ... is the policy of the Americans in Iraq.What is the US policy in Iraq? Is it really granting freedom & democracy or imposing age old colonial tenet of divide & rule??? Where is freedom?? [kj_venus]
While I don't think the US wants a civil war in Iraq, as that makes it ungovernable, there is one possible benefit to the West. The current Muslim hatred directed at the West in the form of terrorist training schools throughout the Muslim world would be instead directed at the opposing sect, if a giant Sunni/Shiite war erupted. Eventually (probably after hundreds of millions died), they might realize that suicide bombings don't accomplish anything but kill a lot of people. StuRat 17:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
The potential civil war in Palestine between Hamas and Fatah may similarly benefit Israel by deflecting Muslim hatred and suicide bombers away from it. StuRat 18:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
The USA (and the West in general) is not interrested in any war in the Middle East because that would endanger the supply of oil. To the contrary, the US are interrested in keeping a relative peace in this region. Even a small localized war can easily grow and engulf the whole region. Flamarande 18:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
No One is supportive of Bush & his policies, instead kerry wud have been a much better run for the post of the US president. The Iraq mess is one example of abuse of power & N.Korea , What will the US do ? Will it extend support to China & other places in Asia? Also Hugo Chavez also has criticised the policies of the Bush administration for lacking foresight. How many more countries can take up the courage to challenge the might of the Big Brother? Even the rate at which engineers and other graduates turn out in the US have fallen compared to places like China. The US is having its own way in everything & it cant keep abusing power & freedom, when freedom is just impatience for materialistic desires. [kjvenus]
Hi I am looking for any music from the playstation one video game G DARIUS,or any sites to download from. Have already tried VGMUSIC, BEARSHARE and KAZAAR any help greatly appreciated.—Logan
What are and have been the major causes of death as percentage of the population (of a country or maybe an ethnic group or such), due to anything, so conflicts or natural disasters or ongoing events. Some examples are the Vietnam war (5-10% of the Vietnamese dead), WWII in Poland (16%), cars (close to 1% worldwide, but is it especially bad in one country?), the bubonic plague (40% in Constantinopel in 541), the holocaust (Jews, but also, say, gypsies, possibly per country) or terrorism? DirkvdM 08:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand this. That's like putting Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant categories. I am of the mind that religion transcends ethnicity, even in Jewish cases (Barry Goldwater & Madeleine Albright were/are both of Ashkenazi/German Jewish origins, but became Episcopalians/English Protestant Christians). Israeli hyphenations should be the only categories (Natalie Portman is a good example), otherwise I think this is some sort of Jewish identification thing for paranoid anti-Semites to look up and confirm their suspicions or something. I think it would be ridiculous to have categories for Christians and Muslims (or any non-Abrahamic faith) as well, even if NNDB does it. I think that the religious component belongs merely with the biographic articles, in detailing the religious orientation of individuals. BTW, I am religious and not trying to secularize this or anything. I'm a Christian Gentile and recall the New Testament says there is no difference between Jew or Gentile in Christ. Obviously, that was about Judeans/Israelites/Hebrews (Semites, as contrasted with Greek or Roman Japhetites) and not about Jews or Judaism as a religious community in this day and age or as it has been from the Expulsion to the creation of Israel. I think it is patently unfair to Jews to have them scrutinized with categorizes like this. Hasbro 10:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
That doesn't answer the issue in any way. Thanks for wasting my time. Hasbro 12:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
You are a troll. Hasbro 15:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
<personal attack removed - User:Zoe| (talk) 18:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)>. 71.100.6.152 17:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I still await a serious reply. Hasbro 04:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll try a serious response. In my experience the notations that someone is Jewish usually come from two distinct sets of editors: Jewish people and anti-semites. In both cases the aim is to raise awareness, but toward different ends. The comparison to Christians and Muslims is an inexact parallel because "Jewishness" has ethnic and cultural dimensions that Christianity and Islam don't share. While the mention of the New Testament would be relevant to Christians, people who are Jewish by faith as well as heritage aren't obligated to agree with what the New Testament says. There are many ways to debate around the margins of Jewish identity. Durova 05:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Hinduism is an ethnic religion as well. Just think--India and Hinduism, the Indus River all have the same name and identity (c.f. Jews and Judaism). Semites can become Christians...Gentiles (Japhetics) can become Jews. I think it has more to do with the social atmosphere--as you say, between Jews and anti-Semites. Thank you Durova, for what response shall open a doorway to normalizing Jewish identity alongside the other Abrahamic faiths. If you can do this, then perhaps Wikipedia will lead the way to destigmatizing the Jews. For myself, I am part Jewish as a Christian (I consider my religion more progressive). Even if I were maternally descended from a mother who practiced Judaism (or her family did), I would not automatically consider myself Jewish. That's the thing. Baptism and Christening are important rites for me. Aside from that, if I were Ashkenazi, I would see myself as German ethnically (literal interpretation) and Jewish religiously. I don't see how that is hard to fathom, unless we want to send the Jews back into ghettoes and recreate that sort of "ethnic background" once more. As it is, we have Israel to consider and not the old customs of hiding Jews in the seedy parts of the city. Jews deserve the same respect I feel I am entitled to. Japheth's descendents, as Christians, are living in the tents of Shem and expanding where the Jewish Semites left off. Of course, this is the general rule. There are Japhetic people not Christian, just as there are Semitic people not Jewish. There are Jewish Japhetics and Christian Semitics. Of course, there is the other issue of Hamites and Muslims--but that is more of the same subject discussed. Hasbro 09:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I understand your point on new anti-semitism, but my point is that the duality is not always important. The person above you has info on other examples. What if we called Japanese Americans, Shinto Americans instead? I would hardly consider Harrison Ford to be "Jewish American". Harrison Ford, to me, is an Irish American. That explains his "Anglo" looks and his Democratic party affiliation just like most Irish Catholics as they usually have been (c.f. the Kennedys), but Jewishness doesn't really fit him at all. What about me? I consider my Mediterranean ancestors to not make myself today a "Semitic" or "Black" person, but that was just a natural ancient expanse of Noah's Gentile son in that area and before modern technology made it possible to transplant societies or cultures further from the Cradle of Humanity/Civilization etc. I consider Christian to be a quasi-ethnic/racial term for Gentiles descended from Japheth, because obviously, who gets criticized for Christian imperialism but those of the Graeco-Roman (European) persuasion? Where was the original spread of Christianity by the Apostles, except those areas considered to be the old core of the ancient "Indo-European" diaspora and from which they spread out further. By the way, Germans and Ashkenazi mean just about the same to me. I do not consider them to be racially different and certainly not politically, economically or socially different. They are however, quite different from the "Anglosphere standard". When I think of Henry (Heinrich) Kissinger, I think of a German just as much as Adolf Hitler. Yiddish speakers remind me of Prussia--that old and defunct German state. In much the same way, I don't think it is possible to differentiate Sephardim from Spaniards unless getting into nitty gritty social register conventions and how they worship. I classify them the same. It's an extremely hard sell for me, to say that Alyson Hannigan or Laura Prepon is different in any way from Nikki Cox. Gwyneth Paltrow looks German/Polish to me. How would one tell otherwise?
My main point is, that I don't think that it makes sense to hybridize religious and ethnic terms and make a proper distinction on nationality. Religious categories (Jews, Christians) fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, not the Realm of Caesar (Israelis, Greeks).
Hasbro 09:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Loomis, the Yiddish speakers were part of German expansionism in the East, just as Morrocan Sephardim are totally historically connected to Moorish rule in Spain. Why you would try to make cognitive dissonance about this is beyond me, but these are sophist or casuist replies. Yes, I do have good intentions and you have yet to refute the argument distinguishing the differences between citizens of God (Jews, Christians, Muslims) with citizens of Caesar (Israelis, Greeks, Egyptians). It is strange to say one is half Italian, half Jewish as Rachel Bilson's article suggests. For Alyson Hannigan's article, it says that while her father is Irish, her mother's last name is Posner. That means she is half Irish, half Ashkenazi (German). I'm being technically and literally correct, at the face value of the issue. She is not half Jewish, no more than I could be half Episcopalian and half Methodist or half Catholic and half Orthodox. You are applying specious logic here, with generalized approaches that do not fit the actual situations.
The crux of the matter is, that I could not be half Amish, half English. That is illogical, but informal and improper common descriptions among the Amish community. Just the same, it is nonapplicable to the Jewish community. Long-standing custom of inaccurate depictions, nonwithstanding. Hasbro 21:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
If you are right, then you can tell me where I would reach my local Ashkenazi or Jewish consulate, for a visa or passport issued from those nations. The simple fact is, that is a fantasy reality invented by identity politics. In all likelihood, Rachel Bilson is half German--of the Jewish religion, which is the Ashkenazi community and a subculture. You tell me where to find the Semitic embassy and I'll agree with you. As it is, I am American and it doesn't matter if my ancestors were from England before that, France before that and the fallen city of Troy, back into prehistory. If I wanted to really stir up nonsense, I could say that I'm an African-European American because of probable Egyptian ancestors way back when. More responsible editing should be emphasized in Wikipedia biographies, rather than this socialist/balkanist presentation of people who are really just one type of person and not multiple personalities. Loomis, sorry to be the one to say that you are merely American and of Jewish religion. Your ancestors probably arrived after the founding of this nation and you see fit to live as though this is Yugoslavia in America. There is no Black embassy, because there is no Black nation. Niger and Nigeria sound close. These cultural terms have no legal framework. You are not Jewish and I am not Christian in the temporal world. Our souls are citizens of God, not Caesar. That means the only diplomatically recieved ethnicities are those which are nationalities and can be found in the United Nations or even unrecognized members such as rogue states where the people are a nation and not a religion. Your religious beliefs can't replace legal truth. I am not a citizen or national of Christianity any more than you are of Judaism, because neither is a country. Judea was a country a long, long time ago and so was Troy. That I may be a heir to the Trojans does not mean that I am Trojan, any more than you being a heir to the Maccabees or the line of David would make you a Judean. If you truly want the closest experience to that, become an Israeli citizen and you will bring a belief to life, more or less as a restored reality. I wish all the best to Israel and the new Israelites, but it is obviously not the same condition as the early Imperial Roman era.
What matters most is legal identification and diplomatic recognition. Where is Jewish in the ancestry for American censuses? Most American Jews usually mark German as their heritage. Hasbro 10:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Are not most immigrant American Jews of Ashkenazi descent, from Germanic and Slavic (those countries with historical influxes of Teutons) nations? That contrasts with the colonial American Jews of mostly Sephardi descent. In most cases, Jews made famous in Hollywood or Broadway are Ashkenazim. Why not go on and say that these people are Ashkenazim, instead of "Jewish"? "Jewish" doesn't really specify the ethnic component of the person, as Ashkenazi/Sephardi/Mizrahi does. I really don't think that religious beliefs about ethnicity are represented in legal courts, even if the Jews themselves hold such traditions. What matters most is the legal, recognized ethnic heritage. Rosenberg is an Ashkenazi name, not a "Jewish" name. One might say that Yiddish fits for linguistic reasons as well, as opposed to Ladino. Rosenberg is not a Hebrew name. Why don't you split hairs properly and matter-of-factly? Judaism is not a nation of the Earth, but of Heaven. Therefore, use Earthly terms for yourself and your people. There are to be no double standards. It is not more appropriate for you to identify ethnically as Jewish than me as ethnically Christian. My soul belongs to God in Heaven and I identify with Him through my Christian status, just as you through your Jewish status (or Muslim, or Buddhist, or Shinto, or Hindu). We identify with temporal rulers and nations through other terms, like American, Israeli, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese. You anachronistically apply "Jewish" as a resident of a country that died under the shackles of Roma and only now do we see Israel being rebuilt, even if your RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY has lived isolated and preserved traditions outside of Israel/Judea all this time. That's a goddamned long time to be a hyphenated, "rootless cosmopolitan" and no physical trace of the parent nation that spawned said people. In fact, that is a backwards way of looking at it. You are no more or less a modern day Judean than I am a modern day Trojan. The facts speak for themselves. Our ancestors have changed and become other things from their historical roots. Hasbro 15:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
There are competing sources and different perceptions, so ALL must be duly represented--especially the two major viewpoints. I have always been informed, that Jews can be of any race. That means, this is a religion, not an ethnicity. I also know that some view it differently. You are taking a combative and arrogant stance on every ethnic and religious category out there. I tell you to back off now. You just want to fight and win. This isn't what Wikipedia is about. Your brash attacks have inspired me to fire off insults that I will not type here. Hasbro 16:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
To sum up your statement, that means you can prove that Jewishness is not seen by a majority or significant minority as transferable between different ethnic/national/racial backgrounds and that Jewishness is identical to Judeans? Please, I'd love to see you try and prove that. Hasbro 09:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a waste of my fucking time, a charlatanous contrivance of NPOV and accuracy as things are in the REAL WORLD! Thanks a lot for spitting trash out your faces and nothing credible to work with. Thanks to all you "pros", for being such "cons". Good bye, ill reputable network of sources. Hasbro 13:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I revert to my original comments. In both natural and man-made affairs everything tends to grow and deversify over time including religions and religious beliefs until and unless an end point is reached. Hyphenation is necessary to maintain a concise link between the root and the latest diversity and to identify all those in between. Besides hasbro is an idiot. 71.100.6.152 16:28, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
There is a Disney's story that contains an explicit sexual citation? -- Vess 13:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
My question regards all production of Disney. -- Vess 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Released by Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, Down and Out in Beverly Hills has the distinction of being the first R-rated film ever released by Disney. The R rating is due to profanity as well as a brief scene showing a topless woman having sex, another first for Disney. However, countless R-rated films have since received distribution by the Disney Company, under subsidiaries such as Touchstone, Miramax Films and Hollywood Pictures. Walt Disney Pictures, the flagship family-oriented brand, has yet to release a film with a rating stronger than PG-13.
惑乱 分からん 22:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This has been currently in the news: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/minnie-mouses-paris-sex-tape-hits-web.php -- AnonMoos 18:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
. 惑乱 分からん 22:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You can get this kind of springed seat cushion thing that helps old people get out of their seat. Does anyone know what it's called or where I can find it. My google searches have proved fruitless. -- Username132 ( talk) 14:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
:An Ejector seat would do the job.
A lift chair slowly raises via an electric motor to help the person up. StuRat 17:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
topic? 205.188.117.12 14:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
They have the ability to use symbolic logic. StuRat 17:32, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Anatomically, humans are only different than most relatively intelligent mammals in their opposable thumbs and bipedalism, and some mammals have achieved one or the other. Of course, the mice are pan-dimensional creatures of an amazing degree of intelligence. AMP'd 18:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
See philosophical anthropology. These days, most philosophers would probably answer: language. Chl 19:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Humans are the only animal capable of teaching their children mathematics.
Humans are the only animals who can care about their own mortality and the passage of time.
If a patient does not take medicine and sues a Dr. for malpractice how will her not taking the medicine affect the case?
What are some jamaican reggae artists that mostly feature beats with a lot of bass? I'm talking about more music you would hear in a nightclub opposite the relaxing, smooth Bob Marley music. - Tutmosis 19:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I've done some life drawings, and I'd like to get some feedback on them. Is there a place on the internet where I can post the drawings and have people comment on them and give me constructive criticism? Like a livejournal community or something? 69.173.119.165 23:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm gonna ask again, since no one answered the last time I asked...Here it goes:
What was the name of the expedition which was gonna explore the northern polar areas, but was literarly burdened by it's own weigth - you see, they used a snowcat/armoured wagon that was much too heavy for the snow, and it eventually sunk through. I believe the snowcat still lies there today (possible Greenland or the outer areas of The Northern Pole) -- Petteroes 01:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
On one of Sonic Youth's albums, Daydream Nation, there is a song listed as "Silver Rocket." What is this song about?
A Silver Rocket is a type of dildo, if that helps. -- 81.111.18.84 12:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
The Silver Rocket dildo's earliest reference i can think of is in a song by the band Placebo in 1995/6: '2 rubbers, 2 lubes and a Silver Rocket' - from the context of the two other items it's clear he means the dildo. of course, that is still a long time after daydream nation, long enough for the dildo to have taken its name from the Sonic Youth song. -- 81.111.18.84 21:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Making Sunnis and Shi'ites suspicious of one another ... is the policy of the Americans in Iraq.What is the US policy in Iraq? Is it really granting freedom & democracy or imposing age old colonial tenet of divide & rule??? Where is freedom?? [kj_venus]
While I don't think the US wants a civil war in Iraq, as that makes it ungovernable, there is one possible benefit to the West. The current Muslim hatred directed at the West in the form of terrorist training schools throughout the Muslim world would be instead directed at the opposing sect, if a giant Sunni/Shiite war erupted. Eventually (probably after hundreds of millions died), they might realize that suicide bombings don't accomplish anything but kill a lot of people. StuRat 17:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
The potential civil war in Palestine between Hamas and Fatah may similarly benefit Israel by deflecting Muslim hatred and suicide bombers away from it. StuRat 18:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
The USA (and the West in general) is not interrested in any war in the Middle East because that would endanger the supply of oil. To the contrary, the US are interrested in keeping a relative peace in this region. Even a small localized war can easily grow and engulf the whole region. Flamarande 18:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
No One is supportive of Bush & his policies, instead kerry wud have been a much better run for the post of the US president. The Iraq mess is one example of abuse of power & N.Korea , What will the US do ? Will it extend support to China & other places in Asia? Also Hugo Chavez also has criticised the policies of the Bush administration for lacking foresight. How many more countries can take up the courage to challenge the might of the Big Brother? Even the rate at which engineers and other graduates turn out in the US have fallen compared to places like China. The US is having its own way in everything & it cant keep abusing power & freedom, when freedom is just impatience for materialistic desires. [kjvenus]
Hi I am looking for any music from the playstation one video game G DARIUS,or any sites to download from. Have already tried VGMUSIC, BEARSHARE and KAZAAR any help greatly appreciated.—Logan
What are and have been the major causes of death as percentage of the population (of a country or maybe an ethnic group or such), due to anything, so conflicts or natural disasters or ongoing events. Some examples are the Vietnam war (5-10% of the Vietnamese dead), WWII in Poland (16%), cars (close to 1% worldwide, but is it especially bad in one country?), the bubonic plague (40% in Constantinopel in 541), the holocaust (Jews, but also, say, gypsies, possibly per country) or terrorism? DirkvdM 08:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand this. That's like putting Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant categories. I am of the mind that religion transcends ethnicity, even in Jewish cases (Barry Goldwater & Madeleine Albright were/are both of Ashkenazi/German Jewish origins, but became Episcopalians/English Protestant Christians). Israeli hyphenations should be the only categories (Natalie Portman is a good example), otherwise I think this is some sort of Jewish identification thing for paranoid anti-Semites to look up and confirm their suspicions or something. I think it would be ridiculous to have categories for Christians and Muslims (or any non-Abrahamic faith) as well, even if NNDB does it. I think that the religious component belongs merely with the biographic articles, in detailing the religious orientation of individuals. BTW, I am religious and not trying to secularize this or anything. I'm a Christian Gentile and recall the New Testament says there is no difference between Jew or Gentile in Christ. Obviously, that was about Judeans/Israelites/Hebrews (Semites, as contrasted with Greek or Roman Japhetites) and not about Jews or Judaism as a religious community in this day and age or as it has been from the Expulsion to the creation of Israel. I think it is patently unfair to Jews to have them scrutinized with categorizes like this. Hasbro 10:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
That doesn't answer the issue in any way. Thanks for wasting my time. Hasbro 12:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
You are a troll. Hasbro 15:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
<personal attack removed - User:Zoe| (talk) 18:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)>. 71.100.6.152 17:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I still await a serious reply. Hasbro 04:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll try a serious response. In my experience the notations that someone is Jewish usually come from two distinct sets of editors: Jewish people and anti-semites. In both cases the aim is to raise awareness, but toward different ends. The comparison to Christians and Muslims is an inexact parallel because "Jewishness" has ethnic and cultural dimensions that Christianity and Islam don't share. While the mention of the New Testament would be relevant to Christians, people who are Jewish by faith as well as heritage aren't obligated to agree with what the New Testament says. There are many ways to debate around the margins of Jewish identity. Durova 05:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Hinduism is an ethnic religion as well. Just think--India and Hinduism, the Indus River all have the same name and identity (c.f. Jews and Judaism). Semites can become Christians...Gentiles (Japhetics) can become Jews. I think it has more to do with the social atmosphere--as you say, between Jews and anti-Semites. Thank you Durova, for what response shall open a doorway to normalizing Jewish identity alongside the other Abrahamic faiths. If you can do this, then perhaps Wikipedia will lead the way to destigmatizing the Jews. For myself, I am part Jewish as a Christian (I consider my religion more progressive). Even if I were maternally descended from a mother who practiced Judaism (or her family did), I would not automatically consider myself Jewish. That's the thing. Baptism and Christening are important rites for me. Aside from that, if I were Ashkenazi, I would see myself as German ethnically (literal interpretation) and Jewish religiously. I don't see how that is hard to fathom, unless we want to send the Jews back into ghettoes and recreate that sort of "ethnic background" once more. As it is, we have Israel to consider and not the old customs of hiding Jews in the seedy parts of the city. Jews deserve the same respect I feel I am entitled to. Japheth's descendents, as Christians, are living in the tents of Shem and expanding where the Jewish Semites left off. Of course, this is the general rule. There are Japhetic people not Christian, just as there are Semitic people not Jewish. There are Jewish Japhetics and Christian Semitics. Of course, there is the other issue of Hamites and Muslims--but that is more of the same subject discussed. Hasbro 09:04, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I understand your point on new anti-semitism, but my point is that the duality is not always important. The person above you has info on other examples. What if we called Japanese Americans, Shinto Americans instead? I would hardly consider Harrison Ford to be "Jewish American". Harrison Ford, to me, is an Irish American. That explains his "Anglo" looks and his Democratic party affiliation just like most Irish Catholics as they usually have been (c.f. the Kennedys), but Jewishness doesn't really fit him at all. What about me? I consider my Mediterranean ancestors to not make myself today a "Semitic" or "Black" person, but that was just a natural ancient expanse of Noah's Gentile son in that area and before modern technology made it possible to transplant societies or cultures further from the Cradle of Humanity/Civilization etc. I consider Christian to be a quasi-ethnic/racial term for Gentiles descended from Japheth, because obviously, who gets criticized for Christian imperialism but those of the Graeco-Roman (European) persuasion? Where was the original spread of Christianity by the Apostles, except those areas considered to be the old core of the ancient "Indo-European" diaspora and from which they spread out further. By the way, Germans and Ashkenazi mean just about the same to me. I do not consider them to be racially different and certainly not politically, economically or socially different. They are however, quite different from the "Anglosphere standard". When I think of Henry (Heinrich) Kissinger, I think of a German just as much as Adolf Hitler. Yiddish speakers remind me of Prussia--that old and defunct German state. In much the same way, I don't think it is possible to differentiate Sephardim from Spaniards unless getting into nitty gritty social register conventions and how they worship. I classify them the same. It's an extremely hard sell for me, to say that Alyson Hannigan or Laura Prepon is different in any way from Nikki Cox. Gwyneth Paltrow looks German/Polish to me. How would one tell otherwise?
My main point is, that I don't think that it makes sense to hybridize religious and ethnic terms and make a proper distinction on nationality. Religious categories (Jews, Christians) fit for the Kingdom of Heaven, not the Realm of Caesar (Israelis, Greeks).
Hasbro 09:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Loomis, the Yiddish speakers were part of German expansionism in the East, just as Morrocan Sephardim are totally historically connected to Moorish rule in Spain. Why you would try to make cognitive dissonance about this is beyond me, but these are sophist or casuist replies. Yes, I do have good intentions and you have yet to refute the argument distinguishing the differences between citizens of God (Jews, Christians, Muslims) with citizens of Caesar (Israelis, Greeks, Egyptians). It is strange to say one is half Italian, half Jewish as Rachel Bilson's article suggests. For Alyson Hannigan's article, it says that while her father is Irish, her mother's last name is Posner. That means she is half Irish, half Ashkenazi (German). I'm being technically and literally correct, at the face value of the issue. She is not half Jewish, no more than I could be half Episcopalian and half Methodist or half Catholic and half Orthodox. You are applying specious logic here, with generalized approaches that do not fit the actual situations.
The crux of the matter is, that I could not be half Amish, half English. That is illogical, but informal and improper common descriptions among the Amish community. Just the same, it is nonapplicable to the Jewish community. Long-standing custom of inaccurate depictions, nonwithstanding. Hasbro 21:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
If you are right, then you can tell me where I would reach my local Ashkenazi or Jewish consulate, for a visa or passport issued from those nations. The simple fact is, that is a fantasy reality invented by identity politics. In all likelihood, Rachel Bilson is half German--of the Jewish religion, which is the Ashkenazi community and a subculture. You tell me where to find the Semitic embassy and I'll agree with you. As it is, I am American and it doesn't matter if my ancestors were from England before that, France before that and the fallen city of Troy, back into prehistory. If I wanted to really stir up nonsense, I could say that I'm an African-European American because of probable Egyptian ancestors way back when. More responsible editing should be emphasized in Wikipedia biographies, rather than this socialist/balkanist presentation of people who are really just one type of person and not multiple personalities. Loomis, sorry to be the one to say that you are merely American and of Jewish religion. Your ancestors probably arrived after the founding of this nation and you see fit to live as though this is Yugoslavia in America. There is no Black embassy, because there is no Black nation. Niger and Nigeria sound close. These cultural terms have no legal framework. You are not Jewish and I am not Christian in the temporal world. Our souls are citizens of God, not Caesar. That means the only diplomatically recieved ethnicities are those which are nationalities and can be found in the United Nations or even unrecognized members such as rogue states where the people are a nation and not a religion. Your religious beliefs can't replace legal truth. I am not a citizen or national of Christianity any more than you are of Judaism, because neither is a country. Judea was a country a long, long time ago and so was Troy. That I may be a heir to the Trojans does not mean that I am Trojan, any more than you being a heir to the Maccabees or the line of David would make you a Judean. If you truly want the closest experience to that, become an Israeli citizen and you will bring a belief to life, more or less as a restored reality. I wish all the best to Israel and the new Israelites, but it is obviously not the same condition as the early Imperial Roman era.
What matters most is legal identification and diplomatic recognition. Where is Jewish in the ancestry for American censuses? Most American Jews usually mark German as their heritage. Hasbro 10:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Are not most immigrant American Jews of Ashkenazi descent, from Germanic and Slavic (those countries with historical influxes of Teutons) nations? That contrasts with the colonial American Jews of mostly Sephardi descent. In most cases, Jews made famous in Hollywood or Broadway are Ashkenazim. Why not go on and say that these people are Ashkenazim, instead of "Jewish"? "Jewish" doesn't really specify the ethnic component of the person, as Ashkenazi/Sephardi/Mizrahi does. I really don't think that religious beliefs about ethnicity are represented in legal courts, even if the Jews themselves hold such traditions. What matters most is the legal, recognized ethnic heritage. Rosenberg is an Ashkenazi name, not a "Jewish" name. One might say that Yiddish fits for linguistic reasons as well, as opposed to Ladino. Rosenberg is not a Hebrew name. Why don't you split hairs properly and matter-of-factly? Judaism is not a nation of the Earth, but of Heaven. Therefore, use Earthly terms for yourself and your people. There are to be no double standards. It is not more appropriate for you to identify ethnically as Jewish than me as ethnically Christian. My soul belongs to God in Heaven and I identify with Him through my Christian status, just as you through your Jewish status (or Muslim, or Buddhist, or Shinto, or Hindu). We identify with temporal rulers and nations through other terms, like American, Israeli, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese. You anachronistically apply "Jewish" as a resident of a country that died under the shackles of Roma and only now do we see Israel being rebuilt, even if your RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY has lived isolated and preserved traditions outside of Israel/Judea all this time. That's a goddamned long time to be a hyphenated, "rootless cosmopolitan" and no physical trace of the parent nation that spawned said people. In fact, that is a backwards way of looking at it. You are no more or less a modern day Judean than I am a modern day Trojan. The facts speak for themselves. Our ancestors have changed and become other things from their historical roots. Hasbro 15:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
There are competing sources and different perceptions, so ALL must be duly represented--especially the two major viewpoints. I have always been informed, that Jews can be of any race. That means, this is a religion, not an ethnicity. I also know that some view it differently. You are taking a combative and arrogant stance on every ethnic and religious category out there. I tell you to back off now. You just want to fight and win. This isn't what Wikipedia is about. Your brash attacks have inspired me to fire off insults that I will not type here. Hasbro 16:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
To sum up your statement, that means you can prove that Jewishness is not seen by a majority or significant minority as transferable between different ethnic/national/racial backgrounds and that Jewishness is identical to Judeans? Please, I'd love to see you try and prove that. Hasbro 09:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia is a waste of my fucking time, a charlatanous contrivance of NPOV and accuracy as things are in the REAL WORLD! Thanks a lot for spitting trash out your faces and nothing credible to work with. Thanks to all you "pros", for being such "cons". Good bye, ill reputable network of sources. Hasbro 13:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I revert to my original comments. In both natural and man-made affairs everything tends to grow and deversify over time including religions and religious beliefs until and unless an end point is reached. Hyphenation is necessary to maintain a concise link between the root and the latest diversity and to identify all those in between. Besides hasbro is an idiot. 71.100.6.152 16:28, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
There is a Disney's story that contains an explicit sexual citation? -- Vess 13:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
My question regards all production of Disney. -- Vess 14:13, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Released by Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, Down and Out in Beverly Hills has the distinction of being the first R-rated film ever released by Disney. The R rating is due to profanity as well as a brief scene showing a topless woman having sex, another first for Disney. However, countless R-rated films have since received distribution by the Disney Company, under subsidiaries such as Touchstone, Miramax Films and Hollywood Pictures. Walt Disney Pictures, the flagship family-oriented brand, has yet to release a film with a rating stronger than PG-13.
惑乱 分からん 22:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This has been currently in the news: http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/minnie-mouses-paris-sex-tape-hits-web.php -- AnonMoos 18:10, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
. 惑乱 分からん 22:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
You can get this kind of springed seat cushion thing that helps old people get out of their seat. Does anyone know what it's called or where I can find it. My google searches have proved fruitless. -- Username132 ( talk) 14:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
:An Ejector seat would do the job.
A lift chair slowly raises via an electric motor to help the person up. StuRat 17:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
topic? 205.188.117.12 14:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
They have the ability to use symbolic logic. StuRat 17:32, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Anatomically, humans are only different than most relatively intelligent mammals in their opposable thumbs and bipedalism, and some mammals have achieved one or the other. Of course, the mice are pan-dimensional creatures of an amazing degree of intelligence. AMP'd 18:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
See philosophical anthropology. These days, most philosophers would probably answer: language. Chl 19:19, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Humans are the only animal capable of teaching their children mathematics.
Humans are the only animals who can care about their own mortality and the passage of time.
If a patient does not take medicine and sues a Dr. for malpractice how will her not taking the medicine affect the case?
What are some jamaican reggae artists that mostly feature beats with a lot of bass? I'm talking about more music you would hear in a nightclub opposite the relaxing, smooth Bob Marley music. - Tutmosis 19:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
I've done some life drawings, and I'd like to get some feedback on them. Is there a place on the internet where I can post the drawings and have people comment on them and give me constructive criticism? Like a livejournal community or something? 69.173.119.165 23:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)