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From: beslove@osu-eddie.UUCP (Adam Beslove)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: No frummies, PLEASE! (Jewish singles)
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 16:08:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 16:08:55 1985
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> > About 45 minutes with a frummie single woman, and I'm ready to run away!  
> > >>>>Adam Beslove    (c)1985     (aka Odious Verity)
> > (UUCP: ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!beslove)

> In all seriousness and to enlighten some on the net, "Why are frummie  
> singles different from all other singles?"
>
> I tend to wonder if frummies know that their attitude is different.
> Now, I don't mean level of observance but respect for other Jews with
> somewhat different religious opinions.   
>
> In all fairness, we may wish to discuss "JAPS", too.
> Dovid HaNasi ( someday Dovid HaMelech, B'H".)  ihnp4!mhuxi!dsg

Indeed Dovid, ma nish ta na?  The frummies I've grown up with seem to
voluntarily carry a ball and chain, and can't understand why I don't want
to.  Frummies, of any organized religion you may choose, seem to live in
constant superstitious fear of 'stepping on the cracks in the sidewalk'.

It may be the Jewish way to question everything, but frummies seem to only
ask questions not directed at the heart of their belief system.
"Doublethink" as it were.  The reason that I have to run away from frummie
women is that if I don't, I'll start laughing at them!  I don't deny them
their beliefs, but it's easier from a distance. 

I am ever reminded of an ex-roommate who became a born-again Christian.
Nice guy, but at breakfast, he'd start talking about toast, and with three
sentences have established a path back to Jesus.  

Regarding frummie respect for other Jews, 'holier than thou' attitudes seem
the rule rather than the exeption.

Sigh.  Whatever energy Jews as a whole don't use in proselytizing, they seem
to expend in looking down upon other Jews.

Japs?  I don't even want to start!

>>>>Adam Beslove    (c)1985     (aka Odious Verity)
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