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I don’t know what’s gotten into me lately.

Hormones? Maybe it’s because it’s that time of the month? I feel more… softhearted and sentimental for some reason. I’ve watched three seasons of Bridgerton and for the most part, I was unbothered. It was entertaining, but it didn’t affect me emotionally.

But season 4 volume 2 has got me in chokehold. I’ve only seen episodes five and six because I’m due to watch the remaining two at Julie’s for another Bridgerton watch party in the near future. But dammit if those two episodes aren’t giving K-drama. Part of me wonders if it’s because the main female lead is played by a Korean-Australian, Yerin Ha? That slow-burn and emotional push and pull that drags me in, making me feel a type of way.

The writing is unmatched to the other seasons. It’s the best damn love story that I’ve watched in a long time. The chemistry between the two actors is so so good. Damn, my feelings betray me and I feel all twisted inside… le sigh.

Bridgerton Season 4: Part 2

Spoiler Alert

Peak moments in episodes 5 and 6

Benedict confiding in Will Mondrich after asking Sophie to be his mistress and she turned him down.

Benedict Bridgerton: She is not a person of any rank, and I asked her to be with me.
Will Mondrich: You mean, as your mistress?
Benedict Bridgerton: Well I cannot ask her to marry me.
Will Mondrich: Making her your mistress is the only way tolerated by society. But, no matter her rank, no woman, no man, no person truly desires to be hidden.
Will Mondrich: Did you at least make it clear that you wish in some fantastical world that the two of you could be together, legitimately?
Benedict Bridgerton: No. But we are not in a fantastical world. So would not that have been dishonest?
Will Mondrich: It’s not about honesty. It is about gesture. How can a woman trust you to navigate a complicated life with her when she cannot trust you even to navigate her feelings?

Mr. Hiscox, one of Benedict’s friends, ended things with Virginia (his mistress) after being caught in public one too many times and is now at the country club drowning his sorrows.

Mr. Hiscox: I was forced to end things, to protect her, in truth, but she does not understand.
Benedict Bridgerton: What will you do?
Mr. Hiscox: What can I do? As i see it, I have two options. There is giving up and there is giving in, returning to the demimonde, to a midday drunk… to chasing sorrows in the bottom of the bottle. Would you like to join me in one?
Benedict Bridgerton: not just yet.

Benedict, a nobleman – the second son to the late viscount, professing his love to Sophie, who is a maid.

Benedict Bridgerton: There is not a single moment you do not fill my mind. I’ve heard every qualm you have raised about being with me, and I wish there were some other way for us to be together. But the thought of spending a single day without you torments my soul. You deserve the very world, but how else am I to be with a woman where society has made it impossible for me to be with? The woman I was foolish enough to fall in love with.
Benedict Bridgerton: I would not marry. I could not look twice at anyone else. If only you would love me back.
Benedict Bridgerton: You’re the person I have been searching for all my life. I love you.

If anyone else has seen this, tell me I’m not the only one?

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45 responses to “bridgerton chokehold”

  1. Violet Lentz Avatar
    Violet Lentz

    Ugh! you are twisting my arm to get Netflix again!

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      🤭 hehehe

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  2. April Avatar
    April

    I haven’t seen Bridgerton after season 1. However, I do catch up with steamy moment scene…and I love what he does with her against the wall and does that smirk..🫶

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      Omg that scene was 🔥

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  3. Ajinkya Rane Avatar
    Ajinkya Rane

    Thanks for the recommendation!

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      You’re welcome!!

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  4. mosckerr Avatar
    mosckerr

    The time has come to cast the Mullahs upon the dung heaps of history. Wars fought to determine who controls trade routes, long before the discovery of oil in the Middle East. Before President Trump’s Cease Fire: Britain negotiated three significant ceasefires with Napoleon before the Battle of Waterloo. Prior to the French total surrender (A French habit\veil comparable to that worn by catholic nuns – both losers.), the European empires in conflict, each one, attempted to impose a blockade upon the other.

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      ⸻

      1. “Britain negotiated three significant ceasefires before Waterloo”

      Not accurate.
      • The main agreement was the Treaty of Amiens, a temporary peace between Britain and France.
      • There were shifting coalitions and pauses in fighting, but not a recognized set of three British-negotiated ceasefires.
      • The wars resumed until Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

      So this claim is misstated.

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      1. “French total surrender before Waterloo”

      Incorrect.

      France did not “totally surrender” before Waterloo:
      • Napoleon was first defeated and exiled in 1814
      • He returned for the Hundred Days in 1815
      • His final defeat came at Waterloo

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      1. mosckerr Avatar
        mosckerr

        Never wrote “French total surrender “before” Waterloo. Only AFTER Waterloo did Napoleon surrender. Waterloo concluded Napoleon’s 100 Days.

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        1. justrojie Avatar
          justrojie

          My bad 🥺

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          1. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            Do not confuse the protagonists of this war. The paper tiger NATO states of Britain, France, and Germany seek the destruction of the President’s war to destroy the ability of Iran to become a nuclear power. Herein defines the “stakes” of this war. Why? Because following the Oct 7th Abomination War the Trump Gaza Peace Board excluded Russia, Britain, UN and France – that Quartet gone if the US Israel alliance wins this war and the Mullahs leave Persia for ever.

          2. justrojie Avatar
            justrojie

            Language and framing – Terms like “paper tiger,” “Abomination War,” and “Mullahs leave Persia forever” signal rhetoric and ideology rather than neutral analysis.

          3. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            The mullahs small satan metaphor followed up by arming Arab radicals in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria means that I personally am anything but neutral in my analysis. Family members buried in the Oct 7th Abomination war.

          4. justrojie Avatar
            justrojie

            Rip to your fam

          5. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            Thank YOU

          6. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            How to correctly understand the 2nd Sinai commandment … interpreted specifically how it contrasts with the 1st Sinai commandment.

            שמות כ:ב, that entire verse defines the 1st Sinai positive commandment. Which distinguishes the revelation of the Name שם השם (which I purposely do not write) from all other Divine Name references made in the Book of בראשית. These latter Divine Names, Avraham for example called upon אל שדי and did not know the שם השם. Meaning the prophets in the Book of בראשית called upon “their” God – who filled both the Heavens and the Earth. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai in the 1st Sinai commandment – the revelation that the שם השם, first and foremost a Spirit and not a word. The sin of the Golden Calf employs the word אלהים. Thereafter Moshe returned and fasted another 40 days and nights and received the revelation that the שם השם — a רוח הקןדש and not a word; furthermore this שם השם – radically differs from all the Divine Names which the Avot called upon in the Book of בראשית in that תורה לא בשמים היא. Herein defines the crux of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai לשמה. This Hebrew term לשמה, does not mean “for its own sake”. Rather that the Horev 13 tohor spirits אל רחום וחנון etc these spirits NOT words which the lips can pronounce. But rather spirit which dwell, as in the משל of the Mishkan where the Spirits of HaShem לשמה dwell within that structure as the נמשל revelation of השם — לא בשמים היא; meaning the revelation of the Torah לשמה, by definition excludes God in the Heavens above. For example: when a Jew visits a tomb, he tucks in his tzitzit because mitzvot do not apply to the World to Come.

            Whereas שמות ג-ו. The verse שמות כ:ז serves as the most distinct fundamental contrast between doing all Torah mitzvot thereafter לשמה – the first commandment; from the 2nd negative commandment which this general negative commandment through the specific verb תשתחוה which most essentially means “do not believe” expressed through the “metaphor” – bow down. All av tuma avoda zarah theologies, creeds and/or belief systems most fundamentally require a stated belief in “other Gods”. The first commandment וצאתיך מצרים מבית עבדים stands upon the משנה תורה\common law/ precedent of the oath sworn at the brit of pieces. בראשית טו:יג — ויאמר אל אברם ידע תדע כי גר יהיה זרעך בארץ לא להם ועבדו אתם וענו אתם ארבע מאות שנה. What makes this interesting, Israel was but 210 years in Egypt not four hundred years. חז”ל interprets the time difference to the Egyptian g’lut from the birth of Yitzak. Despite Yitzak never leaving the land of Canaan, Yitzak lived under the authority of foreign kings, no different from the post Babylonian exile where Judea existed as a ”banana republic” under the Persians, the Greek empires, both in Egypt and in Syria, and also by the Roman empire. The Talmud instructs that throughout the entire 2nd Temple period, Jews did not ever once keep the Yovel – the 50th year of freedom – declared throughout the land of Judea. Why?

            This declaration of Freedom fundamentally requires that Jews rule Judea as a free Independent nation! Hence the “g’lut” described at the brit cut between the pieces states 400 years, because starting with the birth of Yitzak “freedom” which requires that an Independent Great Sanhedrin Court in Jerusalem makes this Yovel declaration did not exist. During the approximately 110 years of Hashmonaim kings who ruled Judea following the successful revolt against the Syrian Greek empire, political and social anarchy, chaos, and Civil Wars defined this entire period. Herein explains how the Talmud instructs that during the entire period of the 2nd Temple, a span of about 450 years, Jews never once sanctified the mitzva of the Yovel.

            Both the Nicene Creed and the conversion to being a Muslim center on a theological belief that a person much “buy” to be either a Xtian or Muslim. Hence “belief” functions as the יסוד of all av tuma avoda zara. The Talmud interprets the 2nd Sinai commandment specifically through 1. Assimilation and 2. Intermarriage.

            Examples of these two יסודות of av tuma avoda zarah: Penchas killing the head of the tribe of Shimon, the war against Midian where Bil’aam advised seducing Israel with wine and women; from here the חז”ל made Goyim wine forbidden to drink together with eating Goyim made bread. King Sholomo foreign wives directly linked to his avoda zara. Ezra’s demand that Jews returning from Babylonian exile with foreign wives must divorce these women. Also when Jews built the 2nd Temple they rejected the assistence of the Shomronim imported by the Assyrian empire to replace the populations of the 10 Tribes with foreign alien conquered people who eventually “converted” to the God of the land out of fear for lions.

            Another contrast to the distinction between 400 and 210 years, the manner that the Reshonim scholars interpreted אנכי ה’ אלהיך, as the mitzva to know (לדעת) that there is one God. That He is the sole source of existence and authority. And that He is personally connected to (“…אשר הוצאתיך”) Israel alone. Only the 12 Tribes of Israel accepted the Torah at Sinai; Esav rejected the Torah – do not murder. And Yishmael rejected the Torah – do not steal. If a ger tzeddik refuses even one Torah commandment, the court which weighs his New Creation status rejects him or her. This fundamentally rejects the Pauline NT ‘grafted’ as utter nonsense.

            Another fundamental component of av tuma avoda zara – it belief system theologies or creeds etc seek to insert a substitutional belief system which the Torah fundamentally rejects. The Primary source מכילתא instructs acceptance of מלכות שמים, specifically as expressed in the tefilla from the Torah mitzva of קריא שמע, which rabbi Yochanon extended to all sworn blessings contrasted by שבח Tehillem “praises”. The latter lacks שם ומלכות.

            The mitzva of kre’a shma, like shabbat, or Moshiach – all wisdom Torah commandments which require k’vanna. This latter abstract term understood as the dedication of one or more of the 13 Oral Torah “spirits” which define the שם השם לשמה revealed in the first Sinai commandment. רוח הקודש not words, like the word אלהים which the ערב רב שאין להם יראת אלהים called the Golden Calf. Time-oriented commandments the purpose of observance of “ALL” Torah and Talmudic commandments and mitzvot – according to how the B’HaG learns. Contrast the Sefer HaMitzvot of assimilated Rambam whose book compares to storing eggs by the dozen; he restricts all the תרי”ג mitzvot limited to positive and negative commandments which do not require the wisdom which dedicates a Oral Torah spirit as defined through Torah and NaCH prophetic mussar.

            Virtually all rabbinic Jewish authorities throughout the ‘Golden Age’ Spain, duplicated the infidelity of the T’zeddukim as defined through the Hanukkah lights. Rambam serves as the exposed example. But assimilation and intermarriage defined the curse of the 2nd Sinai commandment which resulted in Jewish Civil Wars and forced expulsions from virtually all European countries; specifically England, France, the German kingdom, Spain, and the late 19th Century Czarist mass expulsion of Jews from Russia prior to the Bolshevik revolution.

            Assimilated Rambam replaced the inductive logic kabbalah of Rabbis Hillel, Akiva, Yishmael – which interprets Halacha; and Yossi HaGalil’s “32 Middot” which interprets Aggada — all collectively included under the umbrella known as פרדס inductive reasoning which defines the revelation of the 13 tohor middot of Horev post sin of the Golden Calf abomination. The Rambam organized his Yad halachic code in the same manner he did his Sefer Ha’Mitzvot – into rigid Greek philosophy deductive syllogism logic. This fundamentally profanes דברים יב:ל,לא — do not ask how Goyim worship their Gods that I may do likewise. Roman statute laws – decreed by government authorities do not compare nor resemble to judicial rulings which have the power to re-interpret (Legislative Review) all laws imposed by kings, Senates or other cult of personality authorities – Caesar for example embraced the idea that he lived as the son of God.

            Yet assimilated Rambam organized his Yad which directly duplicated the method of both Greek and Roman statute law! Rambam failed to understand that Gemara halachot contained within a specific sugya of Gemara, חז”ל brought as בניני אבות precedents – akin to different witnesses unique perspectives – of a specific Mishnaic judicial ruling. The Rambam’s replacement theology arbitrarily organized, based upon Greek logic, Gemara halachot independent of the Mishna – a fundamental error. Halachot from the Gemara do not stand upon their own feet any more than Reshonim comments made upon the Talmud. Once the Talmud sealed – this Primary Source – forever separated from temporary Reshonim or thereafter secondary or tertiary sources.

            Reshonim opinions do not and cannot permanently define sealed masoret primary sources. Reshonim by definition existed in cursed g’lut. The language מצרים based upon the above mentioned 400 years in a foreign land – לאו דוקא. G’lut Jews – as slaves – cannot do mitzvot לשמה. Therefore the temporary need that g’lut Jewry experience at the height of the barbaric Dark Ages does not apply to the Independent Jewish state achieved post the ’48 and ’67 Wars of National Independence. Anymore than the UN has a mandate to determine the borders of a Palestinian state after David Ben Gurion declared the national Independence of Israel.

            The מדרש which references (ספרי / מכילתא traditions about עשו וישמעאל), it seems to me directly invalidates any and all belief systems whose theologies promote a Monotheisitic Universal God, which the assimilated Rambam openly embraced with both his minority Reshon interpretation of 7 mitzvot applicable to all Goyim in all lands together with his permission that Jews can daven tefillah in Mosques. The god of Israel only the 12 tribes accepted. But even that, according to rabbi Akiva’s interpretation that the Wilderness Generation has no portion in the World to Come. Therefore the god of Israel a local tribal god and not a Monotheistic Universal God which the theologies of both church and mosque worship. In like manner, בראשית-ברית אש means oath alliance sworn לשמה. This interpretation of the סודות of the word בראשית (a Pardes logic), does not mean “covenant” anymore than the word ONE in the opening verse of kre’a shma refers to Monotheism.

            The language שם ומלכות does not refer to acceptance of any “king”. Rather the burden to direct the Yatzir Ha’tov tohor middot to rule the Yatzir Ha’ra middot within the heart – as rabbi Yechuda defines בכל לבבך within the language of kre’a shma. כונה a wisdom commandment stands separate from the toldot positive and negative Torah commandments which do not require k’vanna.

            Post the Rambam induced – his משנה תורה – Tzeddukim Civil War wherein they sought to convert Jerusalem into a Greek polis, all Reshonim and later rabbinic authorities wrote their commentaries upon the halachic codes, not limited to the כסף משנה statute law commentary but inclusive of all commentaries written on the common law codes of the B’HaG, Rif, Rosh, and Baali Tosafot – following the ירידות הדורות-Rambam “domino effect” wherein later rabbinic authorities confuse T’NaCH/Talmudic\Midrashim common law which learns from פרדס logic precedents to the alien imported statute law codes which pretend that Gemara and later Reshonim opinions – like as define both the Tur and Beit Yosef commentaries – determine religious halachic decrees.

            The framers of the Mishna and Gemara wrote their works as a model when Jews reconquered the homelands from the Roman barbarians and achieved an Independent Jewish Sanhedrin common law court system which alone possess the power to declare the Yovel. Even the RambaN in his famous commentary to the Chumas teaches that g’lut Jews cannot keep Torah mitzvot! G’lut Jews observe these mitzvot so they do not forget what it means to establish the chosen Cohen society in the reconquered land of Canaan.

            “מלך העולם” (standard ברכה language) compares to the twice repeated תמיד מעשה בראשית in the opening שחרית kre’a shma blessings. The term מלאכה close to מלאכים referenced within this first blessing. The wisdom creation story משל requires the Pardes דיוק which makes the required נמשל; wisdom commandment/time-oriented commandments create from nothing (יש מאין) the chosen Cohen people. This interpretation of the purpose for all wisdom Av time-oriented commandments fundamentally rejects the Goyim notion which continually slanders Jews as an inferior race – made famous by the לאו דוקא Nazi barbarians.

            The טיפש פשט literalism that God created the world in 6 days and rested upon the 7th: 1. fails to discern wisdom commandments/time-oriented commandments (like as did the Rambam Sefer HaMitzvot code). 2. That is the “רוחהקודש” k’vanna of these mitzvot which תמיד מעשה בראשית creates the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot from generation to generation. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai, inclusive of the Book of בראשית. The טיפש פשט that reads the Torah in a historical chronological order fails to grasp that the revelation of judical common law stands upon Pardes/middot precedents, and therefore has no fixed order. For example: the twice repeated עשרת הדבורות – in point of fact never commanded in this rigid Code of Hammurabi format.

            Following the revelation of the 2nd Sinai commandment Israel feared for their lives and demanded that Moshe make the aliya and receive the rest of the Torah! Why does the Torah then repeat the עזרת דבורות? Torah common law stands upon the יסוד of precedents! The עזרת דבורות “remember” the 10 plagues whereby the god of Israel judged the Gods of both Egypt and later Canaan in the days of Yehoshua the prophet.

            In like manner assimilated Rambam stands virtually alone, even among Reshonim sources, when he poskins halacha from Aggadic sources like his 7 mitzvot bnai noach narishkeit. Goyim never accepted the Torah revelation at Sinai. Violation of the 7 mitzvot – the Talmud classifies as a Capital Crime. Only a Sanhedrin court can judge capital crimes. The jurisdiction of Sanhedrin courts limited, no different than the Yovel, to within the borders of an Independent Jewish state in the land of Canaan. Therefore the 7 mitzvot bnai noach referred to in mesechta Sanhedrin can only refer to gere toshav which the Torah distinguishes from na’cree/Canaani\Shomronim.

            G’lut Jews by definition cannot grasp Pardes middot. The Reshonim Universally failed to affix דרוש\פשט to Aggadic sources in the Shas and רמז/סוד to the halachic portions of the Shas. The local god of Israel limited only to Israel because Moshe sent as a מלאך to Egypt based upon HaShem who remembered the oaths sworn to the Avot. The chosen Cohen seed learns directly from Sarah who commanded Avraham to cast out the bondwoman and her son, that only Yitzak would inherit the Cohen brit faith. Neither the NT nor Koran once brings the word ברית. Covenant does not mean brit. Because to swear a Torah oath requires שם ומלכות and neither books of avoda zara ever bring רוח הקודש Name but rather sin of Golden Calf word translations. The opening verse of the gospel of John – and the word is God. Utterly false to declare: The נמשל never removes God from being בורא ומלך על כל העולם. No man can grasp the Divine anymore that any ant can comprehend human civilizations! The Mishna teaches this in a strong warning: those who contemplate about matters “above them”, “beneath them”, or “behind them” – better that such persons never born.

            “גלות Jews cannot grasp פרדס” … just as slaves cannot own property, based upon remembering the slavery of Par’o and Egypt. Rabbi Akiva, Yishmael lived under Roman tyranny occupation. This Tannaic Masoret of Pardes serves to amplify the k’vanna of the 13 tohor רוח הקודש middot of Horev – following the sin of the Golden Calf.

            Rashi serves as witness. His Chumash commentary validates Torah common law through his blending of דרוש\פשט. He lived during the Xtian obliteration of the Jews of Germany on their way to duplicate that same obliteration of Jews under Arab rule during the 1st Crusades. Therefore, he limited his Talmudic commentary primarily to a dictionary like definition of obscure terms. This forced his grand children – the Baali Tosafot – to correct his commentary to the Talmud. Rashi feared, as the later public burning of the Talmud in Paris 1242 proved the Goyim hatred of Jews. He therefore wrote his Talmudic commentary which concealed the Aggadic דרוש\פשט axis of Pardes inductive logic limited to his Chumash commentary to prevent the church barbarians from discovering how to learn Talmudic common law.

            The God of Israel always local. Elie Wiesel “Where was God” throughout the Shoah. Equally applies to where was JeZeus during the Shoah or where was Allah during the Nakba of both ’48 and ’67 Arab defeats which failed to throw the Jews into the Sea and accomplish the Nazi Shoah in the Middle East. The Torah limits “אמונה” strictly and only to צדק צדק תרדוף – based upon the oppression of the court of Par’o who withheld the necessary straw but condemned the Hebrew slaves for their laziness. No Goyim court, not the court of Par’o or the court in any g’lut Goyim lands ever once force the church or mosque authorities to stand trial for genocide or war crime as did the ICC which Israel never signed the Rome Agreement yet nonetheless attempted to impose its jurisdiction and declare the Israeli PM a war criminal post the Oct7th 2023 UNWRA & Hamas massacree of over 1300 Jews and the Red Cross failure to even once visit stolen Israelis held in torture tunnels for 2 years!

            The error “God is never geographically limited”, fails to account for the Cohen lands of Canaan, which limits the inheritance of the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot. דברים לו:יח – הסתר פנים restricted to the Life\Death – Blessing/Curse interpretation of the first two Sinai commandments. Ruling the land of Canaan with judicial justice which makes fair restitution of damages inflicted by Jews upon other Jews to restore the brit alliance among our people which stands shalom upon the יסוד of trust … clearly limited like the example of the Yovel.

            “צדק צדק תרדוף” the most essential defining comprehension of Torah and NaCH prophetic mussar of faith. This utterly contradict the NT alien import of belief in a Roman messiah as god concept. Or the Koran notion that prophets sent to all nations who never accepted the Torah at Sinai; starting with the Koran replacement of Yishmael for Yitzak at the akadah. Bnai Brit common law courts have the Torah faith obligation to pursue righteous justice among our brit allied people.

            The בראשית comprehension of מלוא כל הרץ כבודו — לה’ הארץ ומלואה learns from the precedent of the flood of Noach. The floods did not reach the oath sworn lands of Canaan. צדק defines the obligation of the oath brit faith within the Cohen inheritance lands of Canaan. Goyim courts do not compare or resemble Sanhedrin courts. The latter common law courts with the Torah constitutional mandate to make משנה תורה-legislative review of any and all laws imposed by the 12 Tribal governments of the Republic and/or the Central government/king in Jerusalem. These courts “lateral courts”. Goyim courts, vertical courts; where the State pays the salaries of the Judges and prosecuting attorneys. The Torah refers to this latter court system through the negative commandment which prohibits judges from accepting bribes. Torah Sanhedrin courts limited strictly and only to the Independent Cohen nation within conquered Canaan.

          7. justrojie Avatar
            justrojie
            1. “The Name is a spirit, not a word”

            Not a standard Jewish teaching.
            In Judaism, God’s names are meaningful, sometimes treated with sanctity, but not described as “13 spirits” dwelling in a mystical structure in the way presented here.

            1. Rewriting “לשמה” (lishmah)

            The claim that it does not mean “for its own sake” is incorrect.
            In rabbinic literature, lishmah does mean acting for its proper/sacred intention.

            1. Redefining the 2nd commandment as “do not believe”

            This is a major distortion.
            The commandment is about idolatrous worship, not a blanket rejection of “belief systems.”

            1. Claim that Judaism rejects a universal God

            Mainstream Judaism clearly affirms one God over all existence, not a “local tribal god.”

            1. Attacks on Rambam and rabbinic tradition

            The critique presented is highly nonstandard and historically inaccurate.
            Rambam is one of the most authoritative Jewish thinkers; his framework is foundational, not a deviation into “Greek logic” that invalidates tradition.

            1. Mixing halacha, mysticism, and politics

            The text blends legal theory, kabbalistic language, modern politics, and personal interpretations in a way that is not how Jewish sources are normally interpreted.

            1. Claims about exile (גלות) and inability to keep mitzvot

            Incorrect. Jewish law explicitly assumes mitzvot are binding even in exile.

          8. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            [“The Name is a spirit, not a word”
            Not a standard Jewish teaching.] This has got to be an AI nonsense. The revelation of the Torah through the specific of the Mishkan & korbanot – centers on the distinction of the revelation of the Torah לשמה only in this Earth and not unto the Heavens above.

          9. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            justrojie :))) the AI notions of “standard” based upon trash-in, trash-out programming. If Joe jumps off the roof and breaks his leg does that me that you too must jump off the roof and break your neck? LOL

            Reshonim scholarship does not determine the content of sealed Primary sources; any more than a child can parent its father or mother.

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            mosckerr

            To listen to the shallow reactionary alligator tears shed by Greene and Carlson concerning the number of “tragic” US soldiers who protect the US from Iran achieving a nuclear bomb! 13 US soldiers and 12 Israeli soldiers + 23 civilians killed. Fake News CNN sucks.

            In the context of the ongoing US-Israel war against Iran, which began on February 28, 2026, the following estimates for Russian and Ukrainian military casualties have emerged specifically within this time frame prior to the ceasefire on April 8, 2026 … approximately 300 Russian and about 12 Ukrainian casualties. Russia having experienced three horrific 19th and 20th Century invasions through the flat plains of the Ukraine. Not surprisingly Russia perceives the expansion of NATO up to the border of Russia through the flat plains of the Ukraine as a direct threat … Virtually no different than both the US and Israel — feel the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear bombs and hypersonic missiles.

            The Hill, provides analysis and commentary on various issues. Its editorial content can reflect a more progressive or Democratic-leaning perspective, particularly in certain opinion anti-Trump pieces.

            Prof John Meisheimer and Tucker Carlson, view the Oct7th 2023 UNWRA and Hamas invasion of Israel, where both UNWRA personnel, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad terrorists participated in the slaughter some 1300 Israelis – on the last day of Chag Sukkot. Both these shallow opinionated reactionaries condemn Israel as guilty for the crime of destabilizing the Middle East. They lionize the Palestinian cause … despite the fact that the moment in 1948 David Ben Gurion named the new nation “Israel”, that the UN ceased to have any “Protectorate mandate” over the 1922 League of Nations Palestine Mandate territories wherein that post WWI League awarded to the British the “Palestine Mandate” to establish a Jewish National Home in the Middle East. The establishment of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948 terminated the UN Protectorate/Mandate over a nonexistent Palestine.

            Both men applaud the possibility of Iran becoming a nuclear power and dominating the Straight of Hormuz. Tucker loves to condemn Israel for the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty spy ship but strangely silent concerning the 1980 Mullah-American hostage crisis. No sweat off his beak if Nasser completed the Nazi Shoah in1967. Tucker never addresses the mass graves Jews dug in expectation of a total massacre in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv!

            When two US helicopters collided killing 8 US personnel. Their bodies “left behind”, Carlson has to date likewise never commented upon. Contrast the recent Iranian shoot down of an older F15 and a ground support A-10 Warthog. Under Trump’s leadership the two downed airmen, while hiding in hostile Iranian territory, never captured by enemy forces!

          11. justrojie Avatar
            justrojie

            tbh pple offer different rationales for this war and i’m not here for it

          12. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            Its a great honor to discuss ideas with you.

          13. justrojie Avatar
            justrojie

            likewise!!

          14. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            The language which Britain and France “inserted” into UN 242 of “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” and the “need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security”, compares to the current slander of Alex Jones: From “Lone Warrior” to “Nuclear Madness”. The Democrap talking point that perverted President Trump’s steadfast refusal for the Mullah regime in Iran, even before President Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter.

            The latter’s attempt to employ helicopters to insert special forces troops to free US embassy hostages the Mullah fanatics seized, during a desert wind storm – made with the coming Presidential elections in mind rather than the safety of US personnel. This self-centered shift of priorities exploded Carter’s re-election bid. In the same manner, Alex Jones too, post the Court-Case which closed him in particular and his InfoWars studio down due to his inflammatory touching the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which horrified the nation roughly 6 months in Obama’s 2nd term as President.

            Alex Jones repeatedly claimed that the 2012 shooting – staged and that the parents merely Hollywood like actors. In like manner he now condemns President Trump’s war rhetoric “total eradication”, to general genocide of the Iranian people rather than the total war removal of the fanatic Mullahs and their drive to attain nuclear weapons by which to attack the Great and Small Satan’s.

            UN Resolution 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! This UN slander ie European imperialism took advantage of LBJ involvement in the Vietnam War to re-insert Britain and France as great power brokers who themselves determine the balance of power in the Middle East. The 1922 League “Palestine Mandate” based upon 19th Century French maps which the “Sick Man of Europe” acquired which labelled Ottoman Greater-Syria as “Palestine”, coupled with the post WWI British/French division of Sykes-Picot which which devied or apportioned the spoils of the corpse of the Ottoman empire divided up between the two remaining standing Allied empires in Europe including Russia.

            UN 242 propaganda changed the original Palestine League mandate to include an Arab Palestinian state which all Arab states themselves universally rejected in Britain language of UN General Assembly 181. 19th Century European colonial aspirations and maps, redefined territorial boundaries in ways that served great power domination of the balance of power in any given region. British division of Iraq separated from a warm water port in Kuwait and the division of India into two warring nations serve as examples to understand European “interests” to insert their dictates into the Middle East. Absolutely no different from the latest slander “internationalist Democrats in Congress” employ the war rhetoric “total eradication”, as to all Iranians rather than limited to the Mullah communist dictators who themselves seek nuclear destruction of the Great and small Satan’s.

          15. mosckerr Avatar
            mosckerr

            The language which Britain and France “inserted” into UN 242 of “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” and the “need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security”, compares to the current slander of Alex Jones: From “Lone Warrior” to “Nuclear Madness”. The Democrap talking point that perverted President Trump’s steadfast refusal for the Mullah regime in Iran, even before President Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter.

            The latter’s attempt to employ helicopters to insert special forces troops to free US embassy hostages the Mullah fanatics seized, during a desert wind storm – made with the coming Presidential elections in mind rather than the safety of US personnel. This self-centered shift of priorities exploded Carter’s re-election bid. In the same manner, Alex Jones too, post the Court-Case which closed him in particular and his InfoWars studio down due to his inflammatory touching the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which horrified the nation roughly 6 months in Obama’s 2nd term as President.

            Alex Jones repeatedly claimed that the 2012 shooting – staged and that the parents merely Hollywood like actors. In like manner he now condemns President Trump’s war rhetoric “total eradication”, to general genocide of the Iranian people rather than the total war removal of the fanatic Mullahs and their drive to attain nuclear weapons by which to attack the Great and Small Satan’s.

            UN Resolution 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! This UN slander ie European imperialism took advantage of LBJ involvement in the Vietnam War to re-insert Britain and France as great power brokers who themselves determine the balance of power in the Middle East. The 1922 League “Palestine Mandate” based upon 19th Century French maps which the “Sick Man of Europe” acquired which labelled Ottoman Greater-Syria as “Palestine”, coupled with the post WWI British/French division of Sykes-Picot which which devied or apportioned the spoils of the corpse of the Ottoman empire divided up between the two remaining standing Allied empires in Europe including Russia.

            UN 242 propaganda changed the original Palestine League mandate to include an Arab Palestinian state which all Arab states themselves universally rejected in Britain language of UN General Assembly 181. 19th Century European colonial aspirations and maps, redefined territorial boundaries in ways that served great power domination of the balance of power in any given region. British division of Iraq separated from a warm water port in Kuwait and the division of India into two warring nations serve as examples to understand European “interests” to insert their dictates into the Middle East. Absolutely no different from the latest slander “internationalist Democrats in Congress” employ the war rhetoric “total eradication”, as to all Iranians rather than limited to the Mullah communist dictators who themselves seek nuclear destruction of the Great and small Satan’s.

  5. Jake Avatar
    Jake

    Downtown Abbey. She’s a 20th century girl in a 19th century world.

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      lol I used to love that show!

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      1. Jake Avatar
        Jake

        I got roped into watching it, then hooked. 😞

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        1. justrojie Avatar
          justrojie

          lol I didn’t watch the whole thing but i remember it being pretty good

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      2. Jake Avatar
        Jake

        Im digging Daredevil Born again. Id have to say the best Marvel thing out there. Better than all the movies and other shows combined.

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        1. justrojie Avatar
          justrojie

          I loved Loki 😂

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  6. Sambuca (✿◠‿◠) Avatar
    Sambuca (✿◠‿◠)

    I haven’t time for that faff. I’m too busy watching Squid Game, Supernatural, Bones, and everything under the sun. I don’t have Netflix but I have my ways… dark chuckles

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      🤣 squid games was good

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        Sambuca (✿◠‿◠)

        Yasss 🔥🔥😎😎

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    2. mosckerr Avatar
      mosckerr

      Compare that UN SC 242 propaganda to the current slander of Alex Jones: From “Lone Warrior” to “Nuclear Madness”. The Democrap talking point that perverted President Trump’s steadfast refusal for the Mullah regime in Iran, even before President Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter. The latter’s attempt to employ helicopters to insert special forces troops to free US embassy hostages the Mullah fanatics seized, during a desert wind storm – made with the coming Presidential elections in mind rather than the safety of US personnel. This self-centered shift of priorities exploded Carter’s re-election bid. In the same manner, Alex Jones too, post the Court-Case which closed him in particular and his InfoWars studio down due to his inflammatory touching the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting which horrified the nation roughly 6 months in Obama’s 2nd term as President.

      Alex Jones repeatedly claimed that the 2012 shooting – staged and that the parents merely Hollywood like actors. In like manner he now condemns President Trump’s war rhetoric “total eradication”, to general genocide of the Iranian people rather than the total war removal of the fanatic Mullahs and their drive to attain nuclear weapons by which to attack the Great and Small Satan’s.

      UN Resolution 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! 242 does not concern global conflicts but rather its language “inserts” the post UN repeated condemnations of Israel touching occupied Palestinian lands! This UN slander ie European imperialism took advantage of LBJ involvement in the Vietnam War to re-insert Britain and France as great power brokers who themselves determine the balance of power in the Middle East. The 1922 League “Palestine Mandate” based upon 19th Century French maps which the “Sick Man of Europe” acquired which labelled Ottoman Greater-Syria as “Palestine”, coupled with the post WWI British/French division of Sykes-Picot which which devied or apportioned the spoils of the corpse of the Ottoman empire divided up between the two remaining standing Allied empires in Europe including Russia.

      UN 242 propaganda changed the original Palestine League mandate to include an Arab Palestinian state which all Arab states themselves universally rejected in Britain language of UN General Assembly 181. 19th Century European colonial aspirations and maps, redefined territorial boundaries in ways that served great power domination of the balance of power in any given region. British division of Iraq separated from a warm water port in Kuwait and the division of India into two warring nations serve as examples to understand European “interests” to insert their dictates into the Middle East. Absolutely no different from the latest slander “internationalist Democrats in Congress” employ the war rhetoric “total eradication”, as to all Iranians rather than limited to the Mullah communist dictators who themselves seek nuclear destruction of the Great and small Satan’s.

      Post the ’56 Suez crisis IKE terminated the great power status of both London and Paris. Prior to the 2nd Shoah – according to the declared statements of Nasser himself; who promised to rectify the Arab Nakba disgrace! Nakba, not the post ’67 humiliating Arab defeat which switched the narrative to the poor Palestinians peoples scattered into the winds. But rather the ’48 Arab disgrace the invading Arab states failure to throw the Jews into the Sea – Nakba!

      Therefore UN 242, with LBJ’s butt exposed in Vietnam, London & Paris attempted to re-insert their domination in determining the balance of power in the Middle East which IKE utterly negated. UN 242 fits in harmony with Truman’s “containment policy”, and the British empire’s policy of maintaining the balance of power/England as top dog\ resemble one another’s national interests.

      France surrendered to the Nazis after 6 months of actual army on army fighting. So their ‘great power’ status has never recovered from their Nakba defeat. Post ’56 London had to brown-nose Washington. However, the Trump Era Washington, while it has “yet” to pull out of NATO, the stink of the NATO corpse in the air. The Trump political rhetoric that describes NATO as a “Paper Tiger” plays well with giving Putin a face saving out of the Nakba Ukraine war. International politics, while it resembles poker – far more nuanced and complex.

      UN 242: language ambiguity did not “invent” a Palestinian state. But it most certainly serves as the concealed foundation by which all post 242 UN condemnations of Israeli settlements which culminated in Obama’s 2334 which prioritized London and Paris’s efforts to dominate the balance of power in the Middle East strategic interests! Openly clashes with Trump 1.0 Abraham Accords, recognition of Jerusalem and the Golan as part of Israel’s international permanent Capital and borders and Trump 2.0 Gaza Peace Board which excludes Russia, Britain, the UN, and Frog quartet as great power players in the Middle East. The stench of the dead NATO alliance – EU hostility to US economic dominance within EU economies.

      The UN employs the rhetoric of “peace” no different than how Chamberlain did after he personally betrayed the Czech Republic in 1938. Political rhetoric whores “peace” which its lies employ as merely a sweet perfume “noun” that has no teeth. Shalom by stark and obvious contrast a verb that stands upon the foundation of “Trust”. No trust No Shalom. Just that simple.

      For example: The entire history of European and Arab empires have played the back and forth – something like tennis – the “Jewish problem”. Post Shoah ’48 Israel’s have sworn a formal Torah oath: “NEVER AGAIN”. Meaning, Israelis reject foreign power dictates which determine “Final Solutions” for their bogus racist “Jewish Problems”.

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  7. Nicholas K F Matte Avatar
    Nicholas K F Matte

    I’m going to give Bloodhounds a try on the flix!! Korean boxing drama. Those script quotes are beautiful!

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      ooh i’ve never heard of it, i hope you enjoy!

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  8. Jesse Pallante Avatar
    Jesse Pallante

    I have not seen Bridgerton yet. It sounds good, maybe I can get into it.

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      yasss if you do lmk what you think

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  9. Jesse Pallante Avatar
    Jesse Pallante

    Definitely I will let you know

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  10. Nicholas K F Matte Avatar
    Nicholas K F Matte

    Hi Ro.!!! How goes it? I’m rewatching The Sopranos now too. Badabing badaboom!!😆 Have uou ever watched this series?😁

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      i haven’t seen the sopranos but i heard it was good!

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      1. Nicholas K F Matte Avatar
        Nicholas K F Matte

        Yes, it’s fun and intriguing to watch,

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  11. ibarynt Avatar
    ibarynt

    I used to read a lot of those Victorian era novels. So much juicy 🤣

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    1. justrojie Avatar
      justrojie

      lol it’s so gooood

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