[Buddha-l] Re: G-d damn it

[Benito Carral]

On Monday, March 14, 2005, Richard P. Hayes wrote:

> She  did  once ask me, while I was in the Faculty of Religious
> Studies, to inform Jewish students who follow that practice of
> the errors of their ways.

   I  suppose  that  we  tend  to  think  that our views and our
friends's  views  are  the  right ones. However I would not talk
about  errors  here.  I don't feel any sympathy for that kind of
tolerance that considers that others are wrong but have right to
live.


>> Out  of  curiosity, do your informants think in themselves as
>> Orthodox Jews?

> Yes.  I  know  three  orthodox  Jews,  two of them rabbis, who
> disapprove of the practice.

   Thank you for let me know about it.


>> I  think  that  it is also a good Buddhist topic, and I thank
>> you for having brought it up. :)

> There  is  nothing  even  remotely Buddhist about it. I accept
> responsibility  for having introduced a topic of no importance
> and of no relevance to Buddhism.

   I  tend  to think that when we listen and try understand each
other,  it  is always a Buddhist thing, but I would not say that
others are wrong if they think otherwise.

   Best wishes,

   Beni

P.  S.:  If  someone  has interest to know why (some) Jews write
_G-d,_ he can read about it at the Jewish Virtual Library:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/name.html