tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post7910335298169850073..comments2023-09-23T10:03:52.824-07:00Comments on HGL's F.B. writings: Guns, Homeless, Shelters, My Own SituationHans Georg Lundahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-87819692666138777432013-02-23T07:51:58.259-08:002013-02-23T07:51:58.259-08:00Q: When did Baba Batra live and what was her activ...<i>Q: When did Baba Batra live and what was her activity? A: I don't know.</i><br /><br />I suspect Justinas Pranaitis answered "I don't know" to save a Jewish life. And I suspect he made or accepted an equivocation about "not knowing". A tractate usually "was not alive" at a certain time and did not "have an activity" as a person does. Or maybe he felt that the proper pronunciation of the Hebrew was "Bava" ... Because I also suspect he was of Jewish origin and wrote his antisemitic tract in order to save Jews from committing grave sins.<br /><br />But in another sense, "still alive and kicking" and "distorting the law".<br /><br />I had occasion to look it up. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Batra" rel="nofollow">And I found:</a><br /><br /><i>"ten chapters ... (1) Regulations relating to property held by more than one owner (ch. i.); (2) responsibilities of an owner of property with regard to that of his neighbor (ch. ii.) ... 2. The fundamental rule about neighboring property is that the owner of the adjoining property must avoid everything that might prove a nuisance to the neighbor, or become a source of injury to the neighbor's property. "The noise of a smith's hammer, of a mill, or of children in school, is not to be considered a nuisance" (ii. 3). Disputes as regards to injury or nuisance are generally settled by the fact of prior or established rights."</i><br /><br />Now, the three bava's are part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezikin" rel="nofollow">Nezikin</a> or Neziqin, meaning Damages.<br /><br />Now, is it a greater <b>damage</b> for the people of that house to have me there one night and maybe sleep a little worse for my noise when turning in the sleep or talking to someone asking what I do there or getting to the courtyard to find a hole where I can urinate and turn on the tap after (or in other cases use a flower pot for that night) - or is it a greater damage for me to sleep night after night among people who do not like me, and who arrive late (as I would have to if I found another house very late), and who keep me awake by their breathing and snoring in the same room, and who have as much troubles as I or more, and who go to the toilet one after another?<br /><br />The Christian morality has accepted the principle or morality behind the law of gleaning fields at the edges, which can be seen applied in the book of Ruth. If I ask for "only one night" - I consider myself as "gleaning the edges". Exactly as when I pick fruit for a meal for me on the branches of a fig tree in summer.<br /><br />If some consider the sight of a beggar as disturbing as it is for me to get too little to wash my clothes, for days or even a week on a row, I think their distorted view of morality deserves little consideration, rich as they may be. Haman comes to mind ...<br /><br />But since I had quite another way ready, and still have it ready, for me to get money from writing and composing (and I suppose they use some passage of some of the bava's to forbid my way!) it is also a question of what is said in the stabunt justi: <i>... <a href="http://drbo.org/chapter/25005.htm" rel="nofollow">those that have afflicted them,</a> and taken away their labours. / ...<a href="http://drbo.org/lvb/chapter/25005.htm" rel="nofollow">qui se angustaverunt</a> et qui abstulerunt labores illorum.</i><br /><br />If I were so little known as to be reasonably suspect of stealing bikes, I might have seen a point. I seem to be sufficiently known for people to give me lessons about - in essence - Bava Batra or something like that.<br /><br />What I hate about my life is Christians agreeing with these Jews and forgetting the Christian Charity. Or even justice.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-48447736437846460852013-02-23T04:23:57.212-08:002013-02-23T04:23:57.212-08:002) Muslims around last night:
i) a lady on the tr...2) Muslims around last night:<br /><br />i) a lady on the train who gave me brioche and two donuts and a restaurant ticket - she looked worried about me (as if she knew I was writing and thought it was especially against her religion) - I gave the restaurant ticket away to someone else,<br /><br />ii) a man who sold me a cap for 4€30, after first wanting 5, which was another than the one I first wanted, and a bit too small,<br /><br />iii) the man who had let me in and asked me why I did not use 115,<br /><br />iv) the other users at Bibliothèque d'Italie: when I came my computer was free till 14:00, when they had seen me soon the computer was reserved for 10:30.<br /><br />A bit confirmaing me suspicion about the lady who looked worried, as if they did not appreciate my writing on internet or making known my writings.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-22141692482683642232013-02-23T04:16:44.332-08:002013-02-23T04:16:44.332-08:001) Three nights after this debate:
i) a staircase...1) Three nights after this debate:<br /><br />i) a staircase top floor not used because there is an elevator, in a suburb, my host: a young man, probably French and nothing else,<br /><br />ii) a staircase top floor or close to, used, I had to move a bit early in the morning or late at night, as the wife came home - whose man had let me stay there for one night: he listened to a radio programme with Marine LePen,<br /><br />iii) first had to move on because a girl would not let me inside and porch was too close to a noisy street, then to another porch, where I was let in by two people, and then told to leave when I was already in my sleeping bag. One of the two who had let me in was a Muslim. He suggested I should use the 115 number to get a night at a dorm - meaning he did not know about my problem with dorms. The guy who told me to get out was not Arabic looking. When I asked if he was a Christian, he said "most definitely not". When going through the porch I noticed a second Jewish name (I had already noticed Cohen), namely Fajgenbaum (German or Yiddish words, but a German would hardly spell first syllable as "faj", since that is Polish spelling).<br /><br />I have had people making allusions to "a wandering through the desert" and a "parcours initiatique". If Jews want to "reeducate" me, it should be noted I am no Jew and do not identify as a Jew. I am Swedish and Catholic.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-79965517977400989642013-02-21T23:58:32.724-08:002013-02-21T23:58:32.724-08:00Drake informed me of this:
I think they quit post...Drake informed me of this:<br /><br /><i>I think they quit posting as I was done waiting on the mechanic. I had time to participate because I was sitting in temporal purgatory: a waiting room.</i>HGLnoreply@blogger.com