Comments on Brianna's Blog: Just Opt Out

Wow, good for you! (Just please dont suggest law s...

2009-10-05T17:30:48.682-04:00

Wow, good for you!
(Just please dont suggest law school; the profession sucks right now and will for the foreseeable future.)

Hashkafah.com is a community of silly malcontents ...

2009-08-16T18:07:04.846-04:00

Hashkafah.com is a community of silly malcontents with little to do in their lives and very little real to say.

They, like you, make the very misery that they live in whether it is real or just online yentaing. I looked at it a couple of times last year and I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.

The immature, empty online souls there may pay attention to you and look up to you. I can see right through your ignorance and arrogance.

You are but a child who shakes her fist impotently at her father, in this case the Ribbonoi Shel Olom, as you protest imaginary wrongs and your own inability to achieve anything more than what a pet dog can achieve.

I deal with many of you as a volunteer. Young people who thought they knew it all and then came back crying because they lived like animals and life treated them like animals.

On the one hand I'm worn out from it, the same stories, the same thanklessness even when I bail guys out of the lockup.

On the other hand when I see people who have fallen I am so happy that I and my family have the strength and the emunah to withstand the soton who you have been entrapped by.

My life is the best it has ever been. You wouldn't...

2009-08-10T21:36:46.252-04:00

My life is the best it has ever been. You wouldn't know anything about that, Man of Reason, since apparently you're all about bitterness and animosity.

I won't be going anywhere with my tail between my legs. Right now as a new graduate I live fairly simply, happy with my dayjob and freelance work. I have a wonderful man in my life, a nice (if small) place to live and loyal friends. There is nothing else I really need in this life.

I love it when miserable frummies justify their lifestyle by convincing themselves that life without religion is empty. The reality is that it isn't. For me life is wonderful enough - I don't need to believe in a fantastical afterlife.

My insights about the community resonate with a lot of people. Try going to www.hashkafah.com. Plenty of frum people are realistic about the major problems in the frum world even if they don't intend to leave it.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. And let's face it - if you thought what I said was nonsense you wouldn't keep coming back for more. Or maybe you would because you're a masochist. Actually that fits!

Once again this silly young girl, who thinks she h...

2009-08-04T15:57:15.053-04:00

Once again this silly young girl, who thinks she has found Gan Eden in her self made Gehennom, is busy justifying her decision to take the easy way out of life.

I am not one of these kiruv at any cost types and to be honest I am happy you opted out.

We don't need you, and in due time whatever Hashem has in store for you will unfold.

I predict you will run back to us with your tail between your legs as you show up, destitute and whipped, on the doorstep of your parents' house or of a chessed organization, baby in hand.

But if I am wrong and you just fade into the mediocrity and emptiness of a secular life while regretting every moment of having given up what you once had, so be it. You are no great shakes and no great loss to the community.

But if you think anyone is out there taking your empty advice seriously, you are wrong.

Your stereotype of the community is laughable. It is a stereotype only of what you yourself see in your distorted and sad mirror.

But just to clarify, I thought that the rest of yo...

2009-06-25T20:04:56.357-04:00

But just to clarify, I thought that the rest of your post was great! I'm just nitpicking.

Uh oh, I can't believe I am hearing over- generali...

2009-06-25T20:02:12.216-04:00

Uh oh, I can't believe I am hearing over- generalized comments from Brianna! Majority of Kollel people are NOT into gashmiyus, it is the unfortunate minority that ruins their reputation (similar to this is the Chassidic guy in the garb and all that gave me the finger and mouthed off at me on the road - we must remember that the nutters are the minority, not the majority)