nli Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, how does one contact the admins? There should > be a way, indicated on the main forum page.
There are two ways to contact Admin(s):
1) Submit a "Report" (if you are logged in, "Report" is the next to last choice on the "Options" line at the bottom of your screen). This is the preferred way for just about everything. Reports are seen by all Admins.
2) If something is serious and/or is extremely personal, you can email Concrete Zipper. His email address is included, towards the bottom of his post, in his announcement of a Short Story contest at the top of the page which shows the current threads. (The Short Story contest itself has now been completed.)
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My original moniker of Jonny the Smoke came from a 5 year old boy in our neighborhood many years ago. He walked in the house one day and said "hi Jonny the Smoke" out of the blue, so used that.
Current moniker of Roy G Biv is from ROYGBIV...first letter of each color in the light spectrum...red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. I learned that in college science while studying to be an engineer at BYU.
GNPE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wanna know where (how) the name Concrete Zipper > was selected,
If I may be so bold, I'll answer on his behalf. There's a highway out of Boston with movable berms ("Jersey barriers") connected by metal hinges. Before each rush hour, a special truck lifts these concrete barriers and moves them in or out of a travel lane as needed, creating or closing an additional HOV lane, called the "zipper lane," to accommodate increased traffic.
I assume that CZ resided in the Boston area at one point, and created his moniker from that.
Now, "Lot's Wife?" I'll let her answer for herself.
I didn't answer about Lot's Wife because I've explained it a couple of times in the past. I am a big fan of the OT as literature: a collection of sometimes incompatible myths described in laconic passages admitting all sorts of interesting interpretations. One of my favorites is Sarah, who was so confident that she laughed at God as well as laughing with him.
Another is Lot's Wife, ordered by God not to look back. But "back" is where her children were born, the parks in which they played, the family home and friends. What, I ask, is more human, more emotionally honest, than to look back with love and sadness at one's home? Lot's Wife thus represents to me the best in us, a willingness to remember life in all its complexity and to honor the good even while eschewing the bad, and a refusal above all to let arbitrary commandments overrule emotional integrity.
Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am a big fan of the OT as literature: a collection > of sometimes incompatible myths described in > laconic passages admitting all sorts of > interesting interpretations. One of my favorites > is Sarah, who was so confident that she laughed at > God as well as laughing with him. > > Another is Lot's Wife, ordered by God not to look > back. But "back" is where her children were born, > the parks in which they played, the family home > and friends. What, I ask, is more human, more > emotionally honest, than to look back with love > and sadness at one's home? Lot's Wife thus > represents to me the best in us, a willingness to > remember life in all its complexity and to honor > the good even while eschewing the bad, and a > refusal above all to let arbitrary commandments > overrule emotional integrity.
Really good analysis, LW!
You would be a great asset in [Jewish] university-level classes (especially if your female classmates were in training to be rabbis or serious academics).
You know, I hadn't thought of that but you are right--not necessarily about me as a teacher but about the convergence of my thought processes and those of most of modern Judaism, for which metaphor and allegory are far more important than literalism. "Myth" in the good sense of the word.
My current Jewish study is the now classic "Tomer Devorah" ["Palm Tree of Devorah"], written by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero in 1588, which became--in many ways--one of the seminal works of the Jewish newly "modern" era (an era which continues into our contemporary times today).
One of the things I discovered, but did not expect, from this book was the metaphorical and allegorical analysis throughout, which (in some ways) recast what was the largely literalistic, previous, understanding of [the OT] regarding "how the world works."
I think you probably would have liked to be in Tsfat (a town in northern Israel, today acknowledged worldwide for its incredible intellectual past) in the late 1500s, when Tsfat was definitely "the" happening place to be.
More generally that was a good time for People of the Book in the Ottoman Empire. Islam was strong and confident, with relative freedom of speech and discourse within its boundaries and a worldwide trade network. It was the cross-pollination of Judaism, Islam, and the classical learning that Islam in particular had preserved that enabled Spain to rise to the rank of world power.
I'm not sure whether I'd have enjoyed living in Istanbul, Palestine, or Cordoba more, but that was an amazing time--assuming, of course and unreasonably, that I was one of the fortunate few who lived past infancy and had the money to study.
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Tevai Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > nli Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > So, how does one contact the admins? There > should > > be a way, indicated on the main forum page. > > There are two ways to contact Admin(s): > > 1) Submit a "Report" (if you are logged in, > "Report" is the next to last choice on the > "Options" line at the bottom of your screen). > This is the preferred way for just about > everything. Reports are seen by all Admins. > > 2) If something is serious and/or is extremely > personal, you can email Concrete Zipper. His > email address is included, towards the bottom of > his post, in his announcement of a Short Story > contest at the top of the page which shows the > current threads. (The Short Story contest itself > has now been completed.)
That's very easy for you to say, but how would anybody figure that out? Especially a newcomer. Why can't you put an item on the top "Go to" menu bar called "Admin contact"?
I can exclusively reveal the admin's postal address:
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