Re: [FAQ] Moderation and Posting to Talk.Origins

In talk.origins  I read this message from "Sarah Berel-Harrop"
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Your sig is up here for some reason. This messes up responses.

>All kinds of strange things go on there.
>Everybody knows that if you head into
>the Republic of Texas, anything can
>happen.  That's why we all stay here in
>Colorado.  (Kathleen Ann Goonan)
>"Matt Silberstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> In talk.origins  I read this message from David Iain Greig
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>> >Matt Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> In talk.origins  I read this message from "Sarah Berel-Harrop"
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>> >>>"Matt Silberstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >>>> In talk.origins  I read this message from David Iain Greig
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>> >>>> >Matt Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>>> >> In talk.origins  I read this message from David Iain Greig
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>> >>>> >>>John Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>>> >>>> Lucas Bachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> >>>> >>>>> Is the robot moderator jewish or under jewish control?
>> >>>> >>>>> What's that dejanews thing?  The only other place
>> >>>> >>>>> it occurs is in Ed Conrad's posts.  Maybe I'll
>> >>>> >>>>> search google later for it.
>> >>>> >>>>
>> >>>> >>>> Is a Jewish 'bot a 'bot with a lookup table based on Kabbalistic
>> >>>> >>>> principles?
>> >>>> >>>
>> >>>> >>>I'm not 40.
>> >>>> >>
>> >>>> >> How about 36? That is a pretty important number as well.
>> >>>> >> (Actually, I can probably find a meaning behind any number, but
>> >>>> >> that is a slightly different story.)
>> >>>> >
>> >>>> >Turned 36 a month ago actually, double-18.  Life!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> See, the Kabbal contains all knowledge.
>> >>
>> >> Kabbalah, actually.
>> >
>> >Since the word is in hebrew, pick your spelling, I suspect.
>> >Just like my name is an anglicization of something in Gaelic.
>> >Qabbala anyone?
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>> Yeah, but it does need the ah at the end.
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>> >>>hey, i'm 36.
>> >>
>> >> And newly single. Have you ever been to Toronto?
>> >
>> >Playing yenta here, or what?
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>> Shadchan, actually. Do you have a problem with that?
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>ok, here i see it:
>http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=69429
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>it reminds me of an indian guy i knew.  he went home
>to meet his fiancee, and came back.  he was quite
>pleased that she was pretty (she is beautiful) and
>that he liked her.  i got the impression that had that
>not been the case, he would have had to learn to
>like her.

Very different from the Indian system. A Shadchan does set up
matches, but the parties involved have to like each other. It is
done as adults, not children. (I don't think Jews ever set up
marriages for children.) 

I know people who have had a matchmaker set things up. In the
some of the orthodox community they don't have long courtships.
One fellow flew out to meet his prospective bride. He spend an
hour with her. He then asked for another hour. They have been
together for years now. Now this is not quite as crazy as it
seems. The matchmaker does not put people together randomly, they
learn lots about both parties before making a suggestion.