tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post9089512425573132097..comments2024-01-17T16:15:59.682-05:00Comments on Another gay Jew: The head or heartEly Winklerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14816825030719694334noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post-24261223035520878792009-12-08T11:14:24.257-05:002009-12-08T11:14:24.257-05:00Neither your head nor your heart can be trusted co...Neither your head nor your heart can be trusted completely. Your head is filled with things put in there by your parents, by teachers and rabbis, by society, by the media -- things which you have never examined or audited for truth. Your heart, of course, has no logic. It wants what it wants, consequences be damned.<br /><br />"Many of the basic assumptions that guide our daily choices are unconscious, unseen. We have assimilated Uncle Ted's advice on tire purchases, Aunt Liv's guidance concerning the color red, the sixth-grade bully's contempt for the Red Sox, an entire lifetime of half-heard conversations and misinterpreted advice -- and it all figures somehow into our daily decision making...<br /><br />The point is, we have all been programmed, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes unintentionally, to an extent that most of us are only vaguely aware of."<br /><br />Rolf Gates, yoga instructor, wrote that in his book Meditations from the Mat. And he wasn't even considering Orthodox Judaism, which intentionally programmed all of us, for hours a day for years.<br /><br />When you listen to your heart, you need to make sure to consider the consequences. When you listen to your brain, you need to make sure that it's not just regurgitating dogma put in there by others or based on the logical fallacies and biases that are endemic to human brains. And that is a very hard thing to do.Jewish Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616617537150446818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post-46370569815029639992009-12-07T09:03:45.276-05:002009-12-07T09:03:45.276-05:00I agree. Following one's heart can be straying...I agree. Following one's heart can be straying. but not always. And in the context of the homosexuality issue, it is, but I wanted to be more broad rather than specific to one issue.FrumGayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793265192431165211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post-46366068227425306002009-12-06T00:31:35.328-05:002009-12-06T00:31:35.328-05:00With all due respect to the author of the blog, I ...With all due respect to the author of the blog, I have to agree somewhat with the first comment, at least in the context of this post.<br />If one were to choose gay over straight (assuming there is such a choice) and then acts on that choice it would be considered straying in all senses of the word (which in this case is straying from the torah)<br />So, following one's heart can be to stray.<br />just what i think...great blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post-69965725480165607452009-12-06T00:00:59.879-05:002009-12-06T00:00:59.879-05:00That says don't "stray", i never sai...That says don't "stray", i never said following a person's heart meant directly "straying". it can mean doing that's not wrong, it's just against your what your mind is saying.FrumGayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793265192431165211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928387059735958551.post-48765657494203820712009-12-05T23:57:15.123-05:002009-12-05T23:57:15.123-05:00all the time-
"v'lo sasuru acharei levav...all the time- <br />"v'lo sasuru acharei levavchem v'acahrei anaichem"<br />pretty explicit here- mind over heart...great blognoreply@blogger.com