Archive for February, 2007
What a violent dream
Last night I had a dream that I went into a church (a Catholic-type church a la “The Da Vinci Code”) and was immediately attacked by a large priest who was holding a 2 foot long saber!
The rest of the dream–it seemed like forever–was me reatreating and fighting. I think I finally won, and then I awoke.
It may have been triggered by two things…
1) a confrontational event with someone the day before that had shaken up me some
2) having someone make very disparaging and critical remarks about Russian people to my face, not knowing that I am Russian, and had spent many years living there.
The person was basically being very P.C. in general, so I was not expecting a bigoted remark, and then when I interrupted to say that I and my family are Russian, the other person did not apologize–but seemed to think that the negative remark that “Russians are really nasty” was just a simple fact, not a personal prejudice.
Yes, I have heard cliches about the Russian people, but more along the lines of either “they don’t have anything over there, they are so deprived” or “Russians are more spontaneous-creative and wild or possibly undisciplined”
In my mind this was discrimination/prejedice…all the things that I am afraid of in being openly Jewish. But it came out in regards to being Russian–something I didn’t have any defences prepared for.
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Next time I’ll post on the issue of level of observance as it is growing. How fast is too fast?
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Growing up Without Men around…
I was thinking, what happens when females are kept separate from males from a young age–I don’t think that this is healthy.
Now, one of the reason that the Orthodox (modest) side of Judaism may appeal to me is that, although I was brought up without religion, we lived far from the city, and my contact with people outside of my family was limited to a couple of times a week–this includes rare contact with children other than my two siblings…
Now, it’s one thing for high school students to be separated: I’ve noticed that those who were attended separate-sex high schools tend to be more respectful of the opposite sex–especially the men are more respectful of women. But anything beyond that age, before or after, might be harmful, causing the females to take on more masculine characteristics than otherwise necessary.
What do you think about this?
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