The ‘online world’ gets even more toxic
I logged on for half an hour today, after a couple of days ‘offline’.
I literally came offline feeling a bit queasy.
There is so much ‘crazy’ going on these days – in the apparently ‘real’ world – that I’m finding my tolerance for it all is diminishing all the time.
My soul is yearning for real people, real conversations, real relationships, offline.
Not just more and more and more pointless ranting, pointless theorising, pointless ‘explanations’ for how Trump decided to ‘clean the swamp’ by decreeing it never existed in the first place, and was all a figment of Obama’s imagination.
Ludicrous as all this sounds, there are still people recycling this stuff and giving it play time.
Even in the Jewish world.
Even in the apparently ‘frum’ Jewish world.
Especially in the Jewish world that was telling everyone just how great Trump was because he showed up to the Rebbe’s Ohel.
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So, here is what you can expect to read here on the blog, going forward, BH.
- More stuff from the Rav – BH, I will translate some more bits now and put that up before Shabbat.
- More ‘real Jewish history’ stuff – watch out for that soon, I have a bunch of stuff to share.
- Occasional posts with my own thoughts and feelings.
Bezrat Hashem, I am really hoping to stay out of the toxic fake-news world that is ‘online’, and just to hunker down, concentrate on the dalet amot, and focus on all the good in that, instead of pointlessly speculating or ranting about stuff outside of it, that I really know nothing about.
Life is too short to waste it debating all this garbage all time, or listening to people with agendas they warp information to promote.
Way too short.
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In the dalet amot, it seems to me things are starting to lighten up a little.
There is so much teshuva and suffering going on, it’s for sure having a massive sweetening effect, here in the Holy Land.
Life goes on.
There is still so much to be grateful for, and happy about.
At least, offline, and out of the toxic soup that is the so-called ‘real world’.
So, I will get on with translating some of the Rav’s stuff now, and if you are staying offline more and more – good for you!
It’s the single best thing you could do for your mental health, level of happiness and spiritual wellbeing.
And for those still hanging on enough to come visit the site – I will carry on writing, as long as it’s useful. With God’s help.
I just found out last week that the shul in Los Angeles I was involved with when I lived there, which was founded in 1948, by a tzaddik gamor, and was thriving, if somewhat impoverished compared to other nearby shuls, when we left in 2001, now it struggles to find a minyan and is shutting down, and the current rabbi, the founder’s son, is leaving LA. This area of has so many frum Jews and infrastructure that it’s mind-blowing it has come to this.
To me, this is a siman that the golus is nearing an end.
I also just discovered this interesting bit of history. Everyone knows about Napoleon’s and Hitler’s attempts to conquer Russia and the massive failures and disasters they experienced.
How many are aware that in the aftermath of WW1, the victorious Allies, joined with the Japanese (!), to attempt to topple the newly-ensconced Bolsheviks? First they fund their rise to power, then they try to undermine them. It’s always the same game. There is nothing new under the sun. Anyway…
https://archive.is/qdRM9
Consider this article, written 16 months ago, and the tragically wrong lessons learned vis a vis the post-WW1 campaign, in this FOURTH attempt by the West to destroy Russia in just over 200 years, in the proxy war being waged in Ukraine. This time is different, he insisted. Talk about retarded. Ukraine’s (ie the West’s) defeat, which looks like it is impending, may have similarly far-reaching and as of yet unforeseen consequences.
I don’t have school for another month, nor a job or anything like that, so I’ve sadly been spending far too much time online lately, which I have noticed dulls my mind in a way, but I haven’t much else to do to fill up my days. God willing, He will give me something.
What happened to the app you were working on?
I don’t remember. What app?