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How to Read Forex Candlestick Charts
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Candlesticks are graphical representations of price fluctuations for currency pairs. A candlestick can represent any period of time. By default a currency trader's software can usually provide charts representing time frames from one minute, up to and including one month per candlestick. However some traders software allow for custom time frames such as 5 seconds. Here is how to read Candlesticks.
1Understand what the chart consists of. There are no calculations required to interpret Candlestick Charts. They are a simple visual aid representing price movements in a given time period. Each candlestick reveals four vital pieces of information:
- the opening price, the closing price,
- the highest price and the lowest price the fluctuations during the time period of the candle.
- In much the same way as the familiar bar chart, a candle illustrates a given measure of time.
- The advantage of candlesticks is that they clearly denote the relationship between the opening and closing prices.
2Understand that candlesticks display the relationship between the open, high, low and closing prices. This means that they cannot be used to chart securities that have only closing prices. Interpretation of Candlestick Charts is based on the analysis of patterns. Currency traders predominantly use the relationship of the highs and lows of the candlewicks over a given time period. However, Candlestick Charts offer identifiable patterns that can be used to anticipate price movements.
3Learn the patterns. There are two types of candles: The Bullish Pattern Candle and the Bearish Pattern Candle:
- A white (empty body) represents a Bullish Pattern Candle. It is used/denotes when prices open near the low price and close near the period's high price.
- A black (filled body) represents a Bearish Pattern Candle. It is used/signifies when prices open near the high price and close near the period's low price.
4Understand how to read the Bullish Candlestick Formations:
- The Hammer is a Bullish Pattern if it appears after a significant downtrend. If the line occurs after a significant uptrend, it is called a Hanging Man. A small body and a long wick identify the Hammer. The body can be empty of filled in
- The Pricing Line is a Bullish Pattern where the first candle is a long, Bear candle, followed by a long Bull candle. The Bull candle opens lower than the Bear's low, but closes more than halfway above the middle of the Bear candle's body.
- A Bullish Engulfing Line is a patter strongly Bullish if it occurs after a significant downtrend. It may also serve as a reversal pattern. It occurs when a small Bearish candle is engulfed by a large Bullish candle.
- The Morning Star is a Bullish Pattern signifying a potential bottom. The star indicates a possible reversal and the Bullish candle confirms this. The Star can be a Bullish or Bearish candle.
- In a Bullish Doji Star, the star indicates a reversal and a Doji indicates indecision. This pattern usually indicates a reversal following an indecisive period. You should wait for a confirmation before trading a Doji Star.
5Understand how to read the Bearish Candlestick Formations:
- A Long Bearish Candle occurs when prices open near the high and close lower, near the low.
- The Hanging Man pattern is Bearish if it occurs after a significant uptrend. If this pattern occurs after a significant downtrend, it is called a Hammer. A Hanging Man is identified by small candle bodies and a long wick below the bodies, and can be either Bearish or Bullish.
- Dark Cloud Cover is a Bearish Pattern that is more significant if the second candle's body is below the center of the previous candle's body.
6Understand how to read Neutral Candlestick Formations.
- Spinning Tops is a neutral pattern that occurs when the distance between the high and low, and the distance between the open and close, are relatively small.
- A Doji candle implies indecision. The open and close are the same.
- A Double Doji (two adjacent Doji candles) implies that a forceful move will follow a breakout from the current indecision.
- The Harami pattern indicates a decrease in momentum. It occurs when a candle with a small body falls within the area of a larger body.
7Understand how to read the Reversal Candlestick Formations:
- A Long-legged Doji often signifies a turning point. It occurs when the open and close are the same, and the range between the high and the low is relatively large.
- The Dragonfly Doji also signifies a turning point. It occurs when the open and close are the same, and the low is significantly lower than the open, high and closing prices.
- A Gravestone Doji occurs when the open, close, and low prices are the same, and the high is significantly higher than the open, close and low prices. It also signifies a turning point.
- Stars indicate reversals. A Star is a candle with a small, real body that occurs after a candle with a much larger, real body where the real bodies do not overlap. The wicks may overlap.
- Forex trading involves significant risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Trading in foreign exchange is speculative and may involve the loss of principal. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment, and therefore, you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.
- Find websites that offer free trading articles and learn as much as you can before you trade a live forex account.
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Sensor Section Available Now in our ROBOTC EV3 Curriculum!
The ROBOTC team is proud to announce the completion of the Sensing section of the Introduction to Programming EV3 Curriculum!
Check it out to learn how to use the EV3 Touch, Sonar, Gyro, and Color sensors with ROBOTC Graphical here! The curriculum is completely free to use, and more materials are always being added.
Check out two of the video tutorials below:
Recent Article about ROBOTC in China Daily Europe!
China Daily Europe recently interviewed Terry Sy, executive director of China ROBOTC, about robotics education. Check out the article below!
Repost from China Daily Europe
They are here to teach, not to steal your job
Education using robots promotes employment, says licensee for top US training system
The widely held belief that robots cost jobs is a fallacy, a robotics expert says.
Terry Sy, executive director of China ROBOTC, the only organization authorized in China to promote what is considered one of the world's premier robotics education systems, says: "Many parents have asked me about the future of robots. I tell them that if they want their children never to face unemployment, let them do something related to robots."
ROBOTC was developed at the Robotics Academy at Carnegie Mellon University, the global research university, based in Pittsburgh.
It supports several different robotics platforms and features a variety of functions, including tips and tools for educators and parents on using robotics to teach children about math, science, engineering and physics.
Sy established China ROBOTC in Xi'an, northwestern China, which is considered the center of China's aerospace, controls and automation market – the perfect location, arguably, to attract the kind of modern young minds who might consider a career in robotics.
"The people who make, apply and repair robots and who teach about robots will always be needed in future."
Speaking at the recent China International Robot Show in Shanghai, Sy said he felt strongly that Carnegie Mellon's programs and systems will be a huge benefit to the teaching of robotics in China, and will help narrow the knowledge gap that exists between Chinese and Western students.
The ROBOTC programming language has already been translated into 15 languages and used in more than 40 countries.
In the US alone, more than 300 colleges and 10,000 primary and secondary schools are using its curriculum, Sy says.
ROBOTC is a programming language that uses what is considered an easy-to-use development environment that supports several of the simplest and most commonly used different robotics platforms, including LEGO, VEX PIC, Cortex and Arduino.
It contains firmware that boosts performance and greatly improves program download times, its developers say.
It also features an interactive, run-time debugger, which helps developers find and fix bugs in programs, allowing them to view and edit all of the values that the robot sees – motors, timers, sensors and variables – and quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot problems in programs, greatly reducing the time it takes to develop a program.
"It is easy enough for primary students to learn, but also satisfies the needs of programming experts," Sy says.
He had the idea of bringing the system to China in 2012, when he was in Beijing attending a national seminar on physical robots, on behalf of the Carnegie Robotics Academy.
At least 20 Chinese universities were at the event, and he found that many wanted to set up robot courses, but did not have qualified teachers, professional textbooks or robot platforms, let alone know how to run courses.
"Chinese students are very good at showing off innovative technologies in competitions, but China doesn't have a good robot education system," he says.
He adds the biggest defect in China's robot education system, however, is that students are not taught how to program and just use existing written codes, which are not enough to develop their own talent further, so he decided to bring ROBOTC to China.
"ROBOTC language can support the world's biggest robot platforms. It can help children become more innovative, and college students and workers gain more technical skills," he says.
He chose Xi'an as it was less expensive and crowded than Beijing or Shanghai, but also because the region boasts about 60 universities.
He is now looking for a subsidiary in Shanghai, and more outlets are planned in other cities.
His plan is to increase collaboration with universities and schools by setting up robots in college laboratories.
So far two universities and several primary schools have adopted the system, and the goal is to bring it to 100 colleges, 100 middle schools and 100 primary schools, providing specialist robot training for teachers and technicians.
It is planned to offer training online, so the language can also be brought to people in remote villages or locations that do not have the resources to support robot education.
Sy is confident that despite robots still being a novelty to many in China, their use is set to grow fast.
In 2011, US President Barack Obama decided to give greater priority to the use of robotics in teaching the vital fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and Sy believes it is now important for China to move in that direction.
"That is why we want to bring this kind of robot education to as many parts of China as we can, to make it part of the Chinese education system. This training will definitely help people become more logical and confident."
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Check out some photos from their very first VEX Training in Xi'an, China!
Robots Oh My! One Teacher's Experience at our Training…
Anna Lynn Martino attended one of our Professional Development classes recently and wrote a wonderful blog about her experience. Check it out below …
Reblogged – "Robots Oh My!" from www.annalynnemartino.com
Last week I attended another teacher training at CMU's Robotics Academy. My goals this year was to be more comfortable working with ROBOTC, which is the programming language that my FTC robotics team uses. Also, I am teaching/mentoring/moderating our robotics class in the fall. As a middle school with a programming class, I thought my students would be better served by teaching them robotC but also I thought it would be great to have them also prepped for the team if they are interested in becoming part of the team.
Above is a collage showing the ROBOTC graphical interface, some "regular" ROBOTC, and a Tetrix bot.
Again, it was a really great workshop and I learned a lot! It is crazy. I have been teaching Scratch and this summer I introduced kids to Python and some basic programming in Arduino and I was struggling with explaining variables and functions. I got the basics but I had a hard time explaining it because I do not have a Comp Sci background but this time, I totally understood how variables and functions operating within a programming language. Tim Friez, our instructor, was really amazing and his style of teaching was perfect. I think, that his style is what a lot of teachers are starting to go for – in the parlance of our field – student-driven/centered.
We also had a teacher, who works on curriculum development at the center, come in and give us tips and hints about teaching robotics. It was practical advice and just giving us tips on what to be aware of. Also, in order to have a class, there is a fair amount of start-up costs.
What you need:
- The Robot kits (you might want different types)
- Fields (for kids to do their challenges on)
- license for the programming language
- license for the curriculum
- remote controls
- wifi/bluetooth adapters
- challenge elements (blocks, balls, cut pvc pipes, folders or books for walls
- colored electrical tape
- computers
- expansion kits if you have advanced students (which you will probably have)
I also met some really amazing people and it was great hearing what their challenges are and how they dealt with them. Most of us were just "regular teachers" which also made the prospect of having a robotics class less daunting.
I am again super excited about it but I also realize that I need to recharge. I am taking the next few weeks to do that before orientation week. I worked all of June and July. I do not want to go back feeling like I did not have this time to process all that I did this summer and last year.
If anyone is thinking about teaching robotics, I would highly highly recommend the CMU Robotics Academy. They offer online and campus workshops in the summer. They are going to have webinar soon about EV3 and ROBOTC.
Follow them on Twitter @ROBOTC or subscribe to their blog
Thank you, Anna for the great blog post! To read more from here blog, visit her at www.annalynnemartino.com!
Mentoring Program uses ROBOTC and VEX IQ to Teach STEM and Connect with Military Families
We were delighted to hear about an inaugural weeklong robotics summer camp happening in North Carolina that is using ROBOTC, ROBOTC Graphical, and the VEX Robotics IQ system to help teach students STEM while keeping them connected to their military families. (One of the mentors was trained at the Robotics Academy last summer too!) Read the story and watch the video highlighting this program below!
Reblog from East Carolina University's News Service
ECU partners in Operation LINK mentoring program
Ten-year-old Tyrrek Grizzle took control of his paddle, maneuvering his miniature land mover with ease.
He and a teammate moved his robot across a grid and past an opponent to pick up as many green-colored blocks as possible and dump them in a coordinating green basket. The team that filled the basket with the most blocks in the three-minute competition won.
Grizzle attended an inaugural weeklong robotics summer camp through Operation LINK, an AmeriCorps school-based science, technology, engineering and mathematics mentoring program for elementary and middle grades students in eastern North Carolina. The STEM program, with a special emphasis on students from military families, will transition from an afterschool program to part of the regular school day this fall.
Offered this spring in Wayne County, the program aims to promote positive behaviors and success in school while keeping military youth connected to family. It's a partnership between East Carolina University, AmeriCorps, military family support networks, veterans groups, community colleges and public schools.
The summer camp, held at Greenwood Middle School in Goldsboro, allowed students to make real robots from designs they developed in their afterschool program.
Counselors and campers used a box kit to construct a robot with up to 650 pieces. A software program (ROBOTC) developed at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy gave the students the ability to control movements.
"We had fourth-graders writing code," said Michael "Mike" Dermody, associate professor of cinematic arts and media production in the ECU School of Art. Dermody, who grew up in a military family, said "It's amazing how quickly they adapt. It's a very tactile and hands-on experience. They go in and test and modify it. There's lots of activity between the computer itself and the robot."
For Grizzle, a rising fifth-grader at Tommy's Road Elementary School, taking his work from the computer lab to create a functioning robot is exciting. "Robots help you in a lot of ways," said Grizzle. "They help us do things we can't normally do ourselves." Grizzle has cousins who serve in the military.
The pilot program will become part of the curriculum this fall at three Wayne County schools with a higher population of children from military families, said Lou U. Rose, Operation LINK coordinator in the ECU College of Education, which has facilitated the program.
"We will be able to impact more kids that way."
Area teachers observed some of the program activities. "Some will do it as an elective in science and math classes," Rose said.
"The beauty of this is they can tailor it and run with it and be creative. It brings relevancy in the real world, and maybe will get students interested in science."
Michael Giddens, an AmeriCorps camp mentor who earned a teaching certificate in middle grades science and math from ECU in May, said students learned to collaborate and work as a team at the camp.
"The energy has been electrifying," Giddens said. "Keeping them (students) engaged is a challenge in the classroom in the 21st century."
One old-fashioned value students have learned has been patience, Giddens said, such as when broken robots have had to be re-assembled. Now poised to reach more students, the initial idea for the Operation LINK program was to create a way for military parents to interact with their children – via the web – while the parents were away from home. "It's (been) a way to keep the child connected," Dermody said.
Amy Perry's nine-year-old daughter Kayla and 10-year-old daughter, Alexis, participated in the afterschool program. Perry, a technical sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, inspects aircraft for defects at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. The Perry family doesn't have a computer, internet or cable in their home. So the program has helped support her girls' interests in science and technology. "It works for us," she said.
Perry said the counselors encouraged her daughters' unique personalities. "It's allowing them to have the space to be who they are," she said. "Respecting others is important."
Kayla Perry said she enjoyed the computer lab and making a virtual robot. "I like the teachers. All the time they think of cool things for us to do," she said. "They always come up with these amazing ideas."
Program activities have helped build relationships between mentors and students, and among students, said Virginia Harris, a retired teacher and military spouse who taught 23 years in several states and overseas.
"I've seen changes in the students, being able to work together and learning to follow rules better," Harris said. "One of the main things they learn is you're not an island. You have to get along with people in life. I think it's difficult for little people to work together as a team sometimes."
To learn more, visit www.ecu.edu/operationlink.
Curriculum Preview: Intro to Programming VEX IQ for ROBOTC!
We are excited to give you a preview into our newest curriculum series: The Introduction to Programming VEX IQ with ROBOTC. The website is still in-the-works, but it should be completely ready by August. The focus for this curriculum is on the VEX IQ virtual and/or physical robot and the ROBOTC 4.0 software featuring the new graphical function. It consists of videos, PDFs, quizzes, and our famous easy to use step-by-step videos. Check out some of the videos of from our curriculum series …
The Introduction to Programming VEX IQ with ROBOTC is a curriculum module designed to teach core computer programming logic and reasoning skills using a robotics engineering context. It contains a sequence of projects (plus one capstone challenge) organized around key robotics and programming concepts.
Why should I use the Introduction to Programming EV3 Curriculum?
Introduction to Programming provides a structured sequence of programming activities in real-world project-based contexts. The projects are designed to get students thinking about the patterns and structure of not just robotics, but also programming and problem-solving more generally. By the end of the curriculum, students should be better thinkers, not just coders.
What are the Learning Objectives of the Introduction to Programming VEX IQ Curriculum?
- Basic concepts of programming
- Commands
- Sequences of commands
- Intermediate concepts of programming
- Program Flow Model
- Simple (Wait For) Sensor behaviors
- Decision-Making Structures
- Loops
- Switches
- Engineering practices
- Building solutions to real-world problems
- Problem-solving strategies
- Teamwork
For more info and to see the online version of the curriculum, visit http://curriculum.cs2n.org/vexiq.
Curriculum Preview: Intro to Programming LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3!
We are excited to give you a preview into our newest Robotics Academy curriculum series: The Introduction to Programming LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3. The focus for this curriculum is on the LEGO MINDSTORM EV3 robot and the EV3 software. It consists of 50+ videos, PDFs, quizzes, a teacher's guide, and our famous easy to use step-by-step videos. Check out some of the videos of from our curriculum series …
What is the Introduction to Programming EV3 Curriculum?
The Introduction to Programming EV3 Curriculum is a curriculum module designed to teach core computer programming logic and reasoning skills using a robotics engineering context. It contains a sequence of 10 projects (plus one capstone challenge) organized around key robotics and programming concepts.
Each project comprises a self-contained instructional unit in the sequence, and provides students with:
- An introduction to a real-world robot and the context in which it operates
- A challenge that the robot faces
- A LEGO-scale version of the problem for students to solve with their robots
- Step-by-step guided video instruction that introduces key lesson concepts (e.g. Loops) by building simple programs that progress toward the challenge task
- Built-in questions that give students instant feedback on whether they understood each step correctly, to aid in reflection and self-pacing
- Semi-guided "Try It!" exploration activities that expose additional uses for and variants on each behavior
- Semi-open-ended Mini-Challenges which ask students to use the skill they have just learned to solve a relevant small portion of the final challenge
- The Unit Challenge based on the original robot's problem, for students to solve in teams as an exercise and demonstration of their mastery of the concept
- Additional Reflection Questions found in the back of this Teacher's Guide allow you to assess the depth of students' understandings while challenging them to apply their learning to a higher-order problem-solving and writing task.
For more info and to see the online version of the curriculum, visit http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/content/lego/ev3/curriculum/
Huffington Post Article Features CMU's Robotics Academy!
An article titled, "Robots Are Everywhere! Learning About Technology From Robotics" was recently published on the Huffington Post website featuring the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy! The author, Dr. Julie Dobrow from Tufts University, reached out to some of the staff at the Robotics Academy to get their take on robotics in the classroom. Here are some excerpts from the article …
The "Robotics Academy" at Carnegie Mellon University features a variety of tips for educators and parents on using robotics to teach kids about math, science, engineering and physics. Their extremely well-organized website offers curricular information, products and support to demonstrate ways to use both VEX systems (essentially a kit with all the component parts that enables kids to build a robot) and LEGOs to teach many STEM principles. All of their work and products are based on extensive research.
Robin Shoop, Director of the CMU Robotics Academy, believes that some of the work they are doing at CMU can make learning come alive. "Robots provide the hook that can be used to excite students about STEM academic concepts. Robotics activities in and of themselves will not improve STEM academic performance, but if robotics technologies are introduced correctly, and the STEM academic concepts are properly foregrounded, then robotics provides an excellent organizer to teach kids about STEM."
Ross Higashi, lead curriculum developer at CMU says, "It's a common misconception that involving robots in a curriculum or afterschool program makes STEM magic happen. That's simply not true… Robotics presents a wealth of opportunities to teach meaningful content. But doing that, it's not trivial. It's hard work. You need well-targeted lessons, and you need a teacher who can support students who are learning by doing. In the end, though, as many students and teachers will tell you: it's absolutely worth it, and the hardest fun they've ever had."
And kids do have fun. And not only kids. Jason McKenna, a K-8 teacher in the Hopewell(PA) Area School District who works with the CMU Robotics Academy points out that it's the combination of high engagement, the ability to teach each student at his or her instructional level and provide opportunities for differentiated engagement "that makes Robotics such fun for me as a teacher."
Sign up for the Robotics Summer of Learning All Summer!
Did you know that you can sign up for the Robotics Summer of Learning anytime during the summer? All our live webinars are recorded, so you can easily sign up today and work at your own pace!
How do I join and get into the class?
Sign in or sign up for a new account at CS2N.org. Then visit http://cs2n.org/summer-of-learning and click on the VEX IQ robot. You'll be taken to a new page where you will click "View" under "Summer of Learning 2014 – VEX IQ – Intro." From there you will be in the official Summer of Learning course!
How much does this course and/or software cost?
Nothing at all! It is free until September 1, 2014.
What do I need to download?
ROBOTC and the VEX IQ Challenge Pack. You need to download both items. The License ID and Password is located in the CS2N Moodle Course. Use these to activate the license for the entire summer (through September 1st). Computer Minimum Requirements.
Where can I find the link for the live classes?
The link is at the top of the section for the topic of that class. For example, if the topic for the live class is turning, the link will be at the top of the basic movement section. This is also where you will find the recording after the live class has ended.
What is the class schedule?
The live class schedule is listed below, but remember that you can work throughout the summer at your own pace. All classes are recorded. Just keep in mind that if you work ahead, some items of the curriculum will not be released until later this summer.
Will I be able to use the ROBOTC Graphical with EV3 and/or NXT? And, will there be a RSOL class for that?
ROBOTC for LEGO MINDSTORMS is still in development, but it will be available later this summer. Once it is ready, there will be a Robotics Summer of Learning course specifically for it.
Live Webinar Course Schedule
- June 16: Introduction to Software, Setup, Forums and Procedures used in this course
- June 17: Intro to Expedition Atlantis and Moving Forward
- June 23: Turning and Intro to Ruins of Atlantis
- June 30: Forward until Touch and Forward until Near
- July 7th: Turn for Angle, Forward until Color, Intro to Palm Island
- July 14th: Loops and if/else
- July 21st: Repeated Decisions, Continuous Decisions, Intro to Operation Reset
- July 28th: Joystick and Button control, intro to VEX IQ Highrise
Robotics Summer of Learning Starts Next Week!!
Our Robotics Summer of Learning (RSOL) course opens this Sunday, June 15 with our first live webinar course starting on Monday, June 16! The RSOL gives students the opportunity to learn how to program robots using a free copy ROBOTC 4.0 (including the new Graphical Natural Language) for Robot Virtual Worlds programming software. If you've always thought that ROBOTC was too difficult, you should try out the new Graphical Natural Language, which is part of ROBOTC 4.0!
Live Webinar Course Schedule:
- June 16: Introduction to Software, Setup, Forums and Procedures used in this course.
- June 17: Intro to Expedition Atlantis and Moving Forward
- June 23: Turning and Intro to Ruins of Atlantis
- June 30: Forward until Touch and Forward until Near
- July 7th: Turn for Angle, Forward until Color, Intro to Palm Island
- July 14th: Loops and if/else
- July 21st: Repeated Decisions, Continuous Decisions, Intro to Operation Reset
- July 28th: Joystick and Button control, intro to VEX IQ Highrise
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Groomed, mature, confident, the family advocate articulated from the podium, carefully and with strength: "The horror of mental illness . . . ."
I felt as if a laser were searing me, shattering my sense of myself as a member of a caring family.
What I heard was "the horror of your illness"— "horror . . . you."
"Horror . . . horror . . . horror."
The speaker was telling me what parents felt— "horror"—what my children wouldn't tell me— "horror"—and what my sister feared.
I felt an intruder. Afraid to speak, I tried to make myself outside as small as I felt inside—shamed, vulnerable, unwanted.
I imagined shaking hands with the speaker, that family advocate. I imagined her wanting to wipe off the touch of my horror on her skirt.
We were at the plenary assembly of a federally sponsored annual meeting reporting the results of innovative community mental health programs. I sat with 250 other invited guests at the Holiday Inn and listened as, again from the podium, another mother brandished "the tragedy of mental illness." At the word "tragedy," many in the audience sighed together in shared grief. Even though my own family was not like this, I pictured visiting my parents, reaching out for an embrace, and watching their hopelessness as they greeted their "tragedy." I felt so dishonored.
That was in the fall of 1993. Until that time I had been facilitating a local mood and melancholy support group. I had attended local mental health system improvement meetings and even a few national conferences. I had met friends and families who were caring and supportive. But I was new to national advocacy, and that meeting at the Holiday Inn was my introduction to the powerful, well-funded mental illness lobby of families whose mission is to make the family issues central, to reveal the family pain, to spare the family image.
Later I learned how in 1979 families had organized to protect themselves from blame, how they had put forward a biological model of disease, and how they were now lobbying, with the pharmaceutical and medical industries, for research dollars to support the biohealth approach to managing behavior.
Now, in 1998, I've served on boards and led more groups and gone to more conferences. Now I have seen how families' relief at finding exoneration has become an ambition to medicate social disarray. I've felt their shunning since I started publicly to reformulate what I thought about my own 1987 experiences with the mental health system.
The family advocacy I watch seems to focus on the family's misery, the family's despair, the family's efforts and frustrations, the family's engrossment with itself. Despite a convincing collection of serious diagnoses, hospitalizations, and treatments, we who get on with our lives and offer ourselves as examples of recovery are dismissed as not really ill, as exceptions, as misdiagnosed. Our experience is not valued.
Instead, the idea of the loved one that is held on to is of someone who is terribly, terribly sick—without hope. To me, this perspective is an example of self-absorbed collateral family members intent on stilling the patient's voice: the primary voice. By suppressing this voice with, if needed, handcuffs, restraints, sedation, or seclusion, family advocacy has had a chilling effect on the civil rights of individual loved ones. These violent interventions make me wonder what this loved voice might reveal if it were allowed to speak.
But the voice is co-opted by family advocates who don't consider the impact of their patronage on the loved ones, discounting the loved ones as unaware of what they need. Who is well served by this reproduction of stigmatizing, patronizing sympathy, these repeated images of disturbance? I know I am wounded by the advocates' language.
What I want from those who love me is not sympathy. I want my family members to welcome me, as me, just for being me. And I want to hear the language of respect.
To paraphrase Weick (1), words express and interpret; words include and exclude; words matter. Verbal categories mold thinking; verbal categories can contribute to integration or to discrimination. Family advocates shape and use words and ideas in ways that seem to me to change the meanings so much that for the sake of clarity, different words should be used.
Family advocates regularly breach privacy by telling their children's stories. These stories are not family property. They belong to the primary patient, not to the family. But family advocates tell of their loved one's labels and behaviors.
So urgent are the wishes of active family advocates for personal relief that they use their children's voices, disallow independence, and sensationalize their children's antisocial activities. I have never heard family advocates assert that they have informed consent to tell these stories. I have rarely seen parents beside their own child, testifying together in advocacy for the same goals.
Not all families are so authoritarian. But authoritarian families curtail growth with coercive interventions and a flourishing fundamentalism, using fear and polarities, displaying no tolerance for ambiguity, no flexibility, accentuating the nonnegotiable authority of the medical and psychiatric professions. In any social setting, rules must be learned; then rules must be tested and questioned and retested to be sure they are still applicable; that is the way of maturing.
Some families understand the many parts and obligations of parenting. Some family members seem to be grieving for who their loved ones were at some earlier time while objecting to who those loved ones actually are now. Perhaps the hardest, arguably the most important, part of parenting is to trust the child enough to let go. Even children with disabilities deserve the chance to be let go.
Moving counter to social trends of diversity, globalization, and openness, the family advocacy movement fragments, segregates, isolates, imposes secrecy, shames. I believe today's mental health approaches will be remembered along with the Salem witchcraft trials as a dishonorable scapegoating of transformative experiences.
As a person with a disability, what I want is acceptance. When you speak of my life as a tragedy, you are robbing me of my dignity. I want you to see my potential, and to stop sensationalizing the family's despair. I don't want to uplift you with my pain. If you can't love me as me, or accept me, or respect me, at least create a life for yourself separate from me. Today's family-organized advocacy stigmatizes your loved one—me, you, all of us.
Instead of seeing disease, listen.
Instead of discussing medication and noncompliance as an inability to understand one's condition, listen to your loved one's objections.
Instead of thinking how you gain when your loved one takes medication, think of what your loved one loses.
Instead of forcing your loved one into unwanted treatment, attend to what is wrong with treatment services, attend to why services are refused. Listen to the experiences.
Put the well-being of your loved ones above your wish to fence them off.
Truly listen, for just a moment.
Find the worth—the flair, the ingenuity, the ability.
See that worth, not disease.
Hear hope, not horror.
Ms. Caras, a disability rights advocate, is coordinator of electronic mailing lists for the Madness Group, an Internet service for users or former users of mental health services. Her address is 146-5 Chrystal Terrace, Santa Cruz, California 95060 (e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com). The column editor is Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H.
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I challenged her to find me a hardcore, high energy workout ... BUT one that I didn't have to use my left achilles tendon. She did it! ... and I loved every minute of it! I boxed a ton, did some squats and did a lot of repetitions with weights to keep my heart rate up.
Over here on the left, I posted a picture of what I told myself I looked like (thankfully the mirrors aren't on the wall yet) ... then, I saw the cartoon - buzz kill. Yep, I'm pretty sure THAT is how I truly looked.
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Year Built: 1928 | Architect: Elmer Feig | Square Feet: 28,000
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Norse Hall is managed by Norse Hall Association, a non-profit organization founded by the members of Grieg Lodge Sons of Norway in 1925 to build and operate a lodge hall for the benefit of Lodge members. Since its dedication in 1928, Norse Hall has been the home of Grieg Lodge, and has also served the community as an event venue and meeting space.
Today, Norse Hall continues to fulfill the needs of Grieg Lodge, a non-profit, all volunteer fraternal organization, for its many social, cultural, educational and humanitarian activities, events and programs. It is also available for rental to the community on a private basis. Our beautiful and historic building has several rooms from which to choose. Please contact us with any questions or to schedule tours of our facility. All rental inquiries should be directed to the Norse Hall Rentals Staff at 503-972-3329, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Norse Hall is conveniently located just 12 blocks from downtown Portland, in the vibrant lower East Burnside neighborhood. The building is within moments of the Oregon Convention Center and Lloyd Center District, and easily accessible by bus, MAX (within Fareless Square) or car. Private off street parking is available in the lot on the west side of the facility during evenings and weekends, along with street parking in the vicinity. Covering a quarter of a city block, the building is readily identified by its 1930s vintage neon Norse Hall sign – one of the most photographed landmark signs in the area.
The Grand Ballroom & Performance Stage:
Dimensions: 6.500 sq. ft., 70×59'
Capacity: 600 Standing, 400 Seated (theater style). 100-250 Seated (w/tables), 200 Dinner & dancing.
Performance Stage Dimensions: approx. 38×21'
Equipment: sound & PA system, stage lights and mid-size grand piano. Tables (rectangle and 60" round), and chairs are also available. Wi-fi active.
From the beautiful maple floor (replaced in 2008) to the original F.C. Baker chandeliers hanging from the 30-foot ceiling, the Grand Ballroom is the crown jewel of Norse Hall. It is a storied, much loved dance space – voted Best of the City by Portland Monthly Magazine in 2007, and has seen countless dances of all styles (swing, traditional Nordic, folk, old time, tango, waltz and more) through its 80+-year history. The stage easily accommodates everything from a 20-pc. big band to a jazz trio or concert soloist. A hand-painted backdrop of a Norwegian fjord scene has been a signature feature of the stage since the 1930s, along with the array of Nordic flags that hang along the ballroom walls. To quote most people when they enter the Ballroom for the first time, "Wow!"
The Oslo Lounge
Dimensions: 1120 sq. ft.' 38×29'
Capacity: 50 (seated); 75 standing.
Equipment: surround sound system, projector & screen w/PC hook-up, limited cable television, wi-fi active.
Framed by its original vintage windows, the Oslo Lounge is a light-filled, comfortable space featuring tables & chairs for 50, and two leather sofas. A favorite gathering spot for meetings, cultural activities and socializing, the Oslo Lounge connects to the Grand Ballroom (as desired) and also offers a full-service, licensed bar operated and staffed by Grieg Lodge for lodge and special events on a periodic basis.
The Lodge Room
Dimensions: 1900 sq. ft.' 48×38'
Capacity: 110+ Standing, 80 Seated
Equipment: sound & PA system, screen, tables & chairs, upright piano, wi-fi active.
The Lodge Room on the 2nd floor serves equally well as a cozy dance floor or spacious meeting hall. The maple floors and original wall sconces give the room period elegance, while daytime events benefit from the natural light supplied by the windows along two walls. At night, the glow from Norse Hall's vintage neon sign provides the room with its signature romance, making it a favorite space for Argentine tango dancers.
The Library
Capacity: 20-25
Equipment: Small kitchen, tables, chairs, wi-fi active.
The fully restored Grieg Lodge Library is the beloved heart of Norse Hall containing an extensive literary collection of Norwegian and English titles related to Norway and Norwegian immigration to the US. The room itself is widely considered the most beautiful in the Hall providing lodge members with the perfect space for book discussions, children's story time, author receptions and geneology meetings. Because of its special nature, the Library is rarely rented. Special requests for small group rental should be made at least 30 days in advance. Visitors are always welcome during open library times.
The Nordic Room
Dimensions: 1,200 sq. ft. (L-shaped)
Capacity: 40 (seated); 70 (standing)
Equipment: Dining tables & chairs, upright piano.
The carpeted Nordic Room on the lower floor of Norse Hall is a cozy, self-contained dining room decorated in Nordic colors and details, ideal for luncheons, dinners and meetings or classes. It includes private ladies' & gents' restrooms.
Bergen Waterfront Banquet Hall & Kitchen
Dimensions: 2,020 sq. ft 58×33'
Capacity: 125
Equipment: Full commercial kitchen, dining tables & chairs, audio & PA system, separate clean-up kitchen, portable dance flooor.
With its signature Bergen waterfront mural and extensive capacity, the Banquet Hall is popular for a variety of food service activities, catered events or as an alternate dance area. It has it's handy street access with ramp and loading zone, and all the equipment needed for most types of food preparation and service.
The Barnerom
Capacity: 15
Equipment: Large whiteboard, television with video & DVD players & A/V hook-up, games.
The Barnerom, or children's room, is located on the ground floor and used for children's play and Norwegian language activities by members and guests.
The Landhandel Nordic Arts & Crafts Showcase
Capacity: 10
Located in the main lobby and guarded by the exquisite Dragon Gates, the Landhandel is a display and instruction space for the lodge's rich heritage of Nordic arts and crafts. Small classes in needlework, decorative painting and knitting take place here on a periodic basis, and during special events, the Landhandel is open for browsing.
The Restoration Fund
The Restoration Fund was established in the early 1990s by the members of Grieg Lodge to finance special restoration and beautification projects and acquisitions in Norse Hall that weren't covered by normal maintenance, renovation and repair activities. Restoration Fund projects have included locking library bookcases, ballroom wainscoting, lobby furniture and period lighting. Although donations to this fund are not tax deductible, support of the fund is one of the vital ways members and non-members alike can contribute to preserving and enhancing Norse Hall, an important cultural landmark, community resource and part of the city's historic legacy. Please make donations to:
The Restoration Fund, c/o Grieg Lodge Treasurer, 111 N.E. 11th, Portland, OR 97232
Thank you!
Preferred Vendors
As a service to our members and renters, Norse Hall Association recommends the following list of event professionals who have ably provided event services at our facility. Please contact these vendors directly with inquiries. If you would like to learn more about being included in this list, please contact the Norse Hall Rentals at 503-972-3329.
Art of Catering 503-231-8185
A Simple Elegance Catering 503-230-9521
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Movement class for young children. Students receive a thorough sense and feeling for music as well as an understanding of its written language. The study of music through movement cultivates inner hearing and gives children an intuitive understanding of musical elements, such as pulse, meter, rhythm pattern, phrasing and form.
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104 at San Francisco Conservatory of MusicPrerequisites
2013 Fall Semester Building Access
Dalcroze Level 5/Avd
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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Saturday, September 7, 2013 @ 1:45 PM (PDT)
San Francisco Conservatory of Music 50 Oak Street San Francisco, CA 94102Get Directions


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Stephen Gionta has followed his in his brother Brian Gionta's footsteps his entire life. The Devils right-winger plays the same position as his brother. They both attended Boston College, but the brothers never played together.
When Stephen signed his first AHL contract with the Devils, he hoped to finally play alongside his brother.
The opportunity never came.
But tonight, Stephen will get the next best thing: the opportunity to play against his brother. Brian Gionta and the Montreal Canadiens (15-8-2) play the New Jersey Devils (8-14-2) tonight at the Prudential Center.
"When he was here, I hoped that I got into a game with him, but now that he's gone, the next best thing is playing against him and, hopefully, it will be a good one tonight," Stephen said to Tom Gulitti of the Bergen Record.
Despite playing the same position, the brothers are two different players. Brian is a goal scorer, lighting the lamp 187 times in his nine-year career. The Habs captain still holds the Devils' franchise record for goals in a season (48).
Stephen lacks the scoring touch of his brother, serving as a fourth-line forward and penalty killer. Devils' coach John MacLean believes Stephen's recent play and defensive abilities keep him in the lineup.
"He's played well," MacLean said of Stephen. "He's been doing a lot for us. He does his job and he kills penalties for us, so he's going to play."
The brother versus brother matchup overshadows an important game for the Devils. After beginning the season winless at home (0-5-2), New Jersey reeled off four straight home victories. The Devils shut down the two best offenses in the league, allowing two goals on 91 shots to the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers.
The Devils defeated the Flyers, 2-1, in a shootout Saturday afternoon to extend their home winning streak to four games. Adam Mair began the scoring, converting on a feed from David Clarkson for his first goal of the season. The Devils held the Flyers scoreless until the third period, when Daniel Briere beat Johan Hedberg to tie the game. After a scoreless overtime, the team's moved to a shootout, the Devils second in three games.
Nikolai Zherdev struck first, beating Hedberg five-hole in the fifth round. Jason Arnott answered right back, beating Brian Boucher to continue the skill competition. Mike Richards began the sixth round, and clanged his attempt off the crossbar. That left an opportunity for Travis Zajac, who buried his attempt high to the glove side for the game-winning goal.
Stephen Gionta and his teammates come into the game with a decisive advantage against the Canadiens. The team routinely beats Montreal and holds a decisive advantage over the Habs in recent years. New Jersey already beat the Habs this season, blanking them, 3-0, on October 21 at the Bell Centre. Zach Parise, Arnott and Matt Taormina powered the offense. Martin Brodeur stopped 29 shots for the shutout.
Even with all the numbers and statistics, the game tonight comes to one common thread: a sibling rivalry, the first of its kind for the Gionta family.
"To be able to play against Brian is an exciting thing and something we'll be able to share together." Stephen said. "The only time we skated together competitively was here in Jersey (in training camp in 2007 and 2008) and that's it. It will be the first time. There's a first time for everything."


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Center fielder Kasey Coffman fell a double short of the cycle and collected three RBI to lead the 15th-ranked Arizona State University baseball team to a 6-3 victory against USC on Saturday at Dedeaux Field in Los Angeles.
Coffman went 4-for-5 with a two-run homer, a triple and a pair of singles, and scored two runs to pace the Sun Devils (21-1-1, 7-7), who have the opportunity to win the three-game road series Sunday. Catcher RJ Ybarra drove in two runs and designated hitter Nate Causey added two hits.
Starting left-hander Ryan Kellogg (8-0) earned his eighth win of the season after allowing two runs on eight hits and striking out one in six innings.
Right-hander Darin Gillies threw two scoreless innings of relief and retired six straight batters after giving up a leadoff base hit. Right-hander Ryan Burr took over in the ninth and struck out before coercing a flyout to center field to end the game.
Ybarra stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and no outs in the first inning and knocked a two-run single up the middle to give the Sun Devils an early 2-0 advantage. Coffman and third baseman Michael Benjamin, who both singled to start the frame, scored from second and third, respectively.
The Trojans(13-21, 6-8) cut ASU's lead in half in the bottom of the third with an RBI single by Adam Landecker, but the Devils responded with a pair of runs in the top of the fourth to push their lead to three, 4-1. Right fielder Trever Allen singled and moved to second on an error before Causey drove him around on a base hit, and Causey scored two batters later on a single by first baseman Dalton DiNatale.
USC used three singles in the seventh to pull within two, 4-2, and had runners at the corners with one out. Pinch hitter J.R. Aguirre attempted a bunt to bring the lead runner home, but Kellogg ran in and threw him out at home to record the second out of the inning. He induced a fly out to right field in the next at-bat to preserve ASU's two-run lead.
Coffman drove a two-out pitch over the right field fence for a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to extend ASU's lead, 6-2.
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It couldn't have been a better season for Texas A&M Aggies redshirt quarterback Johnny Manziel. Not only did the Johnny Football fever take over the nation, but it led to the young signal-caller becoming the first freshman to become a Heisman Trophy winner in the history of the award.
Now that Johnny Football is a Heisman Trophy winner, he is also a first-team All-American. The Associated Press unveiled their All-American teams on Tuesday and Manziel led the way for the first team.
Out of the teams represented on the first team All-American team, Alabama led the way with four players — Barrett Jones and Chance Warmack, C.J. Mosley and Dee Milliner. The Southeastern Conference as a whole came out on top with nine players. The Pac-12 had the second most representatives with six.
Here is the complete First Team All-American squad:
QB – Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M
RB – Montee Ball, Wisconsin
RB – Ka'Deem Carey, Arizona
OL – Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M
OL – Taylor Lewan, Michigan
OL – Chance Warmack, Alabama
OL – Jonathan Cooper, North Carolina
OL – Barrett Jones, Alabama
TE – Zach Ertz, Stanford
WR – Marqise Lee, USC
WR – Terrance Williams, Baylor
AP – Tavon Austin, West Virginia
PK – Cairo Santos, Tulane
DE – Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina
DE – Bjoern Werner, Florida State
DT – Star Lotulelei, Utah
DT – Will Sutton, Arizona State
LB – Manti Te'o, Notre Dame
LB – Jarvis Jones, Georgia
LB – C.J. Mosley, Alabama
CB – Dee Milliner, Alabama
CB – Jordan Poyer, Oregon State
S – Phillip Thomas, Fresno State
S – Matt Elam, Florida
P – Ryan Allen, Louisiana Tech
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
5 Years and Counting
The second post, the first one with substance set the tone for what I was going to be, the bad boy of blogsphere. Of course it wasn't on my mind then but writing thoughts down, things I do, makes me think it over twice, as to why and how. Just a year or two before that post I wrote to the now defunct "Yoshev Al Hageder", a plainspoken Israeli Charedi who, as him name suggests doesn't belong to any camp but sits on the gate ready to fall down either way. The email was short, perhaps a one liner "Are you planning on fasting this Yom Kippur?". I've read his rants, knew perfectly what he meant, as I've had doubts of my own surfing in my head questioning everything I always believed in, but never found the guts to take it to the next level. I even had a hard time believing that someone else had the guts to do it. His answer, shorter than my question affirmed what I had hoped he would say. "Why should I fast?" or something like that was his answer (before Gmail, there was AOL with their policy of erasing emails after 7 days or so. Oy, what I would give to recover my innocence of those days.).
The third time I wrote on the blog I got some responses, both, comments, and emails. People found me, found what I wrote to be significant enough to respond, and to be honest, quite shockingly, significant enough to re-visit.
Then things got rolling, I got noticed, requested links to my blog by the gedoilim. More people emailed, commented, and debated than I ever imagined. In no time this blog business consumed me, it was on my mind constantly. I can't complain, times were good. I confirmed what I had suspected, I'm not the only one, I'm not even one in a thousand!
That was 5 years ago.
Now when the hate mail is too occasional to excite, the comments on posts as few and far between as are the posts itself, when googling "shtreimel" doesn't bring up this blog on top, when I'm conveniently mentioned in the list of former glory I can reflect on the changes these years have brought in me.
I'm missing the hindsight I may eventually have to be able to summarize the last 5 years fully, yet, there's plenty I can see this moment. I know I have matured with 5 years, especially with my main concerns of then. The questions I naively sought an honest answer I find unanswerable at the very best – sometimes I even think that I have the answer, and it isn't a fun answer for someone living in this community. But more than that is the change in attitude from "something must change, this cannot go on" to "living a double life isn't so hard at all".
It isn't as hard as I thought it to be. Surprisingly most frum people care so little, or are so occupied with saving their own house of cards that one can be suspiciously heretical but still count as a tzenter – a tenth person required in a quorum of Jewish prayer. There is comfort in the status quo. People may find me hypocritical as if anyone asks me I advise to get up and leave before the comfort sets in, but once the comfort is there it's not as bad and monstrous as I thought it will be. I often wonder why I still hold by this advise, telling myself that not everyone is built for this kind of double life.
Analyzing the last 5 years leaves me with one question: what next?
If I get to write the answer I'd have it similar to the last 5. As long as it works it is fine by me.
Alas, as luck may have it, just when I come to terms with living this life, just when I think that this may be me for the rest of my days, something may happen to turn things on it's head. Someone may be ticked off, someone who couldn't care less until today. It may be a good thing for me, for everyone around me, it may not.
Time will tell. Hope to report back in 5 years. And also at times in between, even though I don't have much to say.
Gmar Chasima Tovah Ya'll.
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"Surprisingly most frum people care so little, or are so occupied with saving their own house of cards that one can be suspiciously heretical but still count as a tzenter – a tenth person required in a quorum of Jewish prayer."ReplyDelete
I hope that will change.
- Mindy9/23/2009 10:47 AM
I like this post. Deep down I think you know that upping and leaving isnt as good as it's cracked up to be. Losing one's wife, kids, friends and community, and leavning a lonely live with no support structure or friends isnt that much fun. The thrill of the cheeseburger and the Friday night nightclub eventually evaporates and what are you left with? NOthing. at least this way you still have love, stability and security, and you can believe and think what you want.ReplyDelete
plan on having coffee this year on YK?ReplyDelete
I like your change in attitude and frankly, I've been quite suroprised at how difficult it is for a hasid born and raised to effetively integrate into mainstream society. Now that there are many folks with one leg still in the community who are questioning the validity of their faith, it's becoming easier to adapt from within, rather than taking the drastic steo of restarting life as an immigrant who doesn't know his country's lanuage and culture.ReplyDelete
I want to point out very strongly here that my personal decision to leave was a very close call. At times I was even tempted to regret it (for practical reasons, obviously, not ideological) and I still think that the double life is a somewhat viable possibility.
Streimel, I just want to mention incidentally my special Elul initiative to ask all Jewish skeptics to refrain from prostitutes and cocaine during this holy time. Now, for the Ten Days of repentance, I am respectfully adding an additional request - no masturbation!ReplyDelete
Thank you.
How can you know what I know deep down if you don't know it yourself. How many people that left do you know on a personal level? How many do you talk to daily?
See, the thrills you mention has nothing to do with leaving, it can be as easily obtained with the full levush on the way home to the frum family. I pity one who leaves for these thrills just as much as a pity one who thinks that people leave for these thrills.
I wonder though, why, if it would be up to you, you prefer people like me to stick around in spite of what we think and do. And look how contrasting your yiddishe hartz is to the goyishe kop NJNP who can't wrap his mind around why people don't copy his people's Inquisition.
You're invited. Email me.
Maybe I'm right, and it just isn't for everyone.
Sure, if you refrain from drinking coffee, and looking at flowers the month of September, additionally, the next 10 days you are not to use any form of electricity. Deal?
- Anonymous9/24/2009 12:32 AM
I am a big fan of your blog. I only started reading your blog quite recently, but I went back and read just about every post you wrote since the blog's inception.ReplyDelete
In your first full post you write that "If god forgave me for my sins I don't know, but I didn't forgive him" And perhaps this collection of 5 years of articulated musings chronicle your mind's redemption. You still might not have forgiven him, but redemption is sometimes about acceptance even when their is no forgiveness.
Kierkegard said "God is dying" and perhaps this is the story of your blog, God's slow death. You denounce him at the beginning, but he only dies slowly. It's why I always preferred Kierkegard's statement over Neitzche's "God is dead." For us, who grew up in the ultra religious communities, God is never dead, he is just always dying, every day a bit more.
Your blog is a true gem, and please do continue to stop by. Even if the God you set out to kill is already almost dead and will continue to die everyday just a bit more.
Aleh V'hatzlech.
- Anonymous9/24/2009 12:33 AM
Sorry, just noticed you need a nickname, call me Ishmael ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/24/2009 1:51 AM
Understand your position exactly. It's intersting that through your experience you have shown that the chariedi system works as it is intended.
You got committed to the lifestyle before you really started to think, and by the time you did start to think you realized that it's easier to play the game.
And so, you will play the game, marry your kids off and in due course, they too will start to think. But by that time, they will be stuck, thereby continuing the golden chain from Har Sinai.
And to JP - with all the fasting and odd sleep hours with slichos and stuff, you can't take away the few pleasures that are left.
Easy fast to all.
Oy vey dear friend!ReplyDelete
Good to see you are still around though!
I live in hope that you can come to terms with Yiddishkeit just as I managed to b'ezras Hashem!
I wish you and your readers a Gmar Chasima Tova and wish you all the very best!
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- email@example.com/24/2009 12:16 PM
For those who read Riva Pomerantz's suspense filled serials in the Mishpacha, blogsphere has just been exposed there!ReplyDelete
For all I know, some of the names from the time when blogsphere thrived might show up there. I just hope my wife doesen't see the blood drain from my face if I am referenced there...
Firstly congrats on your milestone, If all of our people's parents would have been like I am, afraid to adapt, would the world have had Einstein, Marx, Menuhin, Springer, Sagan .....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/24/2009 8:26 PM
There's no need for words... ---ShlomoReplyDelete
If you can't have a civil discussion (i.e. answering a question after you raise a topic) you cannot comment here. Thanks.
Thanks Ishmael. I'm not so sure that at this point I'm ready to forgive god. You're so right about the acceptance - yet, is accepting a good thing? Isn't fighting it a better option? That remains the question, a question I chose the answer to personally.
I won't use the word intended, as I don't think that someone actually sat down and planed it to work this way. But you're right - who knows, could my parents have gone through a similar phase? (If they did they sure recanted fast enough.)
You'd have to pray much more in order to have your hopes fulfilled (but then again, it will take something so extraordinary to get me back that it would cause me to lose bechairah, so what's the point then anyway?).
I've been told about it - I checked out the header this week (it's in the family section - GASP!). I could not believe that exposure they gave it. I mean imagine someone googeling "blog heretic" after reading the article. Oy!
Jerry Springer? ;)
Frummer, I find it just a tad bit ironic that Shtriemel writes a post basically saying how he had on some level, come to terms with yiddishkeit, and you leave him a comment saying that you hope that he comes to terms with yiddishkeit.ReplyDelete
I am really curious though, just how did you reach your madreigoh of "coming to termness"?
I didn't read that he has come to terms with Yiddishkeit. He's referring to his double life. At least, that's the way I read it.
How I came to terms with it?
Basically, it came down to having my Hashkafa fixed up. For me it was theshmuz.com. For others it may be something else. Sure, there are many, many questions, but there are many, many answers too.
But yes, I still believe that most chassidim (of which I am one!) have a warped sense of mind and don't have the brains to understand the deeper issues of Yiddishkeit. But, nebbech them, it keeps them happy!
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>>don't have the brains to understand the deeper issues of YiddishkeitReplyDelete
Aza fetten loshon horah hob ich shoin lang nisht gehert. But seriously, now you know why god kills babies and why most zebras get eaten alive?
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Shtreimel, all I can do is say I commiserate and empathise with you. Some days it's great while others suck and usually it's somewhere in between; just like the believers. Keep on trucking.ReplyDelete
thanks for the invite. But I will be fasting this year as usual. Enjoy
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- laura9/27/2009 3:30 PM
I've been quite suroprised at how difficult it is for a hasid born and raised to effetively integrate into mainstream society.ReplyDelete
I don't think this is quite right. I believe chassidim can integrate into mainstream society with just a bit of effort. Finding contentment within it is what's *really* the challenge. Chasidism gives people more than they realize, and when they leave it, they're left with a void which is exceedingly difficult (some will say impossible) to fill.
- laura9/27/2009 3:31 PM
Oops, I forgot to add quotation marks and indicate that the first sentence is pasted from jajogluck's comment.ReplyDelete
blog me, tooReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/28/2009 6:33 PM
In reality it is quite easy to integrate while you are young, however if you have a family and children then it is quite difficult if not impossible, to make the transition easier, you need for some time to completely break away and no contact with anybody who you were previously familiar with, this is how you would be able to change and start anew, even if you have a relationship with only ex Chasidic people that would keep your mind in the same confinement as you were when you were still Chasidic. Joining the Army would be the best thing a person could do to start out on your own, the only problem you might have in today's army you need a high school education, and if you have a clean record a GED might be OK. so go ahead and join up be all you could be.ReplyDelete
Great post as usual, it's just that being in the same boat as u, it makes me feel sad and pathetic knowing that this will probably be my own outcome.ReplyDelete
In the comments u made a point to the affect , that if God where to reveal himself we would lose our free choice. I disagree I think we would still have a choice when it would come to following all the commandments. Knowing what the right thing to do is, doesn't make it easy to do it. How many people do you know that smoke,even though they are acutely aware that it is not healthy? On the other hand if the anti smoking research is shoddy and weak, the case to stop smoking would be so weak, that I wouldn't even call it a fair choice.
- Yarmulkah Juice9/30/2009 3:08 PM
check this out - http://hassid.blogspot.com/2008/12/accepting-double-life.html, I get one point!ReplyDelete
p.s. Being amputated an arm & leg for 5 years, has the same effect on you. Think about it.
- yosef'smom10/13/2009 2:27 AM
If you are done, sell me your olam haba.
Im not joking
I'll Sell you mine, how much are you offering?ReplyDelete
How much? Can I bargain for a better deal if I bring you along another hundred olam haba's?
- Anonymous10/19/2009 9:23 PM
The fact that so many Orthoprax remain outwardly religious and raise their children to be religious seems to be somewhat of a refutation of the Kuzari argument of "ain adam morish sheker lebanav".ReplyDelete
Also, JP's posts are great; gotta love 'em! They're so amusing, hilarious and non-sensical that they basically self-destruct. The best arguments against JP's posts are usually to just to let them remain exactly as written and have them speak for themselves.
Grubeh Gartel
Hi Shtraimele!ReplyDelete
A git gebensht yuhr to you and yours!
Nice post! After having practically forgotten the blogosphere still existed it was a apleasant surprise to drop in a and see some of the old failthful still plotting away.
Keep on


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