Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxs!tischler From: tischler@ihuxs.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Ann Landers on Judaism Message-ID: <587@ihuxs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 10:46:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxs.587 Posted: Fri Aug 3 10:46:49 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:48:37 EDT References: <154@mhuxv.UUCP>, <585@ihuxs.UUCP> <457@houxt.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 Harlan, I hope you never hurt yourself on Shabbat and can't call an ambulance because your too damn stubborn to use the phone to save your own life. I hope your mother or father never gets badly injured, and you're not reachable because your too brainwashed with religion to answer the telephone on Shabbat. I know I wouldn't want to find out in the newspaper that my parent was hurt. That's pretty unfeeling, but typical of folks that are super-religious, to suggest that you wouldn't want to be notified in case of an emergency just because of some law that says you shouldn't use the telephone on Shabbat. By the way, has it ever occurred to you that phones did not exist in biblical times, and that therefore this law is not an original law. But yet you still observe it! Technology definitely was not an issue in biblical times. That's why that argument was not used then. Now, however, the rapid and accelerated growth of technology affects all of us. It is the super-religious who want to hold back technology and, therefore, hold back the advancement of mankind. It's no "straw-man" argument -- it's quite real. Not seeing that is living with you eyes closed. -- Mark Tischler (312) 355-4254 (home) (312) 979-2626 (work) ihnp4!ihuxs!tischler