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Stephan Pickering
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Karl Erik Andersen
Expecting Rain
Shalom & Erev tov, Karl Erik:
Antisemitism, like Sho'ah denial = silence about the Sho'ah, is, inter alia, a motiveless malignancy staining (I believe irreparably if not corrected by you personally) 'charlesdarwin''s posturing at Expecting Rain (aboard his staid cockleshell made of semantic pirouettes). Vigorous debate about ideas relating to the complex Yehu'dit kabbalahs of Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan, predicated on the concept of to postulate-then-document, are missing from Expecting Rain. There is a codicil of ignorance borrowed from Tiger Beat mentalities carefully maintained by 'charlesdarwin'. This has engendered at Expecting Rain a cadre of entrenched, vociferous 'born-again' natz'rim who, ignorant of scholarship on koine Greek forgeries and parallel post-Sho'ah Yehu'dit research (some in English, some in Hebrew), have necessarily embraced the concomitant daemonising of Yehu'dim. I was attacked at Expecting Rain not from the basis of disagreement over ideation, but solely because because I am a Yehu'di; none of them have ever published on Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan.
Need I add this has had an affect with serious scholars of Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel who often avoid contributing to Expecting Rain. I had hoped to break the barrier. Expecting Rain must be a vibrant, experimental exploration of ontologies, not just a quaintly useless amalgamation of a 'music fan site'.
I first heard Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel in late 1961, began seriously studying his poetics in October 1964, and, since 1970, have written extensively on him. My current monograph-in-progress opens with a detailed overview of the primary Hebrew/Kabbalah mentor for his 12 June 1954 bar mitzvah, Rabbi Reuven Maier...and I discuss his Yiddish-speaking grandmother, Anna Zimmerman, who witnessed (along with Sholem Aleichem and Vladimir Jabotinsky) the genocide in Odessa 1905 (which I discuss); and who despised Bob Zimmerman's abusive mother and father (this I document). I consider Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel the most important music/poet explorer of Yehu'dit ontological authenticity since R. Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1909-1994), of blessed memory (who also personally mentored Bob/Shabtai). Only Reb Elie Wiesel has had an equal impact on my life as a Yehu'di other than Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel. I stress: for me, as a chassidish Yehu'di, hermeneutics and experience are synonymous in Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel's chanted/sung linguistic entities since 1964.
My life is governed, among other aspects, by the kabbalistic thesis: L'shem yichud immah ilaah u'shekhinah...for the sake of the unification of the transcendent creative power with the shekhinah [divine presence] dwelling here and now.
Integral to some individuals at Expecting Rain is a carefully hidden, but ever present, exterminationist Yehu'di hatred which, since the Sho'ah, has not abated. And yet. Under the 'moderating' of 'charlesdarwin', 'never again!'/l'olam lo od / keinmal mehr (in Yiddish) has become, alas, 'never mind!'.
At Expecting Rain, one has an apostate/meshumad 'messianic Jew' named 'yopietro', who has relentlessly libelled me, spurned my good faith efforts to privately share with him excerpts from my scholarship (including my updated 1971-2015 bibliography). He has not once told others at Expecting Rain that a meshumad is not, and can never be, a Yehu'di.
Another individual, a self-proclaimed 'dharma.queen', a rigid ideological guardian-at-the-gate of her 'holy catholic church', viciously accused me of 'public libel' when I discussed (with bibliographies, and an excerpt from a talk by former priest James Carroll, author of Constantine's sword, which exhaustively documents this subject) the role of the 'church' in identifying, registering, ghettoising, deporting, killing 12+ million of my people. The post was never directed toward her, never mentioned her, or anyone else.
(Parenthetically I note: it remains the height of revisionism to claim Natz'rut and nationalsozialismus are separable entities; the internecine squabbling and mutual murdering within their territorial sects does not negate my thesis.)
She insists that her family were 'tortured and killed' in Poland for 'saving Jews'. This does not revoke the documented history of Yehu'di exterminations in Poland for centuries, all enthusiastically supported by her 'church'. The Sho'ah technologised the Inquisition, with the eager participation of IBM Germany (Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft)...and the catholic 'churches'. From 1933-1945, 'born-again' catholics made our birth registrations warrants for genocide. One nationalsozialist priest in Braunlage told Berlin: 'We are glad to serve the cause...and ready to do the job right', viz. the automation of genocide against all Yehu'dim they could identify. I find 'dharma.queen''s self-annointing reprehensible, and I have never solicited, nor need, her 'christian love'.
I stated she was perpetrating Judaeophobia -- which she exhibited blatantly. I did not accuse her of being an antisemite, and I apologised if this was her interpretation. But 'charlesdarwin' had me 'banned' 10 June-24 June 2015. I have subsequently concluded that such an apology to her hysterical sensibilities was not contextually warranted, and it is hereby publicly retracted. I acted in good faith, and was subjected to 'charlesdarwin''s lack of decorum and courtesy.
In June 2015, I made an effort to present at Expecting Rain an excerpt from my monograph-in-progress's Chapter 2 (The Sho'ah: re/membering the future(s)). This was a documented overview of Shabtai/Bob'steshuvah/repentance in Yerusalaim 20 September 1983, his very public CHaBaD-Lubavitcher mentored repudiation of natz'rut. Yisra'eli artist Tzavi Kohen and Sara Dylan photographed the ceremony, and his mother and other family members were there...as was son Jesse Dylan, present for his own CHaBaD-Lubavitch bar mitzvah. (In my monograph, I am using Tzavi Kohen's two best colour photographs of Bob/Shabtai, and have a statement from him on what actually took place.) This was promptly censored by the morally vigilant, proprietary 'charlesdarwin'.
On 28 July 2015, 'charlesdarwin' permanently 'banned' me, a Torah Yehu'di, for my documenting what 'dharma.queen', among others, deny. His piroutte: my alleged 'behaviour', and 'Your methods of expressing your views here are vastly inappropriate. Your consideration and respect for other members of the forum appear non-existent'.
This is unmitigated distortion. It was vacuous when he wrote it, and even now as I quote it, remains untrue. However, I think 'charlesdarwin' needs to issue a public apology to me (and others he has 'banned' for the flimsiest of reasons) for his actions.
That he hides behind the avatar of the Down House plagiariser of Alfred Russel Wallace's speciation concepts may not be entirely irrelevant. Darwin received Alfred Russel Wallace's February 1858 Ternate paper on diverging lineages on 17/18 May 1858. Over the next 25 days, Darwin on bluish grey paper wrote forty-one folios of new text on 'divergence' in Chapter VI of his 'Natural Selection' manuscript, fol. 26a-26nn (DAR 10.2 in Cambridge University Library's manuscript collection), which, in desperation, he completed by 12 June 1858. He quite carefully, knowingly, and deliberately was plagiarising the February 1858 Ternate paper, and Alfred Russel Wallace's earlier February 1855 speciation paper (both never credited in the 1859 'abstract'). Later claims Darwin had received Alfred Russel Wallace's Ternate paper on 18 June 1858 are elaborate phantasies from 1887. 'Natural Selection' was not published until 1975, but examination of the original surviving manuscript of Chapter VI reveals an enterprise of prodigious dishonesty. I suggest 'charlesdarwin' avail himself of seeing for himself DAR 10.2, as it has been digitalised and placed online, or he can go to Cambridge (as I did some years ago), and see the physical folios. Charles Darwin was a fraud.
The parallels of behaviour to 2015 are obvious.
'charlesdarwin' needs an ethical avatar, not a masquerade. I am not asking for his identity, only for a morally necessary retraction. I believe he took his action seeking vengeance and retribution against me, a Yehu'dit Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel scholar, for illuminating the actual, underlying antisemitic motivations of some forum members who are ostensibly his acolytes. Time and again, 'born-again' natz'rim attacked me personally, and they were free to do so without reprimands from 'charlesdarwin'. His lack of knowledge of both Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel and Yehu'dim since Auschwitz is shameful and inexcusable.
I repudiate the insistence of 'charlesdarwin' of there being at Expecting Rain a consistent atmosphere of 'illumination, companionship, and generosity' (as he sonorously writes in one letter to a friend of mine). Censoring me negates his falsetto premises. My 'methods' derive(d) from decades of rabbinic studies, from the rhetorical discourse of the Talmud and Kabbalah. As a post-Auschwitz Yehu'di, I am not silent. I see a direct linkage between the sordid ideological collaboration among London's governmental fascists who refused to give sanctuary to millions of Yehu'dim attempting to flee Europe, thus guaranteeing they were subsequently gassed, and the equally salacious behaviour of 'charlesdarwin' who hides behind his patronising somnambulating ambivalence, allowing unfettered proselytising at Expecting Rain. I attempted to correct it, and was met with equally unfettered vocal attacks by 'charlesdarwin' acolytes who, it is obvious, were misquoting koine Greek forgeries to me (to be sure, in poor English translation, because they are illiterate in the original dialectics of their late 2nd/early 3rd century CE 'faith'). He never 'banned' any of them (temporarily, or otherwise).
Would it have assuaged his wounded censoring ego, his reckless disregard for the truth, if I had signed my posts (which I could have legitimately done) as a 'rabbi'? Or, if I had pointed out to both he and 'dharma.queen' that my adoptive 'mother''s Dachau six digit tattoo was 246744 (the '2' meant Dachau), that they were IBM's DeHoMaG tracking numbers? Or, that the 1933-1945 Kingdom of Night forever decimated natzrut's assertion they have/had a bris/covenant?
I have spent several hours re-reading my 750+ posts at Expecting Rain 13 November 2014-20 July 2015. Some of my interactions with 'born-again' natz'rim could have been rephrased -- telling an ill-read antisemite they are an ignorant antisemite is a circuitous oxymoron -- but I have never considered myself 'condescending'.
I have received numerous notes from supporting ER members expressing their dismay at 'charlesdarwin'. I appreciate their support. My scholarship is not curtailed by his actions. I shall be writing and publishing, as I have done for over 45 years.
'charlesdarwin' is in no ethical/moral position to tell me, a Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan scholar, I possess no 'consideration and respect' for some at Expecting Rain for whom I, a post-Auschwitz Yehu'di, actually have deep regard as friends. The free interchange of viewpoints (however vigorously articulated) at Expecting Rain should not have me, a Chassidish Yehu'di, 'banned'. If one does not like how concepts are put forth, then one can choose not to read. I have been accused of having been 'abrasive' (perhaps), 'condescending' (I do not agree), and 'patronising' (scholarly impatience with psychobabble is hardly 'patronising').
Indeed, to be perfectly honest with you, I do not anticipate you will correct anything with 'charlesdarwin'. Hence, I am taking the liberty, as a Yehu'di who has been egregiously maligned by 'charlesdarwin' and his idiosyncratic peregrinations, of sharing this letter at my earliest opportunity at different forums, and as the concluding pages of my monograph. I do not believe 'charlesdarwin''s continued participation at Expecting Rain fulfills the need for a balanced, cogent forum dedicated to the music/words of Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan. If I were a 'moderator' at Expecting Rain, which I fully anticipated volunteering for months ago, I would not 'ban' 'charlesdarwin', but give forthright, thorough rectification of his misguided ideations. I believe in total free speech...and free thought. 'charlesdarwin' betrays that civil liberty.
I am not, I say directly to you, 'angry'...profoundly disappointed is a cogently accurate summation.
This morning, I received a lengthy letter from my close UK friend and colleague, Tim Rundall, who has been at Expecting Rain since 10 July 2008 (10356 posts), and who has read almost all of my contributions there. He has carefully read what you are now receiving, and approves of my sharing with you this:
'Nonetheless I DO feel it is worth saying, and saying to Karl -- after all, ultimately the Mods' decisions are a reflection of him and his site. I think this might be worth pointing out. Even if he disagrees with you, it is ultimately how the site is perceived rather than his single point of view, and I'm sure he would understand that -- therefore, if only a few people see antisemitism or other wrongdoing and bias, it reflects badly on the site as a whole. I think he would do well to take the time and to consider his choice of representatives -- I truly hope your letter will encourage him to do that and I am willing to be quoted if you so desire.
Kol tuv/be well, Karl Erik. Stephan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT
19 February 2016 / 10 Adar 5776
And, no, 'nate', you are receiving nothing from me in response to your contemptible behaviour. Your existence is an uncorrected proof.
Karl Erik Andersen
Expecting Rain
Shalom & Erev tov, Karl Erik:
Antisemitism, like Sho'ah denial = silence about the Sho'ah, is, inter alia, a motiveless malignancy staining (I believe irreparably if not corrected by you personally) 'charlesdarwin''s posturing at Expecting Rain (aboard his staid cockleshell made of semantic pirouettes). Vigorous debate about ideas relating to the complex Yehu'dit kabbalahs of Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan, predicated on the concept of to postulate-then-document, are missing from Expecting Rain. There is a codicil of ignorance borrowed from Tiger Beat mentalities carefully maintained by 'charlesdarwin'. This has engendered at Expecting Rain a cadre of entrenched, vociferous 'born-again' natz'rim who, ignorant of scholarship on koine Greek forgeries and parallel post-Sho'ah Yehu'dit research (some in English, some in Hebrew), have necessarily embraced the concomitant daemonising of Yehu'dim. I was attacked at Expecting Rain not from the basis of disagreement over ideation, but solely because because I am a Yehu'di; none of them have ever published on Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan.
Need I add this has had an affect with serious scholars of Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel who often avoid contributing to Expecting Rain. I had hoped to break the barrier. Expecting Rain must be a vibrant, experimental exploration of ontologies, not just a quaintly useless amalgamation of a 'music fan site'.
I first heard Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel in late 1961, began seriously studying his poetics in October 1964, and, since 1970, have written extensively on him. My current monograph-in-progress opens with a detailed overview of the primary Hebrew/Kabbalah mentor for his 12 June 1954 bar mitzvah, Rabbi Reuven Maier...and I discuss his Yiddish-speaking grandmother, Anna Zimmerman, who witnessed (along with Sholem Aleichem and Vladimir Jabotinsky) the genocide in Odessa 1905 (which I discuss); and who despised Bob Zimmerman's abusive mother and father (this I document). I consider Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel the most important music/poet explorer of Yehu'dit ontological authenticity since R. Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1909-1994), of blessed memory (who also personally mentored Bob/Shabtai). Only Reb Elie Wiesel has had an equal impact on my life as a Yehu'di other than Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel. I stress: for me, as a chassidish Yehu'di, hermeneutics and experience are synonymous in Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel's chanted/sung linguistic entities since 1964.
My life is governed, among other aspects, by the kabbalistic thesis: L'shem yichud immah ilaah u'shekhinah...for the sake of the unification of the transcendent creative power with the shekhinah [divine presence] dwelling here and now.
Integral to some individuals at Expecting Rain is a carefully hidden, but ever present, exterminationist Yehu'di hatred which, since the Sho'ah, has not abated. And yet. Under the 'moderating' of 'charlesdarwin', 'never again!'/l'olam lo od / keinmal mehr (in Yiddish) has become, alas, 'never mind!'.
At Expecting Rain, one has an apostate/meshumad 'messianic Jew' named 'yopietro', who has relentlessly libelled me, spurned my good faith efforts to privately share with him excerpts from my scholarship (including my updated 1971-2015 bibliography). He has not once told others at Expecting Rain that a meshumad is not, and can never be, a Yehu'di.
Another individual, a self-proclaimed 'dharma.queen', a rigid ideological guardian-at-the-gate of her 'holy catholic church', viciously accused me of 'public libel' when I discussed (with bibliographies, and an excerpt from a talk by former priest James Carroll, author of Constantine's sword, which exhaustively documents this subject) the role of the 'church' in identifying, registering, ghettoising, deporting, killing 12+ million of my people. The post was never directed toward her, never mentioned her, or anyone else.
(Parenthetically I note: it remains the height of revisionism to claim Natz'rut and nationalsozialismus are separable entities; the internecine squabbling and mutual murdering within their territorial sects does not negate my thesis.)
She insists that her family were 'tortured and killed' in Poland for 'saving Jews'. This does not revoke the documented history of Yehu'di exterminations in Poland for centuries, all enthusiastically supported by her 'church'. The Sho'ah technologised the Inquisition, with the eager participation of IBM Germany (Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft)...and the catholic 'churches'. From 1933-1945, 'born-again' catholics made our birth registrations warrants for genocide. One nationalsozialist priest in Braunlage told Berlin: 'We are glad to serve the cause...and ready to do the job right', viz. the automation of genocide against all Yehu'dim they could identify. I find 'dharma.queen''s self-annointing reprehensible, and I have never solicited, nor need, her 'christian love'.
I stated she was perpetrating Judaeophobia -- which she exhibited blatantly. I did not accuse her of being an antisemite, and I apologised if this was her interpretation. But 'charlesdarwin' had me 'banned' 10 June-24 June 2015. I have subsequently concluded that such an apology to her hysterical sensibilities was not contextually warranted, and it is hereby publicly retracted. I acted in good faith, and was subjected to 'charlesdarwin''s lack of decorum and courtesy.
In June 2015, I made an effort to present at Expecting Rain an excerpt from my monograph-in-progress's Chapter 2 (The Sho'ah: re/membering the future(s)). This was a documented overview of Shabtai/Bob'steshuvah/repentance in Yerusalaim 20 September 1983, his very public CHaBaD-Lubavitcher mentored repudiation of natz'rut. Yisra'eli artist Tzavi Kohen and Sara Dylan photographed the ceremony, and his mother and other family members were there...as was son Jesse Dylan, present for his own CHaBaD-Lubavitch bar mitzvah. (In my monograph, I am using Tzavi Kohen's two best colour photographs of Bob/Shabtai, and have a statement from him on what actually took place.) This was promptly censored by the morally vigilant, proprietary 'charlesdarwin'.
On 28 July 2015, 'charlesdarwin' permanently 'banned' me, a Torah Yehu'di, for my documenting what 'dharma.queen', among others, deny. His piroutte: my alleged 'behaviour', and 'Your methods of expressing your views here are vastly inappropriate. Your consideration and respect for other members of the forum appear non-existent'.
This is unmitigated distortion. It was vacuous when he wrote it, and even now as I quote it, remains untrue. However, I think 'charlesdarwin' needs to issue a public apology to me (and others he has 'banned' for the flimsiest of reasons) for his actions.
That he hides behind the avatar of the Down House plagiariser of Alfred Russel Wallace's speciation concepts may not be entirely irrelevant. Darwin received Alfred Russel Wallace's February 1858 Ternate paper on diverging lineages on 17/18 May 1858. Over the next 25 days, Darwin on bluish grey paper wrote forty-one folios of new text on 'divergence' in Chapter VI of his 'Natural Selection' manuscript, fol. 26a-26nn (DAR 10.2 in Cambridge University Library's manuscript collection), which, in desperation, he completed by 12 June 1858. He quite carefully, knowingly, and deliberately was plagiarising the February 1858 Ternate paper, and Alfred Russel Wallace's earlier February 1855 speciation paper (both never credited in the 1859 'abstract'). Later claims Darwin had received Alfred Russel Wallace's Ternate paper on 18 June 1858 are elaborate phantasies from 1887. 'Natural Selection' was not published until 1975, but examination of the original surviving manuscript of Chapter VI reveals an enterprise of prodigious dishonesty. I suggest 'charlesdarwin' avail himself of seeing for himself DAR 10.2, as it has been digitalised and placed online, or he can go to Cambridge (as I did some years ago), and see the physical folios. Charles Darwin was a fraud.
The parallels of behaviour to 2015 are obvious.
'charlesdarwin' needs an ethical avatar, not a masquerade. I am not asking for his identity, only for a morally necessary retraction. I believe he took his action seeking vengeance and retribution against me, a Yehu'dit Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel scholar, for illuminating the actual, underlying antisemitic motivations of some forum members who are ostensibly his acolytes. Time and again, 'born-again' natz'rim attacked me personally, and they were free to do so without reprimands from 'charlesdarwin'. His lack of knowledge of both Bob Dylan/Shabtai Zisel and Yehu'dim since Auschwitz is shameful and inexcusable.
I repudiate the insistence of 'charlesdarwin' of there being at Expecting Rain a consistent atmosphere of 'illumination, companionship, and generosity' (as he sonorously writes in one letter to a friend of mine). Censoring me negates his falsetto premises. My 'methods' derive(d) from decades of rabbinic studies, from the rhetorical discourse of the Talmud and Kabbalah. As a post-Auschwitz Yehu'di, I am not silent. I see a direct linkage between the sordid ideological collaboration among London's governmental fascists who refused to give sanctuary to millions of Yehu'dim attempting to flee Europe, thus guaranteeing they were subsequently gassed, and the equally salacious behaviour of 'charlesdarwin' who hides behind his patronising somnambulating ambivalence, allowing unfettered proselytising at Expecting Rain. I attempted to correct it, and was met with equally unfettered vocal attacks by 'charlesdarwin' acolytes who, it is obvious, were misquoting koine Greek forgeries to me (to be sure, in poor English translation, because they are illiterate in the original dialectics of their late 2nd/early 3rd century CE 'faith'). He never 'banned' any of them (temporarily, or otherwise).
Would it have assuaged his wounded censoring ego, his reckless disregard for the truth, if I had signed my posts (which I could have legitimately done) as a 'rabbi'? Or, if I had pointed out to both he and 'dharma.queen' that my adoptive 'mother''s Dachau six digit tattoo was 246744 (the '2' meant Dachau), that they were IBM's DeHoMaG tracking numbers? Or, that the 1933-1945 Kingdom of Night forever decimated natzrut's assertion they have/had a bris/covenant?
I have spent several hours re-reading my 750+ posts at Expecting Rain 13 November 2014-20 July 2015. Some of my interactions with 'born-again' natz'rim could have been rephrased -- telling an ill-read antisemite they are an ignorant antisemite is a circuitous oxymoron -- but I have never considered myself 'condescending'.
I have received numerous notes from supporting ER members expressing their dismay at 'charlesdarwin'. I appreciate their support. My scholarship is not curtailed by his actions. I shall be writing and publishing, as I have done for over 45 years.
'charlesdarwin' is in no ethical/moral position to tell me, a Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan scholar, I possess no 'consideration and respect' for some at Expecting Rain for whom I, a post-Auschwitz Yehu'di, actually have deep regard as friends. The free interchange of viewpoints (however vigorously articulated) at Expecting Rain should not have me, a Chassidish Yehu'di, 'banned'. If one does not like how concepts are put forth, then one can choose not to read. I have been accused of having been 'abrasive' (perhaps), 'condescending' (I do not agree), and 'patronising' (scholarly impatience with psychobabble is hardly 'patronising').
Indeed, to be perfectly honest with you, I do not anticipate you will correct anything with 'charlesdarwin'. Hence, I am taking the liberty, as a Yehu'di who has been egregiously maligned by 'charlesdarwin' and his idiosyncratic peregrinations, of sharing this letter at my earliest opportunity at different forums, and as the concluding pages of my monograph. I do not believe 'charlesdarwin''s continued participation at Expecting Rain fulfills the need for a balanced, cogent forum dedicated to the music/words of Shabtai Zisel/Bob Dylan. If I were a 'moderator' at Expecting Rain, which I fully anticipated volunteering for months ago, I would not 'ban' 'charlesdarwin', but give forthright, thorough rectification of his misguided ideations. I believe in total free speech...and free thought. 'charlesdarwin' betrays that civil liberty.
I am not, I say directly to you, 'angry'...profoundly disappointed is a cogently accurate summation.
This morning, I received a lengthy letter from my close UK friend and colleague, Tim Rundall, who has been at Expecting Rain since 10 July 2008 (10356 posts), and who has read almost all of my contributions there. He has carefully read what you are now receiving, and approves of my sharing with you this:
'Nonetheless I DO feel it is worth saying, and saying to Karl -- after all, ultimately the Mods' decisions are a reflection of him and his site. I think this might be worth pointing out. Even if he disagrees with you, it is ultimately how the site is perceived rather than his single point of view, and I'm sure he would understand that -- therefore, if only a few people see antisemitism or other wrongdoing and bias, it reflects badly on the site as a whole. I think he would do well to take the time and to consider his choice of representatives -- I truly hope your letter will encourage him to do that and I am willing to be quoted if you so desire.
Kol tuv/be well, Karl Erik. Stephan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STEPHAN PICKERING / חפץ ח"ם בן אברהם
Torah אלילה Yehu'di Apikores / Philologia Kabbalistica Speculativa Researcher
לחיות זמן רב ולשגשג
THE KABBALAH FRACTALS PROJECT
19 February 2016 / 10 Adar 5776
And, no, 'nate', you are receiving nothing from me in response to your contemptible behaviour. Your existence is an uncorrected proof.
Just Kidding
Feb 19, 2016, 11:00:00 PM2/19/16
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On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:18:36 -0800 (PST), Stephan Pickering
<stephanpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
<lunatic ravings snipped>
Stevie, you keep probing everything I've said about you. Keep up the
good work.
p.s. >> Where do you find the time?
<stephanpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
<lunatic ravings snipped>
Stevie, you keep probing everything I've said about you. Keep up the
good work.
p.s. >> Where do you find the time?
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