damn. i really don't know my own family's history that far back, would be good to find out before it's too late 
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @choosy_mom
it can be liberating to an extent, in the way that finding external causes for internal suffering is liberating...nah that's not the right word... perhaps... validating? clarifying?
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sometimes i feel like the word "source" or "origin" might be more clarifying and useful than "cause", even if that feels like semantics
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"cause" is deeply confused as a concept anyway. you can name a whole web of interlocking causes and effects and which ones stick out as worth particularly paying attention to depends on a whole bunch of stuff
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thanks you two, that does feel like a better term
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Regardless of how you describe the emotional impact, it’s definitely a deeply interesting conversation to have with your parents and older relatives
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Replying to @choosy_mom @Aryeh___ and
It’s especially interesting to track the different ways people embellish, refactor, and omit details from the stories When they talk about family history and life before immigrating, my mom’s accounts are always strikingly different from my dad’s
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It was really shocking to switch from the stories of the holocaust i heard in orthodox circles to the stories i read in secular books/ heard from more secular survivors
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Replying to @Aryeh___ @choosy_mom and
in fundy circles a huge percentage of holocaust stories i heard were 'miracle stories' this or that rabbi survived by flying or some such the books i would read were a lot more realistic and dark
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Replying to @Aryeh___ @choosy_mom and
this puzzled me until i lost my faith soon after, i realized how much of orthodox judaism is in a kind of collective trauma response the education system for example, is essentially desperately, urgently trying to make 6 million perfect replacements
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How successful have they been/will they be in the endeavor? I don’t know much about Orthodox Judaism, but I visited the western wall a few years back and the energy was wild
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i mean, it depends on your definition of success... their def being fruitful and multiplying, but they're traumatizing their children. things like addiction, suicide, etc are on the rise and modernity is a strong pull
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Replying to @Aryeh___ @choosy_mom and
lol i blame the use of 'their' in this tweet on the orthodox educational system (we didn't receive a secular education)
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