Bloger Bio
These Blogs [1] are my attempt to vent my own frustrations, and/or educate anyone bored enough with their own life to have the time to read my thoughts and opinions on any particular subject, and/or interested enough in my thoughts and opinions that they might be influenced by those said thoughts and opinions. I am a convert to Orthodox/Torah Observant Judaism. I was raised in a Christian family, but between problems I had with Christian Theology [2], and the fact that Charles Darwin and Omni Magazine made more sense to me that Christianity, I was ripe for a change in my life [however, I was not ready to jump from one "faith" into another "faith" where I would yet again be subjected to "blind faith"]. After much research and introspection, I made the plunge and converted. This happened almost eight years ago. Most of my thoughts on Judaism and Christianity can be gleaned from my web-site, tumms.org.
Regarding my politics: I voted twice for Ronald Regan, and once for Bush I [thus I could have been categorized as a staunch conservative]. But when Bush I failed to take his 93% approval rating and tackle the pressing problems of this country [such as Social Security, Welfare, et al.], and after what the Republicans did to President Clinton over a private sexual indiscretion, I evolved into a committed Independent with Democratic leanings. None of us, NONE OF US, is so perfect that if someone spent 60 million dollars interviewing everyone we had ever known, or investigating every aspect of our lives, and published the results on the front page of the New York Times, that we would not be embarrassed.
Regarding my Job: I am an Air Traffic Controller, and as a convert to Orthodox Judaism i have been through two different EEOC [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] processes over my rights to be both a religious Jew and control airplanes.
Thus, between my religion, my politics, and my profession, I have quite a bit to vent.
Reader beware, but Reader will not be bored!
Regards,
Yonason Noach ben Avraham, a Jew by Choice
[1] tummsblogs.typepad.com/ ("Rants" in General)
tummsblogs.typepad.com/hashkafahkodoshim (Things Holy)
tummsblogs.typepad.com/hashkafahchullin (Things Secular)
[2] tumms.org/web_masters_vision.htm
