Nice going, Kedusha!
Saw this in the daily email.
Thanks for sharing it with us all.
k

kutan where evr u landed from

you can bring kedusha back too

;D

welcome back kutan!!!
8) 8) 8) 8)

Although, Boruch Hashem, I'm over 22 months clean, I have decided to strengthen my defenses while things are going well.

To that end, there are two new developments:

1.) I switched to Jnet with the "Mehadrin filter" as my Internet service provider.  That's on top of the K9 filter, which I see no reason to remove, and third party monitoring software (eBlaster).  Jnet has different levels of filtering (I'm using level 3), and the Mehadrin filter can be used on top of any of those levels.  The Mehadrin filter (which actually comes in 3 levels - I'm using the intermediate level) blocks (or distorts) most inappropriate pictures that may be found on otherwise "appropriate" sites.  It works very well, although it blocks some completely innocent pictures as well.  Jnet is costing me quite a bit more than I was paying for Verizon, but I believe it's worth every penny.  I highly recommend it to anyone for whom protection is more important than price (where price is an issue, nothing beats the free K9 filter).

2.) I receive a certain health magazine, which I find very useful.  The problem is that it often contains immodest pictures, so I always have to be ready to look away and turn the page.  Not a very good situation.  I just called the organization that puts out the magazine, and told them that I no longer want to receive a paper copy.  I realize that, since they have the magazine online, I can access the information that way, and the Jnet Mehadrin filter will remove the vast majority (if not all) of the inappropriate pictures.

I could have left it at that, but I explained to the customer service representative the reason for my decision, suggesting that their magazine is very useful, and doesn't need these Hollywood type pictures to make people want to read it!   

Hey Kedusha I just thought of a great idea!
You know how the tabbacco companies got their pants sued off for creating smoking addicts....
ya know what I mean?
I think we got something here!
quick tell guard we got a way to solve all his financial worries!
we're in the money!

Gesher - I've thought of that also, and I think it's a good idea!

Wait, I'm confused. Don't we need to know WHO we're going to sue? It's not like the cigarette companies, where there's a clear target. Is there someone to sue for lust disorders? Perhaps the guy you just mentioned with his pants down?

We need more lawyers to chime in here. I'm confused.

We can sue a few major players in the pornography industry.

This discussion may be tongue in cheek, but with all the harm caused by the pornography industry, I don't think this lawsuit would have any less merit than the tobacco suits.

Ah, yes. To believe that our mainstream culture might think of damaged spiritual creatures as having just as much a loss as a damaged lung or throat. Halevai! Then we'd have a whopper of a lawsuit.

Or, wait, how about believing that even the yiddische velt (like the gye chevra) might think the same way! If families would turn down a shidduch because the other father had a cancerous lung, wouldn't it be obvious that they'd turn down based on a (cancer-like dance with lust)?

But most of us don't. And the culture seems to glorify and not condemn our pritzus velt including p**n. So I'm not sure a jury would see what the damages are, so nothin' doin'.

Yes, I know this was all mostly tongue in cheek, but I did want to comment on the thought that such damage might be actionable in a court of law.

If I recall correctly (it's been quite a while, Boruch Hashem), many porn sites force you to accept their terms and conditions, which, among other things, waives any liability for harm caused by their sites.  There's a reason why they do that, but I don't think those waivers should hold up in court.

Soph,

R ahron feldman in eye if the storm
brings that homosexuality used to be cons. a mental illness

the happy people movement managed to get it removed and replace it with a new illness of homophobia-for people like me who think people who are happy from that are nuts (if they hold its okay)-it can be cured by therapy, the article says....
good luck in your law suit

Kedusha wrote on 24 Mar 2011 14:35:


Hold on, I'll check for you, in the name of GYE research of course. Totally L'Shem Shamayim.

Me3 wrote on 24 Mar 2011 15:31:


lol! ;D

I second that!  :D ;D

Does anyone want to get together at 7-11 in honor of . . .

B'Ezras Hashem . . . Day #711 (Gematria: v'Hifreisi)? 

Wishing everyone a good, clean Shabbos!