TODAY professor silberstein told a very familiar story. Einstein was being driven around by a German chauffeur to various universities where he gave his lectures. The German chauffeur told Einstein he could give the very same lectures so Einstein said, "Alright. They don't know what I look like anyways. YOU give the lectures."
And the German chauffeur did. But then a student raises his hand and begins to ask a technical question. The German chauffeur laughs and goes, "Chacha (as opposed to 'haha,' this guy has a thick accent), and I thought you Americans were sooo clever, my chauffeur could answer such a question!"
Now remember that old heimish story you've heard since you were a kid? About the rabbi traveling with his driver who complains bitterly about never getting any respect? So he and the Rabbi switch places before going to the next village. In this village the people ask the driver all these halachic questions to which the driver responds, "Ah, the answers are so obvious my driver (the rabbi) could answer them!"
Funny how this happens. Almost like the A Capella songs that are to the tune of Kelly Clarkson's greatest hits.
*Happy 200th post*
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How did this story come up?
We've moved unto atomic bombs, h-bombs, nuclear fission and fusion. (Which I actually loved learning about in physics.)
Oh. Cool.
Yeah, it's great. There's actually a whole course devoted to it that I might take in the future.
Go for it.
I just might.
And how many Jews talk about Paschal's wager as if they made it up?
e, mind elaborating?
You what pascal's wager is? You know who made it up?
Well I wiki-ed it, and it's a familiar arguement, you know, the whole "what have you got to lose???" aspect of it.
is everything now well understood?
who claims to have made it up, though?
Frummies talk about it all the time as if they had made it up.
Them frummies, my oh my.
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