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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Help Remove "Jewwatch.com" from Google

"I didn't know about this and think it's important for you to be aware and, if motivated (as I am), send it along to others. When you Google the word "Jew", one of the first websites that pops up is http://www.jewwatch.com/ --an anti-Semitic, hate-filled harangue masquerading as "scholarly, factual, informational" Add your name to the petition to remove www.jewwatch.com from Google's search engine. (Check out the site and you will understand why.) In order for Google to remove this, they would need a petition of over 50,000 requests....
Go to : http://www.petitiononline.com/rjw23/petition.html to sign the petition. VERY IMPORTANT !! Please pass this one on! Thanks!
Shem Cohen"

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Time Flies

I sit around and wonder how the time passes by. I hear the tick of the clock and the air blowing past me. How can the time just continue. what is a moment? how can we use it? capture it? every thought that passes in my head is a second gone. but how do i know when these moments have been wasted? how do i know when life is passing me by? or if it isn't? these moment seem insignificant. there are millions. unlimited to eternity. but how many do we have? what could i have accomplished in that moment? that moment i just used to close my eyes?
Another 5 minutes of sleep. 60 seconds per minute. 300 seconds. if i were to count to 300 , it would seem like the worst "waste of time" there could be. but what if im not counting? i am just living. Not accomplishing anything with those precious seconds. I could get up and daven 5 minutes earlier. I could say a hundred brachos in those 5 minutes. or something just as simple as saying a nice "good morning" to my mother. So why am i wasting them? To close my eyes and be lazy. "tired". what could i be doing to make those moments more significant. How can i be a better person? daughter? friend? I just want to lie in bed for 5 extra minutes. Extra? why are they extra? and when these moments are gone, there is no way on earth to recover them. how is that?
Why was i given seconds, precious seconds, just so they could slip out of my reach. those seconds were wasted. I did not use them with my potential. Those moments were not significant in and of themselves, truely. They were significant only because i could have used them in a significant way. They are not precious until they are lost, until i realize i will never have them again.
time truely does fly.