[Dean's World] Dean: Friday Night Open Thread -- In Honor of Yom Kippur

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Posted by Dean:
Friday Night Open Thread -- In Honor of Yom Kippur
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1190412528.shtml


   For the vast majority of Jewish believers, we are in the holiest of
   days of the Jewish calendar, a tradition handed down through oral and
   written Torah for thousands of years. Its central theme is atonement
   for one's sins against God and against one's fellow man. Indeed, much
   like Christmas for people who aren't particularly devout in their
   Christian faith, many even very secular Jews observe Yom Kippur as a
   holy day.

   The anti-religious often look upon things like this as an exercise in
   self-flagellation and cringing submission by the irrational faithful,
   but the faithful look upon occasions like this to reflect upon their
   own flaws, where they may have harmed others, where they may have
   acted immorally, and resolve to try to do better in the coming years
   (to put it in secularist terms).

   I've got a lot of areas where I think I've failed in the last year,
   and in my life. Things I could have done better. On the other hand I
   feel life is a journey, and a constant struggle, and anyone with no
   regrets and no sense of guilt about anything probably is slightly
   sociopathic.

   So it's an open thread. You can talk about whatever you want. But I
   thought meditating upon [1]Yom Kippur might be a nice way to kick off
   our traditional Friday Night Open thread--although you can talk about
   anything else you want of course.

   50 points for the best link of the night.

References

   1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_kippur