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Leopards Ate My Face! The Official Thread.

Slap Shot said:
Saw someone lamenting on FB today that people are leaving churches in droves the past several years. Funny how attempts to disenfranchise significant portions of the flock will do that.
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Church membership numbers are interesting. For at least 50 years, and probably going back before that, it always hovered in that 70-75% of the population range.

Beginning in 2000, that number started plunging to the 45-47% range that it is today.

People joined churches for the same reason that they joined service clubs, to make connections. It's strange, but it's almost as if at about the turn of the century there became another way for humans to connect with one another.
 
I want to destroy the university, just not in my name.

JFC how soft are kids these days?
It was Silverman’s first day of classes at Harvard University in September 2024 when she stepped outside her room to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth and saw that her mezuzah, an object containing a Torah verse on parchment paper that is usually affixed to the door of a home, was missing.

She was the only one who had a mezuzah on the fifth floor of her dormitory, she said.

Walking around her dormitory, she searched the garbage, up and down her hallway and other floors and asked around if anyone had seen it.
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She eventually came to believe that it was taken, contacting the Harvard police and attempting to file a formal hate crime report. That report didn’t happen because the police didn’t have anyone to file it against.

Hours later, the police found the mezuzah on a ledge two doors down from her.

Even though it was recovered, Silverman said it still terrified her to think someone would take a religious object from her dormitory door.

Following the event, every time she had to go to the bathroom at night, she said she would call her father and ask him to stay on the phone with her in case something happened to her.
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Jesus. What a victim complex

I was an RA in the athlete dorm at Minnesota and the things those guys would do/leave on my door….not condoning it, but nothing harmful and today’s kids would probably have a breakdown.
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I really really try not to feed the “kids today are too soft!” BS but JFC stuff really tests my patience. What an entitled, soft, spoiled child this girl is.
 
Ummm...look I normally agree but I would feel the same way and I am hardly a kid. Especially since Harvard has a decades long history of antisemitism.

Its not like they stole her white board...mezuzah have serious significance and stealing them is a way people terrorize Jews. My parents would have told me to leave. My grandfather (The Rabbi) would have cried.
 
Handyman said:
Ummm...look I normally agree but I would feel the same way and I am hardly a kid. Especially since Harvard has a decades long history of antisemitism.

Its not like they stole her white board...mezuzah have serious significance and stealing them is a way people terrorize Jews. My parents would have told me to leave. My grandfather (The Rabbi) would have cried.
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This. I’d be livid, and I’m an atheist. 😆
 
state of hockey said:
To be honest if it was found a couple doors down I would choose to believe it fell and someone simply put it back in the wrong place, because that is easier and allows me to move on.
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My thoughts too. I have my doubts that most young college students, even ones at Harvard, know what a mezuzah is so the chances of it being knocked off intentionally are low, not zero granted, but low.
 
unofan said:
Livid is one thing, but being so traumatized to the point that you're calling your dad every single time you go to the bathroom after dusk? I'm sorry, but that's pure snowflake territory.
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She is a freshman...I knew a frosh who cried because the bathroom wasnt private enough for them the first couple weeks of school. (And there was others who were worse because they were from the sticks) I think some of your forget what is like to be an 18 year old...and remember as Jews it is beaten into us to be afraid to the point of insanity.

She overreacted to be sure but lets not pretend this generation is the only one to do so or that people our age werent full on snowflakes. Especially kids that went to schools like Harvard who likely never left their bubble.

I mean hell there is a reason the film PCU exists.
 
state of hockey said:
To be honest if it was found a couple doors down I would choose to believe it fell and someone simply put it back in the wrong place, because that is easier and allows me to move on.
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I would choose to believe someone stole it but i would then be friends with them. But im friends with a lot of dicks and I didnt go to an Ivy League School. I would mock my parents for being angry ;)
 
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Jimjamesak said:
My thoughts too. I have my doubts that most young college students, even ones at Harvard, know what a mezuzah is so the chances of it being knocked off intentionally are low, not zero granted, but low.
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I think you would be surprised...buts its about as likely as it would be she ever dealt with antisemitism before that day. The first time I did (knowingly) was the day I started smoking and it was a rather tame incident. Then again I had a roommate as a frosh who legit thought Jews had horns cause he never met one. (That wasn't it)

You want to know the first thing a Jewish parent tells their kid when they are old enough to know...dont tell anyone you are a Jew because they will kill you. Chits bananas...and it has nothing to do with generations.

Hell being sheltered in general is nothing new older people have been whining about it about younger people since at least The Depression.

But anyways lets get back to Leopards eating faces!
 
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Handyman said:
She is a freshman...I knew a frosh who cried because the bathroom wasnt private enough for them the first couple weeks of school. (And there was others who were worse because they were from the sticks) I think some of your forget what is like to be an 18 year old...and remember as Jews it is beaten into us to be afraid to the point of insanity.

She overreacted to be sure but lets not pretend this generation is the only one to do so or that people our age werent full on snowflakes. Especially kids that went to schools like Harvard who likely never left their bubble.

I mean hell there is a reason the film PCU exists.
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Look, I don’t really like the “kids these days” BS either, it’s an annoying trope, it’s tired and repetitive. I really make an effort to not engage in that BS, but man Gen Z really tests my patience (the Gen Z stare is real). Especially the males.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
This. My Catholic educated ass wouldn’t have known what it was
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I knew precisely two Jews (single mother and daughter, both non-practicing) growing up in East Tennessee - and I would have known. However, TN is SO conservative that the Zion fetish kicks in, so we actually talked about Judaism a surprising amount at my mainstream protestant church. Plus, I performed as The Fiddler in two separate productions of Fiddler on the Roof growing up, so I'm something of an expert. :)
 
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