08-10-2025, 01:26 PM
(07-10-2025, 05:41 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(07-10-2025, 12:36 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: That rest home sounds ideal, KM - if only they were all like that.
Looking for Watership Down the other day,I accidentally bought a book called Unorthodox, about a woman who grew up in a Hasidic Jewish home & then left when she grew up - I knew a little bit about the Hasidim, having read Chaim Potok's books years ago. But they're far more restrictive than I'd realised - women must shave their heads & wear a wig for the sake of 'modesty', which seems bizarre. really interesting book though not up to tha part where she manages to leave yet.
I suspect that there really is no limit to the daft things we humans can get ourselves to believe.
Unorthodox was made into a film or tv series, I streamed in a few years back. It was an excellent watch, and I learned a lot in the process. Well worth looking for, maybe on dvd now?
Excellent, I'll have a look once I finish the book. As I read it, I'm thinking more & more what damned idiots we humans are.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)