from loomis i guess i just missed your question i rarely if ever ignore the challenge of an intelligent question in fact i'm sure you've noticed in my posts that i tend to repeat my philosophy over and over perhaps too much i strongly believe in what's called the socratic method by that i mean that i believe that the best way at arriving at something at least close to the truth is by asking questions rather than stating opinions unless a question is completely insulting or moronic i consider it a challenge to answer it if i can't answer it properly i force myself to rethink the matter your question was a good one and it may take a bit of research on my part because while i do believe i have a good deal of knowledge on the subject you've touched on a couple of details i wasn't completely familiar with maybe i was just being lazy by overlooking your question or maybe it was because i just felt the rest of you guys have had enough of my opinionated and controversial posts that i thought i should just leave it alone and give you guys a break in any case i'll definitely give it some good thought and i promise to get back to you ok don't worry don't feel like you're giving me extra work i'm actually flattered that you'd be interested in my response i'll be more than glad to develop an answer especially knowing that someone is actually interested in it i just have a few questions for you i'm just curious about a few things for one i'm very curious about the name evilbu does it mean something in flemish is the flemish language really any different from dutch i speak french and when i visited belgium their french was completely comprehensible with the exception of a few odd words like septant rather than soixant dix for seventy etc also you said something about you being too young you don't have to answer any of these questions i respect privacy but if you don't mind how old are you finally you say you're not a zionist that can mean one of two different things one is that you're simply not a zionist the same way as i'm simply not a belgian i've got nothing against belgians i'm just not belgian similarly you could have just been saying that you're simply not a zionist you've got nothing against zionism you just simply aren't one of course it could also mean something very different it could mean that you're against zionism but that's ok too i'm sure you know this but the jewish religion is a non proselytizing religion what that means is that we don't go around knocking on people's doors trying to convince them to become jewish in fact we don't even find it necessary to explain or rationalize our faith to others what we believe is what we believe and what you believe is what you believe no need to sell our religion to anyone else the reason why i'm bringing this up is because unlike judaism zionism to a certain extent has to be explained clarified and rationalized to others so what i'm saying is that while i won't even bother explaining judaism unless of course you're curious and even then it would be in a totally interfaith manner respecting whatever you are and not trying to change it i believe it's my duty as a zionist and as a jew to help you to understand why we as jews believe so dearly that it is so incredibly important that we have a homeland a safe haven shalom peace vrede evilbu lewis loomis