This blog is dead. Or maybe it's just resting?

It's dead. Or at least in a bit of a coma.

Why? I think 2 reasons:

1. I'm way too busy to post anything or comment.

2. I'm losing interest in Orthopraxy.

Reason for number 1 is that my family is expanding (as is my waistline) and the old days of me retiring to my PC to post is no longer viable. Plus I'm working crazy hours too.

Reason for number 2 is more complex. One, my kids are getting older, and having an anonymous blog is getting creepier. As long time readers know, I have never really been comfortable with anonymity, it's not really my thing. Two, my search for an OP hashkafah has basically ended. There's plenty of good material out there, with pretty much every conceivable theory having been published already. At the end of the day it all seems to be about emotion, the philosophizing and theologizing is post-facto to justify it. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but emotions are more subjective and personal, I'm not sure it makes sense to have an online debate about whether chocolate ice cream tastes better than strawberry. And finally (and perhaps most importantly), I've lost my passion for the subject. Life is short, there's more important things to achieve than trying to justify a compromise lifestyle based on compromise philosophy / theology.

My views on religion can be summed up as whatever floats your boat. Or more realistically, whatever you need to do to keep your boat afloat. As long as you are not harming any other boats in the area that is. Or if you are, as long as they deserve to be harmed. Hmm, I think my boat philosophy needs more work. Up next: whateverfloatsyourboatoprax.blogspot.com, an in-depth exploration of the whatever floats your boat hashkafah.