BT In A New Key
A blog for people who seek alternative approaches to kiruv and the baal teshuvah experience.
Thursday, July 16, 2026
woman writes into happy wife channel
@lorenjones7222
She stated she did say this to her husband. May God bless you as you love your family.Monday, July 13, 2026
the error of modern medicine
1885: they put cocaine in throat lozenges and children's teething drops.
1898: they put heroin in cough syrup and sold it as the non-addictive one.
1918: they put radium in toothpaste, face cream and drinking water, and called it the future.
1920s: they painted radium on watch dials, and the girls who licked the brushes to a point died with their jawbones crumbling.
1920s: they put asbestos in the ceilings, the school walls and the children's ironing boards, as a safety feature.
1923: they put lead in the petrol, the paint and the water pipes.
1935: they fitted x-ray machines in shoe shops, so children could bathe their feet in radiation to check the fit.
1945: they put DDT on the crops, the walls and the children, and filmed everyone smiling in the spray.
1950s: they handed pregnant women thalidomide for morning sickness, and a generation was born without limbs.
Every one of these was modern, scientific, and stamped with total confidence.
The list of things the experts swore were safe is a great deal longer than the list of things that actually were.
Progress has a poison aisle, and every bottle in it once had a lab coat standing behind it.
They'll tell you this time is different. So did they.
Sunday, July 5, 2026
H. L. Mencken
"The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought." ~ H. L. Mencken
What people used to be like
John Quincy Adams, when he discovered that both his father, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson had died on the 50th anniversary of independence on July 4, 1826, he believed it to be a palpable mark of divine grace.
“The time, the manner, the coincidence with the decease of Jefferson, are visible and palpable marks of divine favour, for which I would humble myself in grateful and silent adoration before the Ruler of the Universe—For myself all that I dare to ask is that I may live the remnant of my days in a manner worthy of him.”Pearly
talking about how christian leaders push men into marriage which often ends in disaster, just like in Orth Jud
Saturday, July 4, 2026
What happens when you die:
They divide up your stuff
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every drop out.