Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Recognizing "Clever and Insightful Commentary"

OK, Rabbi, I will cry "UNCLE!" and acknowledge your existence. Your identity, however, has been puzzling me immensely! I'm afraid I highly doubt that you're true identity is as a rabbi, because I am not vain enough to think that anyone who doesn't know me would bother reading my blog. Hence, if you are reading and even commenting on my blog, you must know me and I must know you. I would then postulate that if I don't know any rabbi, then I cannot know a "Rabbi Isaac Goldstein." Furthermore, because I know that I don't know (are we all managing to follow along?) any rabbi, I know that I don't know anyone named "Rabbi Isaac Goldstein."

Thus: Nobody truly named "Rabbi Isaac Goldstein" could be commenting on my blog.

I have, therefore, concluded that someone I know is commenting on my blog--ever so cleverly and insightfully--under the pseudonym of "Rabbi Isaac Goldstein." I have done a bit of sleuthing, and if I am to believe my sources, "Rabbi Isaac Goldstein" is not:
  1. Jed (he seemed so disappointed not to be the rabbi)
  2. Jeremy (Laura's husband)
  3. Jon
  4. I thought for awhile that perhaps it was my former roommate Katie. But one of the comments seemed out of character for her, so I have taken her out of consideration.
  5. I toyed with the idea that it was Matt (Lori's husband), but in the end I don't think so. It's a hunch more than a proven fact, as I have not asked Matt.
  6. My brother. Most of the posts are also not in his character. Truthfully, I doubt my brother even knows I have a blog

So, who do I think it could be?

  1. Jeremy. He could be lying. And it seems like something he would do. But Laura's pretty sure that it's not him, so I'm on the fence (obviously, since he's in both columns)
  2. One of Jon's friends. I don't know which one, but I don't know that any of them know I have a blog.
  3. Jon's brother. Although, I feel he doesn't have the time.
  4. S/he could also be some random person from my past who has googled and found me (i.e. someone from high school or college). But that's such a sweeping theory that I can hardly qualify it as a valid guess.

I'm not very satisfied with this list. But let me say this--and you, rabbi, can decide if I'm bluffing or not--I do have a theory, actually. I'm just not willing to reveal it yet.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are puzzled because your faith is not sufficiently strong. Come to my synagogue and have some wine with me. Jon can't come though.

Anonymous said...

Oy!

Anonymous said...

I might be hurt that I was not mentioned at all in this consideration, however, since I was not mentioned as a possiblity, and you know that I read your blog, and I knowt that you know I read your blog, then I could postulate that I may be alluded to by the intentional omission of the object of your theory. In which case you'd be wrong :)

Knittyjen said...

Rabbi: it's comments like the one above that lead me to believe this is all a joke! And it also leaves me feeling that I should retract my statement acknowledging the "clever" and "insightful" nature of your comments. Also, you posted that tattoo comment on an earlier post (I think I removed it). Are you out of material so soon? Tsk, tsk.

Anonymous said...

A joke? There is nothing funny about spreading radical fundamentalist Judaism throughout the world. Jenny, we are the chosen ones, and only through faith and wine will you understand the insightfulness of my comments unto you.

Rebecca said...

Isn't Jenny Lutheran?