The purpose of this blog is for me to write down little thought experiments that I have. I will not be writing exhaustively researched articles with sources and footnotes and such. Not that I really ever do that, I managed to make my way through high school by BSing long opinion pieces into term papers. But anyway, all I hope to accomplish here is to write down little thoughts that come into my head. They may be philosophical musings, they may be an essay on something that pisses me off, or whatever. Sometimes the purpose of my idea will be merely experimental, just throwing out an idea against a wall and seeing where the pieces fly. Its my blog, and I get to decide what goes here. Indicative of this is the title of this blog: The word "Pinkas" means "Notebook", meaning something you write down some thoughts down which are not necessarily for publication but just observations and ideas you write for yourself. And while it is possible somebody digs through your stuff after you've gone and find your observations and decides to publish them (like Rav Kook's notebooks, for instance), that is not your primary concern. The stuff in said notebooks may become the stuff on which you base things you publish, but in your own notebook, you can feel free to experiment, to explore new ideas, figure out new ideas, throw out old ones, and do the dirty work of philosophizing.
So that's what Im doing here. As for who I am, the nature of some of the stuff I publish may perhaps necessitate my anonymousness, but I can say that I am currently 19 years old in Shana Bet in a yeshiva in Israel. As for my philosophy, hopefully my forthcoming articles shed light onto that, but to give some context, I am highly influenced by Kotzker/Peshischa Chassidus, The Mussar Movement, the writings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Raymond Chandler, Blues Music, The Films of Quentin Tarantino, and everything I have ever read, watched, or listened to. So that's it for now.
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