Matthew Lawrence
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389 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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Our lives are paramount.
What I love to think is that Jewish so the the most foundational text for Jewish culture and
of the religion that Jewish people practice is called the Talmud.
Um which is essentially
A stream of consciousness debate between lots of different people over a few hundred years, arguing over fine points of various things, and never reaching a conclusion.
And this is serves as the basis not just for a lot of Jewish folklore and Jewish customs and the non-religious elements, but also as in the
many ways, um the basis for the Jewish legal system.
And it's the most important document that we have, even more important is many would say than the Bible or the Torah.
And for me, it is simply a bunch of neurodivergent people arguing and expressing their cultural outlook.
And I find that to be like for me, Jewish culture is very much neurodivergent culture or autistic culture.
And I say neurodivergent because there's a lot of folks in there who you could code as ADHD and not necessarily autistic or dyslexic and not necessarily autistic and blind and not necessarily autistic.
But
For me, I I can't actually distinguish between the autistic Jewish culture and the mainstream Jewish culture, except that the mainstream go Jewish culture is an autistic culture which is being done by neuronormative performing people very often, and the neurodivergent people are kind of thrown out.
So to speak.
Um I think that's a lot I think there's a lot of traditions like that where, you know, you have neurodivergent people developed it with and then kind of got pushed out and things became kind of calcified from those performing neuro normativity who might be neurodivergent themselves, right?
Um
And I I think there's a lot for everyone to learn from that.
To learn from this
con s this cultural concept of talking for the sake of talking for
Arguing and debating without necessarily looking to win or to reach a conclusion, but simply just talking.
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