takeda,
Hedonism in Nietzschean thought?
Never thought of Nietzsche in that way. How came that to your mind? Nietzsche certainly is diverse, somewhat, and easy to misunderstood. In case of doubt, his "Zarathustra", the first two books, represents most of what I like in him.
AL,
i never talked about the philosophy of "ideal" Judaism, because I simply do not know much about it. But i see that on a superficial level, all religions seem to have a serious weakness of getting absorbed by the dogma, the rites and ceremonies, the hierarchy of priests, all that for the interests of an institution like the churches. Here is where the religions stray off the path that had been pointed by some historic personalities like Siddharta or Jesus. This "outer", or "exoteric" level is what usually is meant when we say "this religion", "that religion". And this is the level at which my attack is aiming, that's why I attacked the discussion about the benefit of this or that kind of blessing and how it is done correctly - it all is the empty, dead, frozen cult, the religion that has nothing to do with religion.
And no, I do not discuss that again. You had those 25 pages "What it's about", if you wanted, and more I do not have to say on that theme. I would end up just repeating myself.