Clay Companions are the people who refuse to accept modernity in the Jewish faith. These well thinking people as they would wish you to believe refuse to own television sets. They discourage others from having computers and they avoid all of the modern inventions unless it clearly has a benefit to their own new way of life that they think is the way that they are really "commanded" to live.
This is a problem because truly there is a Creator who advances civilization. The Television set, though perhaps at times displaying minutia or otherwise sort of unorthodox attractions can be turned off by your Hand. This is your job. To decide not to have a television set in your home does not keep your children from being exposed to things that you may not wish them to see. You have the discretion to allow your children to watch television. I also think that if you do not have a television, you can not participate as a modern citizen as you are not exposed to the senitments, leadership and lessons of the day. True there are many medias, but a television is a very relevant media and one can not think that a modern society can flourish without the true participation of all of its citizens. That you can go without a television is simple. Just don't turn it on. But it is not the "evil box" that the religiously "orthodox" may lead you to see it to be.
I seriously can not participate in a society that disallows modernity, refuses to swallow the pills of modern life and partakes in rituals that silence the call to reason in your mind and being.
This is a call to those of you who are "Clay Companions"... You are really just befriending the clay of the earth. The pots and vessiles that you have on your table that you drink your soup and water. These are what you are calling your friends when you disespouse modern innovation and culture. You are essentially calling the past your home and you are saying that God does not have control over the world and that you must control your exposure to the civilization that our Creator does indeed permit and encourage to exist and flourish. And that does not seem Godly to me.
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Why does this term only refer to this subculture of the Jewish faith? This is the reason. The Jewish people are the True Covenant religion and are truly walking in Gods footsteps. That said, it is with all kosher intent that the Jewish people pursue a Godly future. This is how it is supposed to be. If the Jewish people disavow a practice that really is God given, then who are they to say that their ways are really orthodox. Perhaps they are in some categories, but across the board, I suspect that in many of the private communities, orthodoxy is like a curtain and not a bedspread.
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