I'm struggling with a bad dream. It's going to ruin my day.
I have a friend who's pretty religious. We don't talk about Israel. We had a Walt and Mearsheimer conversation and he was enraged by them. The Iraq part (neocons/Israel lobby fomented the Iraq war–a nobrainer for me) really upset him. So we don't talk about politics anymore.
Anyway, in the dream, I was at a dinner with him and his wife and the board of his Conservative synagogue. And I had brought my minions to the meeting and we held a vote on the liturgy of the synagogue and basically gutted the liturgy and made it really different. It was completely political on my part. I had completely played my friend. He walked away brooding.
I felt guilty about my behavior even during the rest of the dream, then I woke up feeling even more guilty. Who am I to mess with his Jewish identity? What's my business and what isn't my business? Boy I'm confused.
