More religious weirdness: home circumcision
by behemot 10 Replies latest jw friends
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Nathan Natas
ouch. I'm gonna be sick.
Wait... did he say FREE ice cream?
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blondie
Reminds of this genital mutilation performed on women worldwide.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_genitalmutilation.html
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Nathan Natas
We need to CELEBRATE cultural diversity, especially when it is based on ignorance and superstition.
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VIII
Hey the guy was a JW!! We need to support each other. And, he was working on the National Debt (not ours, Canada's, but, hey, we're neighbors):
DJW is a former Jehovah's Witness who now follows the Old and New TestaMents of the Bible. Here’s what happened, according to a summary of the case in the judge’s ruling: DJW became interested in circumcision after reading THE books of Richard Hoskins, who advocates circumcision and claims there are Biblical answers to "all of the problems in society, including the number of abortions and homosexuals, and the national debt," judge wrote.
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keyser soze
claims there are Biblical answers to "all of the problems in society, including the number of abortions and homosexuals, and the national debt," judge wrote.
You mean stoning?
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blondie
Actually it said he was a FORMER jw...are you implying that we are like him?
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Scully
You know, I've had to assist with numerous newborn circumcisions in my line of work, but I'd NEVER even consider doing one myself. Not in a million years.
I'm actually surprised that he didn't get a free pass on the basis of his proclaimed "religious beliefs".
The lesson here (in Canada) is that if you want a cosmetic procedure done, but don't want to pay for it, try to do it yourself and screw it up so badly that the health care system fixes it for free.
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Nathan Natas
OK...
So... in the Jewish tradition, circumcision is called a bris (rhymes with miss), and the person who performs the traditional Jewish bris ritual is called a moyl (rhymes with oil).
There's a story about a very old and very widely travelled moyl who has kept all the foreskins he has removed during his career as a moyl. even though he has hundreds and hundreds of them, they don't amount to a lot of material. Asked what he plans to do with all these foreskins, the moyl announces that he is going to have them sewn together into a wallet.
"A wallet?" his friend asks him. "So many schmeckles you cut, and you only have enough to make a wallet? It's a waste of time! Why bother?"
"Because," replies the old moyl, "when I stroke it, it becomes a suitcase."
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avishai
Standard joke about mohels (moyl) is they don't make much money but they get lots of tips.
Thanks, I'll be here all week!