by AGuest 404 Replies latest jw friends
Thank you, dear CD (again, peace to you!). I am reading a book entitled "The Help", right now, which is fascinating. So "real" I almost had to put it down (if you've read it, you'll know why). Recommended by a very dear one who loved it! Perhaps I will take a look at Dinah's "story" when I'm done. If so, I'll let you know - (back at'cha!).
Peace to you!
SA, on her own..
The entire Bible is a case of "bros before hos" and that's one of the major problems with it, imo.
I know. God demanding all the foreskins and what not. What was he doing with them?
What was he doing with them?
At the time, dear NVL (peace to you, of course!) He was... (1) creating an identifying mark that, (2) also served as a means to save a nomadic people who (a) had little water to expend on bathing and/or other water-dependent hygienic activities, (b) lived in [often very] close proximity to their livestock... many of which were sheep ... and (c) often had multiple wives and/or sex partners (the latter of which sometimes included the livestock)... from serious and potentially epidemic STDs. I mean, no need to "forbid" someone from doing something (like bestiality, perhaps) if they were never going to do it anyway, right?
Ohhhhhh, you meant do with them... as in after they were removed. Answer: the same thing they do with them now.
Again, peace to you!
A slave of Christ,
SA
(1) creating an identifying mark that
Oh, right. God couldn't come up with anything better than "cut off part of your penis to show people you are mine". Kind of like a primitive divine game of "you show me yours and I'll show you mine". If that's the best god can come up with, it explains a lot.
also served as a means to save a nomadic people who (a) had little water to expend on bathing and/or other water-dependent hygienic activities, (b) lived in [often very] close proximity to their livestock... many of which were sheep ... and (c) often had multiple wives and/or sex partners (the latter of which sometimes included the livestock)... from serious and potentially epidemic STDs.
Ah, you are appear to be sufering under the delusion that having a foreskin is somehow less hygenic that not. How incorrect of you. Besides which, how foolish of god to ever create one in the first place.
Ohhhhhh, you meant do with them... as in after they were removed. Answer: the same thing they do with them now.
Come on, God asks for them from adult men and his best idea is "whatever you'll do with them in 4000 years"?
, dear NVL... and peace to you!
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SA
NVL, maybe he needed them to make a purse?
Or to piece together for wineskins?
Seriously, though, a more serious danger than regular hygiene would have been how to keep the foreskin cut from becoming unclean and infected if in an area where there was shortage of water for bathing? Everyone knows that once the protective barrier of the skin is broken that is where the real danger of lack of cleanliness comes in. Well, everyone now knows that. One wonders why God was unaware of it being omnipotent and all. He was actually subjecting his people to greater danger not less.
The Issue is Not that God WANTS Us to Suffer...
Suffering is a part of life in the physical world. There is no God. No issue.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - from Hamlet , Wm. Shakespeare; Act II, scene ii.
Its a beautiful morning here in southern England. No sign of God in my garden, just foxes, squirrels and birds. I just knew I would feel better if I settled this debate before I went out.
May your imaginary gods go with you, as do mine, and your devotion to many words not become an unbearable burden to you.
A slave of life who won his freedom.
Thanks for finally settling this debate for us Gladiator!
