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Martin wrote:
On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:03:36 +0100, Stephen Howard wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:28:00 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Stephen Howard" wrote in message ... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:46:31 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Stephen Howard" wrote in message ... [snip] You might have to spend a week doing this, but it will decimate the population to such an extent that a weekly patrol will probably be adequate. There is only one extent to which a population can be decimated, namely to kill off one in every ten. That leaves 90% fighting fit. {:-(( There's always one... http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/decimate.html Interesting. I suppose it is futile to think that words may retain their definitions when there are so many ignorant wordsmiths bandying them about. And that points up your misconception that language is static in nature. I thoroughly recommend a book called Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson. Should you ever read it I think you'll be appalled to find that you're just as guilty as the next 'ignorant wordsmith' when it comes to twisting definitions - and you'll also discover that many of your linguistic tenets have extremely suspect origins ( such as the venerable OED ). Bill Bryson is a more reliable authority, than the compilers of the OED? Not in my opinion. Bill Bryson isn't _any_ kind of authority: what he is is a enthusiastic word-lover, offering the kind of insights a professional writer has. That's invaluable, in my opinion; but his work is not to be mistaken for reference material. I don't get the bit about the OED having extremely suspect origins: as far as I know its scholarly origins are a matter of record; if "suspect" is being used here as a political judgement, well, it's hardly relevant. Mike. |
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from Martin contains these words: Bill Bryson is a more reliable authority, than the compilers of the OED? Not in my opinion. Much more, IMO. But then I rate the OED as a trendy comoc. -- Oscar Rudyard Samuel Makepeace Babington Alexander Argot-Smith |
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"Christopher Green" wrote in message ... On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:27:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-xGzwb8So2ZUw@poblano... On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:17:41 UTC, (paghat) opined: In article uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-udOV900dMXzb@poblano, "Stan Goodman" wrote: A slug is a naked snail. Ha-cha-cha-cha. That's exactly what a slug is. The only difference between the two is the shell. Whether that qualifies slugs to appear in rec.gardens.EDIBLE is a question I can't answer. Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz Not kosher. Treyf. An abomination. Not acceptable as food to observant Jews. (Lev. 11:42, "You shall not eat... anything that crawls on its belly...") But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws. Franz |
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"Stephen Howard" wrote in message ... On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:28:00 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Stephen Howard" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:46:31 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Stephen Howard" wrote in message .. . [snip] You might have to spend a week doing this, but it will decimate the population to such an extent that a weekly patrol will probably be adequate. There is only one extent to which a population can be decimated, namely to kill off one in every ten. That leaves 90% fighting fit. {:-(( There's always one... http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/decimate.html Interesting. I suppose it is futile to think that words may retain their definitions when there are so many ignorant wordsmiths bandying them about. And that points up your misconception that language is static in nature. I thoroughly recommend a book called Mother Tongue, by Bill Bryson. I have. Although Bryson is not in the same category of authority as the folk who are responsible for the OED, his book is to be recommended most thoroughly, as is everything else he has written.. Should you ever read it I think you'll be appalled to find that you're just as guilty as the next 'ignorant wordsmith' when it comes to twisting definitions - and you'll also discover that many of your linguistic tenets have extremely suspect origins ( such as the venerable OED ). ....and somewhere back in the 16th century there's an URGler who's completely bemused at both your use and spelling of the word 'futile'...and yet another who's wondering what on earth tennis has to do with the topic in question. I fully realise that languages evolve. I also reslise that the evolution is steered by those least equipped to sensibly further the language. I also realise that one should restrain the process from proceeding too fast, otherwise confusion results from the reader misunderstanding what the writer meant. Have you noticed what a merry mix up the Dutch language has become through embracing the worst elements of many other languages? Have you noticed how much English is suffering from accepting so much of the worst elements of American slang? Franz |
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message from Martin contains these words: Bill Bryson is a more reliable authority, than the compilers of the OED? Not in my opinion. Much more, IMO. But then I rate the OED as a trendy comoc. And your evidence for this notable declaration..? I use it almost every day (and submit material at intervals), so I should be able to follow up any references. MIke. |
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from Stephen Howard contains these words: And you really couldn't have picked a worse word to back up your position....'nice' has evolved in meaning a great many times, and still has many regional variations. Were you to adhere to the principle you seem to keen to uphold then you just said 'his reply was foolish'. Nice going. How's your arse? That's a comparatively modern usage - in fact, 'nice' in its firs recorded form is far closer to the context in which it's used these days. How's yours? -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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In article , "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz "Unclean" is a religious reference, describing somethjing banned from diet. Slugs & snails & indeed all shellfesh can never be kosher. Any Jew who would eat a shrimp, lobster, crabs, oysters, or clams should be equally willing to eat slugs & snails, but none of it would be kosher. Levitical dietary laws are not health laws but are laid down to draw cultic distinctions. You could even take kosher cheese & kosher hamburger but if you made a cheeseburger out of it it would not be kosher, as it has nothing to do with health & everything to do with cultic restrictioins that define a community. Shellfish were associated with the cult of Asherah Who Walks the Sea, whose son, Baal, was led by a homosexual priesthood. Midrash says worshippers of Baal-Peor had anal sex in the high place groves of Asherah. Eating shellfish seems to have been identified with cultically impure sex acts such as homosexuality; & I've wondered whether the belief that eating oysters causes men to have better erections is derived from some ancient religious belief among worshippers of Atargatis/Asherah or Baal/Dagon. Scripture notes that Naamah the Amonitess supported just such a homosexual Baal cult in Jerusalem, & Leviticus calls homosexuality (within the priesthood) an "abomination" (the Hebrew word would be more correctly translated "cultic impurity"), just as it calls eating shellfish an "abomination" (but that's a different word better translated "detestible," a detestible thing being an idol or a bivalve; the chaos goddess Tiamat was a bivalve). "Anything that crawls on its belly" cannot be kosher, & Baal priests laid on their bellies to receive anal offerings to Baal-Peor. Thus an amusing stretch of parallel meaning, Queers & Molluscs & Shrimps can all be regarded as appalling before God -- see the amusing God Hates Shrimp webpage -- http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/ Bigotted homophobes like to point out that the "abomination" of homosexuality is punishable by death but Levitical law only makes it punishable by death if it is conducted in the context of worship of rival divinities, or if such acts are committed by the priestly caste. "Touch not my anointed" [1 Chr 16:22; Ps 105:15] is a prohibition against Yahweh's priesthood being involved in all manner of sacred rites of a sexual nature that were otherwise acceptable practices outside the priesthood. A woman of the Levites who committed harlotries would likewise be killed, but a woman like Tamar could commit harlotries & afterward be purified. So too, regarding homosexuality, it was impure, but could afterward be cleansed, so long as it does not involve the annointed priesthood or idolatrous worship. "He that toucheth the flesh of him that ejaculates" must afterward purify himself, & will remain unclean until evening [Lv 15:7]; that is the PRIMARY levitical law regarding homosexuality, it causes a rather brief period of cultic impurity requiring a cleansing ritual; which is why the love affair between Jonathan & David can be presented as neato rather than dooming David to execution, as David was not a Levite but was part Moabite (a famously queer nation), & Jonathan was a Benjaminite such as caused such a terrible stir when they wanted to butt**** a Levite priest who being a Levite was unable to submit, so gave his concubine to the Benjaminites who were so insulted by the replacement that they ****ed her to death. Had it only been David instead of a Levite, he could've presented his bum without it insulting God, & indeed he was Saul's catamite before he was Jonathan's lover. There is also a Law that prohibits the "earnings" of a zonah of kelebite (secular whore or trick-turning faggot) from being made as offerings to God [Dt 23:18]. Harlots & Kelebites (sodomists) were not otherwise prohibited from worshipping Adonai or from making offerings other than those gained from a practice associated with other divinities or with secular prostitution. Bigots selectively enjoy the illusory commandment to kill fags, while overlooking the commandment to kill sassing children. The Mishnaic sages, knowing such an evil as capitol punishment could not possibly be inherent to Torah or part of God's will, came up with interpretations of scripture that banned capitol punishment altogether, though 2,000 years later Christians still haven't figured out that God does not applaud capitol punishment even for more convincing reasons than homophobes killing queers. But even preserving the idea that God likes us to kill each other & wants us to keep slaves & execute sassing children & faggots, Mosaic law does not punish or prohibit homosexual acts except for the priesthood & except when committed to honor a rival god. As a secular act between men, homosexuality causes bodily impurity that lasts until sundown, & is an impurity roughly equivalent to eating unkosher food. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Christopher Green" wrote in message ... On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:27:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-xGzwb8So2ZUw@poblano... On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:17:41 UTC, (paghat) opined: In article uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-udOV900dMXzb@poblano, "Stan Goodman" wrote: A slug is a naked snail. Ha-cha-cha-cha. That's exactly what a slug is. The only difference between the two is the shell. Whether that qualifies slugs to appear in rec.gardens.EDIBLE is a question I can't answer. Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz Not kosher. Treyf. An abomination. Not acceptable as food to observant Jews. (Lev. 11:42, "You shall not eat... anything that crawls on its belly...") But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws. Franz They are not outdated to the Jews.. Ray Drouillard |
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"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Christopher Green" wrote in message ... On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:27:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-xGzwb8So2ZUw@poblano... On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:17:41 UTC, (paghat) opined: In article uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-udOV900dMXzb@poblano, "Stan Goodman" wrote: A slug is a naked snail. Ha-cha-cha-cha. That's exactly what a slug is. The only difference between the two is the shell. Whether that qualifies slugs to appear in rec.gardens.EDIBLE is a question I can't answer. Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz Not kosher. Treyf. An abomination. Not acceptable as food to observant Jews. (Lev. 11:42, "You shall not eat... anything that crawls on its belly...") But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws. Franz They are not outdated to the Jews.. I did not say they were. The poster did not mention that they were unclean *as far as Jews were concerned*. He made it sound much more general. Franz |
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"paghat" wrote in message news In article , "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz "Unclean" is a religious reference, describing somethjing banned from diet. Slugs & snails & indeed all shellfesh can never be kosher. Any Jew who would eat a shrimp, lobster, crabs, oysters, or clams should be equally willing to eat slugs & snails, but none of it would be kosher. Levitical dietary laws are not health laws but are laid down to draw cultic distinctions. You could even take kosher cheese & kosher hamburger but if you made a cheeseburger out of it it would not be kosher, as it has nothing to do with health & everything to do with cultic restrictioins that define a community. Shellfish were associated with the cult of Asherah Who Walks the Sea, whose son, Baal, was led by a homosexual priesthood. Midrash says worshippers of Baal-Peor had anal sex in the high place groves of Asherah. Eating shellfish seems to have been identified with cultically impure sex acts such as homosexuality; & I've wondered whether the belief that eating oysters causes men to have better erections is derived from some ancient religious belief among worshippers of Atargatis/Asherah or Baal/Dagon. Scripture notes that Naamah the Amonitess supported just such a homosexual Baal cult in Jerusalem, & Leviticus calls homosexuality (within the priesthood) an "abomination" (the Hebrew word would be more correctly translated "cultic impurity"), just as it calls eating shellfish an "abomination" (but that's a different word better translated "detestible," a detestible thing being an idol or a bivalve; the chaos goddess Tiamat was a bivalve). "Anything that crawls on its belly" cannot be kosher, & Baal priests laid on their bellies to receive anal offerings to Baal-Peor. Thus an amusing stretch of parallel meaning, Queers & Molluscs & Shrimps can all be regarded as appalling before God -- see the amusing God Hates Shrimp webpage -- http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/ Bigotted homophobes like to point out that the "abomination" of homosexuality is punishable by death but Levitical law only makes it punishable by death if it is conducted in the context of worship of rival divinities, or if such acts are committed by the priestly caste. "Touch not my anointed" [1 Chr 16:22; Ps 105:15] is a prohibition against Yahweh's priesthood being involved in all manner of sacred rites of a sexual nature that were otherwise acceptable practices outside the priesthood. A woman of the Levites who committed harlotries would likewise be killed, but a woman like Tamar could commit harlotries & afterward be purified. So too, regarding homosexuality, it was impure, but could afterward be cleansed, so long as it does not involve the annointed priesthood or idolatrous worship. "He that toucheth the flesh of him that ejaculates" must afterward purify himself, & will remain unclean until evening [Lv 15:7]; that is the PRIMARY levitical law regarding homosexuality, it causes a rather brief period of cultic impurity requiring a cleansing ritual; which is why the love affair between Jonathan & David can be presented as neato rather than dooming David to execution, as David was not a Levite but was part Moabite (a famously queer nation), & Jonathan was a Benjaminite such as caused such a terrible stir when they wanted to butt**** a Levite priest who being a Levite was unable to submit, so gave his concubine to the Benjaminites who were so insulted by the replacement that they ****ed her to death. Had it only been David instead of a Levite, he could've presented his bum without it insulting God, & indeed he was Saul's catamite before he was Jonathan's lover. There is also a Law that prohibits the "earnings" of a zonah of kelebite (secular whore or trick-turning faggot) from being made as offerings to God [Dt 23:18]. Harlots & Kelebites (sodomists) were not otherwise prohibited from worshipping Adonai or from making offerings other than those gained from a practice associated with other divinities or with secular prostitution. Bigots selectively enjoy the illusory commandment to kill fags, while overlooking the commandment to kill sassing children. The Mishnaic sages, knowing such an evil as capitol punishment could not possibly be inherent to Torah or part of God's will, came up with interpretations of scripture that banned capitol punishment altogether, though 2,000 years later Christians still haven't figured out that God does not applaud capitol punishment even for more convincing reasons than homophobes killing queers. But even preserving the idea that God likes us to kill each other & wants us to keep slaves & execute sassing children & faggots, Mosaic law does not punish or prohibit homosexual acts except for the priesthood & except when committed to honor a rival god. As a secular act between men, homosexuality causes bodily impurity that lasts until sundown, & is an impurity roughly equivalent to eating unkosher food. -paghat the ratgirl I found that so very interesting that I decided to leave it uncut in my reply. Coals of fire will no doubt be heaped on mr for committing this sin. Franz |
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Franz Heymann wrote:
"Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Franz Heymann" wrote in message [...] But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws. Franz They are not outdated to the Jews.. I did not say they were. The poster did not mention that they were unclean *as far as Jews were concerned*. He made it sound much more general. I remember a boss saying of a (highly-esteemed, I should say) colleague "For somebody who can't work on Friday evenings, he eats an awful lot of sausages." A Jewish girlfriend whose sister suddenly started keeping Kosher and everything referred to the unexpected transformation as "going Catholic". Mike. |
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paghat wrote:
[...] "Unclean" [...etc...] We did actually know that: I think you've mistaken us for one of those dimwit crossposting newsgroups. Be discerning, and don't be misled by some of the headers the freaks add this group to. |
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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:42:48 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "Christopher Green" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:27:59 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-xGzwb8So2ZUw@poblano... On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:17:41 UTC, (paghat) opined: In article uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-udOV900dMXzb@poblano, "Stan Goodman" wrote: A slug is a naked snail. Ha-cha-cha-cha. That's exactly what a slug is. The only difference between the two is the shell. Whether that qualifies slugs to appear in rec.gardens.EDIBLE is a question I can't answer. Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz Not kosher. Treyf. An abomination. Not acceptable as food to observant Jews. (Lev. 11:42, "You shall not eat... anything that crawls on its belly...") But most of the world do not follow the outdated Mosaic laws. Franz That is why I wrote "to observant Jews". -- Chris Green |
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... paghat wrote: [...] "Unclean" [...etc...] We did actually know that: I think you've mistaken us for one of those dimwit crossposting newsgroups. Be discerning, and don't be misled by some of the headers the freaks add this group to. [rolls eyes] I make a flippant remark about slugs being unclean, and end up reading part of a long diatribe that seems to have little point. Ray Drouillard |
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Hey Guys,
This started out as for advice on the plus or minus of slugs and snails !!!!!! Happppppy Everythings, LenBo, the originator of this string "paghat" wrote in message news In article , "Franz Heymann" wrote: "Ray Drouillard" wrote in message ... "Stan Goodman" wrote in message news:uViCr8LlbtmJ-pn2-dZ8d2UFWwjFE@poblano... On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:28:18 UTC, "Ray Drouillard" opined: Well... a slug is EDIBLE, and can be found in your garden. Thank you; now I know. Please feel free to help yourself. Sorry. Snails are unclean. What does "unclean" mean? If I understand it correctly, edible snails are fed on bran or suchlike for a couple of days before being dished up at a meal. Franz "Unclean" is a religious reference, describing somethjing banned from diet. Slugs & snails & indeed all shellfesh can never be kosher. Any Jew who would eat a shrimp, lobster, crabs, oysters, or clams should be equally willing to eat slugs & snails, but none of it would be kosher. Levitical dietary laws are not health laws but are laid down to draw cultic distinctions. You could even take kosher cheese & kosher hamburger but if you made a cheeseburger out of it it would not be kosher, as it has nothing to do with health & everything to do with cultic restrictioins that define a community. Shellfish were associated with the cult of Asherah Who Walks the Sea, whose son, Baal, was led by a homosexual priesthood. Midrash says worshippers of Baal-Peor had anal sex in the high place groves of Asherah. Eating shellfish seems to have been identified with cultically impure sex acts such as homosexuality; & I've wondered whether the belief that eating oysters causes men to have better erections is derived from some ancient religious belief among worshippers of Atargatis/Asherah or Baal/Dagon. Scripture notes that Naamah the Amonitess supported just such a homosexual Baal cult in Jerusalem, & Leviticus calls homosexuality (within the priesthood) an "abomination" (the Hebrew word would be more correctly translated "cultic impurity"), just as it calls eating shellfish an "abomination" (but that's a different word better translated "detestible," a detestible thing being an idol or a bivalve; the chaos goddess Tiamat was a bivalve). "Anything that crawls on its belly" cannot be kosher, & Baal priests laid on their bellies to receive anal offerings to Baal-Peor. Thus an amusing stretch of parallel meaning, Queers & Molluscs & Shrimps can all be regarded as appalling before God -- see the amusing God Hates Shrimp webpage -- http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/ Bigotted homophobes like to point out that the "abomination" of homosexuality is punishable by death but Levitical law only makes it punishable by death if it is conducted in the context of worship of rival divinities, or if such acts are committed by the priestly caste. "Touch not my anointed" [1 Chr 16:22; Ps 105:15] is a prohibition against Yahweh's priesthood being involved in all manner of sacred rites of a sexual nature that were otherwise acceptable practices outside the priesthood. A woman of the Levites who committed harlotries would likewise be killed, but a woman like Tamar could commit harlotries & afterward be purified. So too, regarding homosexuality, it was impure, but could afterward be cleansed, so long as it does not involve the annointed priesthood or idolatrous worship. "He that toucheth the flesh of him that ejaculates" must afterward purify himself, & will remain unclean until evening [Lv 15:7]; that is the PRIMARY levitical law regarding homosexuality, it causes a rather brief period of cultic impurity requiring a cleansing ritual; which is why the love affair between Jonathan & David can be presented as neato rather than dooming David to execution, as David was not a Levite but was part Moabite (a famously queer nation), & Jonathan was a Benjaminite such as caused such a terrible stir when they wanted to butt**** a Levite priest who being a Levite was unable to submit, so gave his concubine to the Benjaminites who were so insulted by the replacement that they ****ed her to death. Had it only been David instead of a Levite, he could've presented his bum without it insulting God, & indeed he was Saul's catamite before he was Jonathan's lover. There is also a Law that prohibits the "earnings" of a zonah of kelebite (secular whore or trick-turning faggot) from being made as offerings to God [Dt 23:18]. Harlots & Kelebites (sodomists) were not otherwise prohibited from worshipping Adonai or from making offerings other than those gained from a practice associated with other divinities or with secular prostitution. Bigots selectively enjoy the illusory commandment to kill fags, while overlooking the commandment to kill sassing children. The Mishnaic sages, knowing such an evil as capitol punishment could not possibly be inherent to Torah or part of God's will, came up with interpretations of scripture that banned capitol punishment altogether, though 2,000 years later Christians still haven't figured out that God does not applaud capitol punishment even for more convincing reasons than homophobes killing queers. But even preserving the idea that God likes us to kill each other & wants us to keep slaves & execute sassing children & faggots, Mosaic law does not punish or prohibit homosexual acts except for the priesthood & except when committed to honor a rival god. As a secular act between men, homosexuality causes bodily impurity that lasts until sundown, & is an impurity roughly equivalent to eating unkosher food. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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