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certainot

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41. thanks, good food for thought. by the time humans reached those stages we were closing
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 10:13 AM
Aug 2021

in on about 90% right handed so it makes sense that would be the 'good' hand and the 'devil' or whatever preceded it would eat with the left.

extending that left is bad right is good duality to everything is seriously problematic, for instance, if you're left handed. i imagine if everyone's supposed to pass the bone with the non-ass wiping hand and the left handed guy keeps insisting on passing it with his ass-wiping hand he wouldn't last long. then it gets turned around in brain hemispheres.

along with and even before this:

many of these ancient religions functioned as much as health codes, home ec classes, civil law, building codes and other reservoirs of important practical information in a largely non-literate world.


would come ecology and biology lessons: don't cut down all those trees... i loved the story about pacific islanders (hawain?) picking the right tree for a canoe - when you thought you found a good one you meditated on it until you saw the flying goddess such and such land on it. if she stayed around and found a bunch worms to pick off it it was no good.

but there's a difference between the functional practicality of promoting one hand or the other and using it to destroy democracy. our brain hemispheres were functionally different even before our animal ancestors became chimps and apes. birds have a similar differentiation, for instance.

by default, decided by millions of years of right handed humans surviving over the possibly less murderous, less authoritarian and conformist left handed human ancestors, most humans still associate sex with the wrong side of the brain.

at some point the 'elders' and scholars may have noticed the left handed young men were less subservient and violent and someone may have figured it out. but if you made it a rule, how do you write it in without creating curiosity? maybe it was in earlier versions of religious writings and taken out knowing that by default there was no need for it and all that was needed was to repress sex and increase frustration, or maybe 'hide' it in plain site like the koran may be doing, and even spice it up with sexual fantasies of dozens of virgins waiting after a violent death.....

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Let us prey? czarjak Aug 2021 #1
Not true USAFRetired_Liberal Aug 2021 #2
Matthew 23:5 also Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #3
They are talking about Jews. Mosby Aug 2021 #18
All 3 of the Abrahamic religions multigraincracker Aug 2021 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Aug 2021 #23
Thats not true. Mosby Aug 2021 #26
Not one word in the multigraincracker Aug 2021 #28
I hope everyone is having a good day. twodogsbarking Aug 2021 #4
I'll make one up. "thou are scum, vermin - crawl away on your belly in shame" NewHendoLib Aug 2021 #5
I like the "whited sepulchres" term wnylib Aug 2021 #6
Except for Gym Jordan, he even APPEARS lawless to me. jaxexpat Aug 2021 #7
He is not aging well, that's for sure. Could it be stress? nt Hekate Aug 2021 #9
If I were him, I'd be stressed. jaxexpat Aug 2021 #12
As I was told by my mother Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #29
Yes it does. Boebert & MT Green were not born ugly, but they sure are ugly now. nt Hekate Aug 2021 #30
In light of their current loyalties... NullTuples Aug 2021 #8
The Bible is chockfull of wonderful observations on human nature Hekate Aug 2021 #10
Right on! Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #11
someone once told me the koran was based on old testament. true? certainot Aug 2021 #13
They are...connected. Somewhat. NullTuples Aug 2021 #16
thanks. a friend who had studied religions mentioned it while discussing the sex on the wrong brain certainot Aug 2021 #27
There's a bit more to the left hand - right hand thing... NullTuples Aug 2021 #40
thanks, good food for thought. by the time humans reached those stages we were closing certainot Aug 2021 #41
There is a great deal of influence Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Aug 2021 #39
They don't even outwardly appear righteous, except to morally depraved dummies... RockRaven Aug 2021 #14
Oooooooh. More good quotes to keep and remember. calimary Aug 2021 #15
and cowardice (should add). Pepsidog Aug 2021 #17
"Jesus wept". PCIntern Aug 2021 #19
Another one I often think of when contemplating the works of the GOP Hekate Aug 2021 #21
...and it's not even in my Bible... PCIntern Aug 2021 #24
Heh Hekate Aug 2021 #25
What isn't? Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #32
Yeah. PCIntern Aug 2021 #33
Jews don't use words like "new" and "old" to describe the bible Mosby Aug 2021 #34
Give me a break PCIntern Aug 2021 #35
Sorry, but it isn't. Mosby Aug 2021 #36
I'm well aware of Tanakh PCIntern Aug 2021 #38
It certainly has been an experience, watching the, "law and order party," become lawless party. ShazamIam Aug 2021 #20
I use that one for Marco Rubio when he tweets those daily biblical quotes. TheBlackAdder Aug 2021 #37
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