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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Actually, on a historical sense prohibition of pork makes sense. Pork meat spoils somewhat faster than bovine meat (at least I think so), plus there's also the fact that since pigs are omnivores they can act as hosts to some nasty parasites.

It's possible that someone noticed the connection between people who ate pork and caught the "pork worm", and either thought it was caused by pigs being unclean - or simply decided that the best way to prevent people from eating it was to issue a religious creed.

After all when you really think God tells you not to eat something, and you don't have any kind of culture for source critique or questioning things, you probably obey. And you won't catch the trichinosis.
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
That's most likely it, but the bible doesn't go ahead and say "don't eat pigs." It says that as far as mammals go, we may only eat those which have split hooves and chew the cud. I don't know what chew the cud means, but pigs don't do it. Camels' hooves are only partially split.

Mammals: Leviticus 11:3 (Also, for cannibalism, Numbers 19:11 can be applied.)

Birds: doves, pigeons, and quails (they are allowed as sacrifices). Chickens, turkey, etc, are in the quail family, I guess. But ducks and such things are not allowed. Carnivorous birds are also not allowed. Eggs follow the rules of this.

Seafood: Leviticus 11:10 (And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.)

Insects: Leviticus 11:20 (Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.)

Blood/fat: Leviticus 3:17 (It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.)

Already dead animals: Leviticus 22:8 (That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.)
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Well it's pretty obvious that eating improperly prepared seafood (especially in a hot country) is just asking for trouble.

As for the rest, remember that the bible rarely makes an explanation for the silly rules it came up with. Look at the one in Bobb's sig for an example of that. :D
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Question, if eating blood is prohibited, how does blood transfusions fare?
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Question, if eating blood is prohibited, how does blood transfusions fare?
I'm not aware of any branch of Judaism forbidding blood transfusions.  However, Jehovah's Witnesses apparently base their objections to them partly on the same verse that iamzack quoted.

 

Offline iamzack

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You aren't supposed to eat blood because it is compared to life itself, I think. I imagine a blood transfusion would have been considered something which is not the same as eating blood.
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Offline MR_T3D

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
oh, god :nervous:
i was not talking about eating pigs as the cause so much as the lonely farmer on a dark april night...
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Your own little title jumps off the page at me.

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Where's ontraio, anyways?
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Where's ontraio, anyways?
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that one with the most people, its around toronto, great lakes, etc.
thought you were canadian, anyway

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
No, that's Ontario. Where's ontraio? I'm being a dick
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Question, if eating blood is prohibited, how does blood transfusions fare?
I'm not aware of any branch of Judaism forbidding blood transfusions.  However, Jehovah's Witnesses apparently base their objections to them partly on the same verse that iamzack quoted.

You aren't supposed to eat blood because it is compared to life itself, I think. I imagine a blood transfusion would have been considered something which is not the same as eating blood.

Jahova's Witnesses base their opinions about blood transfusion on at least three parts of the Bible. One from the Genesis, one from Leviticus and one from the Acts.

I read them all and, quite frankly, the JW's interpretation is open to debate. IMO, they seem against sex before marriage (or sex in general) - that's the impression I had when I read them.
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
back on topic, i guess i willbe failing my challenge on may23, as I am going to prom that night :nod: and that means i will have to wear pants, even if it is for like 4 hours, 2 if i'm good ;7

(a kilt is not really an option i think)

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Shorts?
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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Try boardshorts and a singlet :P

 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
A singlet? Ewwwww...
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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
got fitted, 40tall, wore pants :doubt:
white dinner jacket, pretty cool looking

on the 24th of may i will re-imagine the challenge, likely new thread

 

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
since i live in ak again i will have to decline your challenge. the only way it would work is if i become a cross dresser. so no.
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Offline Dilmah G

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A singlet? Ewwwww...

Oh sorry, I meant "WifeBeater" :P

  

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: Ted's innocent no-pants challenge
Good.
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