• brap@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I will never understand your bizarre culture of ritual genital mutilation, but this is great!

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      Because yahweh likes the smell of rotting foreskins, per his own words.

      This means that Abraham made a tall pile in his house of the foreskins from the many people that he had circumcised. He piled them, one on top of the other, in his house and a stream of blood flowed from these foreskins. The Holy One said to the angels: let us go to Abraham’s house to visit the sick. The angels said: Lord of the Universe, it stinks and it is quite repulsive in Abraham’s house, because of the foreskins. God said: in my eyes the smell of the foreskins is much better than the pleasant odors of all the incense, as the verse says, “I will betake me to the mount of myrrh”

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      It happened because an old man during the Bronze Age had a schizophrenic episode and hallucinated god commanding him to cut off his foreskin as proof of loyalty. Everyone just… Went on to humor him I guess and here we are thousands of years later and not much has changed. This is just proof of how traditions can be really stupid.

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          Why? When did some guy say “Hey! I got an idea!” And everyone else said “Sounds great! Me next!”

          I mean, I get the women going along with it, just to see how stupid men could really get, but how did men, who totally ruled the world back then, decide to go along with this?

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            Like quite a few early religious rules I will never be convinced that it wasn’t just a bunch of dumbass men couldn’t be arsed to keep their junk clean and got infections thus new ritual was born to eliminate the problem.

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    22 hours ago

    This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on Lemmy. Like, oldskool I need eyebleach disturbing. Gawd. Why.

    I think I’m gonna start working now. You’ve disgusted me that much. I’m gonna stop screwing around and go work. Bleh.

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    18 hours ago

    Ha! Dodged that shit like neo in the matrix! Also the US is reporting about 50% of males born here aren’t getting mutilated.

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    18 hours ago

    I’m restoring my foreskin right now and so thinking about this reminds me of people who take the tomato off a hamburger and then add ketchup…

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      8 hours ago

      Tomato and Ketchup are not equivalent. Ketchup tastes nothing like a tomato. Nobody would stick a French fry in a cup of tomato puree.

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        Ketchup is made by combining tomatoes, sweetener (often sugar or high-fructose corn syrup), vinegar, salt, and spices. Tomato puree is made by blending tomatoes and adding water, sometimes salt and some spices. True, they are not the same, but dipping a fry in tomato puree wouldn’t be that bad.

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          Not marinara, just pureed tomato. OP said it was dumb to remove a tomato, yet use ketchup, so the comparison is raw tomato vs. ketchup. Tomato puree is the same as raw tomato, marinara is not.

          Marinara on a burger, especially one seasoned like a meatball, is delicious. Add a slice of mozzarella, and you have a Cheeseburger Marinara. Just a different configuration of a Meatball Sub (one of my favorites). Now I know what we’re having for dinner, with fries. Thanks for the inspiration.

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          Yup! And I highly recommend it. Just from the small gains I’ve made and the difference it makes, I’ve become pretty much completely anti-circumcision. Definitely completely for babies.

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            Arent irreplaceable glands removed during a circumcision? Might be able to lengthen skin to form something like foreskin but isn’t it impossible to regrow the glans?

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              Glans is the tip/head/non-skin end of your penis and it should not have been touched during circumcision. Maybe by mistake something happened.

              But there are body tissue structures that are removed and lost forever from circumcision. Namely the “rigid band” and part or all of the “frenulum”

              So a restored foreskin is not quite the same. But people who get circumcised as an adult and then later restore say that restored is about 70-80% as good. And far better than nothing!