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Old 10-31-2018, 05:26 AM
 
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You do? I thought it was clear it was for cleanliness...God wanted his chosen people not to spread bacteria.
Hard to stay clean in a desert after all!
A omnicreator worth anything ya think would know this would be an issue and just revise its creation.

During a circumcision the foreskin is still attached to the head of the penis and needs peeled off like peeling an apple.

It’s an barbaric ritual for god.

Try asking a teenager if he wants to be mutilated because he doesn’t know how to clean his penis.

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Old 10-31-2018, 05:42 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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A omnicreator worth anything ya think would
know this would be an issue and just revise its creation.
Oh, really...good to know.

My impression First Earth Age, I think the one with 'the Lilith group', gone....the one with dinosaurs- gone, flood got rid of the others....so He stopped interfering and fixing much. Ha!


Added: You know I'm kidding...I only know about the dinosaurs.

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Old 10-31-2018, 05:49 AM
 
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During a circumcision the foreskin is still attached to the head of the penis and needs peeled off like peeling an apple.
OK! Now you're making my eyes water!
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Old 10-31-2018, 10:49 AM
 
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Just taking blood sacrifice:
(circumcision was a spin off from the op)

I think I am wiser than people ages ago that thought slitting a goat's neck would make the
Creator happy.
Just as I believe I am wiser to know tossing a virgin into a volcano will not stop it from erupting.
We will have to disagree on this one, my friend!
Modern people assume they are superior. This is because our species loves to feel superior to someone or something. Humans superior to other animals. Men superior to women, whites superior to blacks, educated superior to uneducated, liberals superior to conservatives. Etc.

Having to always feel superior is kind of exhausting, I think. And prevents us from thinking rationally.
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Old 10-31-2018, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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Modern people assume they are superior. This is because our species loves to feel superior to someone or something. Humans superior to other animals. Men superior to women, whites superior to blacks, educated superior to uneducated, liberals superior to conservatives. Etc.

Having to always feel superior is kind of exhausting, I think. And prevents us from thinking rationally.
That may be a psychological truth from a study, for sure.
I am wiser not throwing virgins in a volcano.
They could have been way superior in astronomy, astrology, psychic things, herbal healing, kindnesses of other sorts...I personally don't have to feel superior to anyone...I like the place I'm at ...pretty small in this Universe depending on my Superior Dad! I don't go around saying, ''I am God''.
I depend on my German Shepherd to protect me...she is way superior than me.
My mechanic is way superior to me. Many people here are way superior in their understandings of all sorts....the list goes on.
(I don't have low self esteem...hope it didn't sound like that...I feel balanced with a healthy perspective.
The spiritual path I'm on is all about un-doing the ego.)
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Old 10-31-2018, 04:43 PM
 
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That may be a psychological truth from a study, for sure.
I am wiser not throwing virgins in a volcano.
They could have been way superior in astronomy, astrology, psychic things, herbal healing, kindnesses of other sorts...I personally don't have to feel superior to anyone...I like the place I'm at ...pretty small in this Universe depending on my Superior Dad! I don't go around saying, ''I am God''.
I depend on my German Shepherd to protect me...she is way superior than me.
My mechanic is way superior to me. Many people here are way superior in their understandings of all sorts....the list goes on.
(I don't have low self esteem...hope it didn't sound like that...I feel balanced with a healthy perspective.
The spiritual path I'm on is all about un-doing the ego.)
Ok, I can see how the case can be made that throwing virgins in a volcano is not nice. And maybe our society is superior in having a law against it.

But I would still keep an open mind as to why they did it, and all sacrifices in general. Maybe it was just fear and faulty reasoning. Like, one time a virgin fell into the volcano and by coincidence it stopped erupting? We just do not know.

On the other hand, sacrifice has been practiced in so many different times and places I have to wonder if there is a reason for it modern people have lost sight of. From what I have read on the subject, victims had to be young and perfect. So therefore virgins, or first born sons, etc. Animal offerings had to be in perfect condition.

We simply do not know why. Our society has lost its understanding of magic.
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Old 10-31-2018, 04:48 PM
 
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We simply do not know why.

Our society has lost its understanding of magic.
Hi, I like talking with you, btw.
I must say, I understand magic. And that is: there is none! ...just things that people don't understand as to how something happened!
Jesus , me, a master yogi, 'making something happen'? Follows an actual Formula.
No miracle, no magic.
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Old 10-31-2018, 05:05 PM
 
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Ok, I can see how the case can be made that throwing virgins in a volcano is not nice. And maybe our society is superior in having a law against it.

But I would still keep an open mind as to why they did it, and all sacrifices in general. Maybe it was just fear and faulty reasoning. Like, one time a virgin fell into the volcano and by coincidence it stopped erupting? We just do not know.

On the other hand, sacrifice has been practiced in so many different times and places I have to wonder if there is a reason for it modern people have lost sight of. From what I have read on the subject, victims had to be young and perfect. So therefore virgins, or first born sons, etc. Animal offerings had to be in perfect condition.

We simply do not know why. Our society has lost its understanding of magic.
And thank God it has because such primitive and barbaric understanding is worse than just not understanding.
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Old 10-31-2018, 05:48 PM
 
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And thank God it has because such primitive and barbaric understanding is worse than just not understanding.
As I said before, aside from having primitive technology, primitive people were not primitive. The whole concept of "savage" and "barbaric" is Euro-centric nonsense.

Our society rejected all magic because it assumed primitive people were superstitious idiots who had no idea what they were doing.

The fact is, we do not know what they did or did not know. If your mind is closed on the subject, you will never know.
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Old 10-31-2018, 06:04 PM
 
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As I said before, aside from having primitive technology, primitive people were not primitive. The whole concept of "savage" and "barbaric" is Euro-centric nonsense.

Our society rejected all magic because it assumed primitive people were superstitious idiots who had no idea what they were doing.

The fact is, we do not know what they did or did not know. If your mind is closed on the subject, you will never know.
If there is anything to know that would make blood sacrificing innocents to God remotely understandable, I wouldn't accept it because such a God would be completely unacceptable to me. This world is difficult enough to understand and accept in its "red in tooth and claw" aspect.
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