• brap@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

      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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            2 months ago

            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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            2 months ago

            There are actual sanitary considerations for people who don’t bathe very often.

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              Realistically, this is how that conversation would go, 99% of the time:

              “You might have a problem with your dick later, so let’s cut off the end of it now.”

              “Uh, you can just fuck right off. I’ll take my chances.”

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                2 months ago

                My understanding is the practice started as a kind of ritual scarification for warrior tribes, and the relatively minor health benefits were incidental and discovered later. That explains why people chose to do it initially before it became a silly religious rite.

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      2 months ago

      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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    2 months 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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    2 months 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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      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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          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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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I was cut way too tight so I had (slightly) painful erections for years. Turns out it was a pretty quick fix with some dedication (like 3 months). HUGE quality of life improvement. But I’m not stopping until I look intact!

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    2 months 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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    2 months ago

    Okay but in recent years baby foreskins have not been discarded. They’ve been scientifically processed for stem cells and into ointments that wealthy people rub onto their faces for ointments of eternal youth.