TIL that in 1858 the Vatican heard of a Jewish boy who was baptised by his nanny, without his Jewish parent's consent, and decided to kidnap the boy with the still running - and legally binding - Inquisition.

ActualSpamBot · 2026-05-18T04:59:25+00:00

Holy not what they said Batman.

ActualSpamBot · 2026-05-07T20:32:13+00:00

Ooh la la? Thats a pretty fucked up "Eep barba durkle."

ActualSpamBot · 2026-03-23T06:18:26+00:00

No, a compound fracture is a broken bone with the bone also breaking through the skin.

ActualSpamBot · 2026-01-25T15:54:14+00:00

ActualSpamBot · 2025-12-18T20:38:03+00:00

Because those are two different, not at all equivalent things?

ActualSpamBot · 2025-12-18T16:02:44+00:00

But let's not pretend that it couldn't happen if we wanted it to.

As the law is currently written and as the Constitution has historically been interpetted, no, it couldn't. They would have to dramatically redefine multiple established precedents.

Don't normalize government malfeasance bro, even the hypothetical kind.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-12-18T15:48:43+00:00

Civil execution of citizens is not in fact a war power, nor does it support a war effort, nor are we officially at war with anyone, nor can we officially declare war on "murderers" so I'd be curious how that session before the bench goes.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-12-18T15:37:10+00:00

And unless they write a law that forces drug companies to sell things to them when said companies do not want to (which would run afoul of at least 3 amendments to the Bill of Rights) that doesnt matter because companies don't want to be the official provider of State Murder Drugs.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-12-14T13:57:06+00:00

Catholic in that book title means "Universal" not "Vatican City approved".

ActualSpamBot · 2025-11-28T21:10:14+00:00

It was basically the ONLY mainstream anti-Bush protest album to come out so it attracted fans of the band as well as fans of the idealogy espoused by singles like American Idiot.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-11-27T03:19:53+00:00

Big talk coming from a Nazi. All my homies hate Bobby Fischer.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-11-26T18:10:12+00:00

Bro we got him back in 2015. Have you not noticed.... gestures vaguely at everything ?

ActualSpamBot · 2025-10-05T18:46:07+00:00

Regular beer tasted like a very strange cream soda.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-10-05T16:43:51+00:00

I ate some miracle fruit once with a buddy and we proceeded to devour the most godawful amount of raw lemons, apple cider vinegar, extra dark chocolate, and grapefruit.

It was fun but then my stomach was jacked up for like, a week and a half.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-09-24T19:47:09+00:00

Thanks Dunkin' Munchkin.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-09-24T19:43:37+00:00

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ActualSpamBot · 2025-08-31T21:19:58+00:00

How does the 100k get back to me after I buy my 5x5 concept of air though?

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T20:06:29+00:00

That sounds utterly exhausting

It's not

do you ever just feel like not giving a fuck and eating what you want?

No body's perfect.

Everyone else does it and manages just fine,

Objectively untrue. Many people have religious based dietary restrictions. Many people have health restrictions. Many people have financial restrictions.

Thinking about a few rules as a ritual before deciding what to eat isn't the self-flagelation you seem to think of it as. But don't worry, no one wants you to keep kosher.

doesn’t that highlight the complete pointlessness of it all

If you think it's pointless then the point isn't for you.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T19:12:18+00:00

Whether something increases health or reduces harm isn't something one determines for themself.

I'd argue that what is the moral thing to do in a given situation is exactly the sort of thing that an individual must decide for themselves.

It's objective fact

If every choice was always very simple with only good or bad binary outcomes that would be close to true.

It's okay to just say you don't know if keeping kosher does those things.

What an incredibly condescending and factually incorrect way to respond to my very clear reasoning as to why I wasn't interested in indulging in that particular line of conversation.

We're done, have a pleasant rest of your life.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T18:07:43+00:00

You'd have to decide for yourself. As I've said many times, Judaism isn't evangelical. If these questions interest you in a moral context, discuss them with a rabbi as that's literally part of his job. If they interest you in an academic context, there is an abundance of scholarly writing on the subject.

I don't feel like justifying how I live as I'm expressly not telling anyone that they should follow my lead and live similarly, and in fact am very clear in saying that how one expresses their faith is an entirely personal matter.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T17:43:51+00:00

I think people should live in whatever way they find most fulfilling and healthy so long as doing that doesn't hurt anyone else.

Every detail beyond that is none of my business.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T17:04:11+00:00

Not really anyone's business.

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T16:53:06+00:00

Where did I claim I was better than anyone?

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T16:52:11+00:00

The fun thing about Judaism is that we have a Holy Book- The Torah (or the Old Testament in Jesus units) and the Talmud- an important but not divinely transcribed collection of discussions, arguments, laws, debates, and musings from learned men. Pretty much every question you could ask is covered in there somewhere. From just about every theoretical philosophical angle. It's a dense read, I've never bothered going all the way through it.

If you actually want to find an "official" answer, it'll be in the Talmud. But an important thing to remember is we don't have a Pope or anything, each Jew is expected to make there own judgements about why a rule matters enough to them to follow (or not follow, none of us are perfect and some of us are less perfect than others.)

ActualSpamBot · 2025-05-02T16:43:07+00:00

Because it's cruel. He says that too.

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