I hate it here…

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  • PunkRockSportsFan
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    9 months ago

    The cheeseburger thing is rabbinical law.

    It doesn’t say you can’t have a cheeseburger anywhere in any of those books.

    It says “don’t cook a baby goat in its mother milk”

    Rabbis extrapolated that to be : no cheeseburgers

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      9 months ago

      And they also decided “do no work on the Sabbath” also meant “don’t push the buttons on the microwave.”

      Or that if you circle your city with a wire, that counts as your city limits for purposes of traveling on the Sabbath.

      Point is, rabbinical law has always been about finding the loopholes because they consider it a mark of godliness.

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        9 months ago

        You can do things in your home.

        Anything inside your fence is your home.

        Magic wire is a fence, and everything inside is part of the home.

        God hates this one weird trick.