(February 26, 2015 at 9:42 am)ManMachine Wrote: Also, this is a little too specific to be a 'general' rule, I get the feeling someone is inappropriately living out a bad experience here...
"If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. — Deuteronomy 25:11-12"
I was just wondering myself what the origin of this one must have been. I imagine some old Jew getting into a fight with another guy, and when that dude's wife came up and clamped onto the old Jew's dick to stop the fight he was like, "Okay, God just revealed a new law to me!"
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
