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Funny email my buddy received
#21
RE: Funny email my buddy received
Quote:This is actually a fairly practical concept seeing as how average life expectancy was around 27-28. "Teenagers" in Jewish culture is a misnomer. They were adults. You are letting your ethnocentrism show.

Not just the Jews either. About 28-35 seems about right for males in preindustrial cultures( less for women) Puberty was considered the age of adulthood in most cultures at some point. The age of consent in the UK and the US was 12 until about 1920. Until the late C19th children as young as 12 were hanged or transported for life for a variety of crimes,usually against property.

Childhood was a sentimental invention of the Victorian bourgeoisie and did not extend to children of the working class until late in the C19th..

The Law of Moses has some suspicious similarities with the code of Hammurabi. It was probably quiet effective in controlling a small tribe of bronze age goat herders

.That Mosaic law is no longer appropriate can be seen the way Christians without exception cherry pick which of the 613 commandments they'll obey.The claim of literalists the Bible is the inerrant world of God bemuses me, especially as Jesus is recorded as admonishing his followers to keep The Law. It seems only required when convenient or practicable.



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Quote:Children as young as three were put to work. A high number of children also worked as prostitutes.[10] In coal mines children began work at the age of five and generally died before the age of 25. Many children (and adults) worked 16 hour days. As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day. These acts were largely ineffective and after radical agitation, by for example the "Short Time Committees" in 1831, a Royal Commission recommended in 1833 that children aged 11–18 should work a maximum of 12 hours per day, children aged 9–11 a maximum of eight hours, and children under the age of nine were no longer permitted to work. This act however only applied to the textile industry, and further agitation led to another act in 1847 limiting both adults and children to 10 hour working days.[10]
By 1900, there were 1.7 million child labourers reported in American industry under the age of fifteen.[11] The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed to 2 million in 1910.[12]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
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#22
RE: Funny email my buddy received
With regards to the letter in the OP:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
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#23
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@ Min I'm not sure that you are correct, not saying your not, just not sure and need to do some research on the matter. If you are correct, in that ancient culture these young adults were responsible for their actions and not being considered childern by the age of 13 fell under adult punishments. This would not change what I've stated, to protect the good name of the family was more important than anything else. Thus the punishment was for adults according to that culture. Teens of 15 have been tried and sentenced as adults in the past few years, so are we so much different in our punishments of younger people, the only difference I see is the nature of the crime. What is important for us to try one so young might be different than past cultures but never the less their laws were important for them in their time.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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#24
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The point was that you were allowing your preconceived notions to color your view of ancient life. Don't feel special about it. I had one asshole claim that "even back then Jewish mothers wanted their children to do well in school so they could prosper."

I couldn't let that go so I asked if he was suggesting that there were "schools" in ancient Israel.

He replied "Yes. Just like now."

It was then that I was certain I had a live one. Are you sure your name isn't Arch and you live in South Korean?
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#25
RE: Funny email my buddy received
(July 28, 2010 at 4:59 am)leo-rcc Wrote: With regards to the letter in the OP:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp

Cool, thanks. I really never gave a second thought to if it was real or where it came from; it just tickled my funny bone. It is kind of funny to read about the disgraceful 'doctor.'
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#26
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Well one should really read it as some sort of essay or article, not as an actual letter. Perhaps more of an open letter as those are usually more intended to make the audience think than it is the addressee.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
Pastafarian
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#27
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That's basically how I took it. I found it humorous, but didn't really think twice about it being addressed to one person.
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#28
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Whichever way you read it, it's an epic barrel of lols.
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