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AlphaStarred
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Registered: Jul 2002
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Oct-31-2024 19:08
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SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
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Oct-31-2024 20:06
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AlphaStarred
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
Indeed, the more orthodox interpretation is "do not cut off" or "do not round" the sides of the head, which leads to having those stupid-looking locks hanging on the sides of your head. At some point someone probably deemed it impractical to have sidelocks and reinterpreted the text. |
Once again, sidelocks are not obligatory. One can shave up to a certain point on the head with electrical razors, around the bone area adjacent to around the middle of the ear. If you need further proof or information, go consult a competent rabbi.
| quote: | | The orthodox interpretation is that you shouldn't mention God lightly or in a casual context, but you say G-d all the time. |
Using G-d's name is vain generally means swearing in His name in vain. Not at all the way I've been using it, which is very much allowed.
| quote: | | Do you actually, really, honestly believe in a god? |
I don't simply believe, I know He exists.
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Oct-31-2024 20:16
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JEO
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: ATH
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There's no shame in admitting that your rabbis or what ever have, over time, chosen the most convenient, loosest interpretations of the commandments. Religions change. It's all still very arbitrary though, and to someone looking at it from the outside with a more objective view, developing milder interpretations over time looks like gamification of observance. It's a system trying to remain relevant by adapting itself to modern times. You literally referred to it as a lifestyle, which makes you sound like a teenager still looking for their identity.
| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
the aimless, purposeless, meaningless secular life
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You not having had aim in your life is your own fault, and your life is still meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps even more meaningless than it was before. You imply you now have a purpose. What is that purpose exactly? Even this, that you used a religion to bring "purpose" to your life, speaks for the fact that it's a tool for you to make your life feel less meaningless, nothing more. Religion has utility for tyrants that rule using it, and, of course, dingbats like you, who choose it over the seemingly unbearable uncertainty of non-religious life, where not many things are certain.
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