Posted on 04/05/2006 3:07:48 PM PDT by Dark Skies
Not necessarily so. It is subject to interpretation. You could say that is means "don't be jealous", because jealousy is self-destructive. Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins!
It could also be interpreted as 'live modestly'. This might undermine rapid economic turnover, but would not undermine capitalism.
It could also be interpreted literally - referring to your neighbors property... with an implication of a sort of "live and let live" ethic. And in that it doesn't have to mean that because you think your neighbor's iPod is really cool that you can't have an iPod too... you just shouldn't want his iPod.
I think you all will enjoy this one! Ping!
I am still laughing! What a great discourse this created. Thanks again!
Correct. There are iterations of the decalouge. This is just the "handy" list.
Not all of them (several from the book noted in the post), but I never claimed it was original.
I made trade my tagline for some.
"G-d's a clever feller. He has used islam to put Jews and Christians together."
No doubt.
He uses lots of nasty folk for His purposes -- Pharoh to create the impetus for Israel, the Babylonian king to punish, that prick mentioned in Ester (won't bother to type his name), prick No. 2 (the German one, again won't bother to type his name) to re-form Israel, etc.
"If I didn't have a pastrami and cole slaw on rye (with thousand island dressing) at least once a week...I felt weak at the knees."
That was caused by the fat clots leaving your femoral arteries.
I've got a stack of Baptist jokes, too, but they won't laugh like Jews will.
Just stare at their shoes.
I think they are afraid laughing might lead to dancing.
If you look at my follow-up post, it looks like Pope Pious and I are pretty much on the same page.
It is a hard concept to write out, but to paraphrase Scalia, I know it when I feel it (coveting, that is.)
It's a sick, stomach-clenching, desire that you KNOW is wrong. The gut (or Holy Spirt, if so inclined), more than the mind, is the tip off.
"Unfortunately, the traditional Jewish attitude is completely unknown outside the Yeshivish world."
Actually, most fundamentalist Christians (in the sense of Bible-following and believing, NOT TV preachers and what the media protrays) are in full agreement.
Indeed, most fundamentalist Christians, but for the disagreement regarding the nature of Jesus, would convert and follow the Law more ardently than 99.99 of Orthodox Jews.
lol...vy likely. Yet, thirty years later my heart is still strong and unclogged.
I think I'll have a pastrami for lunch today.
Indeed, most fundamentalist Christians, but for the disagreement regarding the nature of Jesus, would convert and follow the Law more ardently than 99.99 of Orthodox Jews.
Conservative chr*stians and liberal Jews should switch testaments!
Jews and Christians are essentially the police department, holding true to ethics and morality as given to them from above.
Judaism and Christianity should not be expressed as a pair as though they were equivalent belief systems, for exactly the opposite is true: for example, Judaism, and its followers, are most inevitably "pro-choice", whereas Christianity is natively pro-life.
I believe in the fundamental right to congenially express disagreement with any particular worldview or religion. Without such a right, freedom of speech would be sublimated to theocracy, much as is the case in the Middle East.
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