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Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Wed, 25 Aug 1999 04:59:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, "Jesse Long" <jesse.r.long@gte.net> writes:
> Leviticus 18: (abridged version) You may not have sex with any blood
> relative--father, mother, father's wife, sister (father's daughter, mother's
> daughter), granddaughter (son's daughter, daughter's daughter), half-sister
> (father's wife's daughter, born to your father), aunt (father's sister,
> mother's sister, father's brother's wife), uncle (father's brother),
> daughter-in-law (son's wife), sister-in-law (brother's wife)--or a woman
> *and* her daughter or granddaughter, a woman and her sister while the first
> is alive, a woman during her period, your neighbor's wife, another man, or
> an animal.
Hmm. Does a clone of yourself count as a blood relative?
And would that fall under incest or homosexuality?
How about an opposite-sex clone? (If there is such a thing. I'm sure there
will be someday!)
Do human clones have souls? Or only those humans which have been conceived
"naturally"?
> Specifically, verse 22 reads: "You shall not lie with a male as
> one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
>
> It's tough to read that one wrong. [...]
I think it's pretty easy to "read that one wrong." There's a LOT of stuff
wrong with that sentence!
First, the word "lie" (as in lying down) is the past tense of the word "lay"
(to lay). "Lie" itself is not a present-tense verb in that sense. So it
should really say, "You shall not lay with a male as one lays with a
female..."
Second, the antecedent of the word "it" is ambiguous -- is it the female or
the male or the act of lying with a female or the act of lying with a male
that is an abomination? It's not 100% clear -- it's left up to the
interpretation of the reader.
Anyway, as written, what it SAYS is that a guy isn't supposed to lie (as in
untrue statements) to his male buddies as he lies to females. "No, that's
not lipstick on my collar, honest -- and I wasn't out smoking cigars and
drinking Mezcal all night either, honest!"
--Todd
p.s. Even if "lie" were corrected to say "lay," maybe it still only means
that if you lay with a male, you should make sure to lay a different way
than you lay with a female.
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