What is it with these people and trying to cheat God lmao. Reminds me of Mormons and soaking.
That’s really interesting. I understand why Kohanim would want to avoid whats being perceived to be a link to corpses, but I thought submersion I’m the mikveh would restore spiritual purity. I realise that’s not exactly convenient if you’re going somewhere on the tube other than the mikveh…
How completely ludicrous.
Just because you believe some completely unproven nonsense doesn’t mean you get to demand we change the world around us for you.
Wow these fundamentalists are in DEEP. They don’t pause to question why their god who supposedly created such hard and fast religious doctrine would be ok with their mental gymnastics approach to finding a way to avoid them.
**Either** the fake man made door frame has magical anti-corpse properties or god’s divinity is overruled by technicalities. ***Neither*** option speaks to them have much in the way of critical thinking skills or sets up god as a particularly wise, powerful or divine deity worth their devotion.
This amounts to them refusing to use the entire London Underground because they’re afraid of ghosts. Cool, that’s their perogative. They shouldn’t expect anyone else to care, though.
Sink or swim guys. Adhering to obscure rules or expecting another culture to impossibly meet or accommodate your needs Is both ignorant and selfish
Compromise is always welcome to make things work for everyone, but scripture meeting reality is gonna inevitably end with this kind of issue.
Extremely silly and doesn’t deserve catering towards
Religion is so dumb. Things like this just prove that
Ban? Incoming claims of anti-semitism against said council no doubt.
Don’t people realize there are lots of skeletons in London and I don’t just mean in cemeteries.
What about the plague pits?
What about ancient burial sites?
Or is it it a case of, if we can’t see them, they don’t exist? I’m confused by the whole thing.
If there’s one thing that absolutely convinced me that no religion is *actually* right about the basic fundamentals of the universe, it’s that all of them that I’ve come across believe that some dumb shit like this would work.
Just about the *one* thing we can say about our place in the universe is that our role in it is that we **don’t have** a role in it, or at least one so infintesimitely tiny that it might as well be. The only place with humans, in the universe we can see, is about the equivalent of a single molecule in all the world’s oceans.
Literally everything else we’ve ever seen is just endless dispassionate physical forces interacting with each other. Of course, that all just assumes that *we’re* not just a string of chemical reactions that got terribly out of hand.
So I can buy the idea of a creator, I really can, because I haven’t the foggiest how it all came to be. But the idea that there’s a creator that places humanity at the centre of its creation as essentially a moral test for humanity, and manifests here, and only here- *as in some form or another every religion believes*- is pathetically, laughably, conceited. Talk about [Creator Provincialism](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorProvincialism) and [Humancentrism](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman).
And **then** the idea that this same creator is capable of being flummoxed in its judgment by this magic door bullshit…. that’s just about the most **insultingly** stupid thing to say about said creator imaginable. Like, seriously, how is that not the most blasphemous idea conceivable if you actually, literally believe this stuff? But **everyone basically does this** in some form or another, some more dumb, some more sinister, but basically all the same fucking thing.
I swear, I’ll convert to the first religion that explains that the purpose of creation is really all about the purpose not of human life, but of gravity; electromagnetism; weak interaction; and strong interaction and that actually the creator is some mildly stoned cosmic tech-bro fucking with the programming of an infinitesimally advanced cosmic supercomputer just to see what he can come up with, and accidentally added life on earth during a particularly bad trip, because fuck me, that would explain **a lot**.
There just, um, aren’t any.
This is absolutely, completely bonkers.
The subway doesn’t even go into the Science Museum, you have to go outside before you go in again.
because of their religion, some Londoners can’t use the London Underground.
that’s down to them then.
If they can’t walk anywhere where there are human remains they’d better leave London, or the entire UK. There are hidden remains buried or forgotten everywhere in the country, even under the floorboards of public buildings.
On the one hand, the request is obviously bullshit. I’m sure if you thought hard enough you could find some other building that contains bodies that link to the tube (and the Science Museum exit exists onto the street, not into the museum). On the other hand the idea that the 1m upright would be obtrusive is bollocks. I walked down that road every day for 4 years, it wouldn’t be noticed.
Pandering to religions is an extremely slippery slope.
cant the “negative spiritual forces” just go round the piece of metal?
‘As the Science Museum contains human remains — a skeleton is in the Medicine gallery — and the Kohanim are prohibited from being in buildings that contain human corpses, from their perspective at least, the “impurity” from the Science Museum has infected South Kensington tube station and all the lines that pass through it.’
Can I get things that make no sense for 100 points please?
Yeah that’s fully ridiculous. Kind of like manhattan being indoors.
I’m an atheist and I think that religions should be respected, the Jewish solution is very simple, yes, it is a religious adornment in a public building, but it is not a propaganda of religion or an imposition, it is something that only affects Jews.
💀 So are mummies also considered impure because technically it is a dead body
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What is it with these people and trying to cheat God lmao. Reminds me of Mormons and soaking.
That’s really interesting. I understand why Kohanim would want to avoid whats being perceived to be a link to corpses, but I thought submersion I’m the mikveh would restore spiritual purity. I realise that’s not exactly convenient if you’re going somewhere on the tube other than the mikveh…
How completely ludicrous.
Just because you believe some completely unproven nonsense doesn’t mean you get to demand we change the world around us for you.
Wow these fundamentalists are in DEEP. They don’t pause to question why their god who supposedly created such hard and fast religious doctrine would be ok with their mental gymnastics approach to finding a way to avoid them.
**Either** the fake man made door frame has magical anti-corpse properties or god’s divinity is overruled by technicalities. ***Neither*** option speaks to them have much in the way of critical thinking skills or sets up god as a particularly wise, powerful or divine deity worth their devotion.
This amounts to them refusing to use the entire London Underground because they’re afraid of ghosts. Cool, that’s their perogative. They shouldn’t expect anyone else to care, though.
Sink or swim guys. Adhering to obscure rules or expecting another culture to impossibly meet or accommodate your needs Is both ignorant and selfish
Compromise is always welcome to make things work for everyone, but scripture meeting reality is gonna inevitably end with this kind of issue.
Extremely silly and doesn’t deserve catering towards
Religion is so dumb. Things like this just prove that
Ban? Incoming claims of anti-semitism against said council no doubt.
Don’t people realize there are lots of skeletons in London and I don’t just mean in cemeteries.
What about the plague pits?
What about ancient burial sites?
Or is it it a case of, if we can’t see them, they don’t exist? I’m confused by the whole thing.
If there’s one thing that absolutely convinced me that no religion is *actually* right about the basic fundamentals of the universe, it’s that all of them that I’ve come across believe that some dumb shit like this would work.
Just about the *one* thing we can say about our place in the universe is that our role in it is that we **don’t have** a role in it, or at least one so infintesimitely tiny that it might as well be. The only place with humans, in the universe we can see, is about the equivalent of a single molecule in all the world’s oceans.
Literally everything else we’ve ever seen is just endless dispassionate physical forces interacting with each other. Of course, that all just assumes that *we’re* not just a string of chemical reactions that got terribly out of hand.
So I can buy the idea of a creator, I really can, because I haven’t the foggiest how it all came to be. But the idea that there’s a creator that places humanity at the centre of its creation as essentially a moral test for humanity, and manifests here, and only here- *as in some form or another every religion believes*- is pathetically, laughably, conceited. Talk about [Creator Provincialism](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorProvincialism) and [Humancentrism](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman).
And **then** the idea that this same creator is capable of being flummoxed in its judgment by this magic door bullshit…. that’s just about the most **insultingly** stupid thing to say about said creator imaginable. Like, seriously, how is that not the most blasphemous idea conceivable if you actually, literally believe this stuff? But **everyone basically does this** in some form or another, some more dumb, some more sinister, but basically all the same fucking thing.
I swear, I’ll convert to the first religion that explains that the purpose of creation is really all about the purpose not of human life, but of gravity; electromagnetism; weak interaction; and strong interaction and that actually the creator is some mildly stoned cosmic tech-bro fucking with the programming of an infinitesimally advanced cosmic supercomputer just to see what he can come up with, and accidentally added life on earth during a particularly bad trip, because fuck me, that would explain **a lot**.
There just, um, aren’t any.
This is absolutely, completely bonkers.
The subway doesn’t even go into the Science Museum, you have to go outside before you go in again.
because of their religion, some Londoners can’t use the London Underground.
that’s down to them then.
If they can’t walk anywhere where there are human remains they’d better leave London, or the entire UK. There are hidden remains buried or forgotten everywhere in the country, even under the floorboards of public buildings.
On the one hand, the request is obviously bullshit. I’m sure if you thought hard enough you could find some other building that contains bodies that link to the tube (and the Science Museum exit exists onto the street, not into the museum). On the other hand the idea that the 1m upright would be obtrusive is bollocks. I walked down that road every day for 4 years, it wouldn’t be noticed.
Pandering to religions is an extremely slippery slope.
cant the “negative spiritual forces” just go round the piece of metal?
‘As the Science Museum contains human remains — a skeleton is in the Medicine gallery — and the Kohanim are prohibited from being in buildings that contain human corpses, from their perspective at least, the “impurity” from the Science Museum has infected South Kensington tube station and all the lines that pass through it.’
Can I get things that make no sense for 100 points please?
Yeah that’s fully ridiculous. Kind of like manhattan being indoors.
I’m an atheist and I think that religions should be respected, the Jewish solution is very simple, yes, it is a religious adornment in a public building, but it is not a propaganda of religion or an imposition, it is something that only affects Jews.
💀 So are mummies also considered impure because technically it is a dead body