TIL since it is forbidden for Jews to carry certain objects in public during Shabbat, many cities have installed lines in the air, enclosing the city, making the entire city count as private domain and thus making it allowed to carry among other things, house keys, tissues, medication, and babies.

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[–]gameMaker 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Religion is so strange. How can that possibly help or mean anything?

[–]Canbot 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

it is supposed to be restrictive to keep them from cheating. The point is to get you to talk to your family and neighbors. Build a community. Reflect on religion, your life, all the important things you don't have time to think about. If the rule was simply to do those things it would be brushed off as, well I just though about it and now I can go back to watching Game of Thrones. So instead they make everything else "illegal". If you are going to cheat you might as well not even be religious.

[–]dissent 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

exactly. I mean seriously. If the whole city is cheating, just give up.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's like u/sayitagain said. If these are meant to be the commandments of an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful God, I'd have to think that only people who weren't taking that concept seriously in the first place would even consider this.

I'm just some arsehole sitting in front of a computer and I have the wherewithal to see through this ruse... If there's a super being that created the earth and judges the souls of all men, you think he's looking at those bits of string and saying: "Woah... Woah, wait a second! Is that... Are those people inside?! I guess they are inside. Wow, that's a huge private house. A lot of people have smaller houses inside that private place. Man, I'm so baffled by this."