Thursday, May 20, 2010

Remember The Sabbath


by The Thinking Atheist
Observant Jews go to some bizarre lengths to "Remember The Sabbath." You may not believe it, but it's true.
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9 comments:

  1. BluePrintMay 21, 2010 at 2:30 AM

    I always wondered how the designers of these features deal with the omniscient part of god.

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  2. MMay 21, 2010 at 4:52 AM

    Okay... so, they've gone to all this trouble just to get to heat their food on the Sabbath... but isn't then just lifting the food into the sabbath-safe oven breaking the sabbath?? I don't get it...

    I guess we're not suppose to. The whackier the activities the sincerer the faith... apparently!

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  3. Naked NoahMay 21, 2010 at 5:17 AM

    Ooh, don't forget about the automatic elevators that don't require button pushing... Although if you're in an elevator at that point, you're kinda not at home doing Yahwey's mandated nothing, are ya?

    And this behavior is State endorsed... good god.

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  4. BluePrintMay 21, 2010 at 5:51 AM

    The Sabbath rules are very wacky.
    The "not doing any work" only regards creating something new, so you can, for expmple, re-arrange all the heavy furniture in your house on the Sabbath, but not write a note.

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  5. BluePrintMay 21, 2010 at 5:58 AM

    Observant Jews are allowed to move around on the Sabbath, only within a set limit.
    Not to worry, there's a way around that as well: just "forget" something outside said limit before the Sabbath, let's say... a match, and you'll be allowed to go retrieve it.

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  6. zackMay 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM

    There has to be something more specific right? Cause technically you're working if you alive on sabbath no matter what. This is just bizzare how far they have taken it. Humans, are for the most part, a tad insane. *sigh* 

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  7. MMay 21, 2010 at 11:52 AM

    Whacky is the word. If they regard lighting a flame, or turning on something electric as 'having creating something new', then why wouldn't they regard re-arranging all the furniture as having created a whole new interior design scheme?

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  8. DanMay 21, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    Surely writing a note is just rearranging the atoms in your pencil and your paper??

    And rearranging the room changes the entropy just as lighting a match does.

    Has the subject of the "Thermodynamics of the Sabbath" ever been studied? :)

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  9. Andrew ClunnMay 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    So THAT's how humanity evolved the tendency for OCD!

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