• kazaika@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Casual reminder that many religious rules were just basic Hygiene practices from prehistoric times which were later absorbed into the local beliefs.

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        22 days ago

        The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.

        It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.

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        22 days ago

        Not so long ago people would go weeks without washing their bodies, let alone in prehistoric times.

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          22 days ago

          I imagine the whole circumcision thing makes sense when you’re wandering the desert for years and there’s not a whole lot of water around, but other than that, yeah.

          So blowjobs 3 times a day?

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        22 days ago

        It does if it’s tight. I couldn’t wash it due to the extreme tightness. I don’t agree with doing it for religious reasons, just saying your argument there is not without holes.

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      22 days ago

      You are quite right. There is a tribe in East Africa which makes a hole on their lower lip and place a huge disk into it. It is theorised that the practice started to prevent lockjaw disease that may have been prevalent in the area eons ago. I am not sure how this prevents lockjaw but maybe for them it works.