Breaking the X-th Commandment.

[Shirley Ujest]

That is the " Thou shall not covet" commandment for those ( like me) who are more than slightly rusty on the Big Ten Rules.

But it is hard, in this age of Ebay, MTV and Constant Consumerism not to covet something someone else has. Instant Gratification isn't as fast as it use to be and doesn't stick around for very long.

It is even harder when someone has something that is either a limited edition or one of a kind.


A friend of a friend has this lighter she bought whilst on a trip in Italy.

This is no ordinary zippo, my friend.

I am not a smoker as my father died of cancer and another two brothers suffer from emphysema (brought on by smoking, but also from other conditions not related to cancer sticks.)

To covet this object might seem strange, my friend, but read on.

It is of a hindu/goddess kind of woman sitting in a squatting position that when you light the lighter the flame comes out from between her legs and if you leave the flame on too long ( as every one who plays with this does her breasts start to glow.

It is so cool that words just fail me.

I want this damn thing sooooo bad it is just tearing me apart.

I know I am being tested.

[WV_Woman]

I'm not sure if coveting is merely desiring what someone else wants.

I'd like to switch houses with my best friend. Am I coveting? No.

I think to covet you have to wish bad upon the person who has what you want ... or get so freaking obsessed over whatever object you're lusting after that it starts messing with your daily life.

[Duck Duck Goose]

What I was taught in Sunday School, and what I now teach my First Grade Sunday School class, is that the prohibition is against wanting that exact same object. It's not that you want "a bike just like Mikey's"--it's that you want Mikey's bike that's "coveting".

So if you can readjust your thought waves to want "a lighter just like that one", rather than "that lighter", then IMO it's not "coveting".

Can you post a picture of it, or describe it a little better? Then we will all Google like mad to help you find "one just like it", so you won't have to worry about the Tenth Commandment any more.

Then you can start worrying about the Seventh Commandment, when you discover how much one (probably) costs, and start thinking about stealing one. :D

[RedNaxela]

From the POV of Jewish law, DDG has it basically right. Just to add some more detail:

The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Bible, in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, and the wording of this commandment is different in each. In Exodus the phrasing is, "Do not covet (in Hebrew, lo tachmod)... anything that belongs to your fellow man"; in Deuteronomy the expression is, "Do not desire (lo tit'aveh)... anything that belongs to your fellow man."

Maimonides, in his code of Jewish law (Laws of Robbery 1:9-10), defines these as two different prohibitions: lo tachmod forbids the carrying out of any scheme to acquire the desired object (such as by repeatedly lobbying the owner to sell it), while lo tit'aveh prohibits thinking up such a scheme.

So according to this definition, seeing the lighter and thinking, "Gee, I wish I had that!" doesn't violate Commandment X, no matter how much you're eaten up with jealousy, so long as you're not sitting and thinking up ideas of how to get it away from her. (And thinking up ideas of how to get one of your own - for example, looking on eBay - would certainly be OK.)

[Shirley Ujest]

I have been actively searching the internet and have come up with nothing. I am so surprised that "Flame Shooting out of Goddess' Vagina Lighter" does not pull up anything close when I google it :)

This friend of a friend bought it from a little vender in Italy. It's probably a one of a kind, like DaVinci owned it or something.

[ijustdontcare]

Just IMHO, that sounds like the coolest lighter EVER. And it's also probably damn close to one of a kind. The type of thing that you only see one of in your life, and if you ever saw another, you'd probably shit your pants. Heh heh.