DocCathode:
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Under Jewish law, anything containing the name of G-d is sacred. It can’t touch the ground. It can’t be defaced or dishonored in any way. It can only be disposed of in a special ceremony. In order to avoid creating sacred text, a letter is replaced with hyphen, dash etc.
Under the ruling of every rabbi and scholar I’ve ever read, pixels on a computer screen lack a concreteness and permanence and don’t count. BUT, if somebody prints out that text on paper then the laws on sacred text applies.
If that happens, wouldn’t the person who printed it be the, er, sinner? The typist is in the clear.
Oh certainly the typist wouldn’t be guilty of a sin. But the goal in typing the hyphen is also to prevent anybody else from accidentally defacing sacred texts.
Tibby
June 5, 2015, 2:39am
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Pussy!
Balls!
There! Happy?!?
Does anybody have some ammonium carbonate… I’m feeling faint?
Tibby
June 5, 2015, 2:44am
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And, just to be clear, motherfuckers, I was referring to my dear pussy cat, Muffy, who likes to play with cotton balls .
Speaking of spite and idiocy …
gigi
June 5, 2015, 1:45pm
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StarvingButStrong:
My mother never swore. Like, never. Then came the day she was in terrible pain from muscles spasming in her back and she yelled out – the more innocent may want to cover their eyes –
Father Uncle Cousin Kate!
Britney Spears had “If You See Kate”.
C U Next Tuesday!
Kobal2
June 5, 2015, 1:52pm
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“If you seek Amy”
DocCathode:
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Under Jewish law, anything containing the name of G-d is sacred. It can’t touch the ground. It can’t be defaced or dishonored in any way. It can only be disposed of in a special ceremony. In order to avoid creating sacred text, a letter is replaced with hyphen, dash etc.
Under the ruling of every rabbi and scholar I’ve ever read, pixels on a computer screen lack a concreteness and permanence and don’t count. BUT, if somebody prints out that text on paper then the laws on sacred text applies.
Yeah, I don’t get how that works. It seems like they are making things up as they go along. There are unanswered questions about this method that are puzzling to me but I’m not going to pretend that their answers will be logical
I swear I can swear in the pit.
That is probably for the best. Rabbis have worked this one over thoroughly.
gigi
June 5, 2015, 6:17pm
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:smack: That makes more sense!
If you see Kay
I have as no less an authority than Mrs. Fucking Cunningham from Happy Days who said toothpicks.
Mr.Greenjeans:
Observant Jews don’t write God’s name. In English, this is typically represented as “G-d”. Bullshit, perhaps, but not to them. Jus’ sayin’.
WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that.
At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic.
Knowed_Out:
WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that.
At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic.
Actually, I do it so as not to possibly offend other Jews.
gigi
June 5, 2015, 9:06pm
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og ot dah gO
Tibby
June 6, 2015, 5:00am
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Knowed_Out:
WHAAAAAAAT? I call bullshit on that.
At least as far as the SDMB goes, posters who use “G-d” do it to reflect their agnostic nature and refusal to give the title any credence. Or they’re hipsters doing it to be ironic.
No, it’s because SDMB posters are poor spellers. *Jesis J Krist, how the hell do you spell the name of the Almightly again…Gad?..Ged?..Gid?..God?..Gud?.. Gyd?..oh, screw it! *: *“Yakity yakity blah blah I’m an atheist and G-d is the construct of hairless monkeys with impaired cognitive abilities yakity blah blah…” *
